Let’s talk. I know you’re a fan of The Wiggles. Come on, don’t deny it! I know you get up and dance when they sing “Hot Potato,” or “Do the Monkey.” I know that you were just as excited as your kids were when you saw them in concert. And I know that you think that Jeff is cute.

I also know that you haven’t seen them on TV in a while. There’s a good reason for that: they weren’t on TV for a while. It seems that the decade-long agreement between The Wiggles and Disney Studios ended back in the spring. There’s no need to get upset, because Sam, Anthony, Murray, and Jeff have all returned with a new series in a regular time-slot. Read the rest of this entry »

To the Mickey Mouses and Donald Ducks over at Disney Channel:

Children, as you know, are a unique subset of the human race. While energetic, very flexible, and full of imagination they are also quite rigid. Particularly when it comes to television. Especially when it comes to a specific television show on a specific channel at a specific time.

Being so rigid at times, the world of these children can go topsy-turvy when, out of the blue, their favorite television program doesn’t happen to come on when it’s supposed to. This, in turn, wreaks havoc with the parents of these said children who need to console their young ones with hugs, kisses, and several lollipops. Of course, this makes the parents angry at the channel that messed up their children’s programming schedule. Eventually, network executives are burned in effigy by thousands of upset parents.

All they have to do to avoid this is give both the kids and parents fair warning that the schedule is going to change. As the perfect example where this should have taken place, I give you the Disney Channel.

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