4 O'Clock Club
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| Genre |
Children's drama Musical comedy Family sitcom |
| Created by |
Paul Rose Doc Brown |
| Starring | see Cast section |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 5 (2 upcoming) |
| No. of episodes | 62 (26 to be aired) (List of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Connal Orton |
| Running time | 27–28 minutes |
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| Original network |
CBBC CBBC HD |
| Original release | 13 January 2012 – present |
4 O'Clock Club is a BAFTA nominated British children's television series, which premiered on 13 January 2012 on CBBC and BBC HD. A second series began airing on 4 January 2013, and the third series premiered on 20 December 2013. Series 4 began airing on 28 January 2015 and series 5 Began airing on CBBC and CBBC HD on 25 February 2016
A fifth series has been commissioned, and was filmed between June 2015 and August 2015. A sixth was commissioned, and will air on 2 March 2017. A further seventh series has been commissioned.
In March 2011, auditions were held for 4 O'Clock Club, and the show was publicly announced the next month. In January 2012, the first episode aired, with the series wrapping up in March of the same year.
The first series centres on Josh Carter (Khalil Madovi), a pupil at Elmsbury High, and his older brother Nathan (Doc Brown), who works as a teacher there. Josh is portrayed as a laid-back teenage schoolboy trying to maintain his cool reputation, while also being rebellious and trying to cause trouble in order to achieve his goals and humiliate or outsmart Nathan. Nathan, former Elmsbury High student and famous rapper, soon learns that only he will able to stop Josh from his schemes.
In the second series, Nathan leaves Elmsbury and new music teacher Dexter Harris (Jason Callender) joins the school. Dexter becomes Josh and his mother's new lodger, taking Josh's room as a result. As such, Josh antagonizes Dexter through much of the series, until he finally accepts his presence and labels him as an "honorary Carter brother". The series also featured Crispin Bell (Simon Lowe) as the new headmaster, who replaces Byron, and proved to be far stricter than Byron. Mr Thorne was a brutal enemy of Josh and Dexter for the remainder of the series.
The third series featured Nathan's proposal and marriage to Melanie Poppy (Laura Aikman), who both departed the series, and Josh is forced to share his room with his annoying younger cousin, Nero (Akai Osei). When the school burns down due to an issue with candles, Elmsbury is merged with another school, Fowlmere, renaming the school Elmsmere as of the fourth episode of the third series. After the series, Nero and his gang, Isaac (who was still a pupil), Ash, Mr Nunn and Mr Harris all starred in Mr Bell's own Elmsmere documentary show, known as 4 O'Clock Files.
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