We discuss The Guardian’s review of Ashley Spencer’s new book Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel’s Tween Empire and lament being too old to experience the channel’s heyday as tweens but too young to witness it with our own kids.
Things We Mention in this Episode
Previous Episodes We Mention:
This week’s article: ‘It caught everyone by surprise’: inside the rise and fall of the Disney Channel from September 26, 2024 by Adrian Horton for The Guardian
Since we’re reading a Guardian article this week, here’s another one from the demise of one of our favorite websites of the early aughts (the one that Deborah used to keep tabs on Zach Efron and Ashley Tisdale), Jezebel: The death of Jezebel is the end of an era of feminism.
Here are links to the books we talk about wanting to read:
- Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel’s Tween Empire
- Slimed: An Oral History of Nickelodeon’s Golden Age
- Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street
- Jim Henson: The Biography
What our kids are watching or what we’re watching with them:
- The Warriors on YouTube
- Survivor
- The Lord of the Rings
What we’re watching during grown-up screen time:
- Bad Monkey
- Only Murders in the Building
- Slow Horses
- Monsieur Spade
- Rings of Power
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