tiana

October 9, 2023

Where’s Tiana?

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Back in 2020, as we were all quarantining (the sensible among us, anyway), Disney announced a ton of new extended adventures for its animated movie characters. Baymax, Dug, the Zootopia crew, the Cars bunch and Princess Tiana would all be starring in either new short features or, in the case of Tiana, a full self-titled TV series. It’s now 2023 and most of those attractions have been released to Disney+, except one. Where’s Tiana? We finally got some news about that show this morning, which is both good and bad depending on how you look at it. Good because we now know who the lead writer is. It’s Joyce Sherri, whose recent writing credits include the Netflix horror miniseries “Midnight Mass” and a few short films. She’s now been hired to helm the Tiana project. The news is also bad because…this means they’re just NOW hiring a lead writer for this show, which means they HAVEN’T been actually making it! Variety suggests we could still see Tiana premiere in 2024,

November 12, 2021

Princess And The Frog’s Tiana Lands Her Own Series

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If you don’t count 2011’s Winnie The Pooh — and most people don’t remember it anyway — The Princess And The Frog was the last time Disney got serious about 2D theatrical animation. CG had completely taken over the box office by 2009, but given that 2D animation was the foundation the entire Disney Empire was built upon, they felt they should give it one last try. They knocked it out of the park and made another classic, and proved hand-drawn movies still had worth…and then they retired the medium for good, to the annoyance of a lot of people. Most of today’s best 2D animators are working for television, where flat animation never died. It’s here that Tiana is returning at last, in her own self-titled Disney+ musical series. Disney made the announcement today at their Disney+ conference, along with a billion others (more on those later). When we last left Tiana, she had achieved the mission of most Disney heroines, that of marrying into royalty. This gal, though,