Do They Look Good Today? A 'Zoey 101' Revival Movie Is Coming

 

Are you ready? Paramount+ is asking fans to come and play again soon as production has begun on a revival movie for Nickelodeon's hit live-action series Zoey 101. It's filming in North Carolina and is expected to premiere later this year.

The film, which was also reportedly in the content roadmap, has the working title Zoey 102. Not only is Jamie Lynn Spears returning as Zoey Brooks, but she's executive producing. Other returning cast members include Sean Flynn as Chase, Erin Sanders as Quinn, Christopher Massey as Michael, Matthew Underwood as Logan, Abby Wilde as Stacey, and Jack Salvatore as Mark Del Figgalo. While the absence of Alexa Nikolas as Nicole is most obvious due to highly publicized issues with Spears and other traumas, Victoria Justice, who played Lola has chosen not to return. Paul Butcher, who played younger brother Dustin, and Kristin Herrera, who played season 1 roommate Dana, may have easier in-story reasons as to why they are absent. For example, maybe they didn't keep in contact with Dana as much to justify an invitation to the wedding this revival movie's about. Dustin may not be as close as the older classmen are to whoever's getting married. The n Austin Butler, whose star power has skyrocketed with his Golden Globe-winning portrayal of Elvis Presley in Elvis, having played James in the show's fourth season.

Zoey 101 was created by Dan Schneider and premiered on Nickelodeon in January 2005, about the first class of girls going to the formerly boys-only boarding school Pacific Coast Academy. From there, it's about the girls and their friends just going through teenagerdom while living at the school. It ran for four seasons and 61 episodes, ending in May 2008. Since then, at least pertaining to the show, there have been two instances of reunions. The first was 2015's "What Did Zoey Say?", a short follow-up to the "Time Capsule" episode, featuring Flynn and Massey as Chase and Michael, as well as Jamie Snow, who was Tammy the Foreign Exchange Student from Tennessee in the "The Girls Room" sketch on The Amanda Show. The second was in All That's revival season, in a 2020 episode when the cast, all mains including Herrera and Butcher but sans Nikolas and Justice reunited in the cold open while Jamie Lynn reprised her character Thelma Stump. Spears also released a music video for a remix of the show's theme song a few months later.

The announcement comes as Workaholics had its continuation movie canceled five weeks before production was set to begin. It also may be following in the footsteps of the iCarly revival, which will premiere its third season later this year. It also goes on without creator Dan Schneider since his departure from the network in 2018. This film will be directed by Nancy Hower from a script by Monica Sherer & Madeline Whitby, whose previous work includes All That and fellow Nickelodeon series Drama Club. Alexis Fisher is listed as another executive producer with Spears, Hower, and Sherer & Whitby.