Nick Takes Over Your School

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Nick Takes Over Your School
Presented by Lizzie Trevan
Dave Lawson
No. of seasons7
Release
Original network Nickelodeon
Original releaseMarch 4, 1998 (1998-03-04) [1]  
2004 (2004)

Nick Takes Over Your School is the title of a Nickelodeon Australia reality show that ran from 1998 - 2004.

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Format

Nickelodeon Australia Personalities would visit schools around Australia, have a look around, and feature a game with kids vs. teachers. The teachers would generally lose, and kids were given pieces of Nickelodeon Merchandise. [2]

Host

Lizzie Trevan hosted the first six series. [3] In the seventh series of the show, Dave Lawson, a well known Nickelodeon Australia Personality, was the host.

Cancellation

After the seventh series of the show, Nickelodeon Australia decided to cancel "Nick Takes Over Your School" to focus more on "Sarvo" and "Saturday Nick Television". Saturday Nick Television was cancelled one year later.

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