LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mickey Mouse cartoons are coming back to TV as Disney attempts to revive one of the world’s most popular characters.

The 19 episodes, hand-drawn and in 2-D, will debut June 28 on the Disney Channel, Disney.com and the Watch Disney Channel app.

In a preview on Disney.com, Mickey and Minnie are working at a Paris cafe when
they face a shortage of croissants. In the 3-minute, 30-second cartoon, Mickey
goes on an adventurous trip through the city to fulfill their orders.

Walt Disney Co.’s CEO Bob Iger told CNBC on Tuesday that the shorts harken
back to the days of founder Walt Disney, highlighting Mickey’s "impish" and
"innocent" qualities.

Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger

Peter Pan produced by Walt Disney is the 14th film in the Walt Disney
Animated Classics series and was originally released by RKO Pictures,
the final Disney animated feature released through RKO before Walt
Disney’s founding of his own distribution company, Buena Vista
Distribution.

New to Blu-Ray and DVD today

Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – missing in action December 15, 1944)

“In The Mood” topped the charts in 1940. In 1999, National
Public Radio included the recording on their list of “The
100 most important American musical works of the 20th
century.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Disney is paying $4.05 billion to buy Lucasfilm Ltd.,
the production company behind "Star Wars," from its chairman and founder,
George Lucas. It’s also making a seventh movie in the "Star Wars" series.

The Walt Disney Co. announced the agreement to make the purchase in
cash and stock Tuesday. Disney added that "Star Wars Episode 7" is
scheduled for release in 2015.

The deal brings Lucasfilm under the Disney banner with other brands
including Pixar, Marvel, ESPN and ABC.

Kathleen Kennedy, the current co-chairman of Lucasfilm, will become its
president and report to Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn. Lucas
will be creative consultant on new "Star Wars" films.

Lucas said in a statement, "It’s now time for me to pass `Star Wars’ on to
a new generation of filmmakers."

George Lucas                                 Kathleen Kennedy