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4 O'Clock Club is a BAFTA-nominated British children's television series, which premiered on 13 January 2012 on CBBC and BBC HD. A second series began airing on 4 January 2013. The show has been recommissioned for a third series in 2014.

Background

ScreenTerrier held auditions in March 2011 but was announced in April, and the first episode transmitted in January 2012, with the series finishing at the end of March that year. Doc Brown announced at the end of the series that a second series had been commissioned which began airing the following year. Khalil Madovi announced on Friday Download (which aired directly after the first episode of the second series) that a third series had been confirmed.

Cast and characters

• Josh Carter (Khalil Madovi) - Josh is a pupil at Elmsbury where his brother was a teacher throughout the first series. He makes no secret of his desire to become a rapper. He uses the alias 'J- Carter)' as a stage name.
• Nathan Carter (Doc Brown) - Nathan is Josh's brother and a former rapper. He worked at Elmsbury High as an English teacher as well as running the 4 O'Clock Club, the after-school detention class. At the end of his first year at Elmsbury, he was made Teacher of the Year by Byron. He had a crush on fellow teacher Miss Poppy throughout the first series, and finally builds up the courage to ask her out in the second series. However, while she accepts, she is unable to carry on due to her role as Head of Year requiring a heavy workload. Following this, Nathan took up a post in Scotland as part of a teacher exchange programme. He returns in the season finale of the second series to Elmsbury, in a battle to overcome Bell and to help stop his 'Project Zenith' to send half of Elmsbury's pupils to Fowlmere, and finally kisses Melanie.
• Melanie Poppy (Laura Aikman) - Melanie, usually referred to as Mel, is a music teacher at Elmsbury and the love interest of Nathan. She kisses Nathan in the second series finale.
• Ryan Wood (Oscar Lloyd) - Ryan is one of Josh's best friends who is commonly referred to as a geek and nerd, causing him to be easily manipulated by others. He is consistently teased by Ash in particular. He is one of the students who constantly turns up in detention. He is seen to be quite unnerved around Molly, though the two are often seen as quite close, as shown in School Trip.
• Ash Newman (Tom Rolinson) - Ash is another of Josh's friends who more frequently gets into trouble and lands into detention. He constantly teases Ryan and is displayed as vain and stupid. He is shown to have a low sense of personal hygiene which is shown in the first episode of the second series when he fishes a sticky blond wig out of a bin. He has a crush on Zoe-Marie which is only shown in a few episodes.
• Molly Finnegan (Alana Thornton) - Molly is a pupil at Elmsbury High who also turns up in detention regularly. She is quite loud and can be rude. In the second series, she changes her personal appearance in the sense that she dresses up as a goth, which comes to the surprise of some of the other students, and also lands her in detention almost instantly.
• Agness (Sade Malone) - Agness is a pupil at Elmsbury High who shows a lighter tone in behavior and is always willing to help others, though still turns up in detention. In one episode, she is shown to having to leave school during the day to look after her younger siblings.
• Zoe-Marie (Ruby Morgan) - Zoe-Marie talks very fast and turns up in detention regularly. She is shown as in-academic throughout, but is shown to be a good singer in Sweets.
• Darius Phillips (Adam Kavanagh) - Darius is the captain of the basketball team at Elmsbury. In Fight, he threatens to beat Josh up because Nathan puts him into detention for assuming he broke the mirror of Mr Byron's car (which was actually Ryan's doing). He becomes friends with Ryan and Ash however.
• Mr Byron (Steve Huison) - Mr Byron was the headmaster of Elmsbury in the first series. He was usually hard to please and did not accept Nathan at first due to his behaviour at school but eventually did - making him Teacher of the Year in the series finale. He was referred by Josh, Nathan and his friends while he was at school as 'BOGOF' (when Byron asks Nathan about this name, Nathan pretends it means 'Buy One Get One Free', as 'Byron' sounds like this, however it probably really means 'bog off'). Ms Poppy mentioned in the second series that Byron had left but that nobody knows why, but she had heard from someone that he went to work with unprivileged kids in South America.
• Dexter Harris (Jason Callender) - Dexter is a new teacher at Elmsbury who begins to appear as a main character from episode Head of Year onwards. He is Miss Poppy's music assistant. At first he was considered quite clumsy and becomes Josh and his mother's new lodger after Nathan leaves for Scotland which takes Josh a while to get used to.
• Crispin Bell (Simon Lowe) - Mr Bell is the new stern headmaster at Elmsbury. He turns the school into an academy. He is far stricter with many of the teachers.
• Anita Andress (Liz Hume-Dawson) - Miss Andress is a teacher at Elmsbury. She was made Assistant Head Teacher in the second series.
• Jeff Thorne (Myles Keogh) - Mr Thorne is a sports coach at Elmsbury and is rather disliked by many of the teachers due to his rather strict and unfair way of teaching. He is considered an antagonist.
• Mrs Carter (Dystin Johnson) - Mrs Carter is Josh and Nathan's mother.

One-time characters

• Elliott Harris (Delroy Brown) - Elliot is Dexter's father who assesses Dexter's role at Elmsbury when he appears in Dexter's Dad. Dexter had previously lied to him that he was assistant head teacher, but Elliott claims when he reveals the truth, that he had his suspicions all along.
• Rachel (Lauren McQueen) - Rachel appears in Valentine's Day as Josh's crush.
• Josie (Eleanor O'Brien)- Josie appears as Rachel (Josh's crush)'s best friend in Valentine's Day.
• Natalie (Beth Chaplow)- Natalie appears in Valentine's Day and Ryan receives a love letter he thinks she wrote, when it was actually a friend of Ash's, she was also in the School Council episode in Series One.
• Mia (Eleni Foskett) - Mia is a pupil at Elmsbury who ties on to the camping trip in School Trip.

International broadcast

4 O'Clock Club began to be broadcast on BBC Kids in Canada in early 2013.

Production

The show is filmed on location in and around Stockport, Manchester. Raps are featured in every episode, usually relating to the current situation.

List of Episodes

Series 3

To air in early 2014. Some episodes to be directed by Tim Hopewell. OK

Television ratings

Episode viewing figures from BARB. The number of viewers does not include repeats.

Series 1

Series 2

Awards

References

1. "BBC iPlayer - 4 o'Clock Club: Back To School".
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/04_april/21/cbbc.shtml
3. https://twitter.com/timhopewell2004/status/344959987468075010/
4. http://www.barb.co.uk/

External links

• 4 O'Clock Club at BBC Online
• 4 O'Clock Club at IMDb

• Use dmy dates from August 2012
• 2010s British television series
• 2012 British television programme debuts
• British children's television programmes
• English-language television programming