What started as a TV movie transformed into a multimedia franchise. Weeks filming on location turned into months touring major music venues. A quartet of actors became a trio of pop singers.

And now the Cheetah Girls — Adrienne Bailon, Kiely Williams and Sabrina Bryan, better known to fans as Chanel, Aquanetta and Dorinda — are ready to change their spots again.

Though barely over the age of 20, the girls are showbiz veterans. They've starred in two Cheetah Girls movies, recorded CDs and spent four months on a nationwide tour.

The girls are eager for the tour to end — not so they can rest, but so they can jump back into the studio. It's the Cheetah Girls' forthcoming album that will prove just how much the group members have matured in the past few years, according to Bryan.

The group initially was conceived as a foursome fronted by Disney Channel mainstay Raven-Symone. The quartet headlined the 2003 TV movie “The Cheetah Girls,” then reunited for a sequel last year.

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