To wit, Kenny Ortega's eagerly awaited (in my household anyway) Descendants 2 will premiere on July 21 on Disney Channel, ABC, Disney XD, Freeform and Lifetime along with each network's respective digital platform. For those not cool enough to know, Descendants was a rather popular Disney Channel original movie that premiered in the summer of 2015. So yeah, Descendants 2 is going to be a big event for the Disney Channel, just as was High School Musical back in the summer of 2007. I hope Descendants 2 is better than High School Musical 2 (which was easily the weakest of the trilogy), but I digress. The original Descendants has been a buzzy favorite in terms of merchandise and soundtracks and the like.

Source: Forbes April 25, 2017 15:00 UTC