TV and Streaming at D23 2026
Six TV and streaming titles took the D23 2026 floor. The two real pieces of news are movies: The New Simpsons Movie and a Bluey movie. Here is the whole slate, and which parts are news versus a photo booth.
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The show floor at D23 2026 was the biggest the event has ever run, and a good part of it had nothing to do with the big screen. Six television and streaming titles took a panel, a stage hour, or a photo booth in Anaheim over the weekend of August 14 to 16. Some of it was real news with a release date attached. Some of it was a backdrop and a line to stand in. Here is the whole television slate in one place, with an honest read on which is which.
The short version
- The two pieces of dated, checkable news here are movies, not shows: The New Simpsons Movie arrives September 3, 2027, and a Bluey movie is on the way.
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians got the one panel Disney streamed live on Disney+, a sign of where it sits in the priority stack.
- Camp Rock 3, Bob’s Burgers, and Scrubs brought panels, cast, and photo moments. Fun for fans in the room, but celebration more than announcement.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Season 3
Of everything on the television slate, this got the biggest institutional vote of confidence. Disney put the Season 3 panel on the schedule for Saturday, August 15, and streamed it live on Disney+ at about 3:30 p.m. Pacific, so the fans who could not get to Anaheim watched it at the same moment as the crowd inside the hall. That is not a courtesy Disney extends to everything. It is what a company does with a title it is still building around. For a series adapted from books that grew up alongside their readers, cast and producers on a stage together is the kind of moment the fandom plans a weekend around.
The Simpsons, and the movie hiding in the photo booth
Springfield showed up as a photo opportunity on the show floor, a colorful backdrop with Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The booth itself is booth color. The news underneath it is not. Disney built the moment around The New Simpsons Movie, and put a date on it: September 3, 2027. That is the sentence worth keeping. A cartoon short that started as filler on a variety show is now a Disney portfolio pillar getting a theatrical sequel twenty years after the first film, and the studio chose its biggest fan weekend to remind everyone it is coming.
Bluey
The Emmy-winning Australian pup got a dedicated Bluey Movie booth, with Bluey and Bingo appearing for reserved photo times across the weekend. The booth’s name is the tell: the spotlight is here because a Bluey movie is coming, and a property that turned into one of the most-watched titles on streaming has earned the real-estate. For families walking the floor, the reservation line was the event. For everyone else, the movie is the story.
Camp Rock 3
Camp Rock came home to a bunk assignment. The new Disney Channel Original Movie was folded into the Disney+ Hulu Experience pavilion, a space built around a 4D theater, a mystery pin quest, and photo moments tied to current titles including Percy Jackson, The Simpsons, and Marvel Television’s VisionQuest. Cast members turned up at Talent Central to meet fans. If you grew up on the first two films, the return lands. As news, it is a pavilion and a cast appearance rather than a trailer and a date.
Bob’s Burgers
The Belcher family got its own hour on the Backlot Stage on opening day, Friday, August 14, under a title only this show would pick: “Lettuce Show You How We Make Bob’s Burgers.” The Emmy-winning creative team walked the room from script to screen with live drawing, voice cast, and the storytelling process behind an episode. It is the kind of panel that rewards the people already in the seats, a look under the hood of a series that has spent years finding a pun in every burger of the day.
Scrubs
Sacred Heart got a spot on the schedule too. “Scrubs: Scrubbing Back In” ran Saturday, August 15 on the Backlot Stage, a cast-and-producers conversation about the revival. The panel arrived at a good moment for the show: Scrubs came back to ABC on February 25, 2026, with a two-episode premiere, then moved to Hulu the next day, its first new season in sixteen years and counted as Season 10. For a series built on J.D.’s daydreams, a reunion panel is almost too on the nose, and the fans in the room would not have wanted it any other way.
Also on the slate
Two more titles ran in the background of the weekend. Disney debuted a trailer for LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian, a brick-built spin on the series, during the Entertainment Showcase. And Marvel Television’s VisionQuest was dated for Disney+ on October 14, 2026, the one hard streaming date to circle coming out of the weekend.
Put it together and the television story of D23 2026 is smaller than the show floor made it look, and more concrete than the photo booths suggested. Two movie dates, one streamed panel, one October release, and a lot of fans getting an hour with the people who make the shows they love. That last part does not make a headline, but it is most of why anyone bought a badge.
Correction, Sept. 24, 2026: An earlier version of this article called the Simpsons sequel “The Simpsons Movie 2.” The official title, revealed at D23 2026, is “The New Simpsons Movie” (SlashFilm, Aug. 14, 2026). It is still dated Sept. 3, 2027, per The Walt Disney Company’s showcase recap. An earlier version also said the sequel comes nineteen years after the first film; The Simpsons Movie opened in July 2007, so the gap is twenty years.
- D23 2026 official schedule and show-floor announcements, Anaheim Convention Center, August 14 to 16, 2026: panel times, the Backlot Stage sessions, and the Disney+ Hulu Experience pavilion lineup.
- Disney show-floor announcement: The New Simpsons Movie, in theaters September 3, 2027, and the Simpsons photo moment.
- Disney show-floor announcement: the Bluey Movie booth with reserved photo times, tied to the coming Bluey movie.
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 3 panel, streamed live on Disney+, Saturday, August 15, 2026.
- Scrubs revival: returned to ABC February 25, 2026, then Hulu; counted as Season 10, the first new season in sixteen years. Bob’s Burgers “Lettuce Show You How We Make Bob’s Burgers” Backlot Stage panel, August 14.
- Marvel Television’s VisionQuest on Disney+, October 14, 2026; LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian trailer debuted during the Entertainment Showcase.
D23 2026
16 partsA series by Todd Ruffner-Schoenfeld.
D23, Disney’s big fan event, ran Aug. 14 to 16, 2026, at the Anaheim Convention Center in California. On Friday night the Disney Entertainment Showcase dated films as far out as November 2029. On Saturday night Neil Patrick Harris hosted Horizons: A Carousel of Progress, the parks showcase at the Honda Center in Anaheim, where Disney put years on two big projects it had first announced in 2024. One is Monstropolis, the Monsters, Inc. land at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida. It opens in 2027, in phases. Avengers Infinity Defense and Stark Flight Lab, the two new rides at Avengers Campus in Disney California Adventure, are set for 2028. Ryan Seacrest hosted the Disney Legends ceremony on Sunday.
A family deciding when to book a trip needs an opening year. At D23 in August 2024, Disney announced eleven new lands and rides around the world. Only two got a year. EPCOT’s reimagined Test Track reopened on schedule, on July 22, 2025. Tropical Americas at Disney’s Animal Kingdom was still billed for 2027 on the Disney Parks Blog as late as April 30, 2026. Most of the others still have no opening date, even where steel is already standing, so the series keeps what Disney has said apart from what fan sites work out from permits and construction photos.
Most of the series is about the parks, one project to a part, each written just before the showcase and updated live as Disney added details. At Magic Kingdom, the Villains land going in behind Big Thunder Mountain now has two named rides, a Maleficent coaster and a dark ride hosted by the Magic Mirror. Nearby, Piston Peak National Park, the Cars land being built where the Rivers of America used to run, gets a rally ride called Cars Ridge Run Rally and a gentler family ride. Monstropolis brings the first suspended coaster at any Disney park, the kind where the cars hang below the track, and Tropical Americas pairs an Indiana Jones ride with Antonio’s Fiesta de Encanto, the first Encanto ride anywhere. In California, one part covers the first Coco ride, a boat trip through the Land of the Dead, while the Avatar project and the Avengers Campus expansion get parts of their own. Four parts go abroad. Disneyland Paris is building a Lion King land whose flume drops 52 feet beneath Pride Rock, and Shanghai Disneyland finished the track on its Spider-Man coaster in June. Hong Kong Disneyland cleared its old Tomorrowland Stage for a Spider-Man ride. Disneyland Abu Dhabi, announced in May 2025, will be built, owned and run by the Abu Dhabi company Miral, with Walt Disney Imagineering leading the design.
Movies and television get their own roundups. The film part walks through the Friday showcase studio by studio, from Avengers: Doomsday on Dec. 18, 2026, with Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom, to Coco 2 in November 2029. Two parts go deeper. Incredibles 3 is dated June 16, 2028, with Peter Sohn directing and Edna Mode front and center in the first-look art, and the live-action Tangled is set for March 31, 2028, with Teagan Croft as Rapunzel and Kathryn Hahn as Mother Gothel. Edna has her own tribute, too. The television part separates shows that got real release dates from ones that only got a booth on the show floor, and an early August review looks at Descendants: Wicked Wonderland, which Disney+ said became its most-streamed title worldwide after its July 16 premiere.
The weekend closed with eleven new Disney Legends, among them Bob Iger, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson, Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Jonas Brothers, and one part goes through the whole class. Another counts the eight anniversaries Disney marked, from Alice in Wonderland at 75 to Zootopia at 10. If you want the weekend in the order it happened, start with the live guide, which links to everything else. If all you want to know is when a ride opens, the parks roundup, Disney Parks at D23 2026, keeps every project’s status in one place.
Five weeks on, the dated releases are the ones you can plan around. Marvel's VisionQuest arrives on Disney+ on Oct. 14, 2026, and the third season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians follows there on Nov. 20. In theaters, Avengers: Doomsday opens Dec. 18. The 2027 calendar holds Ice Age: Boiling Point on Feb. 5, Jon Favreau's Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series on Disney+ on Feb. 17, Star Wars: Starfighter on May 28, the Bluey movie on Aug. 6, The New Simpsons Movie on Sept. 3 and Frozen 3 on Nov. 24. Then 2028 brings the live-action Tangled on March 31, the X-Men film on May 5, Lilo & Stitch 2 on May 26 and Incredibles 3 on June 16. None had moved as of Sept. 24.
Five parts of the series now carry dated corrections or updates. The Tropical Americas part and the parks roundup, Disney Parks at D23 2026, have notes on what changed in September, which is also below. The television part now uses the title Disney revealed at D23, The New Simpsons Movie. The Edna Mode tribute from July has an update naming Peter Sohn as director of Incredibles 3, with Brad Bird, who directed the first two films, producing. The Legends part dropped two counts Disney does not publish.
The bigger change is Tropical Americas. On Sept. 11, Tom Bricker of Disney Tourist Blog reported that Disney had taken the year out of the land's description in the Coming to the Parks section of DisneyWorld.com. It used to say "Get ready to journey to an 11-acre, immersive land in 2027," and it now says "Prepare for your journey to an 11-acre land." Bricker also wrote that Disney did not repeat the 2027 opening year during the D23 parks showcase. BlogMickey reported that 2027 still appears on the Disney Experiences page of upcoming projects and on the Disney Parks Blog, and said its understanding is that the plan is still to open in 2027. Disney has not announced a delay or explained the change. Bricker expects the land to open in stages, with two-thirds of it open in 2027 and the Encanto ride likely slipping into 2028, and that is his estimate, not Disney's.
Disney also dated a few smaller park projects. A refreshed Carousel of Progress at Magic Kingdom starts in late spring 2027, with Jamie Lee Curtis and Bryan Cranston voicing the parents. At Disneyland, the Remember... Dreams Come True fireworks and an updated World of Color return in February 2027. The Magic Happens parade follows that summer. The Coco ride, the Villains land, Piston Peak and Avatar still have no official opening date, and neither do the projects in Paris, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi. Any year you see attached to them comes from outside analysts: Bricker puts Coco somewhere between late 2028 and summer 2029, and Inside the Magic has suggested 2029 to 2031 for the Villains land. Fan outlets also list 2027 for the Paris Lion King flume and the Shanghai Spider-Man coaster, which neither park has confirmed. At Disney California Adventure, Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! is scheduled to close in 2027, and many fans expect the Avatar project to take its space, though Disney has not said so. In Florida, the Monsters, Inc. door coaster keeps rising over Hollywood Studios, and WDW News Today photographed roof structures on its show building on Sept. 21.
Abu Dhabi is furthest from a date. Disney has shown only concept art and has not confirmed that construction has started. On the Aug. 5, 2026, earnings call, with conflict in the Middle East raising questions, Chief Financial Officer Hugh Johnston said Disney is fully committed to seeing it through, and the company's next quarterly earnings report is the next scheduled chance for an update.
Josh D'Amaro, who took over as Disney's chief executive from Bob Iger on March 18, 2026, was running the parks division in August 2024 and announced most of these park projects himself from the same Honda Center stage.
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