Family Channel premieres Hannah Montana

Country music star Billy Ray Cyrus returns to TV as the widowed father and professional manager of a Malibu, California, teen who's leading a double life on Hannah Montana. The 26-episode series debuts on Family Aug. 4 at 5:35 p.m. ET/PT after a successful season-one run on the Disney Channel in the U.S.

The actor's real-life daughter, Miley Cyrus, plays a seemingly average 14-year-old who's actually an international pop star when she's not in school in this live-action comedy series from It's a Laugh Productions. Executive-produced by Steven Peterman and Michael Poryes, it was created by Poryes with Rich Correll and Barry O'Brien.

Country music star Billy Ray Cyrus returns to TV as the widowed father and professional manager of a Malibu, California, teen who’s leading a double life on Hannah Montana. The 26-episode series debuts on Family Aug. 4 at 5:35 p.m. ET/PT after a successful season-one run on the Disney Channel in the U.S.

The actor’s real-life daughter, Miley Cyrus, plays a seemingly average 14-year-old who’s actually an international pop star when she’s not in school in this live-action comedy series from It’s a Laugh Productions. Executive-produced by Steven Peterman and Michael Poryes, it was created by Poryes with Rich Correll and Barry O’Brien.