Best Friends Whenever

Best Friends Whenever is an American multi-camera sitcom developed for Disney Channel, created by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas and executive produced by Jed Elinoff, Scott Thomas, and Michael B. Kaplan. The series stars Landry Bender as Cyd and Lauren Taylor as Shelby.

Plot
Set in Portland, Oregon, two girls named Cyd and Shelby are best friends living together while Cyd's parents are on an archaeological dig in Peru. After an accident in their neighbor Barry's science lab, they are given the ability to travel in time, provided they are thinking of the time they want to go and are together hugging or high fiving. When it comes to their trips to the future, they briefly find themselves strapped to tables in a futuristic lab, and now they must figure out what this means while having various misadventures along the way.

Main

 * Cyd (Landry Bender) is Shelby's best friend who is staying with Shelby's family while her parents are away in Peru. She owns a pet dog named Diesel.
 * Shelby (Lauren Taylor) is Cyd's best friend.
 * Barry (Gus Kamp) is an aspiring young scientist who lives in a Winnebago that is parked outside of Shelby's backyard that he also uses for his lab. One of his inventions gave Cyd and Shelby the ability to travel through time.
 * Naldo (Ricky Garcia) is Barry's best friend and lab assistant. Barry calls him "Renaldo".
 * Bret (Benjamin Cole Royer) is Shelby's brother who is the twin brother of Chet.
 * Chet (Matthew Lewis Royer) is Shelby's brother who is the twin brother of Bret.

Recurring

 * Astrid (Mary Passeri) is the mother of Shelby, Bret, and Chet.
 * Norm (Kevin Symons) is the father of Shelby, Bret, and Chet. He works as an accountant at GloboDigiDyne and later gets promoted to the company's Pelican Ball Room.
 * Marci (Madison Hu) is a weird friend of Cyd and Shelby who is always relaxed.
 * Ms. Nesbit (Jocelyn Ayanna) is a woman who was first seen as Cyd and Shelby's strict history teacher at West Portland High School. Due to Cyd and Shelby's time-traveling, Ms. Nesbit now works as a police officer.
 * Mr. Doyle (Larry Joe Campbell) is a gossip-loving teacher at West Portland High School who teaches science and driver's ed.
 * Janet Smythe (Nora Dunn) is an entrepreneur and the CEO of GloboDigiDyne who has invented many things in her life starting with wireless objects.

Production
Best Friends Whenever was created by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas, who have also created Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja. Casting started January 2015.

On March 6, 2015, Disney ordered Best Friends Whenever with production starting the same month. The series premiered on June 26, 2015, directly after Teen Beach 2.

Best Friends Whenever was renewed for a second season by Disney Channel on February 29, 2016.