Rodrigo Starring in Disney Channel’s Live Action Comedy Series “Bizaardvark”

Olivia Rodrigo is one BIZ-y bee…

The Latina Hollywood newcomer is starring in the Disney Channel’s new live action comedy series Bizaardvark.

 Olivia Rodrigo

The series centers on best friends Paige and Frankie who take the video blogging world by storm with their quirky online comedy channel.

Rodrigo (American Girl’s Grace Stirs Up Success) and Madison Hu (Best Friends Whenever) star as Paige and Frankie, respectively. Also starring are Vine sensation Jake Paul (YouTube Red’s Dance Camp) as the loveable and wild Dirk Mann, DeVore Ledridge as Southern DIY diva Amelia Duckworth, and Ethan Wacker as the overly confident Bernard “Bernie” Schotz.

Guest stars include Calum Worthy (Austin & Ally), popular YouTuber Meredith Foster, Vine sensation Logan Paul and Instagram star JiffPom.

Bizaardvark will premiere on the Disney Channel on Friday, June 24 at 9:45 pm ET.

Centineo Replacing Jake T. Austin on ABC Family’s Drama Series “The Fosters”

Noah Centineo is headed into Fosters care…

The 19-year-old Latino actor has joined the cast of ABC Family’s award-winning drama The Fosters as a series regular in a recasting.

Noah Centineo

He’ll play Jesus Adams Foster, originally played by Jake T. Austin, who left the series at the end of Season 2.

Austin tweeted in March that he had decided to exit the series and when Jesus had gotten into a traumatic accident at the end of the season, it was believed his character had been killed off. But it was revealed in the Season 3 opener that Jesus survived and had gone off to boarding school.

Centineo, best known for playing the role of Dallas in Austin & Ally and Jaden in How to Build a Better Boy, will join the series in the second half of Season 3, premiering in 2016.

He also appeared in the Disney Channel’s Shake It Up, Jessie and Growin Up and Down.

Irigoyen to Star in the Disney Channel’s Comedy Pilot “Growing Up and Down”

Things are looking up (and down) for Adam Irigoyen

The 16-year-old half-Cuban American actor and Disney Channel star has been cast as the lead in the network’s newest pilot Growing Up and Down, which has been given the green light.

Adam Irigoyen

Irogoyen, best known  for his role as Deuce Martinez in the network’s series Shake It Up, will star opposite Austin & Ally star Raini Rodriguez in the family comedy.

Irogoyen and Rodriguez will portray adult parents who suddenly and inexplicably are transformed into teenagers again.

Cecilia Balagot and Noah Centineo will co-star as their teenage kids, who now must navigate high school with their parents — a couple with the daunting task of re-living their adolescence under the critical eyes of their children.

 

Production on Growing Up and Down is slated to begin in August.

The Disney Channel Renews Rodriguez’s “Austin & Ally” for Fourth Season

Raini Rodriguez’s reign on the Disney Channel will continue for another season…

The network has picked up a fourth season of Austin & Ally, which stars the 20-year-old Latina actress, Ross Lynch, Laura Marano and Calum Worthy.

Raini Rodriguez

For the last three seasons Rodriguez has portrayed Trish on themulti-camera comedy, which focuses on the relationship between two very different musicians: extroverted singer and instrumentalist Austin Moon (Lynch), who is fun-loving and outgoing; and introverted and awkward songwriter Ally Dawson (Marano), who is a good singer but had an extreme case of stage fright.

The series from creators/executive producers Kevin Kopelow and Heath Seifert and It’s A Laugh Productions tops its time slot among kids 2-11, kids 6-11 and tweens 9-14.

No premiere date for Season 4 was announced.

Rodriguez’s “Austin & Ally” Renewed for Third Season

There will be plenty more of Raini Rodriguez on the Disney Channel

The network has ordered a third season of Austin & Ally, which stars the 19-year-old Latina actress.

Raini Rodriguez

The series, which also stars Ross Lynch, Laura Marano and Calum Worthy, will resume production in Los Angeles in July, with Season 3 scheduled to premiere in October 2013.

Austin & Ally follows the adventures of an improbable pair — a singer and a songwriter, and their two best friends — trying to achieve their dreams.

Rodriguez portrays Trish, Ally’s best friend and Austin’s manager, on the series.

Austin & Ally is television’s No. 1 series iamong Kids 2-11 (2.3 million/5.9 rating), Kids 6-11 (1.9 million/8.1 rating) and Tweens 9-14 (1.8 million/7.7 rating). The series hit a series ratings high among Tweens during the quarter.