Welcome to fine tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary.

I'm Drew's co-host, entertainment writer Jim Hill, and he and I are recording this on Friday, April 24th.

So much housekeeping to do, Drew, so much housekeeping.

I have to start now when you were working at Disney,

Doc McStuffins was a thing, right?

Yeah, it was a thing, but they were pivoting more towards Elena.

Elena was a big priority when I was there.

Okay.

Well, the reason I bring up Doc McSuffins is just this past weekend on Saturday, April 18th,

that Peabody Award winning program basically ended its run on Disney Junior.

Oh God, Jim, don't tell me, did Doc McStuffins get coronavirus?

Is that what happened?

It's interesting you bring that up because evidently they stopped recording episodes back in April of

2018 and you have to think that somebody at Disney right now is like, ah, dang, if we just, you know,

if that show we're still in production, we could do something because just this Saturday on CNN, they're doing a cope production between CNN and Sesame Workshop.

They're doing what they're calling the ABCs of COVID-19.

What's interesting is it's gonna be,

it's a 90 minute long thing with their chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta and

network anchor Aaron Hill no relation but also Big Bird, Elmo, Grover, and Abbey Cad Abbey.

But that's the beauty of working with puppets that you can throw together this sort of

broadcast almost instantaneously, whereas with animation you need so much more lead time.

Though speaking of the Muppets, do you want to share what you just saw come through about

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