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Skam NL
Also known as	Skam Dutch Skam Netherlands
Genre	Teen drama
Created by	Julie Andem
Developed by	Bobbie Koek
Screenplay by	Ashgan El-Hamus
Directed by	Bobbie Koek Isabel Lamberti Floor van der Meulen
Starring	Suus de Nies Zoë Love Smith Bo van Borssum Waalkes Sara Calmeijer Meijburg Sara Awin Melisa Diktas Reiky de Valk Monk Dagelet Florian Regtien Josep Hendrikx
Composer	Bo Koek
Country of origin	Netherlands
Original language	Dutch
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	21
Production
Production locations	Utrecht, Netherlands
Cinematography	Jeroen Kiers Sam Du Pon
Running time	15–23 minutes
Production companies	NTR Beta Film
Original release
Network	NPO 3
Release	16 September 2018 (2018-09-16) – 4 June 2019 (2019-06-04)

Skam NL (also known as Skam Dutch or Skam Netherlands; often stylized in all caps) is a Dutch teen drama television series based on the Norwegian television series Skam. It was broadcast by NPO 3 from 16 September 2018 to 4 June 2019.

Plot

Skam NL follows the daily life of high school students at St-Gregorius College in Utrecht and the various problems they face. The plot of each season focuses around a different central character and particular themes. Each adaptation of the original series follows a similar storyline, with the first season focusing on Isa Keijser (the counterpart of Skam's Eva Kviig Mohn), and the second on Liv Reijners (the counterpart of Noora Amalie Sætre).

Cast and characters

Episodes

Series overview

Season 1

Season 1 comprised 11 episodes. Isa Keijser is the central character and the season focuses on her relationship with her boyfriend Kes, as well as themes of loneliness, identity, and friendship.

Season 2

Season 2 comprised 10 episodes. Liv Reijners is the central character and the season focuses on her relationship with Noah, a popular boy at school, and themes of friendship, self-image, and sexual abuse.

Production

In October 2017, The Hollywood Reporter announced that a Dutch adaptation of Skam was in development alongside American, German, French, Spanish, and Italian versions. NTR purchased the remake rights in January 2018. Production for the first season began in July 2018, while the trailer was released in August. A countdown on the series' website revealed the first clip would be released on September 10, 2018, making it the sixth Skam remake to premiere.

In November 2018, the SKAM NL website was updated to confirm a second season. In February 2019, it was confirmed that the second season's first clip would premiere on March 18, and that full episodes would be airing on Tuesdays, a change from the first season, when episodes aired on Sunday nights. An official trailer for the season was released on March 10.

Cancellation

In September 2019, despite the series' popularity, NPO 3 confirmed that the series would not be returning for a third season, citing high production costs.

In 2020, the SKAM NL official Instagram account announced a binge-watching event of the series in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, which many fans believed would lead to a revival of the series, but this was not the case. The series remains available to stream on the official SKAM NL YouTube channel with English subtitles, and on the official NPO 3 website.

References

1. "Opnames televisieserie SKAM op het Gregorius – Descart & Waldorf Utrecht". St-Gregorius College (in Dutch).
2. Koop, Peter (2018-06-06). "Utrechtse Gregorius decor van nieuwe tv-serie". Algemeen Dagblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 2023-11-05.
3. ^ van der Kooi, Walter (28 September 2018). "Twee dramaseries voor jongeren over jongeren, grotendeels door jongeren". De Groene Amsterdammer (in Dutch).
4. "Meer over de serie". NPO3 (in Dutch).
5. Roxborough, Scott (14 October 2017). "MIPCOM: European Networks Jump on Adaptations of Scandi Sensation 'Shame'". The Hollywood Reporter.
6. "NTR maakt Nederlandse versie van Skam - BM". Broadcast Magazine (in Dutch). 17 January 2018.
7. @isabellamberti (11 July 2018). "🤘🏼👱🏻‍♀️👯‍♀️Co-directing the series SKAM with @bobbiekoek 🤘🏼👱🏻‍♀️👯‍♀️" – via Instagram.
8. SKAM NL - Trailer. SKAMNL. 24 August 2018 – via YouTube.
9. Kraak, Haro (14 September 2018). "Noorse populaire serie Skam weet wat tieners willen kijken, zal dat voor de Nederlandse remake ook gelden?". de Volkskrant (in Dutch).
10. van Steensel, Tom (18 February 2019). "SKAM NL S02 gaat eind maart van start bij de NPO - de Lagarde - BNNVARA". de Lagarde (in Dutch).
11. SKAM NL - Trailer Season 2. SKAMNL. 10 August 2019 – via YouTube.
12. @NPO3 (November 21, 2019). "We understand you're disappointed! Unfortunately SKAM is an expensive series to produce, compared to other NPO 3 web series. The resources for online series are scarce and choices had to be made. Therefore we had to decide to not make a new season for SKAM NL" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
13. @skamnl (21 March 2020). "Dagelijks om 20.30u streamen we op ons YouTubekanaal 2 afleveringen SKAM NL om samen, tegelijkertijd te kijken. We hopen een plek te creëren waar alle SKAM-fans kunnen samenkomen in deze rare tijden. Stay safe!" [Every day at 8:30pm we will be streaming 2 episodes of SKAM NL on our YouTube channel to watch together at the same time. We hope to create a place where SKAM fans can come together during these strange times. Stay safe!] – via Instagram.
14. "SKAM NL". YouTube.
15. "SKAM NL gemist? Terugkijken doe je op NPO3.nl". NPO 3 (in Dutch).

External links

• Skam NL on NPO 3
• Skam NL on NTR
• Skam NL on YouTube
• Skam NL on IMDb

• 2010s teen drama television series
• 2018 Dutch television series debuts
• 2019 Dutch television series endings
• Coming-of-age television shows
• Dutch teen drama television series
• High school television series
• NPO 3 original programming
• Television series about social media
• Television series about teenagers
• Television shows set in Utrecht (city)