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Alan ShapiroIn October 1983, the Disney Channel—which had launched just six months earlier—was already at the forefront of original cable series. But, says Jim Jimirro, founding president of the Disney Channel, “The last thing I was looking to do at that time was get into a feature film business.”Jimirro tells me, “We were just getting our feet wet with the original productions,” 13 of which were part of the channel’s April ‘83 launch.Howev...

Premiering in October 1983, the sports drama started a brand-defining trend for the House of Mouse. But good luck finding it today.

The 'Cocaine Bear' director and Archer Roose chief creative officer has revived her reading circle — but this time, it's entirely a work of fiction.

Book World: Too many narrators can turn an audiobook into a confusing radio play Katherine A. Powers, The Washington Post Feb. 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The Cold Millions/The Night FireRamdom House Audio/HarperAudio - handout Are audiobooks books? Certainly listening to a book is a different experience from reading it: Backtracking to check details in an audiobook is awkward, and, in many cases, you dont retain as much as you do with the printed version. Finally, theres the difficult-to-de...

Full-cast productions can turn an audiobook into a confusing radio play.

It was “deja vu” all over again, as they say. Redundancy jokes aside, last Sunday I felt as though I was repeating the past, and not in a good way. I was getting ready to prepare something tasty for dinner. I had a fat pork chop in the freezer that I thought might work better for me if it was thinly sliced. So I spent some time getting a fine edge on my long carving knife. The thick boneless chop was in a plastic bag in cold water to accelerate the defrosting. When I felt it was ready to be...