Disney renews Tangled for a 3rd season, retitles the animation series as Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure.

Tangled, on the Disney Channel (DStv 303) has been renewed for a third season with the animation series that is being renamed with a new title, Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure.

The retitling of the series comes 3 weeks before the premiere of the second season of the show of the Disney Channel, produced by Disney Television Animation.

Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi, along with the rest of the voice cast including Eden Espinoza, James Monroe-Iglehart and Jeremy Jordan, will all be back for the third season.

The new Disney Channel animation series, Tangled: Before Ever After, sees the film's voice talent return, as well as some new characters added.

The Disney film Tangled that will return as a new animation TV series in 2017 on The Disney Channel (DStv 303) will see the voice cast of the movie return, as well as new voices for new characters.

The Tangled TV series, as previously reported will take place after the end of the film and before the animated short film, Tangled Ever After in which Rapunzel and Flynn get married.

The Tangled show is now (therefore) called Tangled: Before Ever After and revolve around the various adventures and challenges of the two main characters as Rapunzel get to know her parents and the inhabitants of the Kingdom of Corona.

Mandy Moore will again voice Rapunzel and Zachary Levi will voice Flynn, with Jeffrey Tambor back as Big Nose and Paul F. Tompkins as Shorty.

Ashley Judd (Queen Arianna) and Clancy Brown (King Frederic) return as as Rapunzel's parents.

New characters include Peter the Guard (Sean Hayes), Varian (Jeremy Jordan) as a teen alchemist and blacksmith Xavier (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje).

Kevin Kliesch who worked on Tangled Ever After will be the show's score composer.

Tangled to become a Disney Channel animation TV series in 2017, set after the events of the movie and before the wedding day short film.

The popular Disney movie Tangled is being turned into an animation TV series for The Disney Channel (DStv 303) and will start in 2017 with Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi reprising their voice roles as Rapunzel and Eugene (or Flynn Rider).

Disney's Tangled TV series will be set in the period after the end of the 2010 movie, and before the wedding day short film Tangled Ever After which was released in 2012.

As Rapunzel gets to know her real parents, the king and queen, as well as her kingdom and the people of Corona, she realises that there's much more that she needs to learn before she can truly accept her royal destiny.

She puts her impending marriage on hold (the wedding is later seen in the short film) to seek out epic adventures.

Accompanying Rapunzel on her journey is Eugene; the chameleon sidekick Pascal; the horse Maximus; the Snuggly Duckling Pub Thugs; as well as newcomer Cassandra, a tough-as-nails handmaiden who becomes Rapunzel's confidant.

The TV series will be produced by Disney Television Animation and will start globally on The Disney Channel in 2017.

"The genius of the original movie was its seamless blending of cinematic adventure, character-driven comedy and touching emotion," says Gary Marsh, president and chief creative officer at Disney Channels Worldwide.

"We are fortunate to have several of the creative talent from that movie on board with this new production. With the addition of Chris Sonnenburg and Shane Prigmore as executive producers, we have the perfect team in place to create a series worthy of the original film."

BREAKING. Tangled is terrific! How a girl with long golden hair, a white horse and the rogue Flynn Rider beat Simon Cowell on M-Net.

Wowzie. That's some powerful magic right there.

Disney's Tangled animation movie that M-Net scheduled for the primetime Sunday night movie on 2 October created and maintained a massive viewership surge for the pay broadcaster. M-Net really doesn't stop the magic.

Sadly South African broadcasters - because they don't care, or don't feel the need, or don't have people who know how to - don't send out short weekly press releases like in America bragging about their shows and their channels and how they're performing.

So, South African journalists covering television - but more interested in Kenny and Khanyi - don't simply just get that information spoon-fed to them. Even less know how to interpret it, or even care. Hence, you hardly see actual independent ratings analysis news stories regularly in South Africa.

So here's how Tangled did, which no-one will say: The movie had exactly the same viewership as the Idols SA finale on M-Net - even more impressive considering its in a later primetime timeslot where it becomes more difficult to pull an audience. Tangled basically worked harder and performed better than Idols to keep the same viewership, although shown much later.

With its 1.4 AR, M-Net's scheduling of the movie on Sunday night got the pay broadcaster more viewers than it's top 10 shows Blue Bloods, CSI Miami, CSI New York, CSI, NCIS Los Angeles and Hawaii Five-0 usually does, or did in that week. Even Sunday's new The X Factor USA (as the 5th most popular M-Net show now which gets an 0,8 AR rating) is outranked by Tangled, which means Disney lured more viewers in South Africa than Simon Cowell.

Break down the demographics and Tangled was the number one piece of programming under all children on M-Net for the week. (Who by the way is letting their children watch Predators on a Friday night to make that the 4th most watched thing overall on M-Net under children, and the second most watched movie after Tangled by children on M-Net? Bad.)

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