Netflix has signed a multiyear overall deal with Chris Nee, the award-winning creator/EP of Doc McStuffins and Vampirina who has championed kids TV stories with diverse points of view for more than two decades. Under the deal, Nee will write and produce new animated and live-action series for preschool and all…

Disney Junior has ordered a fifth season of Doc McStuffins, with the new episodes set to air in 2018. The series aimed at 2- to 7-year-olds has been a ratings and critical hit since its March 2012 debut: it won a Peabody Award in 2015 and currently averages 16 million views on the Disney Junior app, VOD and Hulu, and…

Underscoring how rapidly the TV landscape is changing, just five years ago there was an entire 24-hour cable channel dedicated to rerunning episodes of daytime soaps someone may have missed. As the number of soaps shrunk and the proliferation of DVR viewing grew, Disney-ABC decided to replace SoapNet with a preschool…

EXCLUSIVE: She may be the original voice of Doc McStuffins but Kiara Muhammad wants an accounting autopsy performed on Disney on where the merchandising money she says she's owned is. In a breach of contract complaint filed today in L.A. Superior Court, the actress from the Disney Junior show alleges that despite the…

Disney Junior has renewed Sofia The First and Doc McStuffins for fourth seasons, returning all the main voice cast for the animated series that have been hits for both the network’s preschool-focused demo and Disney’s lines of businesses that include theme park attractions and consumer product lines. “Sofia The First…