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We have all witnessed one of the most anticipated endings in television history when watching Lost. It might be the end for this amazing series, but it’s surely not the end for Lost itself as we will still get to see some awesome stuff appear in the future. One of the items that wouldn’t take long before it was going to be out there is a Complete Collection of Lost on DVD and Blu-Ray. Hardcore fans will have the opportunity to relive the whole series, but will need a lot of extra hours to get to see all the nice little gems that will be packed on this set.

You can order it on Amazon.

Check out the full press release for full detail on both the 6th series and the Complete Collection:

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The Disney Channel and Disney XD has released their plans for the 2010-2011 television season and as expected will have some of their famous usuals return.

But there will be some new shows to and one of them will be a new Avengers animation series: “The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes”.

The new show will target kids age 9 to 14, will be 52 episodes long and will feature Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, the Hulk, Giant Man and Wasp.

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Disney has show interest in the TV subscription plan from apple. If rumors are correct apple wants to reinvent the television as we know it with offering TV subscription via their iTunes platform. It’s no surprise Disney has shown interest in this as they where the first to come on board when iTunes offered movie and TV content.

Apple would like to offer a $30 per month iTunes TV subscription where costumers would get the chance to see a collection of TV channels. Others interested in the online TV serve is CBS. This would be a new step for iTunes who normally offers individual shows for a flat fee.

The big problem for Apple would be convincing other companies to join in on this new venture. Mayor networks might have difficulties setting up another platform for their programs without angering the traditional cable providers. Those might not want to give away some of their costumers through this new platform.

Lost fans will still have to wait until 2010 before the can spend their well earned money on one of the many Lost items that will go up for Auction. Those visiting the San Diego Convention can run to booth 315 at the San Diego Comic Convention for a preview look at the collection of items that will go under the hammer next year. Some great and amazing stuff that will not go cheap.

Can’t make it to the San Diego Convention, visit this flickr Lost auction picture collection.

Camp Rock has been a Disney success with 10.1 million viewers watching it. To no big surprise  Disney announced a sequel.

The Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato will reprise their roles and this time will have to try to save their Camp Rock against a rival camp that has been set up across the lake. Not a very original story. One we have seen in multiple, especially teen, movies before.

The title of the sequel. “Camp Rock 2 The Final Jam”

Picture copyrights Disney.

Much has been written about the success of The Jonas Brothers – frequently the three brothers have been presented as the typical Disney created artifical boy-band (even so they moved into the Disney fold only after Sony failed to market their major label debut as successful as the brothers had hoped), even more frequently critics and “music fans” past the tween stage have criticized their music … but the band continued to sell their two studio albums for Disney extremly good and played to sell-out crowds on their tours in the US and international … so the public debate in the recent months turned to the Purity Rings all three brothers wear (indicating that they have pledged not to have sex before marriage) … a story so “interesting” that even the (compared to the Hannah Montana concert movie) not so impressive performance of their concert movie on the box office didn’t manage to shoulder it aside. But this is about to change … forever … because finally we are going to learn the true story behind the Purity Rings … thanks to SouthPark episode 1301 … and let me tell you so much … it might not be the Jonas Brothers who want to wear the rings … but take a look yourself:

March 8 saw the premiere of the latest season of Disney’s long running children tv series “Power Rangers” (currently titled “Power Ranges R.P.M.”) but just the day before The New Zealand Herald reported that cast and crew of the show were informed that Disney would drop the show after the current season’s 32 episodes and end production. Thus after 17 seasons another chapter in the history of children tv comes to end. The show originally premiered on FOX as “The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” but moved to ABC and also selected Disney premium channels when it was acquired by Disney in 2003.

While Disney did not officially confirm the report it was taken up by various online and offline sources including The New York Post, according to which the tv show has become “passé” even so the toys still seem to sell rather well. In light of this it needs to be awaited whether dropping the tv show will have any impact on  the visits of the Power Rangers to the various Disney theme parks such as Disney’s Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World and The Walt Disney Studios at Disneyland Resort Paris.

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Miley Cyrus, the Disney teen superstar from Hannah Montana (as if you didn’t know), released her book “Miles to go” yesterday.

In Miles to Go, Miley shares her inspiring story, spanning from her Southern roots in Tennessee to the excitement of her record-setting triumphs in TV, music and film through never-before-seen photos, family stories, and a look at her inner circle of loved ones. Throughout the book, Miley has included pages of doodles, poems, song lyrics, and musings in addition to fun anecdotes and touching stories. (Disney books)

The book will also be released in Italy in April 2009 via Disney Libri and a French translation will be published for the Canada market (April 2009). This one will also be offered in France via Michel LaFon.

Disney has extended their order for more Hannah Montana an The Suite Life on Deck episodes. Hannah Montana, staring Miley Cyrus, will get its third series while the The Suite life with Zack and Cody spin off, with Cole and Dylan Sprouse, will go right into season two. Both series have top ratings with Hannah getting the most viewers among kids age 6-11 en tweens age 9-14 leading the basic cable series shown on television. The Suite Life on Deck comes in second for the kids and third for the 9-14 year olds.

I am happy Zack and Cody (and London) are being picked up for another series, although I must admit that I like the original more. But that’s only my opinion and looking at the ratings people must love it, otherwise it would never rank this high.

Picture copyrights Disney

If rumors are correct we might not only see a new Muppets movie but a possible return on television. It has been 27 years since the original went of the air but there have always been fans keeping the Muppets from fading away.

Even after 27 years, they still are great characters that deserve to step back in the light. How I used to love the Swedish Chef, Animal and Pigs in Space.

And Kermit still got it. He proofed that on America Got Talent when duetting with the winner Terry Fator.

Via Calgary Herald.

The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced the 60th Primtime Emmy Awards nominations and Disney has some of their talent and productions in the running too.

In the category Outstanding Children’s Program Disney managed to get three of the five nominated entries. Hannah Montana, High School Musical 2 and The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. While I would love to see The Suite Life win I think the title will go to HSM2.

Outstanding Choreography is another category where Disney is present. Again for High School Musical 2. This for the routines; ‘What Time Is It?’, ‘Fabulous’, ‘Work This Out’, ‘I Don’t Dance’, ‘You Are the Music In Me’, ‘For One’. Although not a fan of the High School Musical movies, I do understand they are nominated for this category. The choreography is good and fun, but will it be enough to win? Personally I hope that one of the three “So you Think you Can Dance” routines (either Hummingbird and Flower / ‘The Chairman’s Waltz” ,“Transformers / ‘Fuego” and “Table / ‘Sweet Dreams”) will make it as the choreography in this program is awesome. This show is proof that dance is an amazing art form, but unfortunately so many people still don’t (want to) see it.

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Europe is a massive market so expanding a brand their could bring millions of new costumers. Disney is well aware of that and is now looking into expanding their TV market in Europe. Obviously not completely new (like I can enjoy the Disney Channel on my Sky box), there is enough new viewers that can come on board. Disney is looking at a possible growth of 100 million households within 5 years…

The UK (via sky) and Spain for example already have a pay TV channel, but it could be that Disney might expand their TV market by offering a Free channel in other countries.

Picture (first Disney Channel Logo used from 1983-1997) copyrights: Disney

Apparently Disney is looking into making a “Pirates of the Caribbean” TV show where they would explore the many adventures of a young Jack Sparrow. The information came from a source that shared the news with the United Kingdom Daily Star. (There is no Online version of this news)

I would take this news with a grain of salt for now, but I couldn’t let this news go without telling you Pirates fans about it. You never know, there might be some truth in it.

Even so, I don’t see Johnny Depp being part of this; neither as the character of Jack Sparrow or the voice over of the character, as this spin of might even become an animated version.

With a few exceptions (noteably international phenomenons LOST and Desperate Housewives) the numerous shows on Disney’s network ABC are not really a topic we blog about regularly here. But this time the news is so surprising that I just had to forward it, after reading it on the German website Quotenmeter.de: the comedy series “According to Jim” starring Jim Belushi will return for another season on ABC!

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So you are watching TV, watching a Disney travel show and then all you have to do is press those buttons and you can sit back, wait for Disney to call you and you can book the dream holiday you want.

Sounds easy enough…

…and it will be for about nine million subscribers on Time Warner Cable Inc. and Cablevision Systems Corp to start with, and with more cable systems going live once they activate the interactive feature.

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