| It didn't take long for Nickelodeon to realize they had | | | | Carly decided since it was all Sam's fault that she |
| a hit on their hands and increase the number of | | | | would have to help her, and poor old love sick |
| shows in production. And why shouldn't they? The | | | | Freddie agreed to help tape the auditions just to be |
| shows executive Producer is none other than Dan | | | | around Carly. Most of the auditions were lame with |
| Schneider, the man who brought you Drake & Josh. | | | | the exception of a few of them. Freddie started |
| Originally Nickelodeon only committed to the purchase | | | | getting a little bored and began taping Carly and Sam |
| of 13 episodes, but it then raised the number to 20, | | | | when they started making fun of Ms. Briggs without |
| and even later all the way up to 40! This is a huge | | | | knowing about it. |
| commitment to a brand new show, but test | | | | Everything went fine until Freddie was supposed to |
| audiences and the reception by pre-teen fans has | | | | download the auditions to the Web. He screwed up |
| supported Nickelodeon's decision.iCarly stars Miranda | | | | and downloaded the footage of Carly and Sam |
| Cosgrove fresh off her role of Megan on Drake and | | | | making fun of Ms. Briggs instead. They couldn't get |
| Josh, which was another Nickelodeon hit. | | | | the tape down for the weekend and in that time |
| The cast is rounded out by Jennette McCurdy, who | | | | over 23,000 people had seen it. A bunch of people |
| plays Carly's best friend Sam, Nathan Kress, who | | | | posted saying that they loved the video, and Carly, |
| plays the lovesick techno geek, Freddie, and Jerry | | | | Sam, and Freddie decided that they should do their |
| Trainor, who plays Carly's older brother Spencer. | | | | own show and call it iCarly. |
| Jerry is fairly famous for his role as Crazy Steve on | | | | Their first full live show was a huge success and now |
| Drake & Josh. | | | | Carly and Sam are stars on their own web show. |
| The storyline for how Carly, Sam and Freddie first | | | | We love the cast and concept of iCarly. It is the first |
| began their wWeb show, iCarly goes like this: Sam, | | | | show to marry Webcasting to television broadcasting |
| Carly's best friend, took their teacher's (Ms. Briggs) | | | | to appeal to the growing population of "wired" kids. |
| head and photoshopped it onto the body of a | | | | Kids can watch the show, see a webcast embedded |
| rhinoceros. Ms. Briggs found out and Carly took the | | | | in the television show, visit the iCarly Web site that |
| blame because Sam would have been expelled from | | | | overlaps with the webcast on the television show, |
| school because of her bad record. As punishment Ms. | | | | and then, if they really want to be creative, make |
| Briggs made Carly come in on Saturday and conduct | | | | their own video to be sent to iCarly and possibly be |
| all of the school's talent show auditions. | | | | on TV. |