A Revival Of 'Zoey 101' Will Take The Form Of A Movie Thanks To Paramount+
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Have you seen all the things that you could be? Follow Paramount+ as production has begun on a revival movie for Nickelodeon's hit live-action series Zoey 101. It's filming in North Carolina and is expected to premiere later this year. The film, which was also reportedly in Paramount’s 2023 content roadmap, has the working title Zoey 102. Set in present-day years after the original series, the alums return to Pacific Coast Academy for a wedding, so that working title probably won’t stick.
Not only is Jamie Lynn Spears returning as Zoey Brooks, but she's executive producing. Other returning cast members include Sean Flynn as Chase Matthews, Erin Sanders as Quinn Pensky, Christopher Massey as Michael Barret, Matthew Underwood as Logan Reese, Abby Wilde as Stacey Dillsen, and Jack Salvatore as Mark Del Figgalo. While the absence of Alexa Nikolas as Nicole is most obvious due to highly publicized issues with Spears and other traumas, Victoria Justice, who played Lola Martinez, has chosen not to return. The also-absent Paul Butcher, who played younger brother Dustin, and Kristin Herrera, who played season 1 roommate Dana, may have easier in-story reasons as to why they aren’t present. Then there’s the absent Austin Butler, who played James Garrett in the show's fourth season, whose star power has skyrocketed with his Golden Globe-winning portrayal of Elvis Presley in Elvis.
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Zoey 101 was created by Dan Schneider and premiered on Nickelodeon in January 2005, about the first class of girls going to the formerly boys-only boarding school Pacific Coast Academy. From there, it's about the girls and their friends just going through teenagerdom while living at the school. It ran for four seasons and 61 episodes, ending in May 2008. Since then, at least about the show, there have been two instances of reunions. The first was 2015's "What Did Zoey Say?", a short featuring Flynn and Massey as Chase and Michael that served as a follow-up to the "Time Capsule" episode. The second was a 2020 episode of All That's revival season which happened to be that show’s 200th episode. This reunion did include Herrera and Butcher. Spears also released a music video for a remix of the show's theme song a few months later.
The announcement comes as Workaholics had its continuation movie canceled five weeks before production was set to begin. It also follows in the footsteps of the iCarly revival, which will premiere its third season later this year, both considered part of the service’s push into the Young Adult demographic. It also goes on without creator Dan Schneider since his departure from Nickelodeon in 2018. This film will be directed by Nancy Hower from a script by Monica Sherer & Madeline Whitby. Alexis Fisher is listed as another executive producer with Spears, Hower, and Sherer & Whitby. Nickelodeon has never been a stranger to reviving its properties, as this follows recent revival movies made for Hey Arnold!, Invader Zim, and Rocko’s Modern Life.
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