@Otakuninja2006
Disney Channel and Toon Disney will both be getting overhauls with Rick Siggelkow now in charge. His experience as executive producer of
Shining Time Station and other kids shows should help guide the direction of both networks going forward.
That's So Raven is the big live action hit for The Disney Channel so far. From the beginning, The Disney Channel's programming had mostly been a nostalgia-fest with a mix of reruns from the Disney and Fox libraries, plus kid-friendly content licensed from other conglomerates. If anyone has suggestions on live action series that could help Disney Channel compete with Nickelodeon's juggernaut
Hannah Montana, let me know in the Conversation thread. From the series Disney made IOTL, the only ones I can think of off the top of my head would be
ANT Farm,
Austin & Ally,
Jonas,
Sonny with a Chance,
Good Luck Charlie or
Jessie. One or more of those could go instead to Nickelodeon, Oaxis, TBS or Festival ITTL unless they fit better at Disney.
The pipeline for Walt Disney Television Animation right now is as follows:
- Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (co-produced with Blue Sky)
- Regular Show (co-produced with Legendary)
- Fish Hooks
- Gravity Falls (2012; co-produced with Legendary)
- Sofia the First (2013; co-produced with Blue Sky)
- Steven Universe (2013; co-produced with Legendary)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014; co-produced with Blue Sky) [1]
- Star vs. the Forces of Evil
[1] IOTL, this version ran on Nick from 2012 till about '17 or '18.
As for Warner Bros' TV offerings, they do air mostly on Warner Freeform, but they produce
Two and a Half Men and
Big Bang Theory, both of which air on CBS where they and Luxor each have had a development deal since MyTV went up in smoke.
Saban had been fighting with Paramount and Mattel over the direction Odyssey should take. Their dispute made it difficult for the network to gain a foothold until they managed to get a tiny slice of the MLB TV contract. When Mattel and Paramount sold their stakes to facilitate Cartoon Network's inclusion in the TBS+Paramount merger, Saban was able to take full control of Odyssey's destiny.
Odyssey's approach to covering Major League Baseball on a Game of the Week basis on Sunday afternoons will more or less mirror what ESPNick does for football on
NFL Slimetime.
Toonami is pretty much dying right now unfortunately.
Peacock is still walking a thin tightrope to make sure the Bullet Train block on USACX and Animax don't cannibalize each other.
@Tacomaster
A
Totally Spies episode that aired in 2006 had the trio encounter special guest villain Harvey the Hutt (voiced by Maurice LaMarche), accompanied by Salacious W. Bush (voiced by Eric Bauza). That's when Lionsgate and Peacock both incurred the wrath of both FART and One Million Moms. Marathon Media, the French studio that co-produce
Totally Spies with Lionsgate defended the episode saying it was their way of venting their anger against the then-POTUS over his mishandling of Hurricane Katrina.
A more recent episode was to have had Jerry assigning the girls to an unnamed hockey tournament to protect team owner Brittany Bisley (Tara Strong), daughter of billionaire movie mogul Milt Bisley, Jr. It was no secret who this character was based on or what fetish was integrated into the plot. The NHL used its TV contract with the USA Network and NBC as leverage to pressure USACX into burying the episode. The league objected to the episode due to the hypersexualized portrayal of the Brittany Bisley character.
