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On January 8th the Disney Channel will air a special “How we became the Little Einsteins: The True Story. The show will look back at when the kids first met Rocket, which apparently started as a toy. The kids go on their first mission, and return home where Rocket makes an underground home for itself. The show will premiere at 7:30pm.

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On December 5th, JoJo’s Circus will introduce a hearing impaired character. From Disney:

A hearing impaired character is introduced on “JoJo’s Circus,” Playhouse Disney’s hit series for preschoolers, in an episode premiering at 8:30 a.m., ET/PT. In the episode entitled “Quiet Magic,” Skeebo and his cousin Adam perform a “mind reading” magic act for their friends who do not know Adam is hearing-impaired. Skeebo asks each friend to draw something without disclosing what it is, while Adam discreetly signs the image to Skeebo who then “magically” guesses what his friend drew. JoJo, delighted to learn that sign language is the “magic” behind the trick, asks Adam and Skeebo to teach her (and viewers too) a few words in sign language.

The episode will air at 8:30am.

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Playhouse Disney announced their Christmas themed programming, including new episodes of Charlie and Lola, Little Einsteins, Koala Brothers.

The holiday programming will begin with the premiere of Little Einsteins A Christmas Wish.. In the episode Santa delivers presents for each of the kids, unfortunately Annie’s is lost. The mission is to recover Annie’s missing present. The episode airs on December 12th at 8:00am.

Also on December 12th, there will be a new wintery episode of Charlie and Lola. Snow is on the way and Lola is bursting with excitement. After a day where Charlie, Lola, Marv, Sizzles and Lotta make snow angels and have snow races, the snow melts. Charlie helps a very disappointed Lola understand that snow is even more special because it isn’t there forever. The episode will air at 9:30am.

December 21st will bring the premier of The Koala Brothers Outback Christmas. Frank and Buster fly to Antarctica to help their injured penguin friend Penny. The episode will air at 11:00am.

The week of December 19th playhouse Disney will feature several holiday programs.

December 19th: Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas - 11:00am & 8:00pm
December 20th: The Wiggles Santa’s Rockin featuring John Foggerty and Barry Williams. 11:00am.
December 21st: Koala Brothers Outback Christmas - 11:00am.

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Playhouse Disney will be airing ten straight episodes of Little Einsteins on Friday, November 18th. The programming block will begin at 8:00am and run until 1:00pm. Considering there have only been eleven episodes aired to date - including a Halloween special - that means you can essentially see the whole series. Get your Tivo’s ready.

Related Information: Little Einsteins Episode Guide
Show Website: Little Einsteins

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Playhouse Disney will be airing a special two-part episode of JoJo’s Circus for Thanksgiving. The episode will feature Circus Town preparing for a big parade that will go past Big Boo Boo Hospital. Along the way though Mrs. Kersplatski gets hurt and it’s up to JoJo to help out.

The show will air at 7:30pm on Sunday, November 20th. It will be preceded by Alice and Wonderland at 6:00pm. If you miss the episode on the Sunday airing, you’ll have another chance Thanksgiving morning. Playhouse Disney will be airing 6 hours of JoJo’s Circus starting at 6:00am on Thursday, November 24th.

Show Website: Jo Jo’s Circus

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It appears that Dan Zanes will be moving his musical reportoire from Noggin to Playhouse Disney. This appeared in an article in today’s New York Times:

Before taking on a life of their own, the videos were shot for “Jack’s Big Music Show,” a puppet-driven program that had its premiere last month and currently features videos by Ms. Berkner, the Dirty Sock Funtime Band and Milkshake - though not by Mr. Zanes, who now has a deal with Playhouse Disney to produce his own music show.

The article wasn’t just focusing on Zanes, but talked about the general popularity of preschool pop music that was spearheaded by Noggin’s Move to the Music.

While my kids love the Laurie Berkner music, and are fans of Jack’s Big Music Show, Dan Zanes never really seemed to click with them.

It will be interesting to see if Playhouse Disney will continue on with The Wiggles, or if they are planning to use Zanes as a replacement.

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There’s good news for fans of Higglytown Heroes. This appeared in an October 12th article in SF Weekly about Wild Brain Inc. (the Higglytown production company):

A year and a half later, Higglytown Heroes premiered on the Disney Channel. Higglytown now draws an audience of tens of millions of preschoolers and their parents every day, and attracts big-name guest voices such as Sharon Stone, Susan Lucci, and Smokey Robinson. Disney recently picked up another 26 half-hour episodes, bringing the total to 52, and began production on a new pilot with Wild Brain. Higglytown is the rare show that entertains and teaches young children, without talking down to them or boring their parents to tears. Wild Brain may not be steeped in traditional kids’ television, but that’s part of Higglytown’s charm.”It doesn’t feel tired — it’s not the same old, ‘Let’s write the birthday party script,’” says Kanter, now a senior VP at the Disney Channel. “[The Wild Brain team members] are really fun, smart, interesting guys who have a definite, slightly offbeat sense of the world and what’s funny.”

The “Higs,” as they are known in our house, have been a part of our morning routine since the show premeiered. However, as happens with most of the preschool shows it has become stale. It isn’t so much the show itself, it’s that a limited number of episodes get shown so often that even the kids get bored. However, with 52 episodes, it will be possible to go a couple months without repeats. I don’t have any information yet on when the shows will debut.

Article Link: The Little Animation Company That COULD
More: Wild Brain Inc.

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Playhouse Disney will have a special Halloween themed block of programming on October 29th and 30th. Haunted versions of Higglytown Heroes, JoJo’s Circus, Charlie and Lola, Bear in the Big Blue House, The Koala Brothers, and Stanley. The shows will air from 7:30am to 9:00am on Saturday, and 6:30am to 10:00am on Sunday.

In addition to the above mentioned shows, a new episode of Little Einsteins will premiere at 8:00am on the 29th. The show begins with a Halloween party that leads to the kids going trick-or-treating in medieval castles.

Tags: disney | halloween | little einsteins

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