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Creator of Lizzie McGuire Returns With Disney Channel’s New Show Andi Mack

Terri Minsky, the creator of Disney Channel’s hit show Lizzie McGuire, returns to the tween and family friendly network with her new show Andi Mack. Growing up watching Lizzie McGuire, I couldn’t help suppress my inner 12-year-old-self excitement about this announcement. The series begins production in the fall and is scheduled for a 2017 premiere on Disney Channel. Twelve-year-old newcomer Peyton Elizabeth Lee stars in the leading role, as Andi Mack. It’s a single-camera family series that focuses on Andi as she is about to celebrate her 13th birthday. Her life becomes more complicated, however, when her older sister Bex (Lilian […]

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Sneak Peek: First 10 Minutes of Disney’s Adventures in Babysitting Remake

For the 100th Disney Channel original movie, the kid-centric network is re-envisioning a family favorite. Adventures in Babysitting is the story of a night of childcare gone horribly — and hilariously — wrong. Disney stars Sabrina Carpenter (Girl Meets World) and Sofia Carson (Descendants) team up in this new family comedy that will feature several scenes reminiscent of the original 1987 movie, which starred Elisabeth Shue. One touch that the filmmakers wisely made is to have Carpenter don a camel-colored trench coat  — one of the original film’s iconic looks. I 💖 it! The action unfolds when Jenny Parker (Carpenter) and […]

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Cameron Boyce Shares Personal Connection To Black History Month In Moving Disney Interstitial

As part of its celebration of Black History Month, Disney will premiere a new installment of its interstitial series, “Be Inspired,” featuring actor Cameron Boyce and his personal connection to “The Clinton 12” — the twelve African-American teens who were the first to integrate a southern public school in 1956. Boyce’s grandmother, Jo Ann, was one of the dozen brave students who fought for their right to a local and integrated education. In the inspiring featurette, Disney’s “Be Inspired” cameras follow as Cameron, his sister, parents and grandmother make their first visit together to the monument, its 12 life-size sculptures […]

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Blasts From The Past: 10 TV Series From 1990 to Binge-Watch Now

Some years are certainly more interesting than others when in comes to TV fare. And 1990 certainly had a number of memorable TV escapades, for better or worse. It didn’t seem right to shine a spotlight on a young Sandra Bullock’s ill-fated starring stint in a TV adaptation of Working Girl. Then again, that wasn’t as big a bomb as the one that executive producer Steven Bochco dropped when he combined a gritty police-procedural drama with almost-laughable musical numbers in a show called Cop Rock. While those may be amusing binge-watch exercises, there are plenty of others that are also […]

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Disney Channel Announces Descendants 2

Summer’s successful Disney Channel Original Movie, Descendants, is getting a sequel. In the family-friendly flick, the progeny of Disney’s biggest baddies were chosen to attend prep school alongside the offspring of Disney heroes. And at the film’s end, a glint in Mal’s eye foreshadowed this morning’s announcement that a sequel is in the works. It should come as no surprise — Descendants is cable television’s fifth highest-rated movie of all-time with over 12.2 million viewers tuning in to the musical’s July 31 premiere. The film starred Dove Cameron as Mal, Cameron Boyce as Carlos, Booboo Stewart as Jay, Sofia Carson […]

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Disney Channel’s Dark And Delightful “Descendants”

What happens after “happily ever after”? In Descendants, if you’re the hero and heroine of a Disney fairy tale, you live in the enchanted kingdom of Auradon — a land of beauty and possibility. But if you’re one of Disney’s legendary villains, you are exiled to the miserable and forbidden Isle of the Lost. Now, a benevolent young king — himself the heir of Beast and Belle from Beauty and the Beast — offers a chance at redemption to the four offspring of Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Cruella de Vil and Jafar with the opportunity to attend prep school in […]

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Exclusive Interview With “Teen Beach 2” Stars!

Get out your dancing flip-flops and get ready to boogie! Tonight, Disney Channel’s brightest young stars go back to the beach in Teen Beach 2! In the next chapter to the 2013 smash, Teen Beach Movie, modern-day teens Brady (Ross Lynch) and Mack (Maia Mitchell) get a real world visit from their retro surfer and biker pals from the beach party film within a film, West Side Story. I chatted with Mollee Gray who returns to her role as sunny surfette Giggles and Ross Butler who joins the cast as brainy hunk, Spencer and both shared amazing stories about their time shooting […]