June 16th is a big day for the Jonas Brothers and their fans. It’s the release date of their album “Lines, Vines and Trying Times“.
The Disney Channel is celebrated their album release by making Tuesday, June 16th, “Jonas Day”. It includes three one-hour blocks (six episodes) of “JONAS,” plus music videos, a sneak peek at Jonas Brothers’ upcoming concert tour, and their Friday, June 12 performance of “Poison Ivy” and “Paranoid” on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Don’t forget to pick up your copy of Lines, Vines and Trying Times on June 16th!
“The Jonas Brothers World Tour 2009″ kicks-off on June 20 …read more

Disney is FULL of announcements today! First we hear that High School Musical 4 has a director, then we hear that they have ordered season four of Hannah Montana and now we know this…there will be a season 2 of “Sonny with a Chance”!

The show, which premiered in February, stars Demi Lovato, Tiffany Thornton, Sterling Knight, Brandon Mychal Smith, Doug Brochu and Allisyn Ashley Arm. It has received some great ratings and audiences definitely love the show.
Gary Marsh had this to say about this announcement: “’Sonny’ was a hit right out of the gate, thanks in no small part to …read more

In another announcement today, Disney has said they ordered a fourth season of the smash hit “Hannah Montana”. Production on season 3 wraps this week and season 4 will be underway next year. The storyline for the fourth season will have the Stewarts grappling with saying goodbye to their beachfront Malibu home.

Gary Marsh made the announcement and said, “’Hannah Montana’ has become one of the most iconic series in television history. That is a direct result of the extraordinary collaboration between the show’s producers, writers and cast – all of whom constantly challenge each other to raise the bar, comedically, …read more

Rumor has it that Miley Cyrus’s boyfriend, Justin Gaston, has landed a role in a new TV drama called “Santa Cruz”.
There aren’t very many details to report, except that it looks like he has landed the lead role.
The drama is being offered to several networks such as FOX and HBO. Justin started off his career modeling and then headed into the music industry.
Justin competed on “Nashville Star” and cam in 10th place. That’s where he met Billy Ray Cyrus, who later introduced him to Miley.
Can he act? I guess we might be able to find out!
Source: Aceshowbiz
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Entertainment Weekly has an interesting article coming out in their May 22nd issue, which hits newsstands May 18th. The title of the article is “Breaking Up with Disney” and can be found on page 32.
(Check out the cover of this issue on the right.)
Here’s an excerpt from the article:
Sooner or later everybody has to leave home—even if home is a castle sparkling with pixie dust. Last month, Disney’s biggest stars, Miley Cyrus and Zac Efron, showed signs that they could survive outside of the Magic Kingdom. For three years now, the Disney Channel has groomed Cyrus and Efron as …read more

Disney’s D23, which is “The Official Community for Disney Fans”, has announced its Summer 2009 Special Events Calendar.
They have a little bit of everything planned, from special screenings to stepping behind-the-scenes with Mary Poppins.
D23 also announced its first members-only contest!
“D23 Members are Disney’s biggest fans, and they’re always looking for distinctive, memorable ways to celebrate the things they love most about Disney,” said Steven Clark, Head of D23.  “For our inaugural season of events and contests, we’ve created an experientially and geographically diverse calendar that we know our Members will enjoy and remember fondly for years.”
See the calendar …read more

The Walt Disney Company announced today (May 14) Disney’s Friends for Change: Project Green, which is “a multiplatform environmental initiative that will help kids help the planet.”
Some of your favorite Disney stars such as Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato (29 total DC stars!) will be participating in sharing the message which will debut on Disney Channel, Disney XD, Radio Disney and Disney.com.
Here’s more information. Be sure and visit http://www.disney.com/projectgreen too:
The Disney’s Friends for Change: Project Green initiative invites young people to join together to help the environment across four key areas: climate, water, waste …read more

We’ve been hearing that this would happen for quite some time, but I began to wonder if it actually would!
Disney announced today that they have teamed up with the streaming video site Hulu.
Very soon, some of your favorite Disney Channel shows will be available on-line.
In the very near future you’ll get to log on to your computer and watch episodes of “Wizards of Waverly Place” and other great shows.
I am very excited about this and think it’s a great move for Disney to make. It just makes sense to start bringing everything online.
Source: Disney press release
Image Credit: SXC

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The Walt Disney Company has signed a deal with YouTube which will bring clips from the Disney Channel, ABC and ESPN to the video streaming site. I say…it’s about time!
In addition to professional clips, in-stream commercials, episode recap and webisodes, the Disney content will be housed in a unique commercial-oriented channel separate from amateur, semi-pro and non-commercial video content.
What does this mean for the deal with Hulu, which would be streaming full episodes? It doesn’t completely rule it out.
Disney has not released an official word about the deal on when we can expect to see the …read more

We are getting even more news about the cast, or lack of cast, for “High School Musical 4″. Matt Prokop announced on his MySpace at the beginning of this month, that he would not be in HSM4. It’s just been announced that Jemma McKenzie-Brown, who played Tiara in HSM3, will not be in the movie either.
She said: “I think it’s been decided they’re going for a whole new route with it which is a shame but I had a really good time doing the third one.”
She added: “I’m back to auditioning and have got some cool opportunities and good scripts …read more