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Network: Disney+

Episodes: 20 (hour)

Seasons: Two

TV show dates: March 26, 2021 -- November 30, 2022

Series status: Cancelled

Performers include: Lauren Graham, Emilio Estevez, Josh Duhamel, Brady Noon, Maxwell Simkins, Swayam Bhatia, Luke Islam, Kiefer O’Reilly, Taegen Burns, and DJ Watts.

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A comedy-drama continuation of The Mighty Ducks feature film series of the 1990s, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers TV show was created by Steven Brill (writer of the original movie), Josh Goldsmith, and Cathy Yuspa.

Set in present-day Minnesota, the Mighty Ducks youth hockey team has evolved from scrappy underdogs to an ultra-competitive, powerhouse team.

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The team has been benched. Disney+ has cancelled The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers series so viewers won't be seeing a third season.

A comedy-drama continuation of the 1990s movies, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers TV show was developed by film creator Steve Brill, Josh Goldsmith, and Cathy Yuspa. The show stars Lauren Graham, Emilio Estevez, Josh Duhamel, Brady Noon, Maxwell Simkins, Swayam Bhatia, Julee Cerda, Luke Islam, Bella Higginbotham, Taegen Burns, Kiefer O'Reilly, De'Jon Watts, Naveen Paddock, and Josh Duhamel. Set in present-day Minnesota, the Mighty Ducks youth hockey team has evolved from scrappy underdogs to an ultra-competitive, powerhouse team. After 12-year-old Evan Morrow (Noon) is unceremoniously cut from the Ducks, he and his mom, Alex (Graham), and friend Nick Gaines (Simkins) set out to build their own team of misfits -- to challenge the cutthroat, win-at-all-costs culture...

Disney+ has canceled the John Stamos-led sports comedy-drama Big Shot, as well as The Mighty Ducks: Changers, both after two seasons, Deadline has confirmed.

Created by David E. Kelley, Dean Lorey and Brad Garrett, with Lorey serving as showrunner, Big Shot centered on Marvyn Korn (Stamos). After he is ousted from his position as head coach for an NCAA basketball team, he is given a chance at redemption with a coaching position at Westbrook, an elite private high school for girls, and soon learns that the teenage players require empathy and vulnerability – foreign concepts for the stoic Coach Korn.

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The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers Season 2 has taken flight on Disney+, and we’ve got an exclusive clip from an upcoming episode. The footage features Lauren Graham (Alex Morrow) and Josh Duhamel (Coach Cole) negotiating for the first pick in an upcoming draft. Using clever negotiation tactics, Alex points out that the optics of Coach Cole getting the first pick at his own hockey camp is an awkward look. His position in the draft appears like favoritism no matter how you slice it, and in today’s watchful world, you don’t want to look like you’ve got an advantage over your student body. The clip speaks to Alex’s savvy as the Ducks coach and shows a softer side to Coach Cole audiences have yet to see much of this season.

The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers finds the Mighty Ducks attending Epic, a hockey camp where the best...

Everyone’s favorite underdog ice hockey team, The Mighty Ducks, is getting ready to fly again on Disney+. After a grueling first season, the Ducks are traveling to Epic, where the best up-and-coming players from across the globe have gathered to show off their skills and take no prisoners. Formally known as the Don’t Bothers, the Mighty Ducks will need to use everything they’ve learned to survive their new training and overcome new challenges.

We had the pleasure of speaking with The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers cast about the upcoming season, including Lauren Graham and Josh Duhamel. Key players from the Mighty Ducks also took flight for the interview event, including Brady Noon, Naveen Paddock, Sway Bhatia, Maxwell Simkins, Luke Islam, DJ Watts, and Taegan Burns.

During our time, Graham shares how her character, Alex, has adjusted to life as the coach of the Mighty Ducks. Meanwhile, Duhamel...

Disney+ Has released a new trailer for season two of “The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers.” The Disney Branded Television series, produced by ABC Signature, will premiere Wednesday, September 28 with new episodes dropping weekly on the streaming service. After winning back the Mighty Ducks team name last year, our squad-with-heart and their coach Alex Morrow (Lauren Graham) take to the road to attend an intense summer hockey institute in California run by charming yet hardcore former NHL player, Colin Cole (Josh Duhamel). It’s a place for kids to get excellent at hockey – without school to get in the way. As our Ducks try to survive in this super-competitive environment, they’re faced with the question: Can you win summer?

“The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers” season two stars Lauren Graham and Josh Duhamel with returning cast members Brady Noon, Maxwell Simkins, Swayam Bhatia, Luke Islam, Taegen Burns, and DJ Watts. Naveen Paddock...

The Mighty Ducks are stepping back onto the ice — this time under the watchful eye of Josh Duhamel’s Colin Cole, a former NHL player and intensive summer camp coach.

“The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers” Season 2 trailer sees the ragtag bunch, led by coach Alex Morrow (Lauren Graham), head to a California-based summer hockey camp.

The Disney Branded Television series, produced by ABC Signature, picks up after the Mighty Ducks team name was restored in Season 1. Led by their ever-encouraging coach Alex, the team takes to the road to attend a boot-camp-like institute run by the charismatic yet hardcore Colin.

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But just as the new environment offers a place for the kids to excel at hockey without school to get in the way, the Ducks must triumph amid super-competitive stakes. In the meantime, Alex and Colin engage in...

Quack! Quack! Quack! In the spirit of movies like Heavyweights and Camp Nowhere, the Mighty Ducks are heading to Summer Camp for some off-season shenanigans. Today, Disney+ released a Mighty Ducks: Game Changers Season 2 trailer that finds the underdog team thrown into a larger pond where predators are waiting to clip their wings.

“After winning back the Mighty Ducks team name last year, our squad-with-heart and their coach Alex Morrow (Lauren Graham) take to the road to attend an intense summer hockey institute in California run by charming yet hardcore former NHL player, Colin Cole (Josh Duhamel),” reads the official synopsis. “It’s a place for kids to get excellent at hockey — without school to get in the way. As our Ducks try to survive in this super-competitive environment, they’re faced with the question: Can you win summer?”

In the Mighty Ducks: Game Changers Season 2, we find the Ducks...

The Mighty Ducks are back, again.

Disney+ is drumming up excitement for season 2 of “The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers”. The streaming service shared the sophomore season trailer on Tuesday.

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“After winning back the Mighty Ducks team name last year, our squad-with-heart and their coach Alex Morrow (Lauren Graham) take to the road to attend an intense summer hockey institute in California run by charming yet hardcore former NHL player, Colin Cole (Josh Duhamel),” the logline reads. “It’s a place for kids to get excellent at hockey — without school to get in the way.

“As our Ducks try to survive in this super-competitive environment, they’re faced with the question: Can you win summer?”

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Disney+ has set a fall premiere date for Season 2 of The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers. Lauren Graham and the “squad with heart” will return to the streamer on Wednesday, September 28. The date was announced today during the Disney+ presentation at the TCA summer press tour.

In Season 2, after winning back the Mighty Ducks team name last year, the squad-with-heart and their coach Alex Morrow (Graham) take to the road to attend an intense summer hockey institute in California run by charming yet hardcore former NHL player, Colin Cole (Josh Duhamel). It’s a place for kids to get excellent at hockey — without school to get in the way. As our Ducks try to survive in this super-competitive environment, they’re faced with the question: Can you win summer?

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In addition to Graham and Duhamel, the series also stars Brady Noon, Maxwell Simkins,...

In feel-good news, more episodes of The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers are headed your way this fall.

Disney+ has announced that the comedy starring Lauren Graham will return for Season 2 on Wednesday, Sept. 28.

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After winning back the Mighty Ducks team name last year, the upcoming season will see our “squad-with-heart and their...

Exclusive: Naveen Paddock (New Amsterdam) is set as a series regular opposite Josh Duhamel and Lauren Graham for the upcoming second season of Disney+’s The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers. Additionally, Margot Anderson-Song (Defending Jacob), Noah Baird (A Christmas Story Live), Stephnie Weir (A Million Little Things), Connor DeWolfe, Timm Sharp (Enlightened) and Tiffany Denise Hobbs (Claws) have been cast in heavily recurring roles on the Disney Branded Television series produced by ABC Signature.

In Season 2, after winning back the Mighty Ducks team name last year, the squad-with-heart and their coach Alex Morrow (Graham) take to the road to attend an intense summer hockey institute in California run by charming yet hardcore former NHL player, Colin Cole (Duhamel). It’s a place for kids to get excellent at hockey — without school to get in the way. As our Ducks try to survive in this super-competitive environment, they’re faced with...

Josh Duhamel has joined Season 2 of the Disney Plus series “The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers.”

Duhamel joins the show as a new character named Gavin Cole, a former NHL player turned coach. Described as inspirational, charming, and hardcore, he’s big on the hockey metaphor that applies to life. He runs the super-intense summer hockey institute where The Mighty Ducks land in Season 2.

Duhamel was recently seen in the Netflix series “Jupiter’s Legacy” and lent his voice to the anime series “Blade Runner: Black Lotus.” He will next be seen in the NBC limited series “The Thing About Pam,” which will debut on March 8. He will also appear in the upcoming Lionsgate film “Shotgun Wedding” in June 2022. His other TV roles include “Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.,” “11.22.63,” “Las Vegas,” and “All My Children.”

Duhamel is repped by ICM, John Carrabino Management, Hansen Jacobson, and Viewpoint.

Emilio Estevez will not be returning for Season 2 of Disney Plus’ “The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers,” Variety has confirmed.

According to a source close to the production, Estevez’s departure is due to a disagreement over ABC Signature’s Covid-19 vaccination requirement, as he would not confirm that he would comply with the policy. Therefore, the studio decided not to renew his contract for Season 2. Under the recent return-to-work agreement between studios and unions, production for “The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers” requires vaccination against Covid-19 for everyone in Zone A, which includes all actors and crew members who come into contact with them.

It is unclear exactly how Estevez’s character will be written off of the show. Disney had no comment on his departure from the show and a representative for Estevez did not respond to a request for comment.

Estevez had reprised the role of Gordon Bombay in the spinoff series,...

The Mighty Ducks will be forging ahead without the sole link to the movies.

Per Deadline, Emilio Estevez will not be returning as Coach Bombay for the second season of the TV adaptation of the series.

The outlet states Disney decided against picking up the actor's contract for more episodes after much back and forth regarding the series' mandate for Covid vaccination.

Furthermore, Deadline states that Emilio refused to assure he would comply with the mandate, which complicated his return to the franchise.

Instead, Disney opted to move ahead in a new direction, making changes to the scripts.

The last-minute decision means production will not get underway until next year, meaning fans likely have a lengthy hiatus in store.

Like many film and TV projects, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers has added a mandatory vaccination policy, which has been a part of an agreement between studios and unions.

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It's official, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers will return for a second season on Disney+. Premiering on the streaming service back in March, the new series had performed well enough with critics, but as the months went by without word of a renewal, the future of the show started to look grim. Fans can now join the cast and crew in breathing a sigh of relief as Disney has officially ordered season 2 with production slated for early 2022.

Original Mighty Ducks trilogy screenwriter Steven Brill executive produces and serves as co-creator of the series. Fellow co-creators Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa will return as showrunners for The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers season 2. James Griffiths and Michael Spiller executive produce with Spiller also set to direct. Star Lauren Graham serves as co-executive producer. George Heller and Brad Petrigala of Brillstein Entertainment Partners will also executive produce with Jordan Kerner.

Along with Lauren Graham,...

“The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers” has been renewed for Season 2 at Disney Plus.

Set in present day Minnesota, the series takes place after the events of the original films. The Mighty Ducks have evolved from scrappy underdogs to an ultra-competitive, powerhouse youth hockey team. After 12-year-old Evan Morrow (Brady Noon) is unceremoniously cut from the Ducks, he and his mom, Alex (Lauren Graham), set out to build their own team of misfits to challenge the cutthroat, win-at-all-costs culture of youth sports today. With the help of Gordon Bombay, (Emilio Estevez) they rediscover the joys of playing just for love of the game.

The series also stars Maxwell Simkins, Swayam Bhatia, Julee Cerda, Luke Islam, Bella Higginbotham, Taegen Burns, Kiefer O’Reilly, and De’Jon Watts. The first season of “The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers” debuted on Disney Plus back in March. It consisted of 10 episodes. Production on Season 2 is slated to begin in early 2022.

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Maybe more than anything, “The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers” is a feat of casting. Yes, the Disney+ revival is a continuation of a beloved film series that helped birth not just a generation of fans but an NHL franchise (and an animated spinoff with a theme song still lodged in the subconscious of every kid that watched more than one episode).

But all of that previous success would never have happened if the youth hockey team that helped get the whole thing started almost 30 years ago didn’t feel like an actual team. So even though this new “Mighty Ducks” TV show finds the Ducks as a junior hockey powerhouse made up of heartless bullies, the new ragtag squad that forms in its wake is a club that’s instantly worth rooting for.

When Evan (Brady Noon) gets cut from the overbearing Ducks as the supposed weak link, his mom...

The Ducks are back, but they’re no longer the good guys! In Disney+’s The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, the iconic team now subscribes to the cutthroat mentality they previous railed against.

The first episode kicks off with the Ducks training at their state-of-the art facility. Alex (Lauren Graham), a single mom, rushes to get her son Evan (Boardwalk Empire’s Brady Noon) to practice. She sits with a group of hockey moms who are super invested in their children’s careers. They’re monitoring the kids’ protein intake, hiring specialists to evaluate performances, and are putting their kids...

After the titular Mighty Ducks hockey team cuts young Evan (Brady Noon) and he and his mother (Lauren Graham) put together a new team of their own, that rag-tag cast of characters takes the ice to declare its entrance into the league. Evan has had experience playing on a team before, but some of the characters are lacing up for the very first time, so it’s not just the Flying V they have to master but simply staying upright and not crashing into each other. And, in a case of art imitating life, that’s exactly the scenario “The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers” hockey coordinator and choreographer Dave Tomlinson faced when working on the new Disney Plus series.

“A lot of them had never skated before, so I had to break it down, teaching them the basics of what it’s like to be balanced on skates, from how...

Whether lacing up against the peewee league’s elite Hawks, Team Iceland at the Junior Goodwill Games or Eden Hall’s dominant varsity team, The Mighty Ducks built a lasting legacy as the scrappy underdogs who play the game fairly and still end up on top.

The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers (premiering Friday, March 26) flips the script on the iconic team, who are now the bad guys in the Disney+ series created by Steve Brill (who wrote all three films). Now a powerhouse organization led by Coach T (The Descendants’ Dylan Playfair), the Ducks operate under a cutthroat ideology in which winning is everything.

There are only so many stories to tell, especially in the picked-over underdog-sports genre. So it doesn’t feel egregious that the new Disney+ series The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers blatantly rips off the premise of Cobra Kai by making the heroes from the movies — a ragtag-turned-champion youth hockey team — into the bad guys. After all, the overarching plot of Cobra Kai — unhappy middle-aged man finds renewed purpose by teaching kids about the sport he loved in his youth — is more or less the same as the one that introduced...

Emilio Estevez is back on the ice!

On Thursday, Disney+ announced the 57-year-old actor will be reprising his role of coach Gordon Bombay — which he played in The Mighty Ducks film franchise — in the upcoming TV series based on the sports trilogy.

Along with the exciting news, Disney+ shared several production shots of Estevez hitting the hockey rink once more as the beloved coach.

“No. Chill,” social media posts from the streaming service read. “#EmilioEstevez is Back as Gordon Bombay! Check out this photo from production on The Mighty Ducks, an Original Series coming soon to #DisneyPlus.”

Centered around a ragtag hockey team,...

It’s been a good week for fans of late ’80s/early ’90s Disney movies. Just a day after the news that Rick Moranis is returning to the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids franchise, it’s been announced that Emilio Estevez has closed a deal to reprise his role as Coach Gordon Bombay in Disney Plus’ The Mighty Ducks TV show, and we’ve also got our first look at him in the series thanks to the pics below.

Deadline broke the news this afternoon, along with various other details about the original series. The 10-episode show will feature Estevez, who’s also serving as an executive producer, alongside fellow lead Lauren Graham and young lead Brady Noon. The Mighty Ducks reboot comes from the mind of original screenwriter Steve Brill and Till Death creators Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa.

Taking place in present-day Minnesota, the show will check in...

When The Mighty Ducks arrive on Disney+ there will be at least one familiar face.

Emilio Estevez has joined the cast of the TV sequel, reprising his Coach Bombay role from the beloved '90s film franchise.

“Once a Duck, always a Duck!,” Estevez exclaimed in a statement confirming the news.

“After 25 years, I am delighted to lace up my skates, put on Coach Bombay’s jacket and return to play the iconic character for this new chapter in The Mighty Ducks franchise."

"Likewise, I am thrilled to return to my old stomping grounds with my friends at Disney and Steve Brill, the original creator of the franchise, to join them on their exciting new platform, Disney+.”

Estevez will also be an Executive Producer on the series.

The reboot was announced on Wednesday, with Lauren Graham in the lead role.

Graham will star as Alex and Brady Noon is set to portray her son,...

Emilio Estevez has joined Disney+ “The Mighty Ducks” TV series, reprising his iconic role as the beloved Coach Gordon Bombay from the hit ’90s film franchise.

He will star alongside previously announced series regulars Lauren Graham and Brady Noon. Also joining the cast are Swayam Bhatia, Taegen Burns, Julee Cerda, Bella Higginbotham, Luke Islam, Kiefer O’Reilly, Maxwell Simkins and De’Jon Watts.

In addition to starring, Estevez will serve as an executive producer on the 10-episode show, which is set to premiere later this year on Disney’s streaming service.

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Here’s the official description for the reboot series:

In present day Minnesota, the Mighty Ducks have evolved from scrappy underdogs to an ultra-competitive, powerhouse youth hockey team. After 12-year-old Evan (Noon) is unceremoniously cut from the Ducks, he and his mom Alex (Graham) set out...

Emilio Estevez has closed a deal to reprise his role as Coach Gordon Bombay in the Disney+’original series The Mighty Ducks, based on the hit ‘90s Disney movie franchise. On the series, Estevez will star opposite lead Lauren Graham and young lead Brady Noon. Estevez also will serve as an executive producer.

Also cast in the 10-episode series are Swayam Bhatia, Taegen Burns, Julee Cerda, Bella Higginbotham, Luke Islam, Kiefer O’Reilly, Maxwell Simkins and De’Jon Watts. The show comes from the original film’s writer Steve Brill, Till Death creators Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa and ABC Signature Studios.

Co-created by Brill, Goldsmith and Yuspa, the reboot is set in present-day Minnesota, where the Mighty Ducks have evolved from scrappy underdogs to an ultra-competitive, powerhouse youth hockey team. After 12-year-old Evan (Noon) is unceremoniously cut from the Ducks, he and his mom Alex (Graham) set out to build their...

Lauren Graham will have some familiar help in bringing the Mighty Ducks back to notoriety.

As we hinted Wednesday, Emilio Estevez will reprise his iconic role as Coach Gordon Bombay in Disney+’s forthcoming series reboot of The Mighty Ducks. He will star opposite Graham, who will play the team’s new coach.

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Disney+ is bringing The Mighty Ducks franchise back to life as a sequel series starring Lauren Graham, Brady Noon, and Emilio Estevez!

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Variety reports that Disney+ has ordered a sequel TV series to long-running Disney hockey franchise The Mighty Ducks. Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls) has been tapped to play the lead with Brady Noon (Good Boys) playing her son. As part of the official announcement Disney+ confirmed some even bigger news about the project: Emilio Estevez will return to reprise his role as Coach Gordon Bombay!

“Once a Duck, always a Duck!,” Estevez said in a statement. “And after 25 years, I am delighted to lace up my skates, put on Coach Bombay's jacket and return to play the iconic character for this new chapter in The Mighty Ducks franchise."

The series is set to premiere on Disney+ sometime later this year.