• by David Goetzl , March 16, 2011

The Disney Channel will add three new series as it continues its momentum. The group includes the animated series "Gravity Falls," featuring twins visiting a family member in a wild and woolly Oregon town with "gnomes" and "quantum waffles."

Others are "ANT Farm," a comedy about an 11-year-old musical prodigy at a gifted high school finding her way, and "Jessie" with Disney Channel veteran 17-year-old Debby Ryan, who plays a teen from rural Texas in New York as a nanny for a wealthy couple's four kids.

The channel has also picked up pilot "Madison High," a "music and dance-driven comedy."

Meanwhile, Disney XD is adding comedy "Kickin' It," about a challenged martial-arts academy that brings on a "hotshot skateboarder" as a teacher, imparting wisdom about not just karate, but weightier matters.

Also, it is launching "Ultimate Spider-Man," part of a Marvel programming block on the network, after the Disney Co. acquired Marvel. The animated series focuses on a character who has been Spider-Man for just a year and has a lot to learn about being a super hero. He gets a chance to up his game.

Set for 2012 is the animated "Tron: Uprising" about "an era of the "Tron" storyline that transpires after the 1982 feature film and before the story in "Tron: Legacy."

Also coming next year is the launch of the 24/7 Disney Junior channel, with series such as the animated "Doc McStuffins," with a character communicating with and healing stuffed animals and toys, as well as "Oki's Oasis," tabbed the "first animated Western for preschoolers."