Bow Down To Your Majesty - Disney Junior Orders Sofia the First Reboot/Sequel Series Hybrid "Sofia's Royal Magic" To PRemiere in 2026

Finally after six years of boredom, laziness and stupidity, America's favorite little princess is back in the Disney Vault for a whole new generation. Disney Junior has officially ordered a new reboot and sequel series order of the Emmy-winning Sofia the First franchise that hasn't seen the light of day on the network since the cancellation of Elena of Avalor back in the summer of 2020, the WORST YEAR EVER.

In the all-new series Sofia the First: Royal Magic (Season 1, 30 episodes x 2 11-minute stories each) set to premiere on Disney Junior, Disney Channel, DisneyNOW and Disney+ in January 2026, the new series follows her royal majesty Ariel Winter (Modern Family) and her bunny sidekick Wayne Brady (Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, Let's Make a Deal) as they venture in their high school misadventures to a new school named Charmswell in the city of Enchantia, where young Sofia must learn about how to transform her royal powers and protect her royal kingdom.

The new series is once again created and showrunned by Craig Gerber who had previously took the throne for the first two series and later created T.O.T.S. at the beginning of the decade. The voice cast currently set to return includes Ariel Winter as Sofia, Wayne Brady as Clover and Tim Gunn as Baileywick. It's currently unknown of whether or not the original Disney Princess franchise voice actors (i.e. Jennifer Hale, Jodi Benson, Paige O'Hara, Linda Larkin, Kelly MacDonald, Anita Mae Rose) will be returning for the new series or instead Sofia will be joined by the cast from the live-action movie ripoff imposters that have been all the rage at the House of Mouse since the first of two Jungle Book remakes in 1994.

Sofia the First: Royal Magic is only the third reboot series that Playhouse Disney and Disney Junior have ever created in their almost 30 years history alongside the 2018 reboot of '80s powerhouse Jim Henson's Muppet Babies which ran from 2018-2022 and the upcoming Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 2.0 set for release next year. Other new series joining the Disney Princess cartoons lineup include this summer's TV splash Ariel The Little Mermaid which kicked off the 2024 Disney Jr. "Let's Play!" acronym rebrand and the upcoming Disney+ original series Tiana based on The Princess and the Frog movie released in 2009 and was the last hurrah of the Disney studio's golden age of traditional 2D animation on the silver screen.

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