House of Anubis | |
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Genre |
Teen drama Mystery Soap opera |
Created by | Hans Bourlon & Gert Verhulst |
Written by |
Diane Whitley Bede Blake Neil Jones Nathan Cockerill James Whitehouse Hannah George Paul Gerstenberger Alison Greenaway Jodi Reynolds Davey Moore Tim Compton |
Directed by | Angelo Abela Peter Fearon Graeme Harper Tessa Hoffe Tim Hopewell Tom Poole Tracey Rooney Gill Wilkinson |
Starring |
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Theme music composer | Rob Cairnes Tony Morales |
Country of origin |
Belgium United Kingdom United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 190 (+ 90-minute TV special) (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Anja Van Mensel Tony Wood |
Producer(s) | Susie Liggat (series 1) Edward Pugh (series 2) Lucy Martin (series 3) Angelo Abela (series 3) |
Location(s) | Liverpool |
Editor(s) | David Mercer David Long Les Healey Pauline Cain Mark Doran |
Camera setup | Videotape; Single-camera |
Running time | 23 minutes (consisting of two 11-minute segments; Seasons 1–2; Season 3: Eps. 13-present) 46 minutes (consisting of two 23-minute segments; Season 3: Eps. 1–12) |
Production company(s) |
Studio 100 Lime Pictures Nickelodeon Productions |
Distributor | Nickelodeon |
Release | |
Original network |
Nickelodeon (2011–2013) TeenNick (2013) |
Picture format |
1080i (HDTV) 480i (SDTV) |
Original release | 1 January 2011 | – 17 June 2013
Chronology | |
Related shows |
Anubis Unlocked Het Huis Anubis Het Huis Anubis en de Vijf van het Magische Zwaard Das Haus Anubis |
External links | |
Website |
House of Anubis is a British-American-Belgian mystery television series developed for Nickelodeon based on the Dutch-Belgian television series Het Huis Anubis. The series was created by Hans Bourlon and Gert Verhulst and premiered on Nickelodeon on 1 January 2011 in the United States and on 25 February 2011 in the United Kingdom. The series is the first series from the network to be filmed outside the United States and the first soap opera for the network. The show aired from 1 January 2011 to 17 June 2013.
Anubis House is a residence at an English boarding school dating from the early 1900s, and currently serving as a home for nine kids under the watch of the boarding school's strict caretaker, Victor Rodenmaar Jr (Francis Magee). As an American girl named Nina Martin (Nathalia Ramos) moves into Anubis House, another resident, Joy Mercer (Klariza Clayton), suddenly disappears without a warning and the school staff eliminate all traces of Joy's existence. Joy's best friend, Patricia Williamson (Jade Ramsey), is dismayed to learn this and accuses Nina of being involved with her disappearance. Forced to spend a night in the attic, Nina makes a bizarre discovery: the recorded diary of a young girl whom she met earlier as an old woman, Sarah Frobisher-Smythe (Rita Davies), who had lived in the house long ago. On the tapes, it is revealed the house has a secret history, a mystery that nobody knows anything about. Sarah has given Nina an Eye of Horus-shaped necklace with mysterious powers revealed to Nina when she decides to investigate the house's mystery, alongside her new friend Fabian Rutter (Brad Kavanagh) and new roommate Amber Millington (Ana Mulvoy Ten). They form a secret group called "Sibuna" (Anubis backwards) whose popularity expands to include Patricia, once she makes peace with Nina after learning that Joy's disappearance is connected to the house, and Alfie Lewis (Alex Sawyer), another classmate and prankster. Eventually, Jerome Clarke (Eugene Simon) joins in the mystery as well. Mara Jaffray (Tasie Lawrence), Mick Campbell (Bobby Lockwood), and Trudy Rehmann (Mina Anwar), the house mother, are oblivious to the mystery.