Atlantis High

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Atlantis High
Genre
Created by Raymond Thompson
Written by
  • Charles Hodges
  • Joe Boyle
  • Andy Smith
  • Tony Osborn
  • James Wyllie
  • Harry Duffin
  • David Fox
  • Mike Kenny
Directed by
Starring
Theme music composerRaymond Thompson
Opening theme"Sunset Cove"
The Tommy Loungerillo Orchestra
Ending theme"Sunset Cove"
The Tommy Loungerillo Orchestra
Country of origin
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes26
Production
Executive producerRaymond Thompson
ProducerDebra Kelleher-Smith
CinematographySean O'Donnell
Editors
  • Wayne Cook
  • Ben Sinclair
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running time25 minutes
Production companyCloud 9 Screen Entertainment Group
Release
Original network Channel 5 (UK)
Original release8 September 2001 (2001-09-08) 
2 March 2002 (2002-03-02)

Atlantis High is a teen comedy melodrama television series, [3] filmed in New Zealand, that aired on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom from September 2001 to March 2002. Atlantis High both parodies soap operas and pays homage to spoof television. [1]

Contents

Overview

The series revolves around 16-year-old Giles Gordon (Michael Wesley-Smith), who has just moved to Sunset Cove, "a beautiful coastal surfing town where the sun is always shining, the people are all beautiful and everything is perfect... or so it seems". [4] He enrolls in Atlantis High School, where he soon discovers that Sunset Cove is unlike any town he has ever seen: populated by double-agents, aliens and high school students with blue hair and pointy ears, its inhabitants are eccentric lunatics who at times turn into superheroes or other whimsical figures.

Cast and characters

Main

Recurring

Production

Atlantis High was produced by Cloud 9 Screen Entertainment, a British-owned company based in New Zealand. [2] Production on the series began in 2000 in Wellington, New Zealand. [5]

Broadcast

The series was commissioned, originally for 52 half-hour episodes, for broadcast in 2001 by Channel 5 in the United Kingdom. [1] Despite being filmed in New Zealand, the show was never aired on New Zealand's TV3. [2]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 James Gardiner (24 May 2003). "Kiwi TV 'success' is really British". The New Zealand Herald . Retrieved 2019-09-07.
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  4. "Atlantis High - Introduction". Archived from the original on 2007-03-10. Retrieved 2006-03-26.
  5. "Television in 2000: When newsreaders were the big news". The New Zealand Herald. 4 January 2001. Retrieved 2019-09-07. And Wellington-based Cloud 9 continued to successfully market The Tribe overseas and put a new teenage show, Atlantis High, into production.