House of Anubis is a jointly Nickelodeon British, American, and Belgian mystery television series based on the Dutch-Belgian television series Het Huis Anubis aired in the Netherlands and Belgium. The series was created by Hans Bourlon and Gert Verhulst and premiered on Nickelodeon on New Year's Day 2011 in the United States and on 25 February 2011 in the United Kingdom. The series is the first Nickelodeon series to be filmed outside the United States, the first soap opera created by Nickelodeon and the channel's first soap opera aimed at children and teenagers (sixth in Latin America).
Plot
Anubis House is a residence at an English boarding school dating from the early 1900s, and currently serving as a home for nine kids under the watch of the boarding school's strict caretaker, Victor Rodenmaar Jr (Francis Magee). As an American girl named Nina Martin (Nathalia Ramos) moves into Anubis House in England, another resident named Joy Mercer (Klariza Clayton), suddenly disappears without a warning and the school staff eliminate all trace of Joy's existence from the school. Joy's best friend, Patricia Williamson (Jade Ramsey) is dismayed to learn this and accuses Nina of being involved with her disappearance. Forced to spend a night in the attic, Nina makes a bizarre discovery: the recorded diary of a young girl who she met earlier as an old woman, Sarah Frobisher-Smythe (Rita Davies), who had lived in the house long ago. On the tapes, it is revealed the house has a secret history, a mystery that nobody knows anything about. Sarah has given Nina an Eye of Horus-shaped necklace with mysterious powers revealed to Nina when she decides to investigate the house's mystery alongside her new friend Fabian Rutter (Brad Kavanagh) and new roommate Amber Millington (Ana Mulvoy Ten). They form a secret group called "Sibuna", (Anubis backwards) whose popularity expands to include Patricia, once she makes peace with Nina, and after learning that Joy's disappearance is connected to the house, and Alfie Lewis (Alex Sawyer), another classmate and prankster. Eventually, Jerome Clarke (Eugene Simon) joins in the mystery as well. The other residents are oblivious to the mystery; Mara Jaffray (Tasie Lawrence), Mick Campbell (Bobby Lockwood), and Trudy (Mina Anwar), the house mother.
During the events of the first season, the Sibuna group learns that Victor is the son of Victor Rodenmaar Sr, Sarah's childhood guardian, who was after what is revealed to be the Cup of Ankh that gives immortality to anyone who drinks from it. Furthermore, Victor is the current leader of a secret Society dedicated to finding the cup in order to obtain immortality and at odds with a former Society member named Rufus Zeno who wants the Cup for himself. Joy has disappeared because of this group who believe her to be the Chosen One. The first season ends when Nina is revealed to be the real Chosen One as Rufus drinks what he thought was Victor's life-extending elixir before seemingly destroying the Cup. But the Cup is revealed not to have been burned as Nina hides it.
In Season 2, Mick leaves Anubis House and moves to Australia, and a new student named Eddie Miller (Burkely Duffield) joins their dorm. Eddie is later revealed to be Edison Sweet, Mr. Sweet's American son. Eddie begins dating Patricia. Nina and Sibuna are forced into helping an evil Egyptian woman, Senkhara, to find a relic called the Mask of Anubis, which is located a series of chambers under the house. This mask, when worn by the Chosen One, weeps tears of gold that are needed to create the elixir of life. Victor attempts to get the Mask with the aid of the new housemother, Vera Devenish, who is secretly working for Rufus Zeno after he faked his death. If Sibuna doesn't get the mask Nina will die. In the end, after the Mask is found, it is revealed that Eddie is the Osirian, the protector of the Chosen One, as he saves Nina from being possessed by Senkhara, when Rufus gets sucked into a flame-filled abyss. Joy is also knocked unconscious by Nina when Nina is possessed by Senkhara. Though Victor is forced to use the mask's tears to heal Joy, his father's ring that he received from Nina contained a tear of gold. In the end Fabian and Nina get back together, as well as Amber and Alfie, and Jerome and Mara begin dating.
In Season 3, a new teacher Miss Denby (Susy Kane) comes to the school and seems to hang out with Victor and Mr. Sweet often. New characters K. T. Rush (Alexandra Shipp) and Willow Jenks (Louisa Connolly-Burnham) comes to the school. Eddie has a vision of K. T.'s dying grandfather giving her a key and telling her to go to Anubis House. Eddie and K. T. do some snooping around the house while Fabian tries to decipher a series of codes mistakenly given to Amber. When Amber leaves for fashion school, Sibuna is revived with Eddie as a leader and Fabian, K. T., Patricia and Alfie as members. They find out that the adults are trying to reawaken a sleeping Frobisher, with Denby being the "Keeper" - she keeps Frobisher in the tank room in the Gatehouse, her home on the school property, Victor being the "Enabler" and Mr. Sweet being the "Seeker". It turns out that Miss Harriet Denby's name is actually Caroline. Her sister is actually Harriet - and the original Keeper. However, she is locked in a mental hospital because of her sister. It turns out that K. T. is the great-granddaughter of Frobisher. Jerome, Joy, Alfie and Patricia are the descendants of Frobisher's friends and are needed for the ceremony, but because of Caroline Denby lying about her identity, Frobisher is reawakened evil.
Everybody thinks that the ceremony didn't work out since Sibuna intervened just in time, but when Caroline goes to the Gatehouse to pack her bags, she meets Frobisher, who is reawakened and evil. Caroline does not tell Eric Sweet or Victor about this. He explains to Caroline that he needs to capture five sinning people for Ammut at midnight or noon, so that they could become evil. The sinners captured are Victor, Patricia, Mr. Sweet, Fabian and Alfie. Ammut rises, but needs more souls. She gives Frobisher a book that easily captures people's souls.. A fake assembly is organized as an attempt to capture more souls. Willow is the only person who didn't become a sinner. Willow, Eddie and K. T. are chased by Frobisher and the soul-less students but Harriet comes to the rescue with a stolen ambulance. She explains that Willow didn't become a sinner because she had K. T.'s moon key, and that Ammut can be sent back with Caroline's sun key and K.T.'s moon key. Willow becomes a sinner when she and K. T. try to steal the key, after Harriet slipped the moon key into K. T.'s pocket. In the end, Ammut is sent back, devouring Caroline. Frobisher is not evil again and old. All the sinners are back to normal, and don't remember what happened during the time they were sinners. Willow doesn't even remember the short time that she was good, so she forgot about the whole mystery. The Sibunas, of course, are told by Eddie and K. T. about what happened. Frobisher and Harriet set off for Egypt, and Jerome and Joy finally get together after a lot of drama, involving Jerome cheating on Mara and Willow. Mara and Fabian flirt. The group enjoys a fireworks display.
House of Anubis: Touchstone of Ra
House of Anubis: Touchstone of Ra is a special which was released a few months after the third season finale.
In the movie, the kids are graduating and four freshmen move into the house - Cassie, Erin, Dexter and Sophia. After a trip to the museum, the kids have to deal with a mysterious stone and Sophia - who turns out to be an evil servant of Ra. Sophia wants to complete the Pyramid of Ra with the Touchstone, but Victor and the kids work together to stop her. Victor says it was his "destiny" to prevent the pyramid from being built. Sophia fails and is turned to stone as a punishment from Ra, but Eddie loses his Osirion powers. Victor leaves the house and the students have a graduation party.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Supporting cast
Episodes
Anubis Unlocked
Anubis Unlocked is a behind the scenes show of the House of Anubis which is aired in and produced by Nickelodeon UK. 10 episodes were commissioned for Series 1 which featured cast interviews, behind the scenes clips, tour of the set and exclusive previews. There was no series commissioned for Series 2 of House of Anubis however a short segment aired at the end of the series. The series was re-commissioned for Series 3. The show was presented by Anna Williamson and Jamie Rickers in Series 1 only.
Production and development
Production began in August 2009, but in March 2010 Studio 100 announced that the series was sold to Nickelodeon in the United States. The series was filmed in the summer of 2010 in Liverpool and was first broadcast in the United States on 1 January 2011.
The series is the first original series produced for the flagship U.S. Nickelodeon channel to be produced outside of North America, and is Nickelodeon's first original drama series since the 2000-2002 series Caitlin's Way. The series is structured in a different manner from other live-action television series in that each episode consists of two eleven-minute segments, a format commonly used in half-hour animated series (although the events of each subsequent segment pick up from the events of the previous segment); and the series' episodes are formatted to be broadcast in the five-day-a-week format that is typically common with soap operas.
On 10 March 2011, Nickelodeon confirmed that they will make a new season of House of Anubis at its annual Upfront presentation to advertisers and media. On 29 June, Entertainment Weekly reported that Nickelodeon had confirmed a second season of House of Anubis and that production would begin on 21 July 2011. A total of 45 half-hour episodes (90, 15-minute episodes) were aired in 2012.
On 16 April 2012, a third season was confirmed by Nickelodeon and Lime Pictures. Nathalia Ramos (who plays Nina Martin) will not be returning for the third season so she can focus on finishing college. Eugene Simon (who plays Jerome Clarke) confirmed that filming of the third season will begin in the summer of 2012.
On 16 July 2012, Nickelodeon (UK & Ireland) announced on their Twitter page and the website's blog that filming of season 3 would begin that month. Bobby Lockwood (who played Mick Campbell) announced on his Twitter page he would not be returning for the third season but, announced he had a new show coming out called Wolfblood on CBBC. It was announced on the House of Anubis Facebook page that there would be a new character named KT Rush, who was played by Alexandra Shipp.
On 26 July 2012, it was also announced on the Facebook page that there will be another new character named Willow, who would be played by Louisa Connolly-Burnham.
After the finale of the third season and the movie special, as of January 2014 Nickelodeon has not announced a fourth season. But on 18 December 2013, director Tim Hopewell hinted towards a possible fourth season in the making via Twitter.
The series was filmed in Liverpool with Ye Priory Court standing in for Anubis House, and Peckforton Castle Lodge, located in Chester, standing in for the gatehouse.
Reception
Critical reception
Youth Television News praised the series, commending Nickelodeon's attempt at a drama series, saying "a good story always outdoes a repetitive sitcom."
Audience reception
The hour-long series premiere on 1 January 2011 was watched by an average of 2.9 million viewers for the first two episodes. The series scored a 4.0 share (846,000 viewers) among teens 11-17, a 4.4 share (952,000 viewers) among kids 11-15 and a 3.5 share (1.2 million) among kids 11-18, ranking #1 amongst all broadcast and basic cable programs in its timeslot in all pre-teen and teen demographics.
Ratings
Series 1: 2011
Season 2: 2012 (US Viewers)
Season 2: 2012 UK Viewers
Season 3: 2013 - The Reawakening (US Viewers)
Awards and nominations
References
External links
- Official website
- House of Anubis at the Internet Movie Database
- House of Anubis at TV.com
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