The Sleepover Club
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The Sleepover Club is a series of children’s books by author Rose Impey, and a children’s television program based on the series. Whereas the book is set in England, the television show is set in the Australian beachside suburb of Crescent Bay (a fictional place). The program revolves around five young girls who are part of a club in which they sleepover at each others' houses at least once a week.
Along with the everyday issues that plague pre-teen girls such as school projects, makeovers and boys the members of the club also have to worry about their arch-rivals the M&Ms, Matthew, Michael and Marco, intent on spoiling the girls' fun. The series is based on the books by Rose Impey. In the books the girls are 10 years old and live in Cuddington, Leicester. The M&M's are two girls named Emma Hughes and Emily Berryman.
The television show is produced by Wark Clements Burberry Production, in association with Rialto Films, with the assistance of the Pacific Film and Television Commission for ITV Network United Kingdom, Nickelodeon United Kingdom and Nine Network Australia. It is distributed internationally by Southern Star Sales.
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[edit] The Girls
Francesca (Frankie) Thomas
Francesca Thomas (Caitlin Stasey) is the self-appointed leader of the sleepover club. Although a great friend to the girls her bossiness becomes an issue on more than one occasion.
Rosie Cartwright
Rosie Cartwright (Eliza Taylor-Cotter) is a young English girl and the newest member of the sleepover club. She and her family moved to Australia after the death of her mother. A prank pulled on the M&Ms sees her inducted into the club.
Felicity (Fliss) Sidebotham
Felicity Sidebotham (Ashleigh Chisholm), a young fashion purist, is in love with the cutest boy in school, Ryan Scott. She is the ditsy blond in the club who often tends to speak before thinking. In the show it is revealed that her father left the Sidebotham family three years ago.
Kendra (Kenny) Tam
Kendra Tam (Hannah Wang) is the sporty member of the club. She takes part in all sorts of physical activities from soccer to athletics and displays her affection for the Manchester United football team.In the book series,Laura Mackenzie is the sporty member of the group,not Kendra Tam.
Lyndsey (Lyndz) Collins
Lyndsey Collins (Basia A'Hern) is a lover of horses and sister to Michael Collins, one of the M&Ms. She and her family moved from England to Australia six years ago.
[edit] The M & Ms
The group that the girls consider their sworn enemies consist of leader Matthew McDougal(Ryan Corr), Marco de Pieri (Stefan La Rosa) and Michael Collins (Blake Hampson), who is also Lyndsey's brother.
[edit] Recurring Characters
Sara and Alana
Sara (Annalise Woods) and Alana (Ashleigh Brewer) are two girls who love to mock the sleepover club and their affairs. Throughout the course of the show it is discovered that Sara is in fact jealous that she was never allowed to join the club. This results in her trying everything in her power to be accepted.
Mr. Stefanopolis (Mr. S)
Mr. Stefanopolis played by Vince D'Amico is the Greek owner of the Beach Hut Cafe in which the girls spend most of their time. He frequently jokes with the girls and they are kind of friends. He even hosts one of their sleepovers when his Greek niece comes to stay with him.
Ms. Nickels
Ms. Nickels (Emma Skelton) is the girls’ clumsy class teacher. During the show she shows interest in Rosie’s father.
Mr. Bilton
Mr. Bilton (Peter Rasmussen) is the P.E teacher at the girls’ schools. Due to his physical fitness the girls have dubbed him Mr. Biceps.
Ryan Scott
Ryan Scott (Craig Marriott) is Fliss's longtime crush and, according to her, the cutest guy at school.
Callum Sidebotham
Callum Sidebotham (Trent Sullivan) is the younger brother of Fliss. He's always eating and thinks the sleepover club is silly.
Molly Tam
Molly Tam (Hannah Ling) is the mean older sister of Kenny. She wants to spoil every sleepover held at Kenny's house.
[edit] Series One
Episode List
- Episode 1 – The Perfect Match
- Episode 2 – Scary Movie
- Episode 3 – Beach Hut
- Episode 4 – Fearlotto
- Episode 5 – The Great Debate
- Episode 6 – Happy Birthday, Rosie
- Episode 7 – Starring
- Episode 8 – Makeover
- Episode 9 – Changing Rooms
- Episode 10 – Swim Carnival
- Episode 11 – Car Wash
- Episode 12 – Outdoor Trip
- Episode 13 – Fight For Kenny
- Episode 14 – Third Time Unlucky
- Episode 15 – Election
- Episode 16 – Shoot to win
- Episode 17 – Horseback
- Episode 18 – Family Ties
- Episode 19 – Agony Aunt
- Episode 20 – The Winning Ticket
- Episode 21 – Blind Date
- Episode 22 – Greek Sleepover
- Episode 23 – Price of Success
- Episode 24 – Trapped
- Episode 25 – Graffiti
- Episode 26 – End Of an Era
[edit] Series Two
Has finished production,in Perth, Western Australia.
Series one actor, Caitlin Stasey will appear in one episode as 'Frankie' but no other Season 1 cast members will be in the show. Cast members include Katie Nazer-Hennings, Monique Williams, Morgan Griffin, Manu Bains, Ruby Hall and Julia O’Connor.
The new M and M's for this series are now called the 'Blockheads'. James Bell will play 'Jason Bloch' (that's why they're called the Blockheads), Nathan Coenen will play 'Simon' and Shannon Lively will play 'Declan'.
Trailer Series 2 hosted in YouTube.
The Sleepover Club series 2 was filmed in Perth for 6 months. The main areas where it was filmed was Hilary's Boat Harbour, Sunset Hospital and in Sorrento where they used various houses. It's very different to the first series and the main 5 girls Charlie (Morgan Griffin), Maddy (Manu Bains), Brooke (Katie Nazer-Hennings), Jess (Monique Willaims) and finally Tayla The 3 blockheads known as Jason (James Bell,), Declan (Shannon Lively) and Simon (Nathan Coenen)are enemies to the sleepover club, as well as Krystal (Julia O'Connor) and Caitlin (Ruby Hall). The series has just recently aired in the UK.
Charlie, (Morgan Griffin) is the leader of the new sleepover club, and got the idea for the club from her cousin, Frankie (Caitlin Stacey). Charlie is particulaly good friends with Tayla and Maddie.
Tayla has a brainbox of a younger sister to whom she is very close. Tayla is fashion obsessed and likes to hear her horoscope from pysic phone pal, Zodiac Zoe.
Maddie is the sporty one of the group and likes nothing more than to ride the surf, and to hang with her best friends. Maddie loves all exercise except dancing, which she is scared of because of humiliation.
Brooke enjoys photography and is to tell the truth, a bit of a wanabee. Her main best friend is Jess.
Jess is the art freak who loves to watch her favorite show, "The beach of hearts". Shes is also a pro at her favorite game, "cheesey" which involves stuffing as many cheese puffs as you can into your mouth.
Crystal is self centred and bossy who dreams of becoming a tv news anchorman. She is forever bossing around her only "friend" Caitlin. She appears to have everything but in fact is neglected by her parents.
Caitlin is always being walked all over by bossy best friend Cyrstal. Caitlin is a push over, but a very nice one at that.
[edit] Trivia
Caitlin Stacey and Eliza Taylor-Cotter both joined the cast of Neighbours in 2005. They also featured in the Australia's Brainiest Neighbour. In 2003, Ashleigh Chisholm signed as a test driver for the McLaren Formula One team.
[edit] External links
- The Sleepover Club Website - Cast, Books, Episode Guide, Forum and much, much more!
- The Sleepover Club Forum
- The Sleepover Club at the Internet Movie Database
