CBR can exclusively reveal that The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse has been renewed for a second season on Disney+.
Season 2 will be comprised of four extended-length episodes based on winter, spring, summer and fall. Fittingly, the season will premiere in winter 2022 to help kick off the rotation.
The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse premiered in November 2020 with a 10-episode first season. The show is made up of seven-minute shorts featuring Mickey, Minnie, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto and more "as they embark on their greatest adventures yet, navigating the curveballs of a wild and zany world where the magic of Disney makes the impossible possible."
"When I was developing the shorts in the early days, I was trying to do a little forensics," executive producer/supervising director Paul Rudish told CBR. "What makes Mickey popular? Dissecting it. I think it [originated from] silent cartoons and that style of trying to put all the storytelling in visually rather than verbally: that was always baked into Mickey Mouse. All the pantomime type of acting, all the weird rubber hose animation, and whatnot were fun. They weren't relying on the dialogue to deliver the jokes -- that translated better in other markets, in other countries -- so you weren't relying on the language. You were doing humor that everyone could relate to. I compare that to Bugs Bunny. The Looney Tunes stuff is great, but Bugs Bunny, he's sharp with his dialogue. He's witty. That's not really Mickey's game. Mickey's pretty simple. Finding that kernel set the tone for us. And again, that tone was set by Walt Disney and Ube Iwerks, so it was just going back in Mickey's history and going, 'Why are these cartoons great? Okay, what can we learn from that? How can we help perpetuate those ideas that actually Walt and Ube had set in motion?"
As for Season 2's unique format, Rudish noted that "[Disney] wondered if there was a way that they could put a spin on it. They felt like we've got a huge library of shorts now and [wondered] if there was a way we could do something that they could billboard, or point to and say, 'This is something different?' They talked about the holiday specials that we had done previously, the Halloween and the Christmas specials. They were talking a little bit about programming ideas and stuff. They told me, 'We usually air things in the four quarters. We like to have these four quadrants throughout the year. We'd like to do something that we could wave a flag around.'"
Season 2 of The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse premieres in winter 2022 on Disney+
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