Wonderful World of Disney host?

Post by **Ben** » January 29th, 2006, 10:22 am

Jobs more face value than Lasseter?

Surely, for family audiences, it's the other way around? They'd know John from his many appearances on the Pixar DVDs, and recent promos for Cars.

BTW, anyone else wonder if his Cars appearance could be gearing him up to take over the WWOD gig?

Post by **Meg** » January 29th, 2006, 10:23 am

Maybe...

Of course, I don't even watch WWOD.

Post by **Wonderlicious** » January 30th, 2006, 4:56 am

Just a random question; is WWOD on almost every week in the US? I once read that it was a sparodic fixture, so I'm wondering how often it is on.

Post by **Phil** » January 30th, 2006, 8:35 am

It used to be on pretty regularly, but I can only think of one time its been on in the past few months (Once Upon a Mattress).

Post by **bambifan56** » January 30th, 2006, 9:27 am

When is the WWoD coming back and to what channel?

Post by **Phil** » January 30th, 2006, 2:26 pm

It was / will be on ABC.

Basically they have a Saturday night movie, and if its a Disney movie, they slap the WWOD intro on it. There's really nothing special about the Wonderful World of Disney anymore.

I've been enjoying the Disney Treasures set featuring Elfego Baca and the Swamp Fox. Of course I've already got Disneyland USA and Davy Crocket. Those were the days, when the Disney show had some original content and was used to experiment and test new ideas.

Post by **ShyViolet** » January 30th, 2006, 7:03 pm

How about the Disney Channel? Will they bring Vault Disney back???

Post by **Meg** » January 30th, 2006, 9:21 pm

Maybe, maybe not. For the time being, we'll just have to suffer with all of the "teenage high-schoolers" shows.

Post by **ShyViolet** » January 30th, 2006, 9:40 pm

*shudders*

Post by **Wonderlicious** » January 31st, 2006, 5:39 am

Well, there's still hope of no more teeny-bopper shows...Phil of the Future has been cancelled, apparently...

http://www.ultimatedisney.com/forum/vie ... 71&start=0

Post by **Meg** » January 31st, 2006, 7:35 am

Thank goodness. That show was terrible.

Post by **askmike1** » January 31st, 2006, 4:43 pm

I still wouldn't get any hopes up about Vault Disney. The recent DCOM (High School Musical) was the highest rated show ever on the Disney Channel (over 7.7 million viewers) & it has the most requested songs on iTunes, the most requested soundtrack at Amazon & has been the most requested song on Radio Disney. Raven & Suite life are extremely popular as are there other shows. Why is Phil being cancelled so early? I don't know. But even if it didn't get cancelled now, it most likely would very soon (with the exception of Raven, Disney Channel usually ends shows after 65 episodes).

Post by **ShyViolet** » January 31st, 2006, 6:50 pm

Yeah, but what about late at night? What kids are watching at 11 or 12 pm?

Or how about a NEW channel: Classic Disney?

EDIT: Whoops! I didn't see Wonder's post in TV that this might actually happen.

Post by **Meg** » January 31st, 2006, 9:22 pm

Kids shouldn't be watching T.V. at 12 P.M...

Post by **ShyViolet** » February 2nd, 2006, 4:23 pm

It used to be on pretty regularly, but I can only think of one time its been on in the past few months (Once Upon a Mattress).

Back in the 80's and early 90's it was on all the time (plus Wonderful World of Color on Sunday Mornings) I know it may be hard to believe this now but a lot of little kids knew who Eisner was and liked watching him on TV. He was actually a pretty good host. Some people didn't even know him as the CEO, just "that guy on television who talks to Mickey." When he was in public sometimes little kids would just come up to him because they thought he knew all the characters.

Wonderful World of Disney host?

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