Disney Television Animation (DTVA), formerly known as Walt Disney Pictures Television Animation Group and Walt Disney Television Animation, is the television animation production arm of
Disney Branded Television
Disney Branded Television is a unit of Disney General Entertainment Content which oversees development and production of content geared towards children, teenagers and families for Disney+, Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD. The unit ...
, a sub-division of the
Disney General Entertainment Content
Disney General Entertainment Content, Trade name, doing business as Walt Disney Television, is an American entertainment company that oversees television content and assets owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company. Forming the company's Gen ...
division of
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October ...
established on December 5, 1984 by Gary Krisel during the reorganization and subsequent re-incorporation of
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October ...
following the arrival of then-Disney CEO
Michael Eisner
Michael Dammann Eisner (born March 7, 1942) is an American businessman and former chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Walt Disney Company from September 1984 to September 2005. Prior to Disney, Eisner was president of rival film st ...
.
The division is responsible for creating, developing and producing
animation
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-oriented
television series
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,
films
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,
specials and
short film
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s for broadcast predominantly on the 3 main Disney-branded networks;
Disney Channel
Disney Channel, sometimes known as simply Disney, is an American pay television channel that serves as the flagship property of Disney Branded Television, a unit of the Disney General Entertainment Content division of The Walt Disney Compan ...
,
Disney XD
Disney XD is an American pay television channel owned by the Disney Branded Television and Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution units of The Walt Disney Company. The channel is aimed primarily at older children ages six to eleven years ...
and
Disney Junior
Disney Junior is an American pay television network owned by the Walt Disney Television (part of Disney General Entertainment Content) unit of The Walt Disney Company through Disney Branded Television. Aimed mainly at children two to seven yea ...
, as well as
Disney+
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment
Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and deligh ...
.
History
Background
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October ...
first ventured into the
television industry
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as early as 1950, beginning with the one-hour Christmas special, ''
One Hour in Wonderland
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''.
This was followed by the 1951 Christmas special, ''The Walt Disney Christmas Show'', the
long-running (1954–2008)
anthology series
An anthology series is a radio, television, video game or film series that spans different genres and presents a different story and a different set of characters in each different episode, season, segment, or short. These usually have a differ ...
, ''
The Wonderful World of Disney
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'' (which was Disney's first regular series as a whole), the
children's
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variety show
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''
The Mickey Mouse Club
''The Mickey Mouse Club'' is an American variety television show that aired intermittently from 1955 to 1996 and returned to social media in 2017. Created by Walt Disney and produced by Walt Disney Productions, the program was first televised fo ...
'', and the
adventure
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series, ''
Zorro
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'' (1957–1959).
However, one element was missing from Disney's expansion into television: An original animated television series. Until the early '80s, the studio had never produced its own original animated shows in-house, because
Walt Disney
Walter Elias Disney (; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film p ...
felt it was economically impossible. Nearly all pre-1985 TV animation was
wrap-around segments made to bridge the gaps on existing theatrical material on ''
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Walt Disney Company has produced an anthology television series since 1954 under several titles and formats. The program's current title, ''The Wonderful World of Disney'', was used from 1969 to 1979 and again from 1991 to the present. The pr ...
''.
Osamu Tezuka
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met Walt at the
1964 World's Fair
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, at which time Disney said he hoped to "make something just like" Tezuka's ''
Astro Boy
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'' someday, but unfortunately, nothing came of it.
1984–1990: Early Beginnings
The hiring of a new CEO for Walt Disney Productions in 1984, Michael Eisner, lead him to push to expand Disney into new areas thus the establishment of a television animation division that year, whose output would be shopped to all markets: networks,
Disney Channel
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and syndication. Eisner held a meeting at his home in which he brought up the concept of doing a series on the
Gummi bear
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as his kids like the candy. Originally, the staff was told that they could not use the principal Disney cartoon characters in the new shows.
The Walt Disney Television Animation department was started in November 1984 with Gary Krisel as president and Michael Webster as senior vice president.
This was considered a risky move because animated TV series was generally considered
low-budget investments for most of the history of TV cartoons up through the 1980s.
Many critics say that
Disney's own animation studio had lost most of its luster during
the period from Walt Disney's passing in the 1960s through the 1980s. However, the studio took several risks that paid off handsomely. The studio successfully gambled on the idea that a substantially larger investment into
quality animation could be made back through both
network television
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* Network theory, the study of graphs as a representation of relations between discrete objects
* Network science, an academic field that studies complex networks
Mathematics
...
and over-the-air in
syndication
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* Broadcast syndication, where individual stations buy programs outside the network system
* Print syndication, where individual newspapers or magazines license news articles, columns, or comic strips
* Web syndication, ...
, as well as
cable
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* Wire rope, a type of rope that consists of several strands of metal wire laid into a hel ...
. The final result is a string of higher budgeted animated television productions which proved to be profitable ventures and raised the standard for the TV medium.
The first productions to make it to air from the studio arrived in 1985, with Eisner's concept fleshed out into ''
Adventures of the Gummi Bears
''Adventures of the Gummi Bears'' is an American animated television series, created by Disney CEO Michael Eisner, produced by Walt Disney Television Animation, and distributed by Buena Vista Television. The series, loosely inspired by the gummy ...
'', joined by an original concept ''
The Wuzzles
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'',
[ both which are based upon ]talking animal
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-based conceptions. The third series in a similar vein, ''Fluppy Dogs
''Fluppy Dogs'' is a one-hour animated television special that aired on November 27 (Thanksgiving), 1986 on ABC. It was intended to be a pilot for the third Walt Disney Television animated series, but the show was cancelled due to the special's l ...
'', was produced as a single hour-long TV movie pilot that aired on ABC
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ABC or abc may also refer to:
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* American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster
** Disney–ABC Television ...
on Thanksgiving
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1986 and was loosely based a series of children's books and line of toys about a race of anthropomorphic pastel-colored dimension-hopping alien called "fluppy dogs." Dismal viewership ensured the project never made it to series.
In 1987, Disney finally unveiled the newest series yet in its cycle, and the first in their successful long-time line of syndicated animated shows, ''DuckTales
''DuckTales'' is an American animated television series produced by Disney Television Animation. The original cartoon series premiered on syndication and on Disney Channel on September 18, 1987 and ran for a total of 100 episodes over four seas ...
''. Though forbidden from using the star characters, minor characters such as Scrooge McDuck
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and Huey, Dewey and Louie
Huey, Dewey, and Louie are triplet cartoon characters created by storyboard artist ( screenwriter) Carl Barks for The Walt Disney Company from an idea proposed by cartoonist Al Taliaferro and are the nephews of Donald Duck and the grand-nep ...
were allowed, and Disney did concede to allow for a brief appearance by Donald Duck
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to establish the series, allowing them to adapt the Duck universe
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adventure serials by Carl Barks
Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was an American cartoonist, author, and painter. He is best known for his work in Disney comic books, as the writer and artist of the first Donald Duck stories and as the creator of Scrooge McDuck ...
into animation.[ The show was successful enough to spawn a feature film, '' DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp'', and two spin-off series: '']Darkwing Duck
''Darkwing Duck'' is an American animated superhero comedy television series produced by Disney Television Animation (formerly Walt Disney Television Animation) that first ran from 1991 to 1992 on both the syndicated programming block ''The Disn ...
'' and ''Quack Pack
''Quack Pack'' is an American animated sitcom produced by Walt Disney Television Animation, featuring Donald Duck and his nephews. The show debuted on September 3, 1996, as a part of the "Disney Afternoon" programming block, following the succe ...
''. 1990 release ''Treasure of the Lost Lamp'' was the first movie from TV Animation Disney MovieToon unit. Disney Television Animation hired a director of specials, Sharon Morrill, in 1993.
1990–2003: Broadcast Networks & Syndication era
The Disney Afternoon
The success of ''DuckTales'' also paved the way for a new wave of high-quality animated TV series, including Disney's own ''The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
''The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh'' is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. Based on the ''Winnie-the-Pooh'' books by authors A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard, ''The New Adventures'' was the fi ...
'' in 1988. Later, early that spring, ''Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
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* ''Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers'' (TV series), 1989 television series
* ''Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers'' (film), 2022 film
* ''Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers'' (video game), 1990 game based on the TV series
...
'' debuted on March 4, 1989, and was paired with ''DuckTales'' in an hour-long syndicated show through the 1989-1990 television season. In the 1990–1991 season, Disney expanded the idea even further, to create ''The Disney Afternoon
The Disney Afternoon (later known internally as the Disney-Kellogg Alliance when unbranded), sometimes abbreviated as TDA, was a created-for-syndication two-hour programming block of animated television series. It was produced by Walt Disney T ...
'', a two-hour-long syndicated block of half-hour cartoons, which premiered much later on September 10, 1990. ''DuckTales'' was one of the early flagship cartoons in the block.
On August 24, 1994 with Jeffrey Katzenberg
Jeffrey Katzenberg (; born December 21, 1950) is an American filmmaker, animator, and media proprietor. He became well known for his tenure as chairman of Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1994. After departing Disney, he was a co-founder and CE ...
's resignation, Richard Frank became head of newly formed Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications (WDTT), which included WDTA, from units of The Walt Disney Studios. Morrill was in charge of the first ''Aladdin
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'' DTV sequel
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launching Disney Video Premiere/Direct to Video unit.
Three overseas Disney studios were set up to produce the company's animated television series. Disney Animation Australia was started in 1988. In 1989, the Brizzi brothers sold Brizzi Films to Disney Television Animation and was renamed Walt Disney Animation France. Also that year, Disney Animation Japan was started. Walt Disney Animation Canada was opened in January 1996 to tap Canada's animator pool and produce direct-to-video
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. As direct-to-video
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increased in importance, the overseas studios moved to making feature films.
WDTT chair Frank left Disney in March 1995. With Krisel expecting to be promoted to head up WDTT but passed over, Krisel left WDTA at the end of his contract in January 1996. At the time the Walt Disney Company merged with Capital Cities
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/ABC
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ABC or abc may also refer to:
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* American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster
** Disney–ABC Television ...
, TV Animation was a unit of Walt Disney Television
Disney General Entertainment Content, doing business as Walt Disney Television, is an American entertainment company that oversees television content and assets owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company. Forming the company's General Enterta ...
within the Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications group (WDTT). With the retirement of WDTT group president Dennis Hightower in April 1996 and ongoing post-merger reorganization, the unit (along with its Disney TV parent) was transferred to the Walt Disney Studios.
One Saturday Morning/ABC Kids & One Too
When the September 1, 1997 season started, the block dropped ''The Disney Afternoon'' (temporally rebranded as the ''"Disney-Kellogg Alliance"''), moving shows to Disney Channel
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. On September 13, 1997, Disney's ABC unit launched ''Disney's One Saturday Morning
ABC Kids (originally titled Disney's One Saturday Morning until 2002) was an American Saturday morning children's programming block that aired on ABC from September 13, 1997 to August 27, 2011. It featured a mixture of animated and live-action ...
''. The programming block included several new shows, such as ''101 Dalmatians'', '' Recess'', ''Pepper Ann
''Pepper Ann'' is an American animated television series created by Sue Rose and aired on Disney's One Saturday Morning on ABC. It debuted on September 13, 1997, and ended on November 18, 2000. ''Pepper Ann'' was the first Disney animated te ...
'', '' Disney's Doug,'' and ''Mickey Mouse Works
''Mickey Mouse Works'' (also known as ''Disney's Mickey Mouse Works'' or simply ''Mouse Works'') is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation featuring Mickey Mouse and his friends in a series of animate ...
.''
In January 1998, Disney also reached a deal to program a new children's block for UPN
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, ''Disney's One Too
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'', to replace that network's internal UPN Kids
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block. The syndicated block ran until the debut of ''One Too'' on September 6, 1999; which aired mainly the same shows as ''One Saturday Morning''.
By April 1998, Disney MovieToons was folded in with Walt Disney Video Premieres films and network TV specials of Disney TV Animation as Morrill moved to executive vice president over her pre-existing units. At the same time, Barry Blumberg was elevated to the executive vice president for network and syndicated animated TV series. Both reported to Disney Television president Charles Hirschhorn.
In the second quarter of 2000, due to weak financial performance, Disney Animation Canada was closed.[ ]David Stainton
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took charge of the company as executive vice president in January 2000 then as president in February 2002 under Thomas Schumacher
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Life and career
Schumacher studied theatre at UCLA. In 1987 he was asso ...
.
Due to the reconstruction, Disney & ABC also rebranded its ''One Saturday Morning'' block to ''ABC Kids'' (a subtle tribute to the Fox Kids
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brand after being acquired by Disney through its purchase of Fox Family Worldwide
ABC Family Worldwide is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Television that is responsible for the operations of the U.S. cable network Freeform.
The company was originally formed as International Family Entertainment, a spin-off of the Christian Broad ...
in 2001) on September 14, 2002. On August 31, 2003, Disney discontinued the ''One Too'' block, thus ending their deal with UPN.
After the relaunch as ABC Kids, many of the shows' premieres moved to sister network Toon Disney
Toon Disney was an American multinational pay television channel owned by Disney Channels Worldwide, a subsidiary of Disney-ABC Television Group. The channel's target audience was children ages 2–11, and children ages 6–13 during the Jetix ...
due to schedule constraints. The remaining shows included: ''The Weekenders
''The Weekenders'' (also known as ''Disney's The Weekenders'') is an American animated television series created by Doug Langdale that ran on February 26, 2000 with the last episode aired on February 29, 2004, spanning four seasons. It centers ...
'', ''Teacher's Pet'', ''House of Mouse
''Disney's House of Mouse'' (or simply ''House of Mouse'') is an American Animation, animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation that originally aired for three seasons on ABC and Toon Disney from January 13, 2001, to ...
'', ''Lloyd in Space
''Lloyd in Space'' is an American animated television series, created by '' Recess'' co-creators Joe Ansolabehere and Paul Germain. It premiered on February 3, 2001, on ABC on Saturday mornings.[Teamo Supremo
''Teamo Supremo'' is an American animated television series created by Phil Walsh. Animated in the limited animation style pioneered by Jay Ward, predecessors which inspired its style, it tells of three superhero children: Captain Crandall, Skate ...]
'', and ''Fillmore!
''Fillmore!'' is an American animated television series created by Scott M. Gimple[Disney Channel
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and upcoming Jetix
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brand (which held the previous Fox Kids library).
2003–2017: As a division of Disney Channel
In January 2003, Disney initiated a reorganization of its theatrical and animation units to improve resource usage and continued focus on new characters and franchise development. Disney then transferred all Television Animation to Disney Channels Worldwide
Disney Branded Television is a unit of Disney General Entertainment Content which oversees development and production of content geared towards children, teenagers and families for Disney+, Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD. The unit al ...
. In this reorganization, the Disney MovieToons/Disney Video Premieres unit move from Television Animation to Feature Animation. The studio was then renamed Disneytoon Studios. While Stainton took over as President of Disney Feature Animation from Schumacher, Blumberg returned to WDTVA as president. ''Kim Possible
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'' became the first cartoon produced by Disney Channel (as Jambalaya Studio
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produced ''The Proud Family
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A revival, known as '' The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder'', was announ ...
'' for the network).
Following the company's new shift in focus, in 2004, Disney formed a joint-venture with Jetix Europe N.V. labeled "Jetix Animation Concepts
This is a list of television programs that aired on Jetix around the world.
Jetix Animation Concepts
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" to produce original shows worldwide. The three series include: ''Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!
(commonly known by its acronym, ''SRMTHFG'', or simply, ''Super Robot Monkey Team'') is an anime-influenced animation, anime-influenced television series created by Ciro Nieli, one of the directors of ''Teen Titans (TV series), Teen Titans'', and ...
'', ''Get Ed
''Get Ed'' is a computer-animated television series about a genetically engineered teenage delivery boy who fights industrial crime in Progress City.
The show aired as a part of the Jetix programming block on the United States cable television ...
'', and ''Yin Yang Yo!
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''. Along with four produced by SIP Animation
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Despite the name, the company was n ...
: ''The Tofus
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'', ''W.I.T.C.H.
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'', '' A.T.O.M.'', and '' Combo Niños''. ''Jetix'' would typically air as a block on Toon Disney
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(and sister network ABC Family
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until August 31, 2006) in the U.S., or as channel internationally (depending on the region).
Throughout the 2000s, Disney continued to create new animated Disney Channel (& Playhouse Disney
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) Originals such as '' Lilo & Stitch: The Series'', '' Dave the Barbarian'', '' Brandy & Mr. Whiskers'', ''Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
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'', ''My Friends Tigger & Pooh
''My Friends Tigger & Pooh'' is an American computer-animated children's television series on Disney Channel as part of the Playhouse Disney block. It was inspired by A. A. Milne's ''Winnie-the-Pooh''. The series was developed by Walt Disney T ...
'', and ''The Emperor's New School
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'' were in already in production. At this point, animated series would have to be produced solely by the network's animation division. So Disney Channel began experimenting with newer animation techniques to reduce costs under the re-established Disney Channels Worldwide
Disney Branded Television is a unit of Disney General Entertainment Content which oversees development and production of content geared towards children, teenagers and families for Disney+, Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD. The unit al ...
.
''The Buzz on Maggie
''The Buzz on Maggie'' is an American animated television series created by Dave Polsky for Disney Channel. The series centers on an ambitious and expressive tween fly named Maggie Pesky and her family and friends. The show is set in Stickyfeet, a ...
'' was among the first Disney series to fully utilize Adobe Flash
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animation, thus saving costs and allowing experimentation. '' American Dragon: Jake Long'' (which premiered just months prior) and ''The Replacements'' received cleaner redesigns for their second seasons (noteworthy, as both series originated as their creator's storybooks) to ease the animation styles for fitting TV budgets. The success of ''Kim Possible'' also helped show that there was marketing value in Disney Channel cartoons as the network ordered a fourth season (opposed to the standard three seasons of 65 episodes). Disney soon launched ''Phineas and Ferb
''Phineas and Ferb'' is an American animated musical-comedy television series created by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh for Disney Channel and Disney XD. Produced by Disney Television Animation, the series was originally broadcast as a ...
'' soon after the closure of Kim Possible (which surpassed it as their longest-running animated series).
In 2009, Disney–ABC Television Group
Disney General Entertainment Content, doing business as Walt Disney Television, is an American entertainment company that oversees television content and assets owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company. Forming the company's General Enterta ...
rebranded both Toon Disney and Jetix as Disney XD
Disney XD is an American pay television channel owned by the Disney Branded Television and Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution units of The Walt Disney Company. The channel is aimed primarily at older children ages six to eleven years ...
with the Jetix brand officially being retired by 2010. The goal was to simplify the marketing of channels by merging the two brands. In 2011, the ABC Kids block closed as well. By the early 2010s, the television group started to create some original shows for newly sister channel Disney XD. The group renamed the animation studio to just Disney Television Animation (or DTVA). Playhouse Disney
Playhouse Disney was a brand of programming blocks and international cable and satellite television channels that were owned by the Disney Channels Worldwide unit (now Disney Branded Television) of The Walt Disney Company's Disney–ABC Televis ...
was rebranded as Disney Junior
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in 2011 and receiving standalone channels in 2012; by replacing Soapnet (domestically) and the Jetix Play
Jetix Play (formerly Fox Kids Play) was a preschool entertainment brand, owned by Jetix Europe. The Jetix Play name was primarily used as a sister channel to Jetix in a small number of regions, such as Central and Eastern Europe, and Middle East.
...
channels (internationally).
'' Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil'' became the first Disney XD original animated show preceding Disney Channel's ''Fish Hooks
''Fish Hooks'' is an American animated television series created by Noah Z. Jones for Disney Channel and Disney XD. The show ran for three seasons from September 3, 2010 to April 4, 2014, airing a total of 59 episodes.
Plot
The series revolves ...
''. The following Disney XD cartoons were ''Motorcity'', ''Tron Uprising'', '' Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja'', and '' Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero''. All of which were co-produced by other animation resources except for ''The 7D
''The 7D'' is an American animated television series produced by Disney Television Animation, which premiered on Disney XD on July 7, 2014. It is a re-imagining of the title characters from the 1937 film ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' by W ...
'' (which was originally greenlit for Disney Junior). Despite still making original shows for the main channel by 2014, most animated shows such as ''Gravity Falls
''Gravity Falls'' is an American mystery comedy animated television series created by Alex Hirsch for Disney Channel and Disney XD. The series follows the adventures of Dipper Pines (Jason Ritter) and his twin sister Mabel (Kristen Schaal) wh ...
'' and ''Wander Over Yonder
''Wander Over Yonder'' is an American animated television series that aired on Disney Channel and Disney XD. Created by Craig McCracken, it follows the adventures of the optimistic Wander, who rides across the galaxy to help the inhabitants of va ...
'' shifted as Disney XD Originals. ''Mickey Mouse'''', Descendants: Wicked World, and Tangled: The Series'' remained the only shows not moved to the sister channel.
2017–present: Animation resurgence
In 2016, Disney XD greenlit
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''Big City Greens
''Big City Greens'' is an American animated comedy adventure television series created by The Houghton Brothers that premiered on Disney Channel on June 18, 2018. The series features the voices of Chris Houghton, Marieve Herington, Bob Joles, and ...
'' (then titled: ''Country Club);'' however, production had to be on hold due to the abundance of DTVA shows at the time. Disney had just announced ''Milo Murphy's Law
''Milo Murphy's Law'' is an American animated television series created by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh for Disney Channel and Disney XD. The series premiered on October 3, 2016 on Disney XD. It revolves around the title character, Milo ...
'' for Disney XD that same year, along with a reboot of ''DuckTales'' as early as 2015.
However, to renovate marketing, Disney ceased production of all original shows for Disney XD. The last shows created were ''Pickle and Peanut
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'' (creator as ''Fish Hooks''), ''Future-Worm!
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'' and ''Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer
''Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer'' is an American animated television series created by Aaron Springer. The series lasted for one season and aired on Disney XD from June 3 to June 15, 2017.
Plot
The show follows the adventure ...
'' were all announced (as early as 2014) but would air in the sequential years.
Since 2017, the studio quietly started a collaboration with ''Walt Disney Imagineering
Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development, Inc., commonly referred to as Imagineering, is the research and development arm of The Walt Disney Company, responsible for the creation, design, and construction of Disney theme parks and attra ...
'', ''Disney Parks, Experiences and Products
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'' and ''Disney Cruise Line
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'' on providing different redesings,animations and theming for attractions and night-time shows for ''Disneyland
Disneyland is a amusement park, theme park in Anaheim, California. Opened in 1955, it was the first theme park opened by The Walt Disney Company and the only one designed and constructed under the direct supervision of Walt Disney. Disney in ...
'', ''Walt Disney World
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'', Disney Resorts and Disney Cruises based on the different series around the different productions of the studio within the ''Mickey Mouse universe
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'' starting with ''Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway
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'' in 2020 and continuing with Aqua-Mouse for ''Disney Wish
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'' in 2022 and providing help with the ''Mickey's Toontown
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'' refreshment for 2023.
In early 2018, Disney Channels Worldwide
Disney Branded Television is a unit of Disney General Entertainment Content which oversees development and production of content geared towards children, teenagers and families for Disney+, Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD. The unit al ...
officially announced to return animated to the main Disney Channel. This change meant that DTVA would mainly only be producing shows for Disney Channel and Disney Junior.
In February of that year, the studio pitched two new shows ''Amphibia'' and ''The Owl House
''The Owl House'' is an American animated fantasy television series created by Dana Terrace that premiered on Disney Channel on January 10, 2020. The series stars the voices of Sarah-Nicole Robles, Wendie Malick, Alex Hirsch, Tati Gabrielle, Issa ...
'', to mark their return to animation. ''Big City Greens
''Big City Greens'' is an American animated comedy adventure television series created by The Houghton Brothers that premiered on Disney Channel on June 18, 2018. The series features the voices of Chris Houghton, Marieve Herington, Bob Joles, and ...
'' (initially intended to air on Disney XD) switched to Disney Channel. The remaining solely-produced shows by the studio, such as ''Star vs. the Forces of Evil
''Star vs. the Forces of Evil'' is an American animated magical girl television series created by Daron Nefcy and developed by Jordana Arkin and Dave Wasson, which aired on Disney Channel and Disney XD. It is the first Disney XD series created b ...
'', ''DuckTales'', '' Big Hero 6: The Series'', and ''Milo Murphy's Law
''Milo Murphy's Law'' is an American animated television series created by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh for Disney Channel and Disney XD. The series premiered on October 3, 2016 on Disney XD. It revolves around the title character, Milo ...
'', moved their premieres as well, with many of their productions being wrapped up.
In 2019, Disney greenlit another new show, ''The Ghost and Molly McGee
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* Dana Snyder
* Jordan Klepper
* Sumalee Montano
* Michaela Dietz
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, opent ...
'' (originally titled: ''The Curse of Molly McGee'') and ''Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
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'' (a co-production with corporate sister studio Marvel Animation
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). Many following Disney Junior original shows have rebranded as "Disney Junior" instead of merely "Disney", mainly used for Disney Channel shows. However, Disney+
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment
Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and deligh ...
original shows would remain a separate brand.
In July, Disney TV Animation signed 17 creators and animators to overall deals. This venture follows a trend in kid programming started by Netflix
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.
In February 2022, it was reported that Disney TVA is working on an animated film titled ''Superfudge
''Superfudge'' is a children's novel by Judy Blume, published in 1980. It is the sequel to ''Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing'' and ''Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great'' and is the third in the Fudge series.
Plot
The Hatcher family has a ne ...
'' alongside AGBO
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for Disney+
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Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and deligh ...
. The studio is also developing a film titled ''School for Sensitive Souls'' as part of former Disney Branded Television president Gary Marsh
Gary Marsh was President and Chief Creative Officer for Disney Branded Television, where he used to develop and produce Disney Channel Original Series, Disney Channel Original Movies and Disney Junior Series (formerly Playhouse Disney). He also o ...
's new overall deal with Disney. On November 2021 it was revealed that as part of Lisa Fragner's promotion as CEO of development at Disney TVA, that the animated feature film adaptation of ''Confessions Of An Imaginary Friend'' originally acquired by 20th Century Animation by Fragner on 2015 went back to production at Disney TVA. They will be among Disney TVA's first original films ever since the failed ''Fluppy Dogs
''Fluppy Dogs'' is a one-hour animated television special that aired on November 27 (Thanksgiving), 1986 on ABC. It was intended to be a pilot for the third Walt Disney Television animated series, but the show was cancelled due to the special's l ...
'' pilot film. Disney TVA is also working on approximately 31 original films set to be released across Disney Channel, Disney Junior, and Disney+.
In March 2022, The studio announced that it will collaborate with adult-animation-orientated sister studio 20th Television Animation
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, for the creation of young adult animated series, mini-series and movies for Disney+ starting with the animated stop-motion-musical comedy ''Rhona Who Lives By The River.''
0n May 4, 2022, Disney Television Animation begun production on its 100th Series overall, ''Cookies & Milk'', produced by Cinema Gypsy Productions & Jesse James Films.
Late 2021 and early 2022 saw several changes in management at Disney TVA, with former Blue Sky Studios
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executive Lisa Fragner joining as vice-president of development for Disney+ in November 2021, alongside longtime Disney TVA executive Elizabeth Waybright Taylor, who was also promoted as vice-president of development the same month. Fragner would oversee development on projects for Disney+, while Taylor would supervise Disney Channel projects. In February 2022, Sarah Finn was promoted to senior vice-president of production, overseeing physical production for projects across all three Disney networks, after working on the studio ever since 2018. On July 22, 2022, Douglas Bensimon and Edward Mejia were both promoted to VP of current series; Bensimon will oversee development on original series,while Mejia will work on series based on preexisting Disney IP.
As part of Bensimon's promotion it was announced that the studio will collaborate with Marvel Studios
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with the production of upcoming Marvel-based animated series not related within the Marvel Cinematic Universe
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with Bensimon overseeing them on development.
On 4 November 2022, Alyssa Sapire got promoted to lead all content for Disney Junior, as part of the announcement, Sapire also solidified her senior executive team across development and current with Kim Berglund promoted as vice president of Development of Disney Junior for the studio with oversight of all series, specials and shorts in development and Diane Ikemiyashiro and Lori Mozilo handling current series as vice-presidents on Disney Junior at the studio also working closely with partners across The Walt Disney Company on development with upcoming preschool series based on IPs from Walt Disney Animation Studios
Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS), sometimes shortened to Disney Animation, is an American animation studio that creates animated features and short films for The Walt Disney Company. The studio's current production logo features a scene fro ...
, Pixar
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, 20th Century Family
20th Century Family (formerly Fox Family; also known as 20th Century Studios Family) is a division of 20th Century Studios which produces family-friendly films and television programs. Besides theatrical films, the division oversees mixed media ( ...
and 20th Century Animation
20th Century Animation, Inc. (originally known as Fox Family Films, Fox Animation Studios, and 20th Century Fox Animation and sometimes referred to as Fox Animation) is an American animation studio located in Century City, Los Angeles. Formed i ...
.
Filmography
See also
* Disney General Entertainment Content
Disney General Entertainment Content, Trade name, doing business as Walt Disney Television, is an American entertainment company that oversees television content and assets owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company. Forming the company's Gen ...
, the parent unit for Disney's television and streaming operations.
**Walt Disney Animation Japan
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, former subsidiary of DTVA
** Disneytoon Studios
**Jetix Animation Concepts
This is a list of television programs that aired on Jetix around the world.
Jetix Animation Concepts
Jetix Animation Concepts was a joint-venture between Walt Disney Television Animation and Jetix Europe N.V. for producing shows that would air ...
, former international joint-venture between DTVA and Jetix Europe
Jetix Europe N.V. (formerly known as Fox Kids Europe N.V.) was a European television broadcasting company that owned children's television channels and programming blocks across the Europe and Middle East, such as Jetix and Jetix Play.
History F ...
* 20th Television Animation
20th Television Animation (formerly Fox Television Animation) is an American animation studio that creates, develops and produces adult animated television series and specials. It is a unit of Disney Television Studios, a subsidiary of Walt Disne ...
* List of Disney television series
This is a list of television series produced ''or distributed'' by The Walt Disney Company and its subsidiaries.
Disney Television Studios
ABC Signature (formerly Touchstone Television/ABC Studios/ABC Signature Studios)
20th Television (form ...
* Cartoon Network Studios
Cartoon Network Studios is an American animation studio owned by the Warner Bros. Television Studios division of Warner Bros., a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. The studio is the production arm of Cartoon Network, and started operating on ...
* Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe
Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe Ltd. (HBSE, formerly Great Marlborough Productions and previously known as Cartoon Network Studios Europe and Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe) is a British animation studio based in London and owned by the ...
* Williams Street
Williams Street Productions, LLC, d/b/a Williams Street and formerly known as Ghost Planet Industries, is an American animation and live action television production studio owned by the Warner Bros. Television Studios division of Warner Bros., ...
* Warner Bros. Animation
Warner Bros. Animation Inc. is an American animation studio which is part of the Warner Bros. Television Studios division of Warner Bros., a flagship of Warner Bros. Discovery. As the successor to Warner Bros. Cartoons, which was active from 1 ...
* Nickelodeon Animation Studio
Nickelodeon Animation Studio is an American animation studio owned by Paramount Global. It has created many original television programs for Nickelodeon, such as ''SpongeBob SquarePants'', ''The Fairly OddParents'', ''Rugrats'' and ''Avatar: The ...
* MTV Animation
MTV Animation is the animation department of the television network MTV.
History
In 1991, MTV debuted its first full-length animated series, ''Liquid Television'', which helped launch ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' and ''Æon Flux''. MTV establishe ...
* DreamWorks Animation Television
DreamWorks Animation Television (abbreviated as DWATV or simply DAT) is an American animation studio that serves as the television production arm of DreamWorks Animation, itself a subsidiary of Universal Pictures and a division of Comcast's ...
References
Sources
* Cotter, Bill, ''The Wonderful World of Disney Television: A Complete History'', California: Disney Editions, 1997,
External links
* Official website
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