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ESPN looking to Olympics coverage

ESPN is expected to bid for rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics.
NBC, which as the rights to the Olympics through 2012, has made certain that ESPN gets little in the way of coverage of the sports event.
With Disney owned ESPN’s growing popularity and increased revenues, it is expected that it will challenge NBC’s lock [...]

Disney and Stan Lee expected to announce collaboration

Stan Lee’s POW Entertainment has partnered with the Walt Disney Company in creating digital content.
Lee, the creative force behind Marvel Comic’s superheroes, will develop online and mobile versions of “Time Jumper”, his latest product. The storyline for Jumper involves a teen who is able to time travel and battle terrorists via his cell phone.
Lee stated [...]

Disney Group Formed

Disney Interactive Media Group formed
Jun 8, 2008
Disney Interactive Studios and Disney Interactive Group have merged and become Disney Interactive Media Group. Heading this new division is Steve Wadsworth who was the president of Disney Internet Group. Graham Hopper, the former executive vice-president of Disney Interactive studios will be part of the management team.
The merger of [...]

Disney’s Virtual Magic Kingdom Closes

Disney’s closure of its Virtual Magic Kingdom is met with continued protests by players of the popular online game.
In 2005, the free game was part of the 50th Anniversary celebration of the opening of Disneyland. The Virtual Magic Kingdom quickly attracted fans who have spent the past two and a half years accumulating points to [...]

‘Nine Old Men’

Ollie Johnston, the last of the legendary Disney animators, passed away at the age of 96.
Johnston was part of the group of Disney animators dubbed “The Nine Old Men” by Walt Disney himself. The other Disney greats who were part of this elite group were John Lounsbury, Les Clark, Woolie Reitherman, Milt Kahl, Eric Larsen, [...]

Star Wars Weekends 2008 Guests and Host Announced

The official Star Wars website has the list of guests for each of the 2008 Star Wars Weekends. They also mention that Warrick Davis is returning as the host for the event. Please remember that all these guest lists are subject to change.
June 6-8 — Jeremy Bulloch & Daniel Logan
These two actors have something in [...]

Dancing with the Stars - Quarter Finals

Now that we’ve reached the quarter finals, each couple has two dances they haven’t done yet. Since they don’t necessarily each have a Ballroom and a Latin dance to do, that distinction isn’t made any more. But we do get 10 dances. Not bad in an hour and a half.
Jennie Garth & [...]

Dancing with the Stars - The Latin Round

Dancing with the Stars - The Latin Round
Okay, maybe it’s my faulty memory, but I don’t remember them doing a Latin night before. I thought they always had a Latin and a Ballroom dance each week. Now it’s fine if they are doing something different. But the way they are talking, they [...]

Cavemen in space!!!

Call me dangerman. I live on the edge. Yep, when everyone else has written off ABC’s new sitcom “Cavemen”, I am bravely writing a review of the second episode. Of course, there are somethings you should know from the start. I haven’t seen a sitcom I’ve really liked since “Fraiser” went off the air. Not [...]


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