Friday, May 31, 2024

ZOOG Movies - ABC Freeform Caps Off Disney's Centennial Year with a Marathon of Classic Disney Channel DCOMs

 As the 100th year anniversary of The Walt Disney Company draws to a close in less than four months, the company's family and teens outlet ABC has cooked up some final just desserts for the occasion. For the entire month of June, Disney's sister network ABC Freeform, formerly known as the FOX/ABC Family Channel will be broadcasting a selection of both classic and modern Disney Channel original movies (or DCOMs for short).

This marathon month of movies comes as Disney Channel and Disney+ are about to premiere their latest DCOM masterpiece, The Big City Greens Movie: Spacecation which premieres on THursday, June 6th at 8:00pm/7c, followed by a sneak preview of the first all-new Disney Channel original series of 2024, ZOMBIES: The Re-Animated Series premiering on Friday, June 28th, the full half-hour version of the animated cartoon based on Disney Channel's 2018 MONStober Halloween movie franchise, which began as a series of shirts last July.

SCHEDULE - All times 11:00PM-2:00AM ET/10:00PM-1:00AMc/8:00-11:00PM PT
SAT June 1st - High School Musical 1 (2006)
SUN June 2nd - High School Musical 2 (2007)
MON June 3rd - Smart House (1999)
TUES June 4th - Get a Clue (2002)
WEDS June 5th - Stuck in the Suburbs (2004)
THURS June 6th - The 13th Year (1998)
FRI June 7th - Camp Rock (2008)
SAT June 8th - Camp Rock II: The FINAL Jam (2010)
SUN June 9th - Cow Belles (2006)
MON June 10th - The Cheetah Girls (2003)
TUES June 11th - The Cheetah Girls II (2006)
WEDS June 12th - The Cheetah Girls III: One World (2008)
THURS June 13th - Zenon: Girl of the Y2K 21st Fre (1999)
FRI June 14th - High School Musical 4: Sharpay's Fabulous Adventures (2011)
FRI June 14th - Zenon II: The Zequel (2001)
SAT June 15th - Horse Sense II: Jumping Ship (2001)
SUN June 16th - Cadet Kelly (2002)
MON June 17th - Life Is Ruff (2005)
TUES June 18th - Jump In! (2007)
WEDS June 19th - Minutemen (2008)
THURS June 20th - Read It and Weep (2006)
FRI June 21st - Princess Protections Program (2009)
SUN June 23rd - Double Teamed (2002)
MON June 24th - Starstruck(2010)
TUES June25th - Frenemies (2012)
WEDS June 26th - Lemonade Mouth (2011)
WEDS June 26th - Gotta Kick It Up! (2002)
THURS June 27th - Quints (2000)
FRI June 28th - The Wizards of Waverly Place Movie (2009)
BOLD = Freeform channel premiere

Some of the films listed will be newcomers to the network's daily movie slots, as these Disney Channel films from over the last 27 years have never aired on the Freeform channel before or since and will bring these classic DCOM titles home for a new generation of fans. See www.abcfreeform.com for more details.

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Then Disney will later kick off the summer with a bang, with the worldwide linear television premiere of the classical music film to end all Baby Einstein DVDs. Disney will premiere both versions of the greatest classical music film for kids of all time, the legend that is FANTASIA.

Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Disney XD, Disney+, ABC, Freeform, ESPN+, Hulu and Max will simulcast the linear premiere of the two Fantasia movies in a special primetime broadcast slot hosted by Julie Aigner-Clark and Eric Weiner. Disney and Freeform will broadcast the original 1940s Fantasia on SAT June 22nd, followed by Fantasia 2000 on SAT June 29th.

In addition, Freeform will also premiere the 2020 DIsney and Pixar animated biography epic Soul on SAT June 29th. The film premiered on linear television earlier this year over on ABC during the network's annual The Wonderful World of Disney programming block, an anthology tentpole that has been running for over 70 years now, began by the late Walt Disney himself in October 1954.

For more information on these and other Freeform movie schedules,
Visit the channel's website at www.abcfreeform.com 

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