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 until the "Disney After Dark" block, with PG programming for adults (including Going Home, a series of concert specials featuring mostly baby boomer-era acts, and A Prairie Home Companion), was added. The channel also featured a colorful variety of family-oriented movies and series from other companies and countries, especially Canada (the Anne of Green Gables films were popular enought that they led to the successful spinoff series Avonlea in the early 1990s). Many Eighties kids feel very nostalgic for these "What the Hell Programming Director" early days, which included Dot And The Kangaroo and its sequels, the Unico anime films, and the later seasons of Kids Incorporated, all accompanied by colorful claymation Ad Bumpers (but without the ads).In the early '90's, when the company and the channel started getting treated with more respect, shows such as The New Mickey Mouse Club, the aforementioned Avonlea, Flash Forward (a launching pad for Ben Foster and Jewel Staite), In A Heartbeat and The Famous Jett Jackson helped the channel improve. However, it eternally lagged behind the wildly popular Nickelodeon, in part because it was a pay cable service like HBO; it subsequently moved to basic cable and has a unique format where instead of commecial breaks, pauses in programming are filled with promotions for other shows, Disney films and other Disney products like CD's and their sister radio network, Radio Disney, which are often their own small promotional mini-shows inside of another program. In addition, the adult-oriented lineup was replaced with "Vault Disney", a programming block that featured the vintage Disney shows that had been the channel's lifeblood for so long.Then someone in the company had the idea for Lizzie McGuire. Its success led Disney to create more and more preteen sitcoms where the idealism is cranked up to eleven and the laugh track never stops. The channel has become more popular than it's ever been thanks to Hannah Montana, the High School Musical franchise, and the other live-action series.Toon Disney was a spinoff channel that focused on Disney animation, but as a result of Network Decay became Disney XD (eXtreme Disney).The Playhouse Disney block had been a staple of the network for many years and has undergone a number of shifts. On Valentine's Day, 2011 it was rebranded as Disney Junior (a website and a YouTube channel have been created) and in 2012 it will launch in the United States as a full 24 hour network, replacing SOAPNet, which is a very controversial move among Soap Opera fans. Playhouse Disney already exists as an independent network in many non-U.S. markets and these will also be rebranded as Disney Junior, over time, some of them before the U.S. Disney Junior network launches.Shows Originating on The Disney Channel:Animated:
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