Davey & Jonesie's Locker

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Davey & Jonesie's Locker
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Created by Evany Rosen
Starring
Country of origin
  • Canada
  • United States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes10
Production
Executive producers
  • Mark J.W. Bishop
  • Matt Hornburg
  • Diane Rankin
  • Carrie Paupst Shaughnessy
  • A.J. Trauth
  • Evany Rosen
[1]
Production companyMarblemedia
Original release
Network
ReleaseMarch 22, 2024 (2024-03-22)

Davey & Jonesie's Locker is a science fiction teen comedy television series created by Evany Rosen and co-commissioned by Amazon Prime Video and Hulu. The series stars Veronika Slowikowska and Jaelynn Thora Brooks as two high school students who discover that their locker is a portal to the multiverse. [2] [3]

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Premise

Davey (Slowikowska) and Jonesie (Brooks) are outcast best friends at Schrödinger High School who discover that their locker contains a portal to the multiverse. Built by their science teacher, Mr. Schneider, the portal transports the girls to alternate versions of their high school.

Along the way, Davey and Jonesie are chased by the Delinquent Acquisition Deputy (D.A.D) from the Management Organisation of the Multiverse (M.O.M), which aims to put them in the Detention Dimension and wipe the girls' memories of each other. [4]

Cast and characters

Production

Filming

In June 2023, Variety reported that Marblemedia had wrapped production on the series, which was shot in Toronto. [2]

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