DuckTales
Walt Disney Television Animation began production on "DuckTales" in 1986, with the intention of having it ready for a premiere in 1987, and its episodes airing within a 4-6 p.m. placement, at a time when more children would be watching television, rather than within a morning timeslot. Seeking to create a cartoon with high quality animation, in comparison with other 1980s cartoons which had much lower budgets, the animation was handled by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, having previously been used on two other Disney cartoons in 1985 – "The Wuzzles" and "Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears" – both of which had demonstrated better quality cartoons on TV than in previous years. Although the Japanese provided them with more available artists for the cartoon, this also increased production costs, due to the currency exchange rates between the yen and the dollar, though Disney intended to invest heavily in its "DuckTales"s production, with plans to recuperate its money by having it syndicated via its syndication unit, Buena Vista Television, with a 2.5/3.5 syndicator/station ad split. While this was a concept that worked well with live-action TV reruns, it had only ever been used with inexpensive cartoon series in the past that either recycled theatrical shorts from decades past or only featured limited, low-budget animation, and thus had never been attempted with a high quality animated series, with the heavy investment considered a risky move.
History of Disney Channel
On February 2 2018, "K.C. Undercover" aired its final episode (actually two produced episodes broadcast as a one-hour episode) after three seasons. Disney XD series "DuckTales", "", and "Big City Greens" moved their first-run episodes to Disney Channel on May 4, June 9, and June 18, 2018, respectively. On July 16, 2018, Disney Channel premiered "", a revival of the 1998-2001 series "Bug Juice", and the short series "Disney Quizney". On July 23, 2018, "Stuck in the Middle" aired its final episode after three seasons. On August 15, 2018, Disney Channel premiered a Marvel short series "Marvel Rising: Initiation". On October 7, 2018, Disney Channel premiered "Star Wars Resistance". On October 12, 2018, Disney Channel premiered "Coop & Cami Ask the World". On November 15, 2018, when Disney Channel renewed "Bunk'd" for a fourth season, it was announced that Peyton List, Karan Brar and Skai Jackson would not be returning. The network announced six more series, with "Fast Layne" premiering on February 15, 2019, while five other series are scheduled to premiere in 2019, which are "101 Dalmatian Street", "Amphibia", "The Owl House", "Gabby Duran & the Unsittables", and "Sydney to the Max", and two more Disney XD series "Milo Murphy's Law" and "Star vs. the Forces of Evil", will move their first-run episodes to Disney Channel in 2019, with the former scheduled to premiere on January 5. Another new series "Just Roll With It" has been green-lighted, and a premiere date has yet to be announced. Two more acquired series "Go Away, Unicorn!", an animated series co-produced for YTV, and "Vikingskool" are also scheduled to premiere in 2019, with the former scheduled to premiere in January. "Sydney to the Max" will premiere on January 25, 2019.