iCarly

iCarly. Season 1. (2007-2008). Nickelodeon Studios.

Review:

iCarly is a 30-minute tween sitcom which centers around the life of Carly Shay, her sassy best friend Sam, and her admirer and neighbor Freddie. When the girls play a prank on a teacher, their punishment is to help the school conduct and record the talent show try-outs. Freddie helps record and ends up posting Carly and Sam's antics online, where the audience calls for more. The group realizes that they could have a popular webcast on their hands, so they turn the third floor of the loft Carly shares with her older brother and guardian into a recording studio and begin producing iCarly, a webcast featuring teens showing off their talents.

Opinion:

iCarly is a typical tween sitcom, with stock characters, rather unrealistic situations and silly humor, but it's cute. I think that it is interesting that the show focuses on the digital life of tweens who are generally much more tech savvy than the older generation. While the premise is a bit silly, the depiction of tech behavior of tweens is rather realistic.

Ideas:
I'd love to use this show as a springboard for having tweens script, record, edit and post their own digital videos.