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Disney News – On Sunday, November 29 – HGTV will debut a new one-hour special, all about how Walt Disney World Resort cast members prepare the Parks for the Christmas holidays. The special is called Behind the Magic – Disney Holidays, and is hosted by Design Star champion and Color Splash host David Bromstad. The Disney Parks Blog camera crew caught up with David on location in the Magic Kingdom while shooting the show earlier this month. HGTV’s Behind the Magic – Disney Holidays premieres November 29, 2009 at 8 pm in both the Eastern and Pacific time zones. (Check your local listings.) If you miss it, the special is scheduled to run again at 3 am E/P as well as December 11, 20, 24 and 25. Top ITV buys Disney out of GMTV London Daily News – For historic reasons, the franchise to broadcast between 6am and 9.25am on the third terrestrial channel is separate from the franchises to broadcast after 9.25am. The breakfast licence is also national, whereas the other third channel licences are
Of the many words used to describe Disney’s Magic Kingdom over the years, “funky” may not have been among them. Until now. The vacation Mecca has been given a shot of New Orleans swagger with the introduction of “Tiana’s Showboat Jubilee!,” a colorful and decidedly swanky Mardi Gras-style procession/musical show set aboard the park’s Liberty Belle Riverboat. The show features characters from the upcoming animated feature, “The Princess and the Frog,” including Prince Naveen, a jazzy, trumpet-playing alligator named Louis, and the show’s namesake and Disney’s newest Princess, Tiana. The production starts with a New Orleans-style jazz procession – complete with Second Line dancers twirling parasols, bead tossing performers and a live brass band – that saunters and struts its way to the newly-redecorated Riverboat. Once aboard, the boat paddlewheels along the Rivers of America from Liberty Square to Frontierland, where it then stops for the 15-minute song and dance production. Park guests
