Liv and Maddie, titled Liv and Maddie: Cali Style in its fourth season, is an American teen sitcom created by John D. Beck and Ron Hart and produced by It's a Laugh Productions for Disney Channel. The series stars Dove Cameron in a dual role as identical twins with entirely different personalities. Liv Rooney is a girly girl who was an actress in Hollywood for four years. She was offered more roles in other shows and movies, but decided to come home instead because she missed her family and wanted to see them again. Her sister Maddie is a tomboy with a facility for sports, particularly basketball. They have two younger brothers named Joey and Parker. Joey is one year younger than the twins, while Parker is the youngest child of the Rooney family. Their father is the coach of Maddie's basketball team and their mother is the school psychologist and later vice-principal starting in the second season. The series revolves around Liv readjusting to normal family life after production on her successful television program Sing It Loud! ended.