Walt Disney Animation Studios’ never-before-seen short “Get A Horse!” will be making its world debut on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, at the Annecy Animation Festival in Annecy, France. Starring the one and only Mickey Mouse, and featuring Walt Disney himself as the voice of the iconic character, this black-and-white, hand-drawn short follows Mickey, his favorite gal pal Minnie Mouse, and their friends Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow as they delight in a musical wagon ride—until Peg-Leg Pete shows up and tries to run them off the road.

The ABC  Television Network unveiled its 2013-14 schedule on Tuesday morning to Madison Avenue advertisers at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center .

Possessing the hottest broadcast drama series at the moment,Scandal,  the network didn’t waste any time to flaunt it to advertisers. ABC’s upfront presentation opened with a pre-taped skit featuring Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope and featuring Jimmy Kimmel.

Other highlights of ABC’s Presentation:

• The network slotted its highly anticipated television series spin-off of feature film franchise The Avengers, entitled Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Also slotted with high expectations is the  Once Upon a Time spinoff Wonderland .
• ABC has canceled as many scripted shows as it is keeping, with only two first-year programs surviving: Nashville, and the once-ridiculed aliens-next-door comedy The Neighbors.
• Grey’s Anatomy, Once Upon a Time, and Scandal will likely find their seasons split in two, with approximately 12-episode runs this fall, followed by a hiatus in the winter (when new shows will premiere in their time slots) and then a return in the spring.
• Dancing with the Stars will be reduced to just one night a week, although it will continue to air in both the fall and spring.
• Altogether, the network will introduce seven new dramas (including a highly anticipated series set in Marvel’s Avengers universe), five new comedies, and one new reality series during the 2013-14 season.
• In addition to its new series, the network has ordered a new Toy Story Halloween special,Toy Story of Terror, to air in October; the original cast of the Pixar movie will return.

 

Renewed and Canceled

Renewed

20/20
America’s Funniest Home Videos
The Bachelor/Bachelorette
Castle
Dancing with the Stars
Grey’s Anatomy
Last Man Standing 
The Middle 
Modern Family 
Nashville
The Neighbors
Once Upon a Time 
Revenge
Scandal
Shark Tank
Suburgatory
The Taste

 

Canceled or Ended

666 Park Avenue
Body of Proof
Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23
Family Tools
Happy Endings
How to Live w/ Your Parents… 
Last Resort
Malibu Country
Private Practice
Red Widow
Zero Hour

Fate Uncertain

Bet on Your Baby
Mistresses *
Motive *
Splash
Whodunnit? *
Wife Swap

* Season debuts this summer; status will be determined after show airs.

 

2013-2014 Schedules

ABC is trying something new on Tuesday nights. Make that many somethings new: the entire night will consist of first-year shows, led off by ABC’s splashiest new series, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The all-new Tuesday is made possible by a format change to Dancing with the Stars, where results will now be revealed immediately as part of the show’s once-a-week, two-hour Monday broadcast. Otherwise, the schedule is fairly stable, with the network attempting to break in yet another new drama at Sundays at 10p, while it will use The Middleand Modern Family as lead-ins to new comedies on Wednesdays in an attempt to finally find a half-hour that sticks. Those new comedies mean that the return of Suburgatory will be held back until midseason, as will the launch of five new shows. The Neighbors is the only returning show moving to a new night, and the shift to a less-demanding Friday slot could actually work in the show’s favor.

 

ABC’s 2013 Fall Schedule

The NBC TV network Upfront presentations kicked off this week at NYC’s Radio City Music Hall with a look at NBC’s plans for the 2013-14 season.

Change was the story of the day for NBC as they  canceled more shows than any other network, and those shows that are returning are moving to new time slots, with a few exceptions.

Comedy will have a decreased presence on the network in the upcoming season; just two hours of sitcoms will air on NBC this fall, and three of those four comedies are new programs (though with familiar faces, such as Michael J. Fox and Sean Hayes).

 

Renewed

The Biggest Loser

The Celebrity Apprentice

Chicago Fire

Community

Dateline NBC

Grimm

Law & Order: SVU

Parenthood

Parks and Recreation

Revolution

The Sing Off

Sunday Night Football (+ pre-game)

The Voice

 

Canceled or Ended

30 Rock

1600 Penn

Animal Practice

Deception

Do No Harm

Go On

Guys With Kids

Mockingbird Lane

The New Normal

Next Caller (never aired)

The Office

Ready for Love

Rock Center with Brian Williams

Smash

Take It All

Up All Night

Whitney

 

Fate Uncertain

America’s Got Talent *

American Ninja Warrior *

Betty White’s Off Their Rockers **

Camp *

Crossing Lines *

Fashion Star **

Get Out Alive With Bear Grylls *

Hannibal **

Hollywood Game Night *

Save Me *

The Winner Is *

 

* Season debuts this summer; status will be determined after show airs.

** Renewal decision expected in the next few weeks.

 

NBC’s 2013-2014 New Shows

NBC clearly sees the Monday 10pm slot as its best opportunity to launch a new program (that post-Voice slot certainly helped Revolution last season), which is why the network has bumped Revolution to Wednesdays to clear room for its most promising newcomer, The Blacklist. And the network will roll the dice on Thursdays and (in the winter) Sundays—two of the most important nights on any network’s schedule—by devoting those evenings to so many new series. Thursdays won’t be entirely new, however; rather than try (and fail) yet again to launch another new drama at 10p, NBC is moving Parenthood there, as part of a family-themed Thursday (with Parks and Recreation the lone outcast at 8pm). And though it looked like Grimm could get shifted to a better night, it will now remain on Fridays to help launch a pair of genre shows in the fall and winter.