Night School: the Web Series

Night School: the Web Series
Genre Drama
Teen
Created by CJ Daugherty
Jack Jewers
Written by CJ Daugherty
Jack Jewers
Directed by Jack Jewers
Starring
  • Jessica Sargent
  • Campbell Challis
  • Danny Carmel
  • Grace Parry
  • Jodie Hirst
  • Damien Thomas
  • Lewis Lilley
  • Jessica Swallow
  • Kunjue Li
  • Louis Clarke-Clare
  • Tom Blount
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 6 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) CJ Daugherty
Producer(s) Jack Jewers


Night School is a British web television series based on the Night School books by CJ Daugherty.[1] It was the first ever web series based on a British young adult book.[2] The show premiered on YouTube on December 12, 2014.[3] The series was written and created by CJ Daugherty and Jack Jewers.

Series overview

The series follows Allie Sheridan a 17-year-old girl from Brixton who is sent away to boarding school after a string of arrests. But the school isn't all it seems. Cimmeria Academy is an exclusive private school for the children of the elite. At the heart of Cimmeria is Night School, a Bullingdon Club style secret society whose members are both destined to run the country and mentored by the world’s most powerful people. But Allie soon learns that their glamorous and exciting world is laced with deception. And danger. Everyone lies and everyone hides secrets. Secrets that can kill.[4]

Though set within the world of the Night School novels, the web series presents new stories featuring the characters, rather than a straight adaptation of the books. [5]

Cast and characters

Main cast

Production

The project was announced in October 2014 [6]/. Filming took place between August and November 2014 in the south of England, with principal locations including Frensham Heights School near Farnham, Surrey.[7]/

Episodes

No. in
series		 No. in
season		 Title Directed by Written by Release date
11"Flashback"Jack JewersCJ Daugherty & Jack JewersDecember 12, 2014 (2014-12-12)
The pilot episode begins with Allie and a junior student, Eleanor Crawley, walking across the beautiful and serene grounds of a private boarding school. Eleanor is eagerly asking about her background and how she ended up here. In flashback we see Allie as she was a year ago, in thick makeup and jeans with her heavily pierced friend Mark. Together they trash their inner London school, spray painting the walls, destroying a classroom, until they are finally arrested. Flash forward again. Her criminal past only makes Allie even more of a rock star in Eleanor's eyes. As the girls enter the school, we see the enormous gothic edifice of Cimmeria Academy for the first time.
22"The Other One"Jack JewersCJ DaughertyDecember 19, 2014 (2014-12-19)
In this episode we're introduced to brooding heart-throb Carter West. He got the girl, then he lost the girl again to French rival Sylvain Cassel. Now Carter explains just how he blew it with Allie. How sorry he is about it. And how he'd give anything for just one more chance.
33"Power"Jack JewersCJ DaughertyDecember 26, 2014 (2014-12-26)
Ruthless Nathaniel St John has only given one interview in his life. It was this one. In Parliament, where a TV crew comes to meet him. The questions grow increasingly hostile as the interviewer realises what Nathaniel is telling him -- that the government isn't really in charge of the country. People like him are...
44"The Gilmore Girl"Jack JewersCJ DaughertyJanuary 2, 2015 (2015-01-02)
In this episode, mean girl Katie Gilmore gets to tell her side of the story. Why she hated Allie. And why she 'gave up the mean girl act and joined the good guys.'
55"All the Pretty Killers"Jack JewersCJ DaughertyJanuary 9, 2015 (2015-01-09)
In this episode, Allie dreams of her lost best friend, Jo Arringford. Allie gets to ask her the questions she longs to know the answers to: 'Does it hurt?' 'Are you happy?' But the dream turns into a nightmare... As it does every time...
66"Bang"Jack JewersCJ DaughertyJanuary 16, 2015 (2015-01-16)
In the season finale, Allie explains why she's so angry. Meanwhile, the forces of evil are stirring...

Reception

Night School was covered widely in the UK media on its release, with some international coverage too. The response was positive. The Guardian ran a front page story on the series[8][9] and hosted the first episode.[10] The US-based Daily Dot headlined their coverage "Watch Night School if You Want to Keep Up With the Tweens in Your Life" and described the series as "a heads-up as to what your younger sister or daughter will be talking about in a few weeks.".[11] Teen publications such as Maximum Pop!,[12] Sugarscape,[13] and Top of the Pops[14] covered the series extensively, with positive reviews.

The US-based Indie Series Network (originators of the Indie Soap Awards) named Night School the best web series in the world in its weekly poll of independently-produced web series three times, for Power,[15] All the Pretty Killers,[16] and Bang,[17] and nominated a fourth time for The Gilmore Girl.[18] The same polls named Danny Carmel best actor;[19] and Jodie Hirst[20] and Jessica Sargent[21] best actress.

The series had extensive coverage in the regional UK media, including the Eastern Daily Press,[22] the Southern Daily Echo,[23] Get Surrey,[24] the Bournemouth Echo[25] and the Belfast Telegraph.[26] BBC Radio and London Live[27] broadcast news features and interviews about the series.

Night School was an official selection at the Marseille Web Fest,[28] NYC Web Fest,[29] Washington D.C. Web Fest[30] and Dublin Web Fest.[31] In February 2016 Night School was nominated for five awards at the Indie Series Network Awards in Los Angeles.[32]

References

  1. ↑ "Night School Web Series". CJ Daugherty.com. October 13, 2014. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
  2. ↑ "UKYA's First Ever Web Series Based on a YA Book". Guardian.com. December 12, 2014. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
  3. ↑ "UKYA's First Ever Web Series Based on a YA Book". Guardian.com. December 12, 2014. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  4. ↑ 18, 2015 "Start Watching Night School if You Want to Keep Up With the Tweens in Your Life" Check |url= value (help). The Daily Dot. December 13, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Author CJ Daugherty on Adapting Books for the Web". Guardian.com. December 5, 2014. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Night School Web Series". CJ Daugherty.com. October 13, 2014. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Grace Parry Talks About All Things Gilmore". The Pewter Wolf. January 3, 2015. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  8. ↑ "UKYA's First Ever Web Series Based on a YA Book". The Guardian. December 12, 2014. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Teen Book Series: First Webisode". The Guardian (Screen Capture). December 12, 2014. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  10. ↑ "UKYA's First Ever Web Series Based on a YA Book". Guardian.com. December 12, 2014. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  11. ↑ 18, 2015 "Start Watching Night School if You Want to Keep Up With the Tweens in Your Life" Check |url= value (help). The Daily Dot. December 13, 2014.
  12. ↑ "Watch Episode 2 of Night School: the Web Series - Carter Gets His Nipples Out and Shows His Soft Side". Maximum Pop. December 19, 2014. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Watch the Chilling Final Episode of the YouTube Adaptation of Night School by CJ Daugherty". Sugarscape. January 16, 2014. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  14. ↑ "Ghostly Night School Haunts the Web". Top of the Pops Magazine. December 16, 2014. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  15. ↑ "Web Series of the Week Results Dec 21-27". Indie Series Network. January 2, 2015. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  16. ↑ "Web Series of the Week Results Jan 4-10". Indie Series Network. January 16, 2015. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  17. ↑ "Web Series of the Week Results Jan 11-17". Indie Series Network. January 23, 2015. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
  18. ↑ "Web Series of the Week Results December 28th 2014-Januard 3rd 2015". Indie Series Network. January 10, 2015. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  19. ↑ "Web Series of the Week Results Dec 21-27". Indie Series Network. January 2, 2015. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  20. ↑ "Web Series of the Week Results Jan 4-10". Indie Series Network. January 16, 2015. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  21. ↑ "Web Series of the Week Results Jan 11-17". Indie Series Network. January 23, 2015. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
  22. ↑ "Norfolk Actress Stars in Web Series Proving a Hit Online". Eastern Daily Press. January 12, 2015. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  23. ↑ "Hampshire Actress to Star in New Series Based on Novels". Southern Daily Echo. January 12, 2015. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  24. ↑ "Farnham Author CJ Daugherty Talks Night School". Get Surrey. January 8, 2015. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  25. ↑ "How YouTube Helped 2014's Fastest Selling Book". Bournemouth Echo. December 19, 2014. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  26. ↑ "How Zoella Has Brought the Internet to Book Book". Bournemouth Echo. December 20, 2014. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  27. ↑ "Night School Books to Become YouTube Series". London Live. December 12, 2014. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  28. ↑ http://www.marseillewebfest.com/en/category/edition2015-en/
  29. ↑ http://nycwebfest.com/
  30. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/DCWebFest/posts/1143919132294736
  31. ↑ http://dublinwebfest.com/2015/09/dubwebfest-official-selection/
  32. ↑ http://www.indieseriesawards.com/2016/02/nominations-announced-for-7th-annual.html
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