iCarly makes its series return on Paramount+, after almost 10 years since its original run on Nickelodeon TV.
The original iCarly series was made by Dan Schneider and aired from 2007-2012. It followed eighth-grader Carly Shay (Miranda Cosgrove) as the host of viral web show iCarly. The show was made after she went to detention and was forced to watch talent show auditions. Carly lived alone with her older brother Spencer (Jerry Trainor) while their father was in the Air Force. The show was hosted with her best friend Sam (Jeanette McCurdy) and her neighbour Freddie (Nathan Kress).
In the 2021 reboot, Carly is now a 26-year-old college graduate living with her best friend Harper, played by Laci Mosley. Spencer is now a wealthy artist, after accidental art-world fame. Freddie has moved back in with his mum following a failed tech start-up and is also a step-father to Millicent, played by Jaidyn Triplett.
While the original series was aimed at children, Trainor and Kress told Page Six that there would be content for adults,
“This is an adult show and it’s not specifically for kids, and that’s been exciting for us — to just see where these characters from a kid’s show would be and where they are in their life now, 10 years later. But in a very realistic, non-glossy way.”
While Jeanette McCurdy was contacted to appear in the reboot, she mentioned in her podcast Fish out of Water that she had quit acting a few years prior. She described acting as “hellish” due to various business proceedings and the “toxicity of the environments that I was in.”
Dan Schneider is also absent from the reboot, despite being the original showrunner.
Check out the trailer for the series below: