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''Hannah Montana'' is an American Emmy Award-nominated 1 Children's Television Series which debuted on March 24 , 2006 on Disney Channel . The series focuses on Miley Stewart (played by Miley Cyrus ), who lives a Double Life as an average teenage girl at school during the day and a famous pop singer, Hannah Montana, at night, concealing her real identity from the public other than her close friends and family. PREMISE The show centers on 14-year-old Miley Stewart and takes place in Malibu, California . She's a teenage girl who has a big secret. Only her close family, best friends Lilly and Oliver, ex-boyfriend Jake Ryan, and bodyguard Roxy know that she is living a double life as "Teen Pop Sensation" Hannah Montana. She lives in a house by the beach with her father Robby (played by Miley's real life father Billy Ray Cyrus ) and older brother Jackson (played by Jason Earles ), who works down at Rico's Surf Shop by the beach. The Stewarts are from Nashville, Tennessee . Miley's mother died before the show began, leaving singer-songwriter Robby a widower and the sole caretaker of their children, giving up his previous career as a famous country singer. He is also the disguised father and manager of Hannah Montana. Miley's two best friends Lilly Truscott (played by Emily Osment ) and Oliver Oken (played by Mitchel Musso ) also live nearby and attend school with her. Each episode deals with life, personal conflicts, or problems that are easily solved with lessons learned by the show's end. PRODUCTION The show is co-created by Michael Poryes , who also co-created the hit Disney Channel Original Series '' That's So Raven '' and is produced by It's A Laugh Productions, Inc. , in association with Disney. It is filmed at Tribune Studios in Hollywood, CA. The series premiere scored record ratings for Disney Channel : 5.4 million viewers, a response "beyond our wildest expectations," according to the president of Disney Channel Entertainment.Jacques Steinburg, "A Tale of Two Tweens: One Real and One Disney" , ''The New York Times'', April 20, 2006. In December 2006, Disney announced plans to release Hannah Montana products including clothing, jewelery, apparel, and dolls at select stores. .'' Disney Launches Hannah Montana Products '' URL accessed December 26 , 2006 Play Along Toys will be releasing the Hannah and Miley dolls and other merchandise. ''Hannah Montana'' is signed for at least one more season according to Disney Channel . Filming for the second season started in December. The new season started in April, 2007, in which she is in high school.Season 2 episodes Opening sequence The theme song for ''Hannah Montana'' is " The Best Of Both Worlds " written by Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil , produced by Gerrard and performed by Miley Cyrus (as Hannah Montana). John Carta, who also composes the music cues to signify scene changes and commercial breaks, composed the music for the song. The song's lyrics describe the basic premise of the television series. The full-length version, which is 2:54 (minutes/seconds) in length, was included on the show's soundtrack, released in October 2006. For the TV version of the theme, which lasts only 50 seconds, stanzas one and two and stanzas seven and eight were only used. "Just Like You" and "The Other Side of Me" were originally tested for the opening theme song, before "Best of Both Worlds" was chosen as the theme. Stage and features episode clips of each cast member when each cast member's name appears. Each cast member's name is "wiped" on the screen in a marquee light style. The sequence then switches to full screen episode clips (most of the clips used in the season one version of the sequence were of the early produced episodes) with the creator's names appearing in the second-to-last clip. The show's title logo design appears at the beginning and again at the end of the sequence (the latter portion as with most other portions of the sequence on the "concert stage" feature Cyrus as her character Hannah Montana). Lawsuit On August 23rd, 2007 Buddy Sheffield , a comedy writer who wrote for '' The Smothers Brothers Show '', ''The Dolly Parton Show'' and '' In Living Color '', sued Disney over ''Hannah Montana'' alleging that he originally came up with the idea for ''Hannah Montana'' but was never compensated by Disney. The Lawsuit claims Breach Of Contract , Breach Of Confidence , Unfair Competition and Unjust Enrichment . Sheffield, in the lawsuit claims that he pitched an idea for a TV series with the name of "Rock and Roland" to Disney Channel in 2001 with the plot of a junior high student who lived a secret double life as a rock star. The lawsuit claims that Disney Channel executives at first liked the idea but passed on the series. Sheffield claims that he deserves a share of the Revenue generated by ''Hannah Montana''. |
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