Dan Povenmire Announces A ‘Phineas And Ferb’ Revival Coming To Disney Branded Television
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The boys of the longest summer are back. A Phineas and Ferb revival from original co-creator Dan Povenmire has been ordered by Disney Branded Television under a new overall deal with Povenmire. Though really, it can easily be demonstrated that they never left.
It was announced by Povenmire and Disney Branded Television president Ayo Davis during the Television Critics Association winter press tour. There will be 40 new episodes of the series, which originally ran from 2007 to 2015. Those new episodes will be split across two seasons. It’s an order reminiscent of the later seasons as a whole, as the show had 35+ half hours per season after the first, which had 26. Having two 20-episode seasons probably somewhat lightens the workload. After all, Povenmire’s current series, Hamster & Gretel, was renewed for a second season under this deal, so he’s going to be quite busy anyway.
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And yes, it is still being determined where this revival is landing. By the time Phineas and Ferb ended, it and the other animated series in its demo had been offloaded by Disney Channel to Disney XD, a move that would be largely reversed in 2018, and after DuckTales ended in 2021, the latter became more of a place for reruns. And, of course, Disney+ exists and is where several outlets reported the revival’s landing spot would be. However, one actually hasn’t been explicitly stated. Disney Branded Television produces content for all of them. The series’s other co-creator, Jeff “Swampy” Marsh, currently executive producer of Disney Junior’s upcoming Hey AJ, is in talks to return. No cast confirmations have been made yet.
This is the culmination of Disney Channel never quite letting go of the characters. An OWCA Files backdoor aired in September 2015. While the series wasn’t picked up, another of Dan and Swampy’s did: Milo Murphy’s Law. This “Weird Al” Yankovic-starring animated series which premiered in October 2016, is set in the same world, with a first season culminating in a Doofenshmirtz cameo cliffhanger. The ensuing second season opener, “The Phineas and Ferb Effect,” was a full crossover that led to Doof becoming a regular presence in the season.
A month before that second and currently final season ended in May 2019 was the Disney+ presentation touting its first year of content, which included the second Phineas and Ferb movie: Candace Against the Universe. The film became the platform’s second most-viewed original film of 2020 following its August 28 premiere. Leading up to it was the show’s foray into the Chibi Tiny Tales shorts, which had so many shorts made in general that a package show with framing segments, Chibiverse, premiered just last year with Vincent Marcella back as Phineas. Candace also appears in one of last year’s Broken Karaoke shorts. They’re tuned up and right on track, baby. They’re back, and they’re gonna do it again.
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Source(s): Variety
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