The Jim Hill Media Podcast Network
Jim Hill Media Podcast Network
The Jim Hill Media Podcast Network features weekly shows hosted by Jim Hill and his collaborators. The lineup includes The Disney Dish with Len Testa, Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor, Epic Universal Podcast with Eric Hersey, I Want That Too with Lauren Hersey, Marvel Us Disney with Dan Graney, The Case For with Chris Cox, and more. Each series offers industry reporting, history, analysis, and insider stories spanning Disney, Universal, animation, film, streaming, and themed entertainment. With over 25 years of online storytelling and thousands of hours of content, the network delivers trusted, in-depth coverage for fans, enthusiasts, and industry professionals.
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Aug 17, 2020 • 51min
Disney Dish Episode 283: Are Disney World & Universal Orlando heading for not-such-a-great Fall?
Len Testa & Jim Hill share what they’ve learned from a round of surveys that Central Florida’s biggest resorts recently sent out. Then Jim talks about how Disney’s Animal Kingdom tried to solve its everyone-leaves-this-theme-park-by-1-p.m. problem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 14, 2020 • 32min
Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor Episode 90: When Disney went to pot to help “Fantasia” turn a profit
Drew Taylor & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by discussing the Crumpet / Kermit cameo in Disney’s “Amphibia.” They also discuss that recent spate of spinoffs & revivals that are going forward without any input from the creators of those series Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 10, 2020 • 49min
Disney Dish Episode 282: Introducing the Carousel-of-Progress detective
Using his keen deductive skills, Len Testa reveals what year the first scene of “Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress” is actually set in. Then Jim Hill looks back at the circumstances that forced Walt Disney Productions to go from being a privately owned to a publicly held company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 7, 2020 • 44min
Marvel Us Disney Episode 69: Get ready for COVID Corn (patent pending)
Aaron Adams & Jim Hill start off this week’s podcast by talking about how UK-based retailer Base accidentally revealed that Spidey will be a playable character on “Marvel’s Avengers” for the PS4 starting in early 2021. They also look back at when a leak of “Deadpool” test footage led to 20th Century Fox finally greenlighting production of that Ryan Reynolds film Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 6, 2020 • 45min
Looking at Lucasfilm Episode 48: Remembering Wilford Brimley & Tom Pollock
Dan Zehr & Jim Hill start off this week’s episode by paying tribute to two industry vets with ties to the Star Wars franchise that we’ve recently lost. They then talk about that TikTok video which suggests that the Skywalker Saga should be retitled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 4, 2020 • 1h 7min
Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor Episode 89: What will Disney+’s “Beauty & the Beast” prequel series be called
Drew Taylor & Jim Hill start off this week’s episode by talking about the impact that Disney’s decision to unscheduled its live-action “Mulan” could potentially have on Pixar’s “Soul.” They then interview animation historian Didier Ghez about the sixth & final volume of his “They Drew As They Pleased” series Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 3, 2020 • 41min
Disney Dish Episode 281: Disney World refines its reopening plans
Len Testa recounts his recent walk-throughs of The Magic Kingdom & Disney’s Hollywood Studios as the WDW Resort continues to tweak its coronavirus-related procedures. Then Jim Hill talks about how Paul Comstock found all of the full-sized trees he needed in order to make Anaheim’s Downtown Disney look like a lush garden district***Jim had the wrong input selected while recording, so he sounds a bit strange in this episode.. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 27, 2020 • 1h 3min
Disney Dish Episode 280: The significance of WDW’s deeply discounted 2-day tickets
Len Testa starts off this week’s episode by talking about how The Walt Disney Company is still struggling when it comes to the proper way to compensate annual passholders & DVC members for coronavirus-related disruptions-in-service. Then Jim Hill looks back at what it took to change the Disneyland Hotel’s Vacationland Recreational Vehicle Park into the Mickey & Friends Parking Structure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 26, 2020 • 1h
Looking at Lucasfilm Episode 47: “The Bad Batch” to make good on Disney+
Dan Zehr & Jim Hill start off this episode by discussing the rescheduling of the next three “Star Wars” theatrical releases. Then Jim takes a look at John Williams’ tenure as the conductor of the Boston Pops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 24, 2020 • 39min
Marvel Us Disney Episode 68: What Tony almost said to Thanos
Aaron Adams & Jim Hill start off talking about how much they’ve been enjoying the final season of Marvel’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” They then talk about how Joe & Anthony Russo have been relying on Marvel Cinematic Universe vets as they cast their post-“Infinity War” / “Endgame” projects Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
