I am proud to announce the creation of a new SDS movement to Save ABC Family’s 10 Things.
Early Thursday (April 29) afternoon, series creator Carter Covington tweeted, “Sad news… ABCFamily canceled the show : ( Thanks 2 our AMAZING fans – U R the reason I do this! Enjoy the last 5 eps – they’re fantastic!”
ABC Family sources confirm Covington’s tweet that these will be the last five “10 Things I Hate About You” episodes, with the series finale currently set for the end of May.
The fans are not taking this news lying down! A simple search for the #save10things hash-tag shows hundreds upon hundreds of tweets. Not enough to make a tending topic (yet) but I fully expect it to happen.
Last week I was fortunate enough to snag stand by tickets for last Friday’s live studio filming for The Suite Life on Deck. I had heard that On Deck was the hardest DC show to get into (not counting Hannah, ’cause that one’s impossible) so I was ecstatic just to have the opportunity!
At the Wizards filming I learned the importance of getting there early. And for On Deck I was determined to get there as early as possible. Me and my Mom got there at one, and we where the first ones there! I was shocked. As it turned out, only five stand by people showed up, and they actually had room for about 15 at last weeks show.
The episode I saw filmed was called “The Ghost and Mr. Martin” and it is part of season three. In this episode, the ship is docked in New Orleans and the cast is dressed in 1800s period costumes for a ball on the deck. London and Bailey are attempting to help Mr. Moseby overcome his fear of preforming in public. Meanwhile, Zach, Cody, and Woody are attempting to find and communicate with the ghost Captain that’s haunting Zach.
The SLOD set is unlike any other I’ve seen. The ship’s sky-deck set filled the entire stage in front of our audience area. All other scenes on other sets where pre-filmed and shown to us on the monitors. Combined with the other supplemental sets, On Deck probably has the largest set of any DC Show.
As a result, we only had two scenes to film, but they where nine and ten page scenes! So there where many takes and resets back to back. There where a variety of other supplemental shots for special effects (as I mentioned before, there is a ghost), and some other special effects involving Woody. From start to finish, it took four and a half hours! By the end it was starting to get a little crazy on set!
“Wow, this is a great take. I don’t even remember the beginning! … We’re all delirious and we want to go home” – Dylan Sprouse
“You’re Not Helping!” – Phill Lewis
“But Cosby impression did?” – Assistant Producer
At 9:25, they wrapped the last supplemental shots and practically threw us all out! Apparently union rules required them to have the audience physically outside the building by 9:30. I tell ya, SAG has a lot weird rules! LOL. Obviously, we didn’t have time for an autograph session, which was a disappointment. I have met Debby before, but I really did want to meet Phill and Brenda, plus ask the cast and crew if they want to do another season or if they’re happy if season three is the end (which it probably will be). Because we wouldn’t have time to get autographs, they gave us these presigned script covers:
I would have loved to meet everyone, but I’m not complaining. I feel very blessed to have been able to go and see the show filmed. I mean, I got to see Debby dance around and lip-sync to Justin Beiber in a period dress! I watched as Brenda and Debby where literally eating the set between takes! And I learned why the director doesn’t take Matthew Timmons (Woody) seriously – “Because you’re covered in gelatin!”
I learned a couple spoilers as well (highlight to read) => Doc Shaw’s character Marcus Little was written off the show. Also, Cody and Bailey break up. <= Unfortunately, both hose things happened in episodes prior to the one I saw, so they’re only refrenced and that’s all I know about them. Oh, and Debby’s favorite costume was her Naomi Wyoming pop-star outfit, which I also thoroughly enjoyed.
So after the awesomeness last month that was the D23 Expo I realized that I had now seen, in person, every Disney Channel girl except for Brenda song and Emily Osment. So you can imagine my delight when I found out that Emily was playing a free show but 30 minutes from me!
Her third concert ever was held in the parking lot of the San Jacinto, CA Wal-Mart on October 1st 2009.
She looked absolutely amazing, as always.
Emily signed some autographs after the event, but with some 3,000 people there, the line was just too long for everyone to get to meet her. I was a tad disappointed I wasn’t able to tell Emily about my websites, but she did walk right past me in the store so that was pretty cool!
And I got some amazing videos. Including all six of Em’s new songs from her EP and some songs from her opening act too.
I am delighted to announce that my first website, SaveKimPossible.com, has finally come home. The domain was registered when we first began the Save Kim Possible movement. But due to financial issues, we where forced to give it up and create a new site SaveDisneyShows.org instead.
Despite several attempts over the years, we had no luck getting the domain back. That is until now. With a little help from Phil, I once again hold the domain, and this time I’m keeping it!
After some debate over what to do with it, I decided that it was the best place to put a history of the Save KP Movement. Sometimes I feel that the debacles of the season five campaign have overshadowed the amazing accomplishment that was the renewal for season four. To this end, SaveKimPossible.com tells the story of how we saved the show. And explores how the campaign affected my life in particular.
I have been thinking about starting a forum for DC Fans for quite some time, and finally decided to go for it. I’ve gotten to the point where the Sonny forum is more or less self sustaining, and SDS continues to trudge along, so I though I finally had the time to properly develop a forum for DC Fans.
I’ve had some really fun discussions on the blog using the comments sections, so I hope that can continue on the new forum. I’m somewhat concerned that the DC Fans forum lacks a defining purpose for existing, but that’s never stopped me before.
And as a bonus, with the random discussions on the forum, then the comments sections can stay on topic, and we can all still talk about how cute Selena Gomez is.
I’ve started the forum with with five sections: Announcements, Disney Channel Shows, Disney Channel Stars, General Disney, and Off-Topicness.
I these should be a good match for the topics I think will spring up on the forum, but we’ll make adjustments as necessary. If you have any thoughts on our format or layout please let me know! I’m very open to making changes if desired.
Monday morning bluehost suspended the hosting account for SaveDisneyShows.org. The SDS hosting account includes all of the SDS related sites including SaveKP.com, SDSForum.com, DisneysWitch.com, and the site that was targeted by the hackers, FixDisney.com.
We believe the hackers where able to access the site through a security hole in an outdated version of phpList. I upgraded the mailing list software and remove the phishing site the hackers had installed on the server. /after speaking with Wayne, we felt we had the problem solved.
We were wrong. This morning Bluehost re-suspended the account. And after discussing the situation with Bluehost, I was again given access to the site and I found the tool the hackers had installed that gave them access to the site after we plugged the original security hole. I went through every file on the server and found several problem files which I’ve all removed.
The site should be secure now, and should be back up Wednesday Morning.
I wanted to take a moment to formally announce the launch of two new celebrity websites. Both of course are related to Demi Lovato’s new show Sonny with a Chance.
Jillian has a smaller role on Sonny as Portlyn, one of the Mackenzie Falls cast members. Jillian also stars in the new direct to DVD film, American High School.
My Mom’s birthday was March 26th, so she cashed in her free birthday ticket and me and her went that day,
Among other things, she wanted to see Billy Hill and the Hillbillies at the Golden Horseshoe Saloon.
But the most interesting thing that happened while we where there happened at the end of the day, a few minutes after the park officially closed. We had just gotten off of the Nemo subs and where walking through tomorrowland toward the exit. And as we where walking past, they where playing “Call Me, Beep Me” (The Kim Possible theme song) at the tomorrowland terrace. I was a little slow on identifying it, but I pulled out my camera and took a video as proof that Disney hasn’t forgotten about KP.
I can’t wait for Ashley’s new album. And I seriously hopes she does a decent concert tour to promote it. And I don’t mean a little mall tour like she did for Headstrong.
