Girl Meets World Casts Cory's Younger Brother, Plus Shawn Hunter Returns!

On the very last episode of Boy Meets World, Cory (Ben Savage) had a heartfelt conversation with his extremely young brother, Joshua. Cory was preparing to leave for New York, and he decided to impart some wise words to his little brother about facing the world and embracing it. The upcoming sequel series, Girl Meets World, will introduce us to an all-grown-up version of little Josh.

E! Online reports the show has tapped The Glades' Uriah Shelton to appear in the series' holiday episode as a now-teenage Josh, "Cory's laid back and effortlessly cool little bro." The character will serve as "Uncle Joshua" to Riley Matthews (Rowan Blanchard) and perhaps as an uncle/big brother to her best friend, Maya (Sabrina Carpenter).

The holiday episode, "Girl Meets Home for the Holidays," will also feature the return of William Russ and Betsy Randle as Cory's parents, Alan and Amy Matthews, and Rider Strong will make his much-anticipated return as Cory's best friend, Shawn Hunter. If that isn't enough for BMW fans to tune into the new series, then we don't know what is.

The series will premiere on Friday, June 27 at 9:45 p.m. ET/PT after the Disney Channel original movie Zapped! The show will then be off for a week before it debuts in its regular time slot on Friday, July 11 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT. The cast members will host the show that night.

But for those who do not want to wait that long, a free download of the preview episode will be available on iTunes on Friday, June 13.

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