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The second season of Handy Manny will premiere on October 27th at 10:30 am. The premiere episode of season two finds the tools helping to concoct a new smoothie flavor while repairing the counter at Oscar’s House of Smoothies. Mark Steines of “Entertainment Tonight” guest stars as the voice of Oscar. In the episode’s second [...]

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Well in time for Halloween (and doesn’t the Halloween season start just as soon as back to school stuff ends, like in mid-August?) Playhouse Disney has release Mickey’s Treat – Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on DVD. In this adventure, Mickey and his pals journey to the Trick-or-Treat Tower for Pete’s big Halloween Party. Many surprises await [...]

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Monday February 19th brings several new episodes across several networks. Disney Season 5 of The Wiggles begins at 7:00am with the season premiere. “Rainy Day” – Jeff and Greg embark on an arts and crafts project in which they piece together paintings to create a story during a rainy day. Then, during a new segment, [...]

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Season 5 of The Wiggles is set to premiere on February 19th on the Disney Channel. The season was shot prior to Yellow Wiggle Greg Page leaving the group, so the 4 original Wiggles remain intact for this slate of episodes. The 26 episode season has a couple of new elements: The episodes feature original, [...]

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Playhouse Disney is getting a couple new hosts for their programming block. It will be 2 monkey puppets named Ooh and Aah. Ooh and Aah, a pair of fun-loving monkey brothers, will host the programming block every day from their tree house in the jungle. Ooh, the refined blue monkey, loves to read and listen [...]

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Handy Manny Renewed

January 26, 2007 · 1 comment

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The Disney Channel has ordered a second season of Handy Manny starring Wilmer Valderrama. According to the release the second season will have an emphasis on Spanish language. In addition to imparting life lessons about working together, communication and setting goals, the new season will emphasize the series’ language curriculum, employing demonstrated techniques to help [...]

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Business Week takes a look at Disney’s planned overhaul of Disney.com. It appears that Disney is going after a MySpace, Web 2.0 kind of thing to improve stickiness. I’m guessing (and hoping) that the bulk of this will be aimed at the older kids. I certainly don’t want my soon to be 4 year old [...]

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The second season of Little Einsteins will premiere January 13th at 8:00am on the Disney Channel with 2 new episodes. The first episode, Quincy & the Magic Instruments finds Quincy practicing his instruments in his room, when he discovers a mysterious box containing four magical instruments. When he goes to show them to his friends, [...]

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(c)Disney Johnny and the Sprites, which has been airing as an interstitial for a little over a year will have it’s first full episode air. The series will premiere on Saturday, January 13th at 10:00am on the Disney Channel. It will be a full block of premieres on Playhouse Disney that day with 2 new [...]

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A new show called Handy Manny is set to premiere on Playhouse Disney on September 16th.  The main character is voiced by Wilmer Valderrama (Fes from That 70′s Show).  The show is reportedly a mix between Bob the Builder and Dora the Explorer. ModernMom – “Handy Manny” to Premiere on Playhouse Disney

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