EXCLUSIVE: The variety show that discovered the likes of Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Ryan Gosling and Keri Russell is returning with a new group of Mouseketeers.

Deadline understands that Disney+ is rebooting The Mickey Mouse Club and has ordered a pilot.

The project comes from Fulwell Entertainment, the company behind Hulu’s The Kardashians, with production starting this month in LA.

The pilot features 11 new youngsters including Hudson Stone, Casey Trotter and Brooklynn Pitts, who all star in Disney’s upcoming Camp Rock 3, Erianthe Akaata (Young Rock), Scarlett London Diviney (The Lion King), Michael Cash (Black Rabbit), Yonas Kibreab (Elio), Varonica Mitchell, Kauani, Scarlett Grace Petty and Carter Barnes.

Disney said that the show will be a “showcase for today’s most talented young performers, where music, innovation, and self-expression take center stage”.

The pilot is exec produced by Fulwell co-founder Ben Winston, who was an exec producer of The Late Late Show with James Corden and will serve as creative director of LA28, Ashley Edens, who exec produced Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney, and Emma Conway and Dave Piendak.

The Mickey Mouse Club, created by Walt Disney himself, started as a stage show in the 1920s before its original run on ABC between 1955 and 1959, which featured two of Mickey Rooney’s sons.

It was rebooted between 1977 and 1979 as a syndicated series that featured Lisa Whelchel, who went on to star in NBC’s The Facts of Life, before being revived by the Disney Channel in 1989.

That run, which ended in 1996, featured a host of Mouseketeers that went on to become households names. In addition to Spears, Timberlake, Aguilera, Gosling and Russell, who joked in 2023 that she was “literally the least talented one there”, the group also included Nsync’s JC Chasez, En Vogue’s Rhona Bennett, Awkward’s Nikki DeLoach, pop star Chase Hampton and Steven Universe’s Deedee Magno.

It was briefly revived in 2017 under the name Club Mickey Mouse for digital platforms including Facebook and Instagram.