Miley Cyrus Leaving Hannah Montana This Year
Network officials have confirmed Miley Cyrus will give up her Disney role as Hannah Montana in 2010.
The actress plays Miley Steward, a high school student leading a secret double life as pop star Montana. The upcoming year will be the fourth and last season for Hannah Montana. This series has also spawned hit movies.
In 2007, the series was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. Season three of the series premiered on November 2, 2008 and will finish up in March 2010. Hannah Montana: The Movie was released in theaters on April 10, 2009. The show has been renewed for the fourth and final season which starts production on January18, 2010.
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.
The Disney Channel Worldwide senior programming vice-president Adam Bonnett says, “Right now we’re scheduled to wrap after shooting this new batch of episodes… The (new) episodes will continue to roll out at least over a full year.”
