N1ckola

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N1ckola
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Also known asn1ckola, the lonelygirl15 universe
Genre Video blog, Drama
Developed by EQAL
Agora SA
A2 Multimedia
Written byJakub Kossakowski
Maura Ładosz
Zdzisław Miśkiewicz
Andrzej Staszczyk
StarringAnia Narloch
Bartek Picher
Konrad Marszałek
Julia Trębacz
Jakub Krawczyk
Anna Kordus
Country of originPoland
United Kingdom
Original languagesPolish
English
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes101
Production
Executive producerMarcin Męczkowski
Producers Miles Beckett
Greg Goodfried
Amanda Goodfried
Kamil Przłęcki
James R. Sterling
Production locations London, England
Wałbrzych, Poland
Wrocław, Poland
Running timeVaries from 0 to 9 minutes
Original release
Network TV4
ReleaseJanuary 26 (2009-01-26) 
June 30, 2009 (2009-06-30)
Related
lonelygirl15
KateModern
LG15: The Resistance
LG15: The Last
LG15: Outbreak

N1ckola is a Polish webseries based on the lonelygirl15 Universe. It was produced by EQAL, Agora SA, and A2 Multimedia and began in 2009. [1] [2] [3] According to Greg Goodfried and Miles Beckett of EQAL, the show "blends reality, documentary, and fiction. It was always our hope to expand the LG15 Universe into new countries through full-format licensing deals like this one with Agora. N1ckola is the perfect example of a business model we'd like to replicate in the future in even more countries." [4]

Contents

N1ckola debuted on its own network, N1ckola.pl, on January 26, 2009, with show sponsors including Microsoft and Hasbro. [5] Its first season lasted for one hundred videos, and ended with the video "Landsteiner" on June 30, 2009. It has been announced that a second season will take place, but it is not known when yet. [6] Season 1 was repackaged into longer episodes and appeared on Polish television in the summer of 2009. [7]

N1ckola was the fourth show in EQAL's popular LG15 Franchise, and also EQAL's first business venture in a language other than English. [8]

Cast of characters

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References

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