Nikita (TV series)
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| Genre |
Drama Thriller Action Spy fiction Psychological Thriller |
| Created by |
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| Based on | La Femme Nikita |
| Developed by | Craig Silverstein |
| Starring |
Maggie Q Shane West Lyndsy Fonseca Aaron Stanford Ashton Holmes Tiffany Hines Melinda Clarke Xander Berkeley Dillon Casey Noah Bean Devon Sawa |
| Theme music composer | David E. Russo |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 73 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Craig Silverstein Danny Cannon McG Peter Johnson David Levinson |
| Producer(s) | Marc David Alpert Albert Kim Co-executive producer David Solomon (season 1) Co-producers Andrew Colville Kalinda Vazquez Associate James Hilton Consulting Juan Carlos Coto Supervising Amanda Segel |
| Location(s) |
Pinewood Toronto Studios Cambridge, Ontario, Canada Toronto, Ontario |
| Cinematography | David Stockton Glen Keenan Rene Ohashi |
| Editor(s) | Mark C. Baldwin Chris Peppe David Lebowitz Scott Boyd John Peter Bernardo |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 42 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Wonderland Sound and Vision Sesfonstein Productions Warner Bros. Television |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
| Release | |
| Original network | The CW |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
| Audio format | Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Original release | September 9, 2010 – December 27, 2013 |
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| Related shows |
Nikita (1990) Point of No Return (1993) La Femme Nikita (1997–2001) |
Nikita is an American television series that aired on The CW from September 9, 2010 to December 27, 2013 in the United States. The series is a reboot of the popular 1997 TV series La Femme Nikita (itself based on the 1990 Luc Besson film Nikita).
The series focuses on Nikita (Maggie Q), a woman who escaped from a secret government-funded organization known as "Division" and, after a three-year hiding period, is back to bring down the organization. The main cast in various seasons features Maggie Q, Lyndsy Fonseca, Shane West, Aaron Stanford, Melinda Clarke, Xander Berkeley, Noah Bean, Tiffany Hines, Ashton Holmes, Dillon Casey, and Devon Sawa.
The series focuses on Nikita Mears, a woman who escaped from a secret U.S. government-funded organization known as Division, and after spending three years in hiding, is back to bring Division down. Division, created and supervised by an organization called Oversight, is responsible for black operations including espionage, sabotage, and assassination. Under the leadership of its first Director and founding member, Percival "Percy" Rose, Division has gone rogue and performs under-the-table murder-for-hire. To protect himself, Percy has created a series of 'black boxes', hard drives containing every job Division has ever done, as leverage to prevent Oversight from removing him and/or ending Division. Percy's black boxes are hidden in secret locations around the world, under the protection of Guardians, high-ranking Division agents.
Division fills its ranks primarily by recruiting young people with troubled backgrounds, often directly from prison. Division fakes the recruits' deaths, erases all evidence of their past lives, and molds them into efficient spies and assassins. The recruits generally do not have the freedom to leave the agency. Recruits may be "cancelled" (killed) if their progress is deemed unsatisfactory, and to this end, Division implants the recruits with tracking devices as well as kill chips.
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