D'Myna Leagues is a Real Home Run
Basic facts
The premise: A team of baseball-playing birds with lively lives, continuously stopping their ruin at the hands of the evil baseball commissioner, Radcliffe.Target Age: 7-11 years old, but Studio B has found that "parents as well as baseball fans of all ages" attest to being fans of the show.
First Airing: Three years ago on CTV, and soon after on YTV and various international channels.
First American Airing: On the WB network on September 6th.
American and Canadian airtimes follow article.
Review
The old phrase "the early bird catches the worm," comes into play with "D'Myna Leagues." In my home and native land (Canada), CTV shows two episodes of D'Myna back-to-back at 7:00 on Saturdays mornings. The series has been seriously overlooked until now, but expect that to change."D'Myna Leagues" has been picked up by the entire 100+ channel chain of WB networks, reaching all areas across the USA.
Emmett can't help the wild Mungo Brothers build a treehouse. On his signing to the baseball team, his mother laid down the condition that he successfully finish his schooling through correspondance. For his last assignment, Emmett has to write a poem. Nikki loves the poetry project-- a "window to the soul," but Emmett can't think of anything worse, fearing the poem will ruin his career.
A friend of the team, Martha, drops by the club's group residence. One of the three Mungo Brothers, Jeff, secretly falls in love with her when she expresses her love of bugs.
Inside, Emmett is deep in frustration with writer's block. Jeff comes along and writes a poem, allowing Emmett to use it for his project. Nikki is so pleased with Emmett's supposed verse, she gives it to the Myna's broadcasters, who have him read it on-air in a post-game interview.
Martha falls in love with Emmett for his "skills," sending one simple lie into a series of mishaps. Repeatedly, Jeff writes poems for Emmett out of his loyalty; all the while Emmett starts to break down because guilt pushed on by Nikki, who soon finds out the truth.
All ends well, with credit and deep adoration ending up in the lap of the one who deserved it.
While this isn't the most original of concepts out there (many versions of the general concept have been played out before in the last two decades), this episode carries out the story and message to a higher level than I can remember in the dozen or more cases that easily cross my mind. Every scene develops and contributes to the plot, while still being fun, funny and engaging.
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