Details On Bizaardvark Coming To The Disney Channel

The Disney Channel has greenlit a new comedy series, “Bizaardvark,” according to Variety.  The show was originally called “Paige & Frankie” and revolves around two 13-year-old best friends, Paige and Frankie, who write funny songs and create music videos for their online channel, titled Bizaardvark, which has 10,000 subscribers.

The main overall story is about how the amateur musicians get to work from a creative studio space that they hope will take their videos to the next level. In their cool new environment, and with the help of family and friends, the girls will embark on a series of comedic adventures in their quest to become online stars.

Bizaarrvark features newcomers Olivia Rodrigo and Madison Hu as Paige and Frankie.

The series hails from scribes Kyle Stegina and Josh Lehrman, who come from Disney Channel’s inaugural Storytellers program, which is designed to develop the next generation of creators and writers of for kids, tween and family programming. The pair will serve as co-exec producers. Eric Friedman (“Austin & Ally,” “Crash & Bernstein”) will serve as exec producer and showrunner. Marc Warren (“Full House, ” “Even Stevens,” “That’s So Raven,” “Cory in the House”), who supervised Disney Channel Storytellers, exec produced the pilot.

“Bizaardvark” begins production early next year and is set to premiere in summer 2016.

What do you think of this upcoming show?