~Hannnah Montana English~

Hannah Montana is an Emmy Award-nominatedAmerican television series, which debuted on March 24, 2006 on Disney Channel. The series focuses on a girl who lives a double life as an average teenage school girl named Miley Stewart (played by Miley Cyrus) by day and a famous pop singer named Hannah Montana by night, concealing her real identity from the public, other than her close friends and family.
Season three of the series premiered on November 2, 2008 and is still airing as of July 2009. Hannah Montana: The Movie was released in theaters on April 10, 2009. The show has been renewed for the fourth and final season and new episodes have been ordered by Disney.

Contents [hide] 1 Production 1.1 Opening sequence 1.2 Lawsuit 2 Cast 2.1 Main 2.2 Recurring 2.3 Minor 3 Episodes 4 Films 4.1 Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert 4.2 Hannah Montana: The Movie 5 Songs 5.1 Soundtracks 6 Awards and nominations 7 DVD releases 8 Series Novelizations 8.1 Other Novelizations 9 International release 10 Video games 11 See also 12 References 13 External links

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Production


Michael Poryes, who is credited as co-creator, also co-created the hit Disney Channel Original Series That's So Raven. The show is produced by It's a Laugh Productions, Inc. and Michael Poryes Productions, in association with Disney Channel Original Productions. It is filmed at Sunset Bronson Studios in Hollywood, California.
The original idea for this show was based on the That's So Raven episode "Goin' Hollywood", which was supposed to be the pilot episode for a sitcom called Better Days, in which a child star of a popular TV show of the same name was to try her hand at going to a normal school. The episode "New Kid in School" has the basic premise as that aforementioned episode. Other names considered for the title were The Secret Life of Zoe Stewart (discarded as too similar to Zoey 101 on Nickelodeon)^{[citation needed]}, The Popstar Life!, and Alexis Texas. Former American Juniors finalist Jordan McCoy and pop and R&B singer JoJo (who rejected the role) were considered for the role of Zoe Stewart. Miley Cyrus originally auditioned for the role of the "best friend" Lilly Romero, later changed to Lilly Truscott, but they thought she would be better for the main character,
so she tried out for Zoe Stewart/Hannah Montana. Zoe Stewart was later
changed to Chloe Stewart, which was eventually changed to Miley when
she got the part. The names of Hannah Montana were changed a few times.
Three of the previous names were Anna Cabana, Samantha York, and Alexis
Texas.
In December 2006, Disney announced plans to release Hannah Montana
products, including clothing, jewellery, apparel, and dolls, at
selected stores. Play Along Toys
released the Hannah Montana fashion dolls, singing dolls, Miley Stewart
doll, and other merchandise in August 2007. More Hannah dolls were
released in November, along with Oliver, Lilly, and later Jake Ryan
dolls. They became one of the most popular Christmas toys in 2007.
According to the Daily Dispatch,
the TV series held a global audience of 200 million viewers in 2008.
"If Miley’s viewers were a country, they would be the fifth largest
population in the world – just ahead of Brazil."
By February 2008, the Hannah Montana franchise had become so important
that Disney convened an "80-person, all-platform international meeting
to discuss Hannah Montana's future." All Disney business segments were represented at the meeting.
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 composed the music cues to signify scene changes
and commercial breaks for the first season, composed the music for the
song. The song's lyrics describe the basic premise of the television
series.
The full-length version of the song, which is 2 minutes, 54 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,
only the first two stanzas and the last two were 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.
The opening sequence for the first two seasons features episode
clips of each cast member when their 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 end of
the sequence (the latter portion on the "concert stage" features Cyrus
as her character Hannah Montana). The only change to the sequence for
season two were the replacement of episode clips and the addition of
the Disney logo above the show's title logo.
For season three, a new version of the opening credits was used. It features Miley as herself and Hannah Montana in a Times Square-like
setting. The names of the actors and actresses and clips from the show
appear in a sort-of marquee board and it features Hannah Montana with
her new wig and clothes style. The song playing is a remixed version of
"The Best of Both Worlds", that was originally recorded for (and heard
in) Hannah Montana: The Movie. This marked the first time that a Disney Channel series has completely revamped its opening title sequence.
Lawsuit


On August 23, 2007, Buddy Sheffield sued Disney over Hannah Montana, alleging that he originally came up with the idea for Hannah Montana,
but was never compensated by Disney. In the lawsuit, Sheffield 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.