Noah and Saskia | |
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Genre | Teen's |
Created by | Patricia Edgar Chris Anastassiades Paul Nichola |
Directed by | Pino Amenta |
Starring | Jack Blumenau Hannah Greenwood Cameron Nugent Hayden Rathbone Adrian Fergus Fuller Emily Wheaton Alex Yates Maria Papas |
Country of origin | United Kingdom Australia |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 13 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Patricia Edgar (ABC) Elaine Sperber (BBC) |
Producer | Patricia Edgar |
Running time | 24 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | CBBC ABC |
Release | 4 May 2004 |
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Noah and Saskia is a 13-episode TV program initiated, developed and produced by Patricia Edgar for the Australian Children's Television Foundation (ACTF) and the BBC as she stepped down after 20 years as Founding Director of the ACTF.[1] The 13 x 24-minute drama series involves an Australian teenage girl, Saskia, and her internet-based relationship with Noah, a teenage boy living in the United Kingdom.[2] The two characters project their ideal selves to each other in a virtual world, and in the process get a little closer to reaching their ideals in the real one.[2] The show is about the power of someone's essence and how someone can touch you from 10,000 miles away, and change your whole life.[3] Noah & Saskia speaks directly to today's young people about the technologies which are changing the way we communicate.[4]
"I wanted one more crack at producing the type of television I had always believed in; not a formulaic soap-style series; not a co-produced mid-Pacific blancmange, but something that really spoke to adolescents about the issues that were on their minds," Patricia Edgar, Bloodbath: a memoir of Australian Television, pg.399 .[1] "The Internet was the place to set much of the action as this allowed for a modern, contemporary story, which would be new territory for drama. The other appeal of online chat spaces was that they give the characters opportunities to express themselves in multiple ways. The Net is a space where young people are much more at home than their parents and increasingly it will be their world", Patricia Edgar.[5]
Noah and Saskia commenced production in May 2003.[6] It premiered and screened in Australia on the ABC and in the United Kingdom on the BBC in 2004.[6]
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