A.N.T. Farm

A.N.T. Farm is an American Disney Channel sitcom that will premiere on June 17, 2011. It was created by Dan Signer, a former writer and co-executive producer of The Suite Life on Deck. The series stars China Anne McClain, Sierra McCormick and Jake Short as middle-schoolers in a gifted program at the local high school called the "Advanced Natural Talents" program, or A.N.T. The first promo was released during the premiere of Lemonade Mouth. The pilot episode, "TransplANTed", aired on May 6, 2011 as a special preview of the series after the series finale of The Suite Life on Deck, and after the Disney Channel premiere of Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure on May 22, 2011.

Cast

 * China Anne McClain as Chyna Parks
 * Sierra McCormick as Olive
 * Jake Short as Fletcher
 * Stefanie Scott as Lexi Reed
 * Carlon Jeffery as Cameron Parks

Main characters

 * Chyna Parks (China Anne McClain) is an 11-year old girl music prodigy who is part of the A.N.T. program in her brother's high school. She is the lead character of the series, and plays thirteen different instruments (violin, guitar, piano, trumpet, saxophone, flute, cello, harp, the bagpipes, french horn, drums, harmonica and the spoons) and can sing.
 * Olivia "Olive" Doyle (Sierra McCormick) is one of Chyna's best friends, part of the A.N.T program because of her eidetic memory. She sometimes talks too much. She remembers everything she's heard, seen or read. She used to be afraid of the other high school students but she's not anymore, with the help of Chyna. Olive is the goof-off of the series.
 * Fletcher Quimby (Jake Short) is an artistic genius. His best friends are Chyna and Olive. Fletcher has a crush on Chyna. He calls her "beautiful". Everytime he sees Chyna with a boy he gets upset and jealous. He tries to keep his crush to himself, but often gives signs to his crush. Fletcher is always trying to impress Chyna.
 * Alexis "Lexi" Reed (Stefanie Scott) is a student at the high school who is the lead in all the musicals, freshman president of student council and head cheerleader. She thinks of Chyna as her competition.
 * Cameron Parks (Carlon Jeffery) is Chyna's older high-schooler brother. He tries to avoid Chyna and the other ANTs due to their younger age. He is very interested in girls and Chyna and her friends Olive and Fletcher constantly embarrass him in front of the other high school students, but he still loves his sister either way.

Recurring characters

 * Paisley (Alexandria DeBerry) is a pretty but clueless girl who is best friends with Lexi.
 * Gibson (Zach Steel) is the A.N.T.’s counselor, tutor, and therapist.
 * Angus (Aedin Mincks) is a computer wizard.
 * Darryl Parks (Finesse Mitchell) is Chyna's dad. He is a highly decorated police officer.
 * Roxanne Parks (Elise Neal) is Chyna's mom. She is a children's party entertainer.

Episodes
See the Episode Guide

Music

 * Dynamite by China Anne McClain
 * Exceptional by China Anne McClain