'Phineas And Ferb' Sets Summer As When It Re-Begins On Disney Channel, Disney+
Every moment waiting will be worth its weight in gold
There’s 104 days of summer vacation, but will 104 days take us to the long-awaited return of Disney Channel’s Phineas and Ferb? In order to know, the premiere would have to be in May, and then May would have to be considered summer. On Thursday, series creators Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh revealed the summer premiere window at SCAD TVfest’s “Disney Branded Television: Storytelling from Preschool to Families” panel.
“Since Phineas and Ferb is essentially a celebration of summer vacation, summer is the perfect time to debut the new season,” the creators who voice Dr. Doofenshmirtz and Major Monogram told. “We have had such a great time diving back into this world and the entire cast and crew have really brought their A-game. We cannot wait to see fans’ reactions to what is shaping up to be our favorite season yet.”
Ayo Davis, the president of Disney Branded Television, added, “Few shows capture pure fun and creativity like Phineas and Ferb. It’s a series that generations of kids and families have loved, and it perfectly reflects Disney Branded Television’s commitment to joyful storytelling that brings people together. With Dan and Swampy back at the helm, this new season is sure to deliver even more of the excitement and heart that made Phineas and Ferb a beloved favorite.”
Phineas and Ferb debuted to the world with “Rollercoaster” on Disney Channel’s highest-rated night ever in August 2007, with another “preview” episode or two on the path to its official February 2008 premiere, with a new single 11-minute episode nightly for most of that month. It is easily the company’s biggest animated series in terms of merchandise, becoming the #1 animated TV series of 2009 among tweens 9-14. The series’ ratings grew to #1 among both kids 6-11 and tweens 9-14 in 2011. The first TV movie Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension premiered as the eighth-highest rated Disney Channel Original Movie ever. Phineas and Ferb had numerous specials throughout its run, including the series finale “The Last Day of Summer” in June 2015, and a “The OWCA Files” backdoor pilot aired that fall, with the original run ultimately being four seasons and about 130 episodes.
But the thing is, Phineas and Ferb never went away. Cable reruns remained, and in fall 2016 Dan and Swampy premiered their next series Milo Murphy’s Law. Callbacks and Easter eggs were well-regulated, Vincent Martella, the voice of Phineas had a recurring role. It reasonably built up to a Dr. Doofenshmirtz reveal cliffhanger in the first season finale in 2017. Over the next year+, “The Phineas and Ferb Effect” crossover leadoff to season 2 would make its way around the world, finally premiering domestically in January 2019, which would end with Doofenshmirtz becoming a main character for the rest of the series, so much that Doofenshmirtz did the first Theme Song Takeover. And there were other appearances by Phineas and Ferb characters But in April, before the series could finish airing, Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe was announced as a year 1 Disney+ original movie, which premiered in August 2020. Premiering in August 2020, Povenmire’s next show Hamster & Gretel was announced 2 months later. Premiering in August 2022 it had cameos and callbacks of its own. But that meant Povenmire was still part of Disney Television Animation.
In the six months after the season two finale of Milo Murphy’s Law before Disney+ launched, and a bit after, Povenmire, via his social media kept pushing that he was told by higher-ups if Milo Murphy’s Law did really well on Disney+, it would get a third season. And in January 2023, just five months after Hamster & Gretel premiered, it would turn out the executives kept their word. But that’s because Phineas and Ferb was so consistently a high performer on the streamer over its first three+ years that it received the two-season, 40-episode revival order that this summer will finally premiere. From this indication, it seems that unlike StuGo and Kiff season 2, the new season of Phineas and Ferb will have some sort of quicker arrival to get that new stack of episodes to the service as soon as possible. But seeing as we’ve only got a season window, a specific plan has not been disclosed.
At D23, Povenmire and Marsh shared season 5’s opening song “Summer Is Starting Right Now”, which happens on the last day of school, which they also played for New York Comic-Con in October. There, much of the remaining incumbent cast, Martella as Phineas Flynn, David Errigo Jr. as Ferb (for his first official series episodes), Caroline Rhea as Linda Flynn-Fletcher, Ashley Tisdale as Candace Flynn, Dee Bradley Baker as Perry the Platypus and Alyson Stoner as Isabella Garcia-Shapiro were all confirmed to return. Still waiting on Richard O’Brien as Lawrence Fletcher, Kelly Hu as Stacy, Bobby Gaylor as Buford and Maulik Pancholy as Baljeet, however.
Source: Variety