Disney XD launches February 13

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Disney Sets Date for XD Rebrand

AnimationWorldNetwork
January 07, 2009

Disney will launch Disney XD, a boy-focused, girl inclusive entertainment brand for kids age 6-14, with a 24-hour, ad-supported basic cable network as its centerpiece, on Friday, February 13 (12 midnight, ET/PT).

The Disney XD brand premieres with Disney's hit comedy series PHINEAS AND FERB, the #1 animated series among Tweens 9-14 for 2008, and is highlighted by the debut of AARON STONE (7 p.m., ET/PT), an original action-adventure series about a champion video game player who, in a popular game called HERO RISING, uses a crime-fighting avatar named Aaron Stone -- at least until the game's billionaire creator asks him to become the real-life Aaron Stone.

Currently Toon Disney, Disney XD content will have themes of adventure, accomplishment, gaming, music and sports (developed with ESPN).

Also debuting in February is the immersive online and mobile game experience, Disney XD.com, a new entertainment choice with numerous games, exclusive video, fan pages, community elements and a unique personalization feature through which users can create a 3D avatar (complete with "personalities" and "emotions") that represents them across the site.

The rollout of the Disney XD basic channel will include a Disney Channel simulcast of AARON STONE. The series will also be available online at DisneyXD.com, and its first episode will be available via Video-on-Demand (through Verizon Fios and Comcast, among others) and Mobile platforms. Previews of the first episode will be available via Xbox 360 and the iTunes Store.

In addition to AARON STONE, a production of Shaftesbury Services II, Inc., the launch schedule includes the new animated series, KID VS. KAT, from Studio B Productions in Vancouver, and JIMMY TWO SHOES, from Breakthrough Animation and Teletoon in Toronto, and two short-form series, ROBODZ, a 3D, CG animated and live-action comedy produced by Disney and Toei Animation in Japan, and BRUNO THE GREAT, an animated series produced by Studio Bozzetto & Co SRL in Italy.

In addition to new episodes of PHINEAS AND FERB, 2008's top animated series among Tweens 9-14, the Disney XD programming schedule will feature new episodes of the animated comedy YIN YANG YO!. Both series are productions of Walt Disney Television Animation.

Upcoming new series are the live action skateboarding adventure comedy, ZEKE & LUTHER, from Turtle Rock Productions, Inc., and KID KNIEVEL, a 2D animated comedy from Walt Disney Television Animation. Premiere dates for these series will be announced shortly.

Joining the Disney XD schedule in spring 2009 will be THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN, based on Marvel Ent.'s popular superhero and produced by Culver Ent., a Sony Pictures Television Company. It will be joining BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, SUPERMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, SPIDER-MAN and IRON MAN on the schedule.

Disney will roll out its new brand on multiple platforms as follows (all times ET/PT):

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[stitchon]

Honestly... do they need to devote an entire network to boys? They can't make Disney Channel appeal to everyone?

[DisneyFan28]

so toon disney will be gone?
or is this a whole new channel?

[stitchon]

It's replacing Toon Disney.

[DisneyFan28]

Originally Posted by stitchon

It's replacing Toon Disney.

thats just great

now i wont get to see disney movies on toon disney anymore

[Browncoat]

i gave up on them running all the good stuff a long time ago.

downloaded every episode of Gargoyles. next is DuckTales

[MickeyMousePal]

Great no more Gargoyes and it's likely that they won't come out on DVD. Probably buy the missing episodes on e-bay. The episodes that didn't make it on DVD.

[DisneyIPresume]

DIP Jr, who is 10, really looking forward to Disney XD. I guess some are of you are too old to really appreciate it. Oh well.

[Rex Dopey24]

Originally Posted by stitchon

It's replacing Toon Disney.

auggh.

[stitchon]

Originally Posted by DisneyIPresume

DIP Jr, who is 10, really looking forward to Disney XD. I guess some are of you are too old to really appreciate it. Oh well.

My problem is that Disney won't make Disney Channel appeal to everyone and would rather create separate channels for girls and guys. It makes no sense to me.

[Rex Dopey24]

thank goodness for the internet.

[BFJen]

So, do you think this channel will be showing HD movies? or is all going to be original programming? My son is excited about it.

[Mr. Yeti]

Originally Posted by BFJen

or is all going to be original programming? My son is excited about it.

Only some of the programming will be original. They are also going to show reruns of Disney Channel Original Shows like Suite Life of Zack and Cody and Even Stevens.