WtFOCK

wtFOCK
Also known as
  • Skam Belgium
  • wtFOCK: Ada
  • wtFOCK: Anaïs
  • Otis
GenreTeen drama
Created byJulie Andem
Developed by
  • Kris Gaens
  • Bram Renders
  • Cecilia Verheyden
Screenplay by
  • Bram Renders (season 1–4, 6–7, Otis)
  • Rutger Beckers (season 2–4)
  • Kris Gaens (season 2–4)
  • Lise De Kam (season 5)
  • Geert Verbanck (season 5)
  • Julie Bovendaerde (season 6–7, Otis)
  • Jasmien Vandermeeren (season 7)
Directed by
  • Cecilia Verheyden (season 1)
  • Tom Goris (season 2–3, 5)
  • Bente Peters (season 4–5)
  • Caroline De Maeyer (season 6–7)
  • Jaap van Veen (Otis)
Starring
  • Femke van der Steen
  • Veerle Dejaeger
  • Willem Herbots
  • Romi van Renterghem
  • Nora Dari
  • Ella van Remortel
  • Laura Bekaert
  • Mathis Mavuela
Country of originBelgium
Original languageFlemish
No. of seasons8
No. of episodes82
Production
Production locationAntwerp
Running time18–38 minutes
Production companySputnik Media[1]
Original release
Network
Release1 October 2018 (2018-10-01) –
present
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WtFOCK (stylised as wtFOCK, pronounced as wha-teh-fock) is a Belgian teen drama web series broadcast by Play4 that follows the lives of teenagers in Antwerp. Broadcast was then taken over by Belgian streaming services Play More, Streamz [nl], and GoPlay [nl] in preceding years. It is an adaptation of the popular Norwegian series SKAM.[2] By the end of the first season, it was reported that around 100,000 people were watching wtFOCK every week.[3] When the show returned with a sixth season, featuring a new cast and original storylines, it was estimated that wtFOCK episodes had been streamed over 3 million times since their release.[4]

  1. ^ "Over WTFOCK". WTFOCK.be (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 1 November 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  2. ^ Matthew Paul Gundersen (14 November 2019). "Why Norway's Skam Was So Great". Life In Norway. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Geheime jeugdserie 'wtFOCK' is een grote hit in Vlaanderen, ondanks flops in het buitenland". HLN (in Dutch). 13 December 2018. Archived from the original on 25 July 2020. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  4. ^ Vereecken, Joke (30 June 2023). "'wtFOCK:ADA': Wij spraken met actrice Ella van Remortel (Ada) over het succes van de reeks en de druk bij jongeren". Newsmonkey (in Dutch). Retrieved 18 August 2023.