Best Friends Forever (season 4)

The fourth and final season of the TV series Best Friends Forever aired on Disney Channel from July 23, 2010 to April 15, 2011 with 12 episodes. It was the only season of the show to be in high definition. Jason Dolley's character Chris Taylor is no longer a main character, but is istead recurring. He is recently been replaced by Justin Gaston's character Bradley Johnson. In this season, the students are finishing up their school year at the new high school building and all are going to face what are they going to do next after they graduated high school. Also, Sasha signs her two best friends Becky and Emmetta as her the music group The Sasha Sisters. Amy broke up with boyfriend Chris and is now in a relationship with Bradley later in this season.

On July 24, 2012, this season of the show was released on DVD.

Development
Chris Turner and Alex Wilkerson decides to end Best Friends Forever after its fourth season. Because Turner and Wilkerson decided to quit after all these years they have done. College scenes and future will be taking during an hour of an final episode of the show during flashforward scenes. The cast of the show will all reprised their roles for the season. Chris Turner and Alex Wilkerson will be writting all of the episodes. And Duke Johnson will be directing all episodes.

Filming
Filming for the season finale of Best Friends Forever has began on January 29, 2010 and finished on May 22, 2010, and the entire franchise was done for good. The show scheduled to taped more than 10 episodes to end the Best Friends Forever franchise for good.

Main characters

 * Josh Hutcerson as Nick David
 * Keke Palmer as Sasha Henry
 * Dylan Patton as Zack Foster
 * Dakota Fanning as Cassie Hilliard
 * Alyson Stoner as Amy Abraham
 * Justin Gaston as Bradley Johnson

Recurring

 * Jason Dolley as Chris Taylor
 * Shanica Knowles as Becky Adams
 * Paige Hurd as Emmetta Elizabeth
 * Taylor Lautner as Adam Brown
 * Taylor Horn as Maria Anderson
 * Emma Lockhart as Emily Barnes
 * Courtney Jines as Jennifer Dawson

Casting
Josh Hutcherson reprised his role as Nick David for the series finale. Also Dakota Fanning will reprise her role as Cassie Hilliard. She is also working on filming her newest movie Jane Hoop Elementary: The Final Rush, which she can have time to get a break from filming the film, in order to her to continue on filming her TV series. As well as Keke Palmer, she also can have time to take a break from filming her other TV series True Jackson, VP, and reprises her role as Sasha Henry. Also to Alyson Stoner, also reprise her role as Amy Abraham.

Dylan Patton stated he will not return as Zack Foster, but the producers plan states they won't let anyone else to play Zack. Patton than changes his mind and reprise his role on last time. Jason Dolley also reprise his role as Chris Taylor, but will not be part as the main character, due to filming Good Luck Charlie, as he will be instead be part as a recurring cast. The character is set going away on tour, which was not revealed after the third season. It was reported that Justin Gaston will only be appearing into two episodes as Bradley Johnson is an crossover and a series finale. But turns out that Gaston deciced to join as main character. Even though he is absent in a couple of episodes, his name did not appear in the opening title.

Shanica Knowles, who portrayed as Becky Adams as recurring from seasons 1-3, will now become a main character into this season as she reprised her role as Becky Adams. This also goes to Sahara Garey, who will also become a main character in this season, since she is recurring from three previous seasons as Emmetta Elizabeth. Letting Becky and Emmetta becoming main characters is due to The Sasha Sisters, those who they were sign up for, were seen in a couple of episodes. Taylor Horn will also reprise her role as Maria Anderson, and Taylor Lautner will return as Adam Black as well. Justin Bieber, Malcolm David Kelley, Emma Lockhart and Ali Lohan will still be recurring characters as Johnny Bark, Mark Cornwell, Amanda Hudson and Brenda Thompson, but they will not return for the final season after not seen through many episodes. Their characters are reported that four of them moved to another school for their senior year together.

Also, Mitchel Musso states that he may return to this season from Best Friends Forever: The Movie reprising his role as Duncan Harris, Nick's childhood best friend. According to rumors, this result is true. Musso will appear as supporting in only two episodes where he goes back to Maria once again.

Guess stars
The guess stars will be included in this season finale. It will include Taylor Swift, Oprah Winfrey and Lucas Cruickshank as guess stars.

Opening and Closing Credits
Best Friends Forever has the same opening title since season 3. However, Shanica Knowles and Sahara Garey's names are added from the opening title, within Jason Dolley's name is officially removed, due to rescheduling as recurring, because of Dolley filming another TV show.

Music
A new song called "Party in the U.S.A.", originally written by Miley Cyrus, will be written by Keke Palmer, will be featured this season. Also "Irreplaceable" written by Beyoncé Knowles. Also Say My Name and Stand Up for Love, both originally from Destiny's Child will be written by the Sasha Sisters, Palmer, Knowles and Garey. Also Survivor", which the song is rewrriten as "We Are Survivors" to be about them rather than each other each.

Episodes
The story continues with the students entering a brand new high school, as well as they'll have to get their relationship together. Also, Sasha continues musical career, when Hollywood announces that Sasha's having her band members as "The Sasha Sisters" (made of her two BFFS Becky and Emmetta) for the first time. In a special episode, the students goes on their vacation to Hollywood where the gang begins their career for, but it seems like that Sasha is having too much attitude from her friends. Also, this season will feature with crossovers of Sonny With a Chance and The Suite Life on Deck in Sonny on Deck with Best Friends Forever, making the season's first to have a crossover episode.


 * Keke Palmer is present for all episodes.
 * Jason Dolley reprised their roles for five episodes.
 * Taylor Lautner reprised his role for three episodes.
 * Mitchel Musso reprised his role for two episodes.
 * Taylor Horn reprised for four episodes.
 * Courtney Jines will reprise her role for one episode.
 * Josh Hutcherson is absent in two episodes.
 * Dakota Fanning, Dylan Patton and Alyson Stoner were absent in one episode.