Jonas

Jonas L.A. (previously titled Jonas, stylized as JONAS) was a Disney Channel Original Series created by Michael Curtis and Roger Schulman, starring the Jonas Brothers.
==Show Description==
*Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas are members of the band Jonas Brothers, which signed with Disney-owned Hollywood Records in 2007. Later that year, the Jonas Brothers debuted as actors on the Disney Channel as guest stars on the August 17, 2007 episode of Hannah Montana. Shortly after, development for a TV series and Disney Channel Original Movie called Camp Rock starring the Jonas Brothers began.
The potential TV series was entitled J.O.N.A.S., an acronym which stood for "Junior Operatives Networking as Spies". In the show, the band played concerts as a cover while working as government secret agents to save the world. At the same time, they tried to hide their double lives from their mother and Frankie. Meanwhile, Stella, ignorant of the Jonas' double lives, dated each of the famous brothers without informing the others and reported the details in her teen magazine column. Said Staub, "So pretty much the entire show, it's all of us lying to each other, and kind of everything backfiring, and us getting caught in awkward situations." She described the concept as, "like The Monkees and a little of bit of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. There's going to be fun action sequences and still be a sitcom".
The J.O.N.A.S. pilot was shot in 2007, but the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike impeded progress. However, Disney Channel Asia aired it during the Sneak Peak 2008. Instead, Disney Channel filmed a mini reality show, the 2008 Disney Channel Original Short Series Jonas Brothers: Living the Dream, which followed the Jonas Brothers on a concert tour and premiered May 16. A few weeks later on June 20, 2008, the Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock, in which the brothers starred as the fictional, non-fraternal band "Connect Three", debuted. The Jonas Brothers also released Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, a Disney Digital 3-D concert film. "After this rush of releases, the Jonas Brothers became too popular to imagine them as anything but more dramatic versions of themselves," explained executive producer Michael Curtis. "The spy concept was very big and very ambitious and it started to not feel quite right. As the band got bigger and bigger, doing a show that captured more of their real lives and trying to turn that into a more grounded, real version of what they might be doing became more interesting to do and more fun to do.". “It is now about us being a band and balancing a normal life,” Nick Jonas told Access Hollywood. The title of the series changed from J.O.N.A.S. to JONAS, dropping the acronym but remaining in all capitals.
Producers have drawn connections between Jonas and productions by earlier bands. Show creator and producer Roger S. H. Schulman claims that "It's hard not to make parallel comparisons to The Beatles in 1962 and 1963 when you see the kind of response that the Jonas Brothers' fans have to them," and describes the 1964 A Hard Day's Night and 1965 Help! as "very much a template" for the series. Producers and critics have also compared the series to The Monkees, a popular but short-lived mid-1960s television comedy also following a real life band. At the Television Critics Association winter press tour in January 2009, Gary Marsh, entertainment president of Disney Channel Worldwide, described Jonas as a cross between The Monkees and Flight of the Conchords. The Chicago Sun-Times remarks that Joe Jonas parallels "goofy Micky Dolenz", Kevin Jonas "quirky Michael Nesmith", and Nick Jonas "dreamy Davy Jones". The Jonas Brothers reportedly watched episodes of The Partridge Family and The Monkees "for literally three days straight" for inspiration.
==Episode List==
===Season 1===
Premiere Date 	Ep No.	Name
June 21, 2009 	1 	Fashion Victim
May 9, 2009 	2 	Groovy Movies
May 17, 2009 	3 	Keeping It Real
June 7, 2009 	4 	Chasing the Dream
May 2, 2009 	5 	Wrong Song
June 28, 2009 	6 	That Ding You Do
January 24, 2010 	7 	Beauty and the Beat
May 16, 2009 	8 	Pizza Girl
June 6, 2009 	9 	Band's Best Friend
July 5, 2009 	10 	Complete Repeat
December 6, 2009 	11 	Cold Shoulder
August 23, 2009 	12 	Detention
August 2, 2009 	13 	Love Sick
August 9, 2009 	14 	The Three Musketeers
September 6, 2009 	15 	Karaoke Surprise
August 16, 2009 	16 	Frantic Romantic
September 27, 2009	17 	Forgetting Stella's Birthday
September 20, 2009	18 	Home Not Alone
October 11, 2009 	19 	The Tale of the Haunted Firehouse
November 8, 2009 	20 	Double Date
March 14, 2010 	21 	Exam Jam
===Season 2 (Jonas L.A.)===
Premiere Date 	Ep No.	Name
June 20, 2010 	22 	House Party
June 27, 2010 	23 	Back to the Beach
July 2, 2010 	24 	Date Expectations
July 11, 2010 	25 	And... Action!
July 25, 2010 	26 	America's Sweethearts
August 1, 2010 	27 	The Secret
August 8, 2010 	28 	A Wasabi Story
August 15, 2010 	29 	Up in the Air
August 22, 2010 	30 	Direct to Video
August 29, 2010 	31 	The Flirt Locker
September 12, 2010	32 	Boat Trip
September 26, 2010	33 	On the Radio
October 3, 2010 	34 	Band of Brothers
Category:Shows
Category:Disney Channel Original Series