I am so sorry for my lack of updates and presence. I really wish I had someone to help me run the site, but I’m not sure where to look or who I can really trust or who really knows how to do everything. I realize I’m quite picky. And I say this with all honesty that even though it might not seem like it, it is time consuming to look through alerts for articles and news and videos and pictures to post. It’s hard to get things up when they’re supposed to be when I’m by myself, especially since I’m in college and have constant homework to worry about. I realize that, in my best academic interests, I can’t let this site get in the way of that. So, that’s why the news feed hasn’t been present lately. I’m not giving up on this site, nah… and I’m sorry if it sounds like I’m making excuses, I’m just telling you what’s up.

Maybe I will go and look for some co-webs, but then again, I’m kind of weary. I don’t know. Hope you’re all doing well. Xx

Be sure to tune in at 8pm for the second episode of JONAS tonight, Groovy Movies! So sorry I haven’t been posting much. I’ve been out all day and busy with schoolwork. Love yah guys!

‘Jonas’ surprisingly funny, likable
Published: Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 6:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 8:23 p.m.

I dreaded the premiere of “Jonas,” the new sitcom churned out by the Disney Channel machine to siphon more of my parental dollars. It comes on the heels of “Hannah Montana,” and it stars the wildly popular, Disney-launched, brother trio the Jonas Brothers.

On the show, they are the Lucas brothers, a pop trio that attends high school, even though, in reality, one is 19 and another is in his early 20s.

No matter. It was a big event in my household, which is ruled by two Jonas-nutty daughters, ages 5 and 9. As they watched, I plopped down at the kitchen table to pay some bills and utter snarky comments.

But something funny happened on the way to hating “Jonas.”

A lot of funny things, actually. The show is gentle, well written and irreverent. The Jonas boys are subtle, funny and very likable as TV brothers. They do not strike exaggerated rock star poses (as they do on stage), and the jokes come at their expense.

There is no laugh track. There are no winks after pratfalls. The show often plays as a parody on music videos. One musical interlude in the premiere has the band singing and strolling through the school hallways following an angelic crush; the oblivious girl walks bathed in heavenly light but keeps wreaking havoc on the other students with her bulky angel wings. It reminded me of the subtle calamity of vintage Peter Sellers.

Good stuff. Seriously.

“Jonas” airs at 8 p.m. Saturdays (with repeats throughout the week) on Disney Channel.

— Dave Schlenker

Article Source: Ocala

I really do apologize if it seems like I haven’t been updating. I’m really busy with school, and a lot of the articles I receive seem a bit tedious, so I don’t bother posting them. But! I did upload some high quality stills for you all, so I hope that’ll make up for things :).

High Quality Stills - Season 1 - Click for fullsize!

by Celebuzz on May. 7, 2009 03:30 PM / 4 Comments

By now, we’re sure you’ve heard about the new Jonas Brothers TV show on Disney Channel called JONAS.

Now, Celebuzz is bringing you an exclusive look into the set of the show, at the reformed firehouse that Nick, Kevin and Joe called home. There’s the slippery firepoles, their red, decked-out kitchen, even a special look at—*GASP*—Nick’s bed! You don’t wanna miss this video.

Make sure you check out the second episode of JONAS, airing this Saturday night. The theme of the episode? Recreating scenes from their childhood. We can’t wait!

Source: Celebuzz

Lucas Bros. Daily JONAS Review & Thoughts #1

Hey you guys! So here’s my little review on the show. I was originally going to do a video on this (and maybe I will when I find the time since I’m still a little busy with school), but it’s much faster to write than make a video, so here I am.

Okay, so first off, I do believe that there is a bit of over-acting amongst some of the characters, but I don’t mind. I actually find it funny, and it adds to the humor of the show, especially during the parts with Kevin! Oh man, I think he’s going to be my favorite on this show, and I’m not just saying that because I’m a Kevin girl. His character on JONAS is reminiscent to his character, Jason in Camp Rock – the silly, quirky one. But it works.

I liked all the brotherly taunting on this show, too. It all makes for a good few laughs. It also makes me wonder if they’re really like this in real life, with Kevin cupping his hands teasingly, “Oh, look, it’s Nick’s broken heart!” and Joe inserting a complimentary sad-face. Anyway, I really like their interaction with each other on the show, and I like that they picked on small details that are familiar to the fans, like the fact that Nick doesn’t smile much, or that he’s the “serious” one. The Stella and Macy moments were hilarious, too! And I definitely get that Mandy-type vibe from Stella.

The song that Nick wrote for Penny was so cute. Although, when Nick was singing it to her, I was a little disturbed by his stare! And at the end when he was recording it with her, it sounded like she was singing louder than him? I’m not sure, but I admit, it was bothering me a little. But the song, overall, was quite lovely.

The only thing that kind of irks me is that I really don’t see much chemistry between the Jonas boys and the actors who play their parents. Maybe that’s just because we’ve already been exposed to their real parents and their take on family, but I just feel really awkward watching their show parents interact with them on the show. But it’s only the first episode, so maybe it’ll be easier to warm up to them as the season progresses.

And a little note about the critics:

Some people are taking this show way too seriously. Yes, the writing is easy to digest and no, there is no deep or abstract hidden meaning revealed at the end. But I think most people are forgetting that this is a kid’s show. And while I do run a fan site for this show, I am aware of what age group this show appeals to. But that doesn’t mean I don’t like it, and no, I am not belittling or devaluing it, I am simply presenting it as what it is: A KID’S SHOW. People are acting like this show was meant to be some sort of Oscars-Award-winning piece of work, when I’m pretty sure all of us can realistically say that it wasn’t. That doesn’t make it less enjoyable though.

And the comparisons are getting quite tedious and repetitive and unoriginal as well. No, I don’t believe JONAS will ever be anything like Hannah Montana, but why does it have to? I think it’s best to just let it be, and let them stand on their own, instead of rating their show against the fame of another.

I won’t try to make excuses as to why the views were (according to the judgment of critics) low, because I’m sure the reasons are endless. I can already see this being blown out of proportion just like the 3D Movie. The boys still sell have a large fanbase and they still sell out shows. They still have a lot of fans who love them very much, and this really doesn’t make a difference in where they are.

- Khami

Debut of ‘Jonas’ does OK, but it’s no ‘Hannah’
By DENISE MARTIN, Los Angeles Times
Last update: May 6, 2009 - 1:52 PM

Are the Jonas Brothers poised to take the place of the Disney Channel’s “Hannah Montana”? It’s too soon to tell.

A solid 4 million viewers watched the premiere of the network’s new series, “Jonas,” which topped kids and tween rankings Saturday. But the show didn’t come close to delivering the audience watching new episodes of “Hannah Montana.”

A Disney Channel news release boasted that the “Monkees”-style comedy starring the pop trio edged out the competition — Nickelodeon’s “Fairly OddParents: Wishology, Part 2,” the second night of Nick’s three-part original movie — in the kids 6 to 11 and tweens 9 to 14 categories.

“Jonas” drew 1.6 million in both kids and tweens, giving the network its best numbers in the time period in the past eight months, according to figures from Nielsen Media Research.

So the Jonas Brothers are big.

But can they be Miley Cyrus big, dominating the realms of music, film and TV? It doesn’t look good so far.

Their recent film “Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience” did not cross the $20 million mark at the box office, while “Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour” grossed $65 million. (”The Hannah Montana Movie,” in theaters now, has already grossed more than $70 million.)

And here’s a sobering fact: “Jonas” is Disney Channel’s lowest-rated live-action series premiere among ages 6 to 11 since 2005’s “Life With Derek.”

The show’s debut numbers fall far behind those for a recent new episode of “Hannah Montana,” which scored 4.8 million viewers on April 19. “Jonas” also drew fewer overall viewers (4 million vs. 4.1 million) and kids (1.6 million vs. 1.8 million) than the February premiere of Disney’s other new series, “Sonny With a Chance.”

“Jonas” was the Disney Channel’s first Saturday premiere for a series, part of a strategy to open up the night to original programming.

Article Source: Star Tribune

Keeping “JONAS” Styling On and Off Camera

It takes a cast and crew of hundreds to bring a new TV show to life ? the actors, the camera crew, the director, the … stylists? That might not be the first behind-the-scenes job we think of, but it’s an important one ? especially when the show in question is called “JONAS.”

Having just debuted Saturday, May 2, on Disney Channel, “JONAS” is a fun version of life in the music biz. Music sensations the Jonas brothers ? Joe, Nick, and Kevin ? play ordinary teenagers that is, when they aren’t onstage as rock superstars! Although their characters are fictitious, it’s a storyline with obvious parallels to the real lives of the Jonas brothers themselves, and that includes a dose of rock-star style, provided on the show by the character Stella Malone (played by Chelsea Staub) and behind the scenes by their real-life stylist, Michelle Tomaszewski.

We talked to both Chelsea and Michelle to see what to expect from the show … and the fashions. Michelle explains that “On the show, everything you see Chelsea holding for the boys’ characters, I gave input on choosing those clothes.” She’s been perfecting the Jonas’ look for two-and-a-half years now, with plenty of feedback from the guys themselves. “It’s a group effort, we work together. They come up with ideas, and I’m here to make their dreams come true. It’s important as a stylist that you and your client come up with ideas together, because that makes it special and unique ? it’s about their personality, and they wear the clothes, the clothes don’t wear them!”

Getting that “special and unique” look, she explains, involves mixing designer and vintage clothes, plus some pieces that are created especially for the guys. Then everything is tailored to give it the perfect fit ? literally made for the Jonas brothers.

So, when we see Stella styling the guys on-screen, are we getting a look at the real thing? Michelle says we are ? in part, “You see part of the process, but styling is such a long process, between preproduction, postproduction, and shooting, it’s just nonstop ? it’s long hours and coming up with ideas and new designers. It’s a show in itself!” In fact, Michelle had to provide about nine changes of clothing per episode for each brother ? that’s 27 complete outfits ? so needles were flying backstage.

Chelsea says she looked to the real stylists on the set for guidance ? both in her role and her own offstage look. “Michelle is incredible! She’s always had the coolest ideas and the coolest clothes. I love Michelle, and I would go to her for my personal fashion tips. There were several events where we were all getting ready on set to head to different red carpets, and I’d run upstairs and ask ‘Do you like this? What earrings go with this?’ I also have my own wardrobe stylist on the show, and that’s who I asked the most ’stylist questions.’”

She laughs, “I sew on the show ? I constantly have a needle and thread and measuring tape ? so I was constantly asking the stylist and my mom ‘How do I measure this?’ or ‘What’s an inseam?’ How do I look like I know what I’m doing? I’m a creative person, but I’m not a patient person, so sewing is probably not for me.”

Although she may never be a seamstress like Stella, Chelsea thinks she and her character do have some things in common. “Stella’s the only girl who’s not affected by their fame ? she doesn’t care how many girls love them, they still have to remember her birthday! She gives them girl advice and they really trust her. And when I first met the Jonas brothers, two years ago, when we first filmed the pilot, it was before they really took off. So I got to meet them before the craziness and get to know them as normal teenage guys that I wasn’t shy around.”

One of Stella’s greatest contributions as a friend is helping the brothers “keep it real” by reminding them not to get too starstruck ? but, Chelsea says, that’s one job no one needs to do in real life. “I don’t think I bring them back down to Earth, because they’re already there!” she says. “They’re some of the hardest-working teenagers I’ve ever met, and they already have two feet on the ground.”

Chelsea and Michelle agree that the Jonas brothers are amazing colleagues. “They’re great people to work with,” Michelle tells us, and Chelsea adds, “They are the most amazing guys on the planet. I didn’t mind getting up at five in the morning when I get to hang out with them.”

So when you grab the popcorn and sit down to watch “JONAS,” keep an eye on the fashions ? and the fun. From Stella’s tape-measure technique to the perfect cut of Joe’s school blazer, a lot of offscreen effort went in to making “JONAS” look effortlessly awesome. “JONAS” airs every Saturday at 8PM/7c on Disney Channel.

Article Source: Disney Insider

Music Group’s Comedy Series Averages 4 Million Viewers, ToppingNick’s ‘Parents’ Movie Head-To-Head
Musical group the Jonas Brothers made their Nielsen mark with their new comedy series on Disney Channel Saturday night.

Jonas debuted on the Disney Channel before 4 million viewers on average at 8 p.m. on Saturday May 2, including 1.6 million tween viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.
The premiere, which squared off and topped the second installment of a three-part debut of the Fairly OddParents movie on Nickelodeon in several key measures, matched the most recent Disney Channel live-action original series bow, Sonny With a Chance on Feb. 8, relative to viewers. Jonas also topped Sonny, which faced Nickelodeon encores, by 7% among tween viewers (1.6 million versus 1.5 million).
Going head-to-head with Nick’s Fairly OddParents: Wishology, Part 2 on Saturday night, Jonas took the 8 p.m. half hour, across many demos. Among total viewers, Jonas enjoyed an 11% edge among average viewers (4 million to 3.6 million) and 45% among tweens 9 to 14 (1.6 million to 1.1 million). Among girls 6 to 11, Jonas held a 112% advantage (1.2 million versus 566,000) over Wishology 2 and was ahead 276% among tween girls (1.2 million to 319,000).
For their part, Nickelodeon officials were able to shout about a victory for Wishology, Part 2 in the head-to-head half hour among kids 2 to 11 — a 6.0 rating and 2.1 million of those watchers, versus a 5.7 and 2 million of that demo for Jonas. Among the 6-to-11 set, Nick notched a 7.0 rating and 1.5 million viewers, while Disney Channel averaged a 7.7 rating and 1.6 million of those watchers, according to Nielsen data.

In the 8:30 p.m. half-hour, Wishology, Part 2 scored a 6.3 rating and 2.2 million kids 2 to 11, compared with a new installment of the Wizards of Waverly Place for Disney, which conjured a 5.0 rating and 1.7 million of those viewers. Among kids 6 to 11, Wishology 2 posted a 7.3 rating against the demo, translating into 1.6 million of those watchers, versus a 6.7 rating and 1.4 million for Disney Channel’s Wizards.

Among Disney Channel recent live-action premieres, Jonas topped Sonny With a Chance among tweens, with a 7.5 average to a 7.2 mark. However, both of those shows lagged the Sept. 20, 2008 debut of the Suite Life on Deck and the Oct. 12, 2007 bow of Wizards, which averaged 11.4 and 11.7 marks against the tween demo, respectively.

Article Source: DAPs Music

‘Jonas’ Ratings: Girls Outnumber Boys Three-to-One

The Jonas brothers’ new sitcom premiered on the Disney Channel Saturday, providing another intriguing reminder that there’s riches in niches — in this case, girls age 9 to 14.

Jonas Disney noted that the show delivered 1.6 million viewers in that age group, known as “tweens,” and a respectable 4 million overall. (By the way, any adults watching the program without a child present should be immediately placed on a watch list.)

The more interesting statistic, though, is that 75% of those tweens were girls, meaning they outnumbered boys three to one. The percentage was exactly the same among the younger demographic breakdown of kids age 6-11.

So while Cartoon Network has made solid in-roads with boys thanks to “Star Wars: Clone Wars,” and other competitors — including off-shoot channels like Nickelodeon’s Nicktoons and Disney XD — join an increasingly crowded scrum for boys, girls remain an extremely lucrative niche, especially if their “Jonas” viewing yields the expected appetite for Jonas brothers music and merchandise.

What’s perhaps most interesting is that these various kid-oriented cable networks are going after each other in take-no-prisoners fashion, recognizing that they’re pursuing a finite children’s market that the major networks have essentially abdicated to them.

Tweens, in fact, represent just how heated the battle has become, inasmuch as it’s a relatively new demographic segment, minted by Disney to differentiate itself from younger-skewing rivals. Once you start splitting up the pie among preschoolers (age 2-5) and kids (either 2-11 or 6-11) and tweens (9-14), the spinning is enough to make your head spin.

Cutting through that haze, it seems fair to say that the Jonas trio has gotten off to a reasonably promising start in their ongoing quest to sing for their supper — and in the process to separate your female children from their allowances.

Article Source: Variety

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Jonas Brothers Score on Cable
May 04th, 2009

I looks like the Jonas Brothers’ big publicity push (exhibit A - current cover of Seventeen) behind their new Disney TV show did the trick.

Jonas, the band’s new Disney Channel comedy, premiered before a solid 4 million viewers Saturday, the network reported today.

It was the no. 1 TV show among tweens.

Article Source: Cover Awards

Did You Watch the Premiere of JONAS?

By GINA DINUNNO
TV GUIDE

The Jonas Brothers have set the tween scene aflutter with their pop odes, and now the trio is taking on TV with a new Disney Channel series that premiered on Saturday.

JONAS (Saturdays, 8 pm/ET) is the story of the Lucas brothers (played by Kevin, Nick and Joe Jonas), who live in a converted firehouse with their folks, attend high school and perform in a popular rock group called, oddly, JONAS. Little brother Frankie Lucas is played by “Bonus Jonas” Frankie.

Critics are comparing the lighthearted comedy to the Emmy-winning 1960s musical series The Monkees, which also centers on the lives of the members of a pop-rock group.

Did you watch the premiere of JONAS? What did you think?

Article Source: Seattlepi

Monday, May 4, 2009 at 9:07 am
The Morning After: Got a Love Jonas

I didn’t manage to review Disney Channel’s new star-vehicle sitcom JONAS, but really, isn’t the best time to review a review-proof TV show after it airs?

In this new tween sitcom with music, Disney pop stars Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas play teenagers Kevin, Joe and Nick Lucas. They have a different last name in the series, because this is acting. The name of the series is still JONAS, because the Lucases live in a loft-like high-tech house on Jonas Street somewhere in New Jersey. And the Jonases are still musicians, because, come on.

In the first episode, Kevin and Joe provide comic relief as most of the action focuses on Nick, who writes a song for a singer-songwriter girl he has a crush on—he always falls too hard! it’s so sweet!—but falls victim to a misunderstanding when she plays the song in a concert… for her boyfriend. Nick, we are told, is “the serious one,” a description which helps somewhat to paper over the fact that he can’t display much convincing emotion when not singing.

The singing is a high point—the Jonases actually record some pretty hook-y pop music, and each episode of the sitcom features a music video. (The first one was easily the funniest moment of the show, featuring Nick’s love interest as an angel, outfitted with a pair of giant wings with which she kept knocking things over during her fantasy sequence, including a table of wares belonging to the “Vase Club.” It’s like a Flight of the Conchords Jr. video.)

Beyond that, there isn’t much in the series so far that will surprise viewers of Disney Channel sitcoms: there’s a fantasy setup (the Lucases’ high-tech pad includes a built-in computer the guys use to pick clothes), wacky friends (an eccentric fashion-designer girl) and the standard looks-like-a-TV-set-high-school high-school-TV-set. But the Jonases do bring a lackadaisical charm to the whole thing, and while there is a subplot involving a stalkerish fan who wants to rip the boys’ clothes off, no one gets hot white foam sprayed all over them. Any Jonas fans—or their parents / older siblings / teachers—in Tuned Inland?

Article Source: Tuned In

Jonas Brothers Look Bigger on Small Screen
Today 2:55 PM PDT by Joal Ryan

Another opening weekend for the Jonas Brothers. An altogether different result.

Jonas, the band’s new Disney Channel comedy, premiered before a solid 4 million viewers Saturday, the network reported today.

The tween-idol act’s show ruled as the night’s No. 1 TV show among, yes, tweens, girls, kids and, presumably, tweens, girls and kids who are totally into Joe, Nick and Kevin.

In head-to-head competition with its chief cable competition, Jonas outdrew the second part of the Fairly OddParents special, Wishology (3.6 million for the 8 p.m. half-hour).

The results, while not record-shattering, nor even necessarily iCarly-toppling, mark a turnaround from March, when the Jonas Brothers’ big-screen concert movie opened well, for a concert movie, but whiffed at the expectations game.

Article Source: E! Online

Disney Channel’s ‘Jonas’ premiere: Not burnin’ up the ratings
04:02 PM PT, May 4 2009

Are the Jonas Brothers poised to take the place of Disney Channel’s “Hannah Montana”? It might be too soon to tell.

A solid 4 million viewers watched the 8 p.m. premiere of the network’s new series, “Jonas,” which topped kids and tween rankings Saturday, but didn’t come close to delivering the audience watching new episodes of “Hannah Montana.”

A Disney Channel news release boasted that the “Monkees”-style comedy starring the pop trio edged out the competition — Nickelodeon’s “Fairly OddParents: Wishology, Part 2,” the second night of Nick’s three-part original movie — in the kids 6-11 and tweens 9-14 categories.

“Jonas” drew 1.6 million in both kids and tweens, giving the network its best numbers in the time period in the last eight months. Of its tween audience, 73% was female.

So the Jonas Brothers are big. But can they be Miley Cyrus big, dominating the realms of music, film and TV? It doesn’t look good so far:

“Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience” did not cross the $20-million mark at the box office, while “Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour” made $65 million. (”The Hannah Montana Movie,” currently in theaters, has already made more than $70 million.)

And here’s a sobering fact: “Jonas” is Disney Channel’s lowest-rated live-action series premiere among kids 6-11 since 2005’s “Life with Derek.”

The show’s debut numbers fall far behind those for a recent new episode of “Hannah Montana,” which scored 4.8 million on April 19, and drew fewer overall viewers (4.1 million versus 4 million) and kids (1.8 million versus 1.6 million) than the February premiere of Disney’s other new series, “Sonny With a Chance,” starring Demi Lovato. “Jonas” fared better with tweens (1.6 million versus 1.5 million).

A rep for Disney Channel pointed out that “Jonas” was the network’s first-ever Saturday premiere for a series, part of a deliberate strategy to open up the night to original programming. The rep also noted that Disney has a “robust business” with the group across its “music, studio and consumer products divisions.”

– Denise Martin

Article Source: LA Times

Music Group’s Comedy Series Averages 4 Million Viewers, ToppingNick’s ‘Parents’ Movie Head-To-Head
Mike Reynolds — Multichannel News, 5/4/2009 4:14:49 PM MT

Musical group the Jonas Brothers made their Nielsen mark with their new comedy series on Disney Channel Saturday night.

Jonas debuted on the Disney Channel before 4 million viewers on average at 8 p.m. on Saturday May 2, including 1.6 million tween viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.
The premiere, which squared off and topped the second installment of a three-part debut of the Fairly OddParents movie on Nickelodeon in several key measures, matched the most recent Disney Channel live-action original series bow, Sonny With a Chance on Feb. 8, relative to viewers. Jonas also topped Sonny, which faced Nickelodeon encores, by 7% among tween viewers (1.6 million versus 1.5 million).
Going head-to-head with Nick’s Fairly OddParents: Wishology, Part 2 on Saturday night, Jonas took the 8 p.m. half hour, across many demos. Among total viewers, Jonas enjoyed an 11% edge among average viewers (4 million to 3.6 million) and 45% among tweens 9 to 14 (1.6 million to 1.1 million). Among girls 6 to 11, Jonas held a 112% advantage (1.2 million versus 566,000) over Wishology 2 and was ahead 276% among tween girls (1.2 million to 319,000).
For their part, Nickelodeon officials were able to shout about a victory for Wishology, Part 2 in the head-to-head half hour among kids 2 to 11 — a 6.0 rating and 2.1 million of those watchers, versus a 5.7 and 2 million of that demo for Jonas. Among the 6-to-11 set, Nick notched a 7.0 rating and 1.5 million viewers, while Disney Channel averaged a 7.7 rating and 1.6 million of those watchers, according to Nielsen data.

In the 8:30 p.m. half-hour, Wishology, Part 2 scored a 6.3 rating and 2.2 million kids 2 to 11, compared with a new installment of the Wizards of Waverly Place for Disney, which conjured a 5.0 rating and 1.7 million of those viewers. Among kids 6 to 11, Wishology 2 posted a 7.3 rating against the demo, translating into 1.6 million of those watchers, versus a 6.7 rating and 1.4 million for Disney Channel’s Wizards.

Among Disney Channel recent live-action premieres, Jonas topped Sonny With a Chance among tweens, with a 7.5 average to a 7.2 mark. However, both of those shows lagged the Sept. 20, 2008 debut of the Suite Life on Deck and the Oct. 12, 2007 bow of Wizards, which averaged 11.4 and 11.7 marks against the tween demo, respectively.

Article Source: Multi Channel

Jonas Brothers to Have Disney Channel Sitcom
3-May-2009
Written by: Shaina Wizov

The Jonas Brothers will star in a musical sitcom on the Disney Channel.

The ever-popular boy band of the millennial has done it again. They’ve charmed listeners with their chart topping hits, and even went 3D for a concert movie; now they will be starring in their own sitcom on the Disney Channel.

The show, Jonas, features Nick, Kevin and Joe, who go by their own names, as high school rock stars with a band named Jonas, but their last name isn’t Jonas – it’s Lucas.

Tweens everywhere should set their TiVo or DVR now because Jonas debuts on Friday night. The “Lucas” brothers are loosely based on Nick, Kevin and Joe’s own lives, especially the debut episode. The story line focuses around the youngest of the three, Nick, as a “lovelorn Romeo, the littlest bro who falls in love too often,” according to E! Online. The realism in this plot? Nick’s relationships with Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez.

New York Daily News reports that the show is very clean cut, catering to the plethora of young fans that adore the Jonas Brothers. Any problems the boys encounter are always easy to fix and never leave a mark. There is no swearing, out of the ordinary clothing, or disrespect to elders. With the audience that both the JoBros and Disney sitcoms attract, clean is the only way to go. These boys couldn’t be bad even if they tried.

Article Source: The Celebrity Cafe

Jonas Brothers’ new TV series will probably be the kids’ choice

Watch out, Miley Cyrus! The Jonas Brothers’ new TV series “Jonas” is about to cause more trouble for “Hannah Montana” at the Kids’ Choice Awards and elsewhere in kudosland.

As the L.A. Times review notes, the Jonas Brothers’ show “feels long in coming” and it looks like a “classic high school comedy” quite similar to “Hannah Montana,” considering it “stars stars who play stars.” That’s because Kevin, Nick and Joe Jonas portray the Lucases, fictional “rock and roll superstar brothers as they try to live ordinary lives,” according to the Disney Channel’s description.

The series has some detractors like the snooty New York Times, which predictably dismisses “Jonas” as a “noxious, awkward mix of art, commerce and romance,” but that won’t hurt its kid appeal. In fact, when it comes to the Kids’ Choice Awards, “Jonas” is just the kind of show voters adore.

In 2008, “Hannah Montana” lost the award for favorite TV show to “Drake & Josh,” which also won in 2006 — another series starring dimple-cheeked brothers (well, step-brothers, actually). “Hannah Montana” has never won that category and, considering it will compete next year against “Jonas,” doesn’t — let’s face it — have much hope of victory ahead.

Article Source: LA Times

On TV: JONAS
Written by Matt McCluskey | 04 May 2009, 10:00 AM
The Jonas Brothers play semi-catchy, over-produced pop songs about young love and are one of Disney’s hottest properties. Now, they have a semi-catchy, over-produced Disney Channel show about the problems any superstar sibling boy group face when forced to interact with regular society. It’s not as anarchic as The Monkees or brilliant as Flight of the Conchords, but at least it’s better than the other recycled garbage on Disney. A hearty endorsement, indeed.

For readers who were recently released from Guantanamo or lack tween cousins, here’s a quick primer on the Jonas Brothers phenomenon. Joe is the hot, swarthy lead singer, Nick is the serious, slightly-less-hot multi-instrumentalist who writes all the songs, and Kevin is the eldest and the one tweenage girls would have the best chance of scoring with, if he and his brothers would just take off their purity rings. On JONAS - their last name has become an all-caps mass noun - they play a version of themselves, only their last name is Lucas, and their band on the show is called Jonas. But confusing naming schemes are of little importance when you live in a tricked-out firehouse and spend all of your time at school in a glass-enclosed courtyard.

Nick is the focus of the first episode, writing a romantic song for a girl who already has a boyfriend. Some version of that plot will probably always be present, as the Jonas trio looks more comfortable singing or talking about music than delivering their lines. Joe and Kevin flutter around the edge of Nick’s problems, underplaying various broad gags (fake mustaches, a monocle take) and dictating lines ripped from an 11-year-old’s conceptions of love: “Nick, you always fall too hard, too fast.” But those moments where JONAS superficially acknowledges the youth image machine that makes Disney millions of dollars are actually the best parts of the show, and it might be worth checking back in on Saturday nights to see how meta they can go.

This wouldn’t be the Disney Channel without something shrill and obnoxious pretty much ruining the soup. That’s the B-plot, consisting of personal stylist Stella (Chelsea Staub) working on new rip-away outfits for the boys with psycho Jonas super-fan Macy (Nicole Gale Anderson). Maybe they are trying to parody real-life rabid tween fans, but that joke’s been old since A Hard Day’s Night.

As we learned in Camp Rock, the last acting gig for the JoBros, Joe (or Joe’s bangs) can pass for sensitive and misunderstood, so maybe he doesn’t have to say his lines so flatly in future episodes. The semi-single camera directing and at-times muted lighting are a welcome change of pace from the other Disney Channel shows that look and feel like the worst episodes of Saved by the Bell.

Perusing a few of the early negative reviews of JONAS, it seems like many critics do not watch the other programming on the Disney Channel. The other tween idol vehicles - - Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverly Place, Sonny With a Chance — contain writing so unoriginal and laugh tracks so loud that it’s hard to discern what is happening between all the histrionic acting and punch lines that couldn’t jab their way out of an officially-licensed Hannah Montana pencil case. JONAS is less annoying, has no laugh track, and is now the best part of Disney Channel’s line-up, which is like saying that Italy was the best part of World War II’s Axis powers. Yeah, it’s not that good, but the alternatives (Miley Cyrus/Selena Gomez/Demi Lovato) are much more frightening.

5.5 out of 10

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