iCarly | |
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Genre | Teen sitcom |
Created by | Dan Schneider |
Starring |
Miranda Cosgrove Jennette McCurdy Nathan Kress Jerry Trainor Noah Munck |
Theme music composer | Michael Corcoran |
Opening theme | "Leave It All to Me", sung by Miranda Cosgrove and Drake Bell |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 7 |
No. of episodes | 109 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Dan Schneider |
Producer(s) | Robin Weiner (supervising producer; co-executive producer season 5–7) Joe Catania Bruce Rand Berman (season 2–7) Jake Farrow (season 5–7) Matt Fleckenstein (season 5–7) Arthur Gradstein (season 5–7) |
Location(s) |
Nickelodeon on Sunset Hollywood, California (2007–2012) KTLA Studios Hollywood, California (2012) |
Camera setup | Videotape (filmized); Multi-camera |
Running time | 23 minutes (regular episode) |
Production company(s) |
Schneider's Bakery Nickelodeon Productions |
Distributor | Nickelodeon |
Release | |
Original network | Nickelodeon |
Picture format |
480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
Audio format | Stereo |
Original release | September 8, 2007 | – November 23, 2012
Chronology | |
Followed by | Sam & Cat |
External links | |
Website |
iCarly is an American teen sitcom that ran on Nickelodeon from September 8, 2007 until November 23, 2012. The series, created by Dan Schneider, focuses on teenager Carly Shay, who creates her own web show called iCarly with her best friends Sam Puckett and Freddie Benson. The show stars Miranda Cosgrove as Carly, Jennette McCurdy as Sam, Nathan Kress as Freddie, Jerry Trainor as Spencer, and Noah Munck as Gibby, and was taped at Nickelodeon on Sunset (season 1–5) and KTLA Studios (Season 6–7) in Hollywood, California. The show was nominated for an Emmy award for Outstanding Children's Program five times. The series finale, "iGoodbye", aired on November 23, 2012.
iCarly is the fourth series created by Dan Schneider for Nickelodeon. Schneider originally wanted to make a new TV series starring Miranda Cosgrove; the original idea was that she play a normal girl who, in a twist of fate, gets cast to star in her favorite TV show, Starstruck. However, during a casual meeting in his den with his wife and his friend Steve, Schneider decided that it would be much better if Carly had her own show – a web show she could run herself and do whatever she wanted to do. In November 2006, Schneider threw out his Starstruck script and wrote a new pilot called iCarly during December. The pilot was shot in January 2007.
During production of Zoey 101, Schneider came up with the idea of the show and its name with his friend and producer of The Big Bang Theory, Steven Molaro. He was trying to think of a good title for the new series about kids who start their own web show. The pilot script followed the lead girl's name was "Sam" but the URL for iSam was already taken. Schneider tried other girl's names and bought the URL for iJosie, but later switched to iCarly and loved the name for the lead character. The names of the two lead girls were then changed from Sam and Kira to Carly and Sam.