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DISCOVERY FAMILY CHANNEL LEAPS INTO 2015-16 UPFRONT SEASON

Television’s Only 24/7 Network for the Entire Family Announces 200 Hours of New Programming

– Discovery Family Channel, America’s leading entertainment network for the entire family, today announced its 2015-16 Upfront slate of programming. With 200 hours of new programming and more than 20 new series in the pipeline, Discovery Family Channel will build off of the strong foundation established when the network transitioned from The Hub in October 2014. Since launch, Discovery Family Channel has marked four consecutive months of month-to-month growth in Prime among household delivery[i]—and in Q1 2015 to date, Discovery Family Channel remains the #1 most co-viewed children’s cable networkamong Kids 2-11, watching with Adults 18-49[ii]. DFC is a joint venture between Hasbro and Discovery Communications (DCI), in which DCI is the majority stakeholder. With a broadened focus on family-friendly series across a variety of genres in primetime and Hasbro Studios’ award-winning children’s content airing in daytime, Discovery Family Channel features a clever mix of entertaining, high-quality real-world content that appeals to the entire family.

“Discovery Family Channel is off to a fast and furious start—and we’re confident that the best is yet to come,” said Tom Cosgrove, general manager, Discovery Family Channel. “With a solid daytime anchored by beloved Hasbro properties like MY LITTLE PONY, and a revved up primetime schedule filled with everything from wildlife and pets to history and mystery—and a spate of upcoming original new series on the horizon—we’re poised to continue our growth trajectory as we super-serve families with content they can enjoy together.”

With exciting primetime premieres of MY DOG’S CRAZY ANIMAL FRIENDS (April 9), HORRIBLE HISTORIES (April 10), and WEIRD, WILD AND DEADLY (April 15) on the horizon, Discovery Family Channel is television’s only 24/7 entertainment destination to bring the entire family together to share a sense of fun, wonder and amazement about the world. Discovery Family Channel’s 2015-16 Upfront slate features the following:

NEW SERIES

FROM WAGS TO RICHES WITH BILL BERLONI (wt)

This all-new original series brings viewers into the world of award-winning eminent theatrical animal trainer Bill Berloni. Known as a tireless advocate for animals and for casting and cultivating Sandy—the dog featured in the original run of Broadway’s beloved Annie—Berloni possesses the unique ability to transform shelter dogs into stars. FROM WAGS TO RICHES WITH BILL BERLONI (wt) will follow Berloni in his work as an animal trainer, while also spotlighting his dedication to rescue work. Berloni’s personal passion for animal activism has opened up the door to a pool of untapped talent— allowing him to rescue countless homeless dogs, and to give them a second life as stars on stage.

AMERICAN FINDERS (WT)

Ever wanted to go back and thank someone? A family member, a long lost friend, a teacher or even a stranger who did something that changed your life? This all-new series features folks who do just that – meet Mike and Jesse, professional ‘finders’ who will stop at nothing to let people finally say ‘thank you’.

BEASTS BEHAVING BADLY

What happens when the wild world and “real” world collide? This series features the authentic stories behind the best clips of wild animals invading human spaces.

BABIES BEHAVING BADLY

What do babies really do when we aren’t looking? This series shows how the littlest humans mimic their parents, argue with their siblings, and make their point as strongly as they can—sometimes, at inopportune moments.

SECRET AMERICA

Whose face inspired Lady Liberty? What’s in the secret vault behind Mt. Rushmore, and why? If you have ever wondered what the tour guides aren’t saying, this is the series for you.

WHO’S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY HOUSE?

Every house has a history made up of the incredible stories of the families who lived there before you. Join us as we find out who’s been sleeping in your house.

FAMILY MOVIES

Grab the blankets and popcorn! Discovery Family Channel will air over 60 new movies in 2015/16, including some of the funniest, most beloved family-friendly films—like Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (Paramount DWA), Alice in Wonderland (Disney ABC), Where the Wild Things Are (Warner Brothers), and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (20th Television)—as well as favorite ‘throwback’ flicks, including Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (Paramount) and The Princess Bride (20th Television).

SPECIALS AND EVENTS

SUMMER MOVIE MADNESS

It’s hot outside—so why not spend your July evening with Discovery Family during our SUMMER MOVIE MADNESS? Tune-in throughout the month to see your favorite family-friendly movies. (Titles to be announced at a later date)

PAWGUST

August finds the country embroiled in the Dog Days of Summer—and what better way to celebrate than by tuning into Discovery Family Channel with your favorite four-legged friend! Throughout August, DFC will showcase your all-time favorite, totally paweseome, animal-themed specials and movies for all to enjoy while you escape the heat! FROM WAGS TO RICHES WITH BILL BERLONI (wt) will premiere in PAWGUST; additional programming to be announced at a later date.

BRING US BACK TO THE FUTURE

Rev up the DeLorean – the future has arrived! 2015 marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Back to the Future, the worldwide cultural phenomenon and highest grossing film of 1985. This October, Discovery Family Channel will commemorate the occasion with a marathon of all three of the franchise’s movies, as well as various interstitials including a “where are they now” look at the cast.

PROJECT THANK YOU

This November, join Discovery Family Channel to showcase the best and most touching stories of families, friends and strangers getting the chance to say ‘thank you’ to the people who changed their lives.

12 DAYS OF OUR CHRISTMAS

Here at Discovery Family Channel, we like to celebrate Christmas in our very own way so we’re livin’ it up with the 12 days of OUR Christmas. Complete with holiday originals, movie favorites and a month of surprises, we’ll be sure to make your holiday fantastic. Programming slate to be announced at a later date.

DAYTIME

LITTLEST PET SHOP SEASON 4

Blythe lives in the big city, right above the Littlest Pet Shop, a day-camp for all types of pets. Her adventures begin when she discovers that she can talk to the animals and joins them on fantastical adventures filled with music.

MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC SEASON 6

In the magical land of Equestria, the studious young unicorn Princess Twilight Sparkle lives in the village of Ponyville where she and her five pony friends teach one another about the most powerful magic of all – the magic of friendship!

STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE’S BERRY BITTY ADVENTURES SEASON 4

In Berry Bitty Adventures, Strawberry Shortcake and her friends live in the delightfully quirky community of Berry Bitty City, a miniature town tucked into a strawberry patch. There, she and her friends run shops and go on fantasy adventures that emphasize friendship, teamwork and fun!

TRANSFORMERS RESCUE BOTS SEASON 4

Meet the Rescue Bots - Heatwave, Boulder, Blades, & Chase, first-responder Autobots who, alongside the local Burns family, keep the high-tech island of Griffin Rock safe from disasters. Their mission: to protect, learn from, & work with humans.



About Discovery Family

Since its debut in October 2014, Discovery Family has marked four consecutive months of month-to-month grown in Prime among household delivery[iii], and has grown its viewership by double digits in daytime, attracting children and their parents to Hasbro Studio’s popular animation programming, including MY LITTLE PONY, LITTLEST PET SHOP and TRANSFORMERS RESCUE BOTS.

Fellow Seibertronian Tsutsukakushi has pointed us in the direction of some awesome news: Transformers Rescue Bots is returning for season 4!

Discovery Family Channel has posted a press release discussing their upcoming schedule of new shows and movies as well as returning classics and family entertainment. You can read the full press release on Discovery Family's website, here.

Tsutsukakushi wrote:I was looking around the Discovery Family site earlier today and found this. Figured I'd post the news here, as some of you guys would enjoy seeing this news.

TRANSFORMERS RESCUE BOTS SEASON 4

Meet the Rescue Bots - Heatwave, Boulder, Blades, & Chase, first-responder Autobots who, alongside the local Burns family, keep the high-tech island of Griffin Rock safe from disasters. Their mission: to protect, learn from, & work with humans.

About Discovery Family

Since its debut in October 2014, Discovery Family has marked four consecutive months of month-to-month grown in Prime among household delivery[iii], and has grown its viewership by double digits in daytime, attracting children and their parents to Hasbro Studio’s popular animation programming, including MY LITTLE PONY, LITTLEST PET SHOP and TRANSFORMERS RESCUE BOTS.

The release date and other info has not been released as of yet, but as soon as we know, you will, so...

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If this turns out to be the longest running Transformers series ever...




I'll love the chaos that will happen cause the series that is the longest will be the one without Decepticons.

dear lord this series is going to become longer than a InuYasha story arc, and give G1 a run for its money

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:If this turns out to be the longest running Transformers series ever...




I'll love the chaos that will happen cause the series that is the longest will be the one without Decepticons.

Certainly would be the first Transformers series to get a proper 4th season (G1 had "Rebirth," but I don't really count that three-parter as a "season" per say). As for "longest," well, let's see:

G1 had 98 episodes.
Beast Wars had 52 episodes
Beast Machines had 26 episodes.
Robots in Disguise (2001) had 39 episodes.
Armada had 52 episodes.
Energon had 51 episodes.
Cybertron had 52 episodes.
Animated had 39 episodes.
Prime had 66 episodes (67 if you want to count the TV movie)
So far, Rescue Bots has aired 67 episodes, with at least 5 more set to air in the near future, making a total of 72.
Robots in Disguise (2015) has aired 13 episodes so far (in various markets).

So in terms of total episodes, G1 has had the longest run so far; Rescue Bots needs another 26 episodes to match it. As things go, however, Rescue Bots has had the second longest run in terms of total episodes, so unless Hasbro decides to have another 13 episode season, as they did for both Transformers: Prime and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic during their third seasons (seriously, what happened that year?), Rescue Bot's got a shot to tie the run.

Archanubis wrote:Animated had 39 episodes.
Prime had 66 episodes (67 if you want to count the TV movie)

Animated had 42 and Prime had 65 (68 if one counts the three episodes that Predacons Rising was later split into).

Archanubis wrote:So far, Rescue Bots has aired 67 episodes, with at least 5 more set to air in the near future, making a total of 72.

Rescue Bots has already been confirmed to have a full 26 episodes in its third season, making a total of 78. If season 4 can get another 26, that would make 104 episodes.

Archanubis wrote:Robots in Disguise (2015) has aired 13 episodes so far (in various markets).

Word has it that RID 2015 is planned to have 78 episodes.

Sabrblade wrote:

Archanubis wrote:Animated had 39 episodes.
Prime had 66 episodes (67 if you want to count the TV movie)

Animated had 42 and Prime had 65 (68 if one counts the three episodes that Predacons Rising was later split into).

Dang it; forgot the pilot for Animated, and I must have counted "Predacons Rising" twice. Silly me.

Sabrblade wrote:

Archanubis wrote:So far, Rescue Bots has aired 67 episodes, with at least 5 more set to air in the near future, making a total of 72.

Rescue Bots has already been confirmed to have a full 26 episodes in its third season, making a total of 78. If season 4 can get another 26, that would make 104 episodes.

I only saw 20 episodes listed for Rescue Bots in TfWiki; so that's what I was counting. Doesn't mean there aren't 6 more coming down the pike, but I can only go by the information I had available. Still, that's a pretty long run for a cartoon series (hell, even if the 4th season is only 13 episodes, that's still a long run for a cartoon).

Archanubis wrote:I only saw 20 episodes listed for Rescue Bots in TfWiki; so that's what I was counting. Doesn't mean there aren't 6 more coming down the pike, but I can only go by the information I had available. Still, that's a pretty long run for a cartoon series (hell, even if the 4th season is only 13 episodes, that's still a long run for a cartoon).

Right, the Wiki doesn't have all 26 season 3 episodes listed yet since some of the titles haven't been revealed yet.

Here's the confirmation of the full 26 episodes - https://twitter.com/NicoleDubuc/status/ ... 2206132224

Wow, it just keeps going and I still have not watched an episode!

To the time Transformers was like Valve and Half-Life, impossible to count to 3 4 but now I'm more impressed that is Rescue bots the lucky one. TFA was too close but it failed.

It never ends...



...IT NEVER ENDS.

PrymeStriker wrote:It never ends...



...IT NEVER ENDS.

The saga continues...

Confirmation from the show's staff, video provided by voice actor D.C. Douglas:

While we already knew that Transformers: Rescue Bots had been renewed for a fourth season from this post, nothing beats hearing it from the cast themselves! Check out below a totally unofficial but wonderfully amazing video featuring Nicole Dubuc, Brian Hohlfeld, Maurice LaMarche, Jason Marsden, Lacey Chabert, Imari Williams, Steve Blum, Parvesh Cheena, D.C. Douglas, and LeVar Burton - via DC Douglas's channel - and some autotuned tuuuunes!

Think it looks like some of these voice actors, the animators might have tried to model their animation character design after the real person voice over actors image.

Chief charlie burns looks so much like Maurice LaMarche. With the added mustache.

Dani Burns looks so much like Lacey Chabert. Looks like the animators gave Lacey Chabert a short hair cut.

Okay, okay. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Your welcome to not like the show, because it is targeted to kiddies, and is lacking in super awesome bad guy Decepticons. Not your thing, fine. But if you can't appreciate how much fun this show is willing to have with itself, you should go make sure someone hasn't shattered that cold, lifeless soul of yours, because this is Tongue-in-Cheek humor GOLD.

Flashwave wrote:Okay, okay. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Your welcome to not like the show, because it is targeted to kiddies, and is lacking in super awesome bad guy Decepticons. Not your thing, fine. But if you can't appreciate how much fun this show is willing to have with itself, you should go make sure someone hasn't shattered that cold, lifeless soul of yours, because this is Tongue-in-Cheek humor GOLD.

Who is this aimed at?

Sabrblade wrote:

Flashwave wrote:Okay, okay. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Your welcome to not like the show, because it is targeted to kiddies, and is lacking in super awesome bad guy Decepticons. Not your thing, fine. But if you can't appreciate how much fun this show is willing to have with itself, you should go make sure someone hasn't shattered that cold, lifeless soul of yours, because this is Tongue-in-Cheek humor GOLD.

Who is this aimed at?

No one and anyone. Rb getsca bit of flack, but its awesome that the VAs are so eager go fourth wall in character.

Sabrblade wrote:

Flashwave wrote:Okay, okay. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Your welcome to not like the show, because it is targeted to kiddies, and is lacking in super awesome bad guy Decepticons. Not your thing, fine. But if you can't appreciate how much fun this show is willing to have with itself, you should go make sure someone hasn't shattered that cold, lifeless soul of yours, because this is Tongue-in-Cheek humor GOLD.

Who is this aimed at?

No one and anyone. Rb getsca bit of flack, but its awesome that the VAs are so eager go fourth wall in character.

I can appreciate the show's humor and the fun it has within itself. I've watched a decent chunk of the series and have collected the merchandise in support. I just don't find it engaging or clever enough to follow for very long, unfortunately.