Synopsis

No ordinary teenager; Raven Baxter can see glimpses of the future! Watch her schemes and misadventures as she enlists the help of friends, including best friends Eddie and Chelsea, to change life's little outcomes. Raven's younger brother, Cory, is obsessed with money and creates get-rich-quick schemes to try to earn cash.

In the early 2000s, The Walt Disney Company's pay television network Disney Channel experienced success with single-camera comedy series Even Stevens and Lizzie McGuire, and others that were also aimed at a pre-adolescent audience.

That's So Raven was intended to appeal to a family audience while having a female character in the comedy lead role.

Sherman first conceived the idea of a buddy comedy for a pre-adolescent audience, and she and Poryes decided to base it around the idea of being able to see the future, which they thought would interest young viewers.

The creators pitched the concept to network executives under the working title The Future is On Me and later as Absolutely Psychic.

Poryes said at her audition, Raven-SymonÃ© read for the role of the lead character and for the comedic best-friend character Chelsea, and that she wanted to play Chelsea.

Subsequently, a pilot episode in which she starred as the best friend rather than in the central role was filmed but after the test audience responded well to her and producers were impressed, the program was re-written with Raven-SymonÃ© in the main role.