Disney Channel Announces A.N.T Farm Premiere Date

The Disney Channel has announced the premiere date for their new series called A.N.T Farm.  A.N.T Farm is a comedic series about a middle school musical prodigy who is enrolled in a prestigious A.N.T (Advanced Natural Talents) program at a local high school.

The new show is set to premiere on Friday, June 17 8:30 pm ET/PT on the Disney Channel.  Starring a 12 year old China Anne McClain the series depicts an atypical fish out of water situation when Chyna Parks and her fellow A.N.T’s encounter in the sometimes daunting world of high school – three years before expected.  In addition to McClain Sierra McCormick from Ramona and Beezus as Olive Doyle an A.N.T with a photographic memory, Jake Short from Shorts and Dexter will play Fletcher Quimby an artistic genius and practical joker.  They will be joined by Stephanie Scott from No Strings Attached as Lexi Reed an over achieving cheerleader who is intimidated by Chyna and Carlon Jeffery from Heroes and Cameron Parks Chyna’s over compensating older brother trying to step out of his sisters shadow.

Disney will be launching the A.N.T Farm website featuring a game called Find Your Inner A.N.T which will allow players to select four mini games inspired by the talents of Chyna (music), Olive (memory), Fletcher (painting) and Angus (computer genius).  After each episode fans will be able to test their brain power with the Weekly Brain Teaser.  What do you think?