Saban Capital Group announced today it has purchased the Power Rangers property from the Walt Disney Company. Immediately, another news release announced that Nickelodeon and Saban Brands have partnered to put the Power Rangers on the air for an 18th TV season.
Saban introduced the first Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series in 1993 and made a mint off it. His acquisition from Disney includes worldwide rights to the brand as well as over 700 episodes produced over 17 years. The TV deal consists of 20 new episodes on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons in 2011, with the catalog of 700 episodes launching on Nicktoons later this year.
Produced by SCG Power Rangers LLC, will commence production in summer 2010 with original Executive Producer Jonathan Tzachor back at the helm and a new cast, look and theme for the show.
“Power Rangers is one of the world’s leading children’s entertainment properties and we are delighted to see its return,” said Haim Saban, chairman and chief executive officer, Saban Capital Group, Inc.
Following its introduction in 1993 on the Fox Kids Network, Power Rangers quickly became the most watched children’s television program in the United States. The series has been translated into numerous languages and rose to become the #1 boys brand in the world from 1993-97, based on toy sales and television ratings. The Walt Disney Company acquired the franchise in 2001 as part of its purchase of Fox Family Worldwide, which included Saban Entertainment and its library of children’s programs. To date, Power Rangers has aired in over 60 countries and the property’s licensed products and promotions have generated well over $5 billion worldwide.
This marks the first property for Saban Brands, the recently formed subsidiary of Saban Capital Group, which was created to manage and license entertainment properties and consumer brands across media and consumer platforms throughout the world. Saban Brands also announced a new long-term master toy and video game license agreement with Bandai Namco Group, which has been the toy partner for Power Rangers since its inception. Saban Brands will manage the Power Rangers brand worldwide including licensing, merchandising, consumer promotions and brand extensions.
Every since i was young i have been wacthing power rangers serieseveryone of the and every epsiode, all i care about is that if is on the air iam happy.POWER RANGERS FOREVER!!!!
You mean “SOUR STINKERS FOREVER!!!!” I mean, come on, Power Rangers is nothing but a parody of the Super Sentai TV series of Japan, considering how it has been produced throughout the years (by plagiarism and butchering of the Super Sentai genre, of course). Such TV series is a complete laughingstock and it is made for people with a very low IQ to watch, and people with real common sense are very unlikely to indulge on this garbage.
Does this mean we’ll maybe see the opportunity arise for Mighty Morphin Power Ranger complete season boxsets on dvd and/or bluray!? :D That’s what I’m hoping for! :)
bring back fox kids next
Power Rangers has got to be the most asinine show in the history of children’s television. It’s so bad, that it’s really bad these days. I can’t think of a single person who can’t laugh at how truly awful this show was. It’s like something you would see pop up on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
You are so right about this! Power Rangers TV series is nothing but a joke, meaning it is way too ludicrous to be considered a quality TV show! Besides, no matter which entertainment company holds the franchise of the Power Rangers, whether it’s Saban, Disney or whatever, the end results would still be the same since storylines, cast of characters and scripts of virtually all installments of the show to date have had been poorly planned and executed, and some of the same characters have had been rehashed from one installment to another with no sophistication or genuine creativity as to why that would be so. And worst of all, those companies would often use footages and props from the original TV series of Japan, also known as Super Sentai TV series (Toei Company created), to complete their work of adaptations of such TV series. The Power Rangers fans, including the children that are, have been cheated by those aforementioned entertainment companies that have produced and marketed such garbage (not just the show itself, but also many of its promotional items such as toys, book bags, etc.). This kind of fraud should not be tolerated anymore, and it has got to stop! I don’t mind those companies making money, which they all should be, but they need to create their own products or works of arts that are virtually or completely independent of those of others.
Power rangers is easily one of the worst shows in history. Saban ripped off the Japanese Super Sentai series of toys and shows which goes back to the 1970s (In this case, the Zyuranger series) and he tried to claim it on his own.
Watch Super Sentai instead it’s a thousand times better than the awful Mighty Morphin Power Rangers show ever was.
I totally agree with your assessments of the Power Rangers TV series, the adaptation of the Super Sentai TV series in Japan. It is not only a sham, but also a scam to entice its fans to watch the show and buy its promotional items such as toys, video games, etc., which are really all trash. Both Saban Entertainment and Disney Entertainment ought to be held liable for plagiarizing and butchering the original TV series of Japan to create the TV series that really has never been their own (meaning they have used too many props and cut and pasted too many footages from the original TV series for their adaptation), in all of its installments to date. Toei, the Japanese company that is the true creator of the Super Sentai series, as well as many other tokusatsu series, should not have given the rights to either Saban or Disney to adapt their work, especially the Super Sentai. Therefore, the Power Rangers franchise is worth absolutely nothing! So whoever owns such franchise now (in this case, Saban) should really drop it for good!