Get excited Hannah Montana fans…It looks like the popular Disney show Hannah Montana will be back for a fourth season. The Disney Channel reportedly struck a deal this week to continue the series which stars teenage pop-star Miley Cyrus as “Hannah.” If you’re not familiar with the series, the premise is that Hannah is a pop star who is trying to attend regular school and live life as a “normal kid” rather than a celebrity.
Shooting for the third season of the show just wrapped this week, so a guaranteed fourth season will mean there’s much more Miley in store for us in the future. Cyrus will be taking a pretty sizable hiatus before filming season four in order to shoot the feature film “The Last Song” which will mean the fourth season of Hannah Montana will actually not start production until early next year.
According to Reuters a whopping 4.4 million people tune in to each episode of Hannah Montana which makes it one of the most popular series on television. One episode in particular in 2007 managed to pull in an astounding 10.7 million viewers making it the “highest-rated basic cable telecast ever.”
Hannah Montana itself has turned into quite a little empire. Besides being a highly rated television program Hannah Montana has put out several audio CD’s, Hannah Montana movies, a 3-D Concert video, and now there’s even a Hannah Montana-inspired Malibu living room for your Barbie doll as well as a Hannah Montana doll that actually sings.
I’m sure many of you who have teenage girls at home are bound to have some (if not all) of the Hannah Montana merchandise in your homes now, and are one of the 4.4-million people tuning in every week. Are you excited that Hannah will be returning for another year, or are you ready for the kids to move on to something else?