How to Train Your Dragon TV Series Coming to Cartoon Network

How to Train Your Dragon is being turned into a weekly cartoon tv series. The show is set to premiere on Cartoon Network sometime in 2012. Seems like a lot of shows are being based off book series and movies lately, but just because they are not entirely fresh does not mean they are not worthwhile. The series should be an interesting expansion on the adventure that takes places in the movie. I have not seen the actual movie, but I did enjoy the little shorts that were used as promotionals during the Olympics. Thus I see the series as having potential because they already have at least done it as interstitials. Plus Dreamworks has already somewhat successfully made the Penguins of Madagascar show come out of the Madagascar movies.

Suite Life Movie Coming to Disney Channel in 2011

I am so excited to hear that there is going to be a Suite Life Movie. I have loved watching the twins since The Suite Life of Zach & Cody and enjoyed it even more when they became The Suite Life on Deck. In the movie the twins become part of special twin research project called the Gemini Project. The project ends up making them feel the same sensations and think the same thoughts at the same time in a whole new level of likeness. Sounds like it could be interesting, although not much info to really know yet.

Fish Hooks Preview on Disney Channel on September 3, 2010

The newest Disney Channel show is coming in late September, but there will be an 11 minute preview of it on September 3, 2010 at 10pm PT/ET after the Camp Rock 2 premiere. The new show is called Fish Hooks. It is an animated show geared towards tweens. The show is about inhabitants of a fish tank at a pet shop focusing on a group of three freshman at the school in the tank. They also have special outfits to have adventures outside the tank. Sounds like a potentially interesting show and the voice cast does have some recognizable names such as Kyle Massey (Cory from That's So Raven and Cory in the House).

The full episode premiere will be at 9pm ET/PT on September 24, 2010.

Preview of The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That

I received a preview of the new PBS Kids show, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That, yesterday and enjoyed watching it today. The show uses the characters from Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat book to teach kids about natural science. It is full of rhymes and craziness just like the book making it a fun way for kids to learn about nature. The show is made to help preschoolers and kindergarteners to be more prepared for science curriculum. It does a good job of being educational while still fun. The show kind of reminds me Magic School Bus, but it is produced in a way that is easier for younger kids to digest than Magic School Bus. The three year old that watched it with me really did enjoy it.

The premiere episode includes "Show Me the Honey" and "Migration Vacation." The first teaches kids about how honey is made focusing on nectar being the secret ingredient. The second is about birds migrating.

The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That is a good edition to the science shows that PBS has recently been adding, such as Sid the Science Kid and Dinosaur Train. I think this new show is much better than those. Sid does do a good job of being educational, but it also has too many repeating segments (driving in car song, meeting his friends) and the microphone can be downright annoying. Dinosaur Train is always fun to watch, but not much practical science for early science curriculum. The Cat in the Hat can still be annoying, but it does not seem so repetitive other than perhaps the little segments (Today's very difficult question) might end up repetitive like the Dinosaur Train's little song ones often being Tiny singing about fish.

The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That will premiere on PBS on Labor Day 2010, which is September 6.

Doc McStuffins Coming to Disney Junior in 2011

The newest show coming to the Disney Junior (Playhouse Disney is soon to be called this) line up is Doc McStuffins. The show is about a six-year-old girl named Dottie "Doc" McStuffins. She can communicate with stuffed animals and toys. Basically a Dr. Doolittle for toys. Doc McStuffins uses her ability to heal and take care of the stuffed animals and toys in her neighborhood by seeing them in her backyard clinic.

It sounds like a fun imaginative show. The show does not sound too educational, but it seems like it will teach some useful stuff like healthy living and taking care of others. Certainly worth checking out when it premieres in 2011.

24 Hour Disney Junior Channel for Ages 2 to 7 Coming in 2012

Disney Junior is a long way off still, but it is interesting to learn that Disney is making a channel just for ages 2 through 7. It is kind of like how Nickelodeon turned the Noggin Channel into a Nick Jr show 24 hour channel. However, it is actually a totally unrelated network get the conversion. In 2012 SOAPnet will be converted to Disney Junior.

The Disney Junior channel will target the 2 to 7 age group. It will show mostly the types of shows on the Playhouse Disney part of the Disney Channel. It will also show Disney movies appropriate for that age group. Additionally, there will be new shows just for the new channel. One such new show already mentioned is Jack and the Never Land Pirates.

Read more about Disney Junior here.

Playhouse Disney's Big Birthday Celebration on May 22, 2010

May 22, 2010, there will be a special birthday themed line up on Playhouse Disney. The Playhouse Disney Big Birthday Celebration line up is full of episodes of Playhouse Disney shows with birthday themes. This includes a new episode of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Imagination Movers. Below is the full line up.

6am Eastern/5am Central - Little Einsteins' "The Birthday Machine" episode

6:25am Eastern/5:25am Central - Ooh, Aah, and You's "Ooh's Birthday" episode

6:30am Eastern/5:30am Central - Imagination Movers's "The Un-Party" episode

6:55am Eastern/5:55am Central - Choo Choo Soul's "Birthday Song" episode

7am Eastern/6am Central - My Friends Tigger & Pooh's "It's Eeyore's Birthday/The Tiglet and Pigger Switcher-Roo" episode

7:25am Eastern/6:25 Central - Can You Teach My Alligator Manners?'s "Birthday Manners" episode

7:30am Eastern/6:30am Central - Jungle Junction's "Smile, Toadhog/Zooter's Surprise" episode

7:55am Eastern/6:55am Central - Tasty Time with Zefronk's "Dom's Birthday" episode

8am Eastern/7am Central - Special Agent Oso's "The Boy with the Golden Gift/Birthdays are Forever" episode

8:25am Eastern/7:25am Central - Ooh, Aah, and You's "Ooh's Birthday" episode

8:30am Eastern/7:30am Central - Handy Manny's "Happy Birthday, Mr. Lopart/Scout Manny" episode

8:55am Eastern/7:55am Central - Choo Choo Soul's "Birthday Song" episode

9am Eastern/8am Central - Mickey Mouse Clubhouse's "Happy Birthday, Toodles" episode *New Episode

9:25am Eastern/8:25am Central - Can You Teach My Alligator Manners?'s "Birthday Manners" episode

9:30am Eastern/8:30am Central - Mickey Mouse Clubhouse's "Minnie's Birthday" episode

9:55am Eastern/8:55am Central - Tasty Time with Zefronk's "Dom's Birthday" episode

10am Eastern/9am Central - Imagination Movers' "Birthday Ball" episode *New Episode

10:25am Eastern/9:25am Central - Ooh, Aah, and You's "Ooh's Birthday" episode

10:30am Eastern/9:30am Central - Handy Manny's Rusty to the Rescue/Pinata Party" episode

10:55am Eastern/9:55am Central - Can You Teach My Alligator Manners?'s "Birthday Manners" episode