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Best Friends Whenever
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Best Friends Whenever
Genre
Comedy
Created by
Jed Elinoff & Scott Thomas
Starring
Landry Bender
Lauren Taylor
Gus Kamp
Ricky Garcia
Benjamin Cole Royer
Matthew Lewis Royer
Theme music composer
Mitch Allan
Mindy Robbins
Opening theme
"Whenever"[1]
by Forever in Your Mind
Composer(s)
Eric Goldman
Ken Lofkoll
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
2
No. of episodes
30 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
Scott Thomas & Jed Elinoff
Michael B. Kaplan
Producer(s)
Julie Tsutsui
Camera setup
Multi-camera
Running time
20–24 minutes
Production company(s)
Dipthong Productions
It's a Laugh Productions
Release
Original network
Disney Channel
Original release
June 26, 2015 (2015-06-26) – December 11, 2016 (2016-12-11)
External links
Website
Best Friends Whenever is an American comedy television series created by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas that aired on Disney Channel from June 26, 2015 to December 11, 2016. The series stars Landry Bender, Lauren Taylor, Gus Kamp, Ricky Garcia, Benjamin Cole Royer, and Matthew Lewis Royer.
Contents
1 Premise
2 Episodes
3 Cast and characters
3.1 Main
3.2 Recurring
4 Production
5 Broadcast
6 Reception
6.1 Critical
6.2 Ratings
7 References
8 External links
Premise[edit]
Set in Portland, Oregon, two teenage girls named Cyd and Shelby are best friends living together while Cyd's parents are on an archaeological dig in Peru. After an accident in their neighbor Barry's science lab, they are given the ability to travel in time, provided they are thinking of the time they want to go to and are touching. When it comes to their trips to the future, they briefly find themselves strapped to tables in a futuristic lab and must figure out what this means while having various adventures along the way.
Episodes[edit]
Main article: List of Best Friends Whenever episodes
Season
Episodes
Originally aired
First aired
Last aired
1 18 June 26, 2015 (2015-06-26) May 22, 2016 (2016-05-22)
2 12 July 25, 2016 (2016-07-25) December 11, 2016 (2016-12-11)
Cast and characters[edit]
The main characters, from left to right: Chet, Barry, Cyd, Shelby, Naldo, and Bret.
Main[edit]
Landry Bender as Cyd Ripley,[2] Shelby's best friend who is staying with Shelby's family while her parents are away in Peru. She owns a pet dog named Diesel.
Lauren Taylor as Shelby Marcus,[2] Cyd's best friend.
Gus Kamp as Barry Eisenberg,[2] an aspiring young scientist who lives in a Winnebago that is parked outside of Shelby's backyard that he also uses for his lab. One of his lasers deflecting off a cup of chemicals gave Cyd and Shelby the ability to travel through time.
Ricky Garcia as Naldo Montoya,[2] Barry's best friend and lab assistant. Barry calls him "Renaldo".
Benjamin Cole Royer as Bret Marcus,[2] Shelby's brother who is the twin brother of Chet.
Matthew Lewis Royer as Chet Marcus,[2] Shelby's brother who is the twin brother of Bret.
Recurring[edit]
Mary Passeri as Astrid, the mother of Shelby, Bret, and Chet.
Kevin Symons as Norm, the father of Shelby, Bret, and Chet. He works as an accountant at GloboDigiDyne and later gets promoted to the company's Pelican Ball Room.
Madison Hu as Marci, a friend of Cyd and Shelby who is always relaxed.
Larry Joe Campbell as Mr. Doyle, a gossip-loving teacher at West Portland High School who teaches science and driver's education.
Nora Dunn as Janet Smythe, an entrepreneur and the CEO of GloboDigiDyne who has invented many things in her life, starting with wireless objects. However, she is an evil mastermind who seeks to hunt down Cyd and Shelby and plans to figure out their time travel abilities and alter time so that she can take over the country. She is eventually defeated by future Cyd and Shelby and taken away by them to be imprisoned with other people like her.
Bryana Salaz as Daisy, a time-displaced princess from the 1500s who ended up in Cyd and Shelby's time. Whenever Cyd and Shelby do a group hug with her, Cyd and Shelby end up briefly transported back in time to where Daisy is imprisoned by an unidentified person. During her time in the present, she lives with Naldo while trying to adapt to modern day cultures. It was later revealed that the unidentified person had trapped Daisy in the tower to keep her from being taken by Sebastian.
Production[edit]
Best Friends Whenever was created by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas, who have also created Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja. On March 6, 2015, Disney ordered Best Friends Whenever with production starting the same month.[3] The series was renewed for a second season by Disney Channel on February 29, 2016,[4]. The second season premiered on July 25, 2016. In February 2017, the cast took to social media to report that the series had not been renewed for a third season.[5] On June 30, 2017, TV by the Numbers reported that the series had been canceled.[6]
Broadcast[edit]
The series airs on Disney Channel in Canada.[7] It premiered on Disney Channel in Australia and New Zealand on October 16, 2015.
Reception[edit]
Critical[edit]
Brian Lowry, writing for Variety, thought the series' pilot episode was formulaic and did not take full advantages of the time travel premise. In particular, the series "appears more content to focus on the humdrum details of Shelby and Cyd's frantic lives than, say, sending them back to meet Abraham Lincoln or ahead to a time of flying cars."[8]
Ratings[edit]
Season
Episodes
First aired
Last aired
Avg. viewers
(millions)
Date
Viewers
(millions)
Date
Viewers
(millions)
1 18 June 26, 2015 (2015-06-26) 3.54[9] May 22, 2016 (2016-05-22) 1.23[10] 1.84
2 12 July 25, 2016 (2016-07-25) 1.18[11] December 11, 2016 (2016-12-11) 0.94[12] 1.17
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Disney Channel (June 26, 2015). "Whenever" Music Video. YouTube. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Thomas Lakeitcha (June 16, 2015). "Best Friends Whenever Fact Sheet". Disney ABC Press. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
Jump up ^ Nellie Andreeva (March 5, 2015). "Disney Channel Orders Best Friends Whenever Series Starring Landry Bender". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved June 27, 2015.
Jump up ^ Denise Petski (February 29, 2016). "Bunk'd, Best Friends Whenever Renewed for Season 2 on Disney Channel". Deadline. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
Jump up ^ Jennifer Maldonado (February 27, 2017). "'Best Friends Whenever' Has Been Canceled". M Magazine. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
Jump up ^ Rick Porter (June 30, 2017). "TV Shows Canceled in 2016–17: 68 and Counting". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
Jump up ^ "Disney Channel September 2015 Programming Highlights". Corus Entertainment. September 8, 2015. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
Jump up ^ Brian Lowry (June 25, 2015). "Disney Channel's Best Friends Whenever". Variety. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
Jump up ^ Mitch Metcalf (June 29, 2015). "Top 100 Friday Cable Originals & Network Update: 6.26.2015". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved July 26, 2018.
Jump up ^ Mitch Metcalf (May 24, 2016). "Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 5.22.2016". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved May 24, 2016.
Jump up ^ Mitch Metcalf (July 26, 2016). "Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 7.25.2016". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved July 26, 2016.
Jump up ^ Mitch Metcalf (December 13, 2016). "Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 12.11.2016". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
External links[edit]
Best Friends Whenever on IMDb
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