It's official!

Girl Meets World, the highly anticipated spinoff of the hit '90s show Boy Meets World, will premiere next year on the Disney Channel, Disney programming executives announced Monday.

Production on the new show will begin in Los Angeles this summer. Boy Meets World's Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel reprise their roles as Cory Matthews and Topanga Lawrence and newcomer Rowan Blanchard plays their 13-year-old daughter, Riley. 

The show centers on Cory and Topanga's daughter, a curious and bright 7th grader, and her quick-witted best friend Maya (Sabrina Carpenter) as they embark on an unforgettable middle school experience. 

"Girl Meets World is a new show for a new generation that will be rooted in the same kind of honest, comedic storytelling about coming of age and the importance of family and friendship that made Boy Meets World so popular," producer Michael Jacobs said in a statement. 

"Girl is going to be its own show. I think that's real important. I really think it's necessary for the audience to understand this," Jacobs said at a press conference following BMW's Reunion Panel at the ATX Festival in Austin, TX. "My feeling is that the premise of the show is about these two girls having a friendship, going off into the world we now know. Girl Meets World will be unique from Boy Meets World in that way."

"However, it is the child of an original program," he added. "There is no way that I am not going to include everybody that wants to be included on this piece because they're the genesis of the piece. For me, we may build a new house but we're building it on ground and that ground was Boy." 

Savage hinted that old cast mates might return to the new series, adding that GMW will "honor the old show" while "trying to work in this new dynamic and this new time that we're all living in."  

"We're being very cautious, very careful, trying to honor the old show," he said. 

The actor added, "I think it's important to stress that we're not doing Boy Meets World, we're doing Girl Meets World. I think that this generation grew up with Boy Meets World and it means something very special to them as it means something special to us and we want to try and do something for the next generation and we want to give them something that they can grow up with and have their own memories with." 

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