Zoey 101 was an Emmy Award-nominated American live-action situation comedy Television series that had an original run as a TEENick show on Nickelodeon from January 9, 2005 to May 2, 2008. The show still currently airs on TEENick on Sundays at 8pm EST and Weekdays at 7:30pm EST (check local listings for time). It also airs on The N at 6:00 PM EST and 10:00 PM EST on Weekdays. Airing at different times on Weekends.

The show was initially filmed at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, then at stages in Valencia, Santa Clarita, California beginning Season 3. It was nominated for an "Outstanding Children's Program" Emmy in 2005. The theme song "Follow Me" was co-written by songwriter Emily Bob and Britney Spears and sung by Jamie Lynn Spears.

The future of the show came in question after Spears announced she was pregnant, but Nickelodeon continued to air the series with its fourth and final season, which began on January 27, 2008 and ended on May 2, 2008.

Setting

Zoey 101 is set in the fictional boarding school known as Pacific Coast Academy, or often abbreviated as PCA. The campus of PCA overlooks the Pacific Ocean. Formerly an all-boys' school, the series opens as girls are admitted to the newly co-educational institution, which features a high school program and another program which seems to be mixed between the middle school and late elementary school years, though the show never mentions which grade PCA's curriculum starts at. In the first season, the character Dustin Brooks is in 4th grade and has already been attending PCA for at least a few years, but as the program focuses on pre-teenagers, there are no younger students seen in the series. The campus is laid out in the manner of an open college campus, offering students more freedom than a traditional school program. The students have their own laptops and cellular phones. The campus features a privately owned sushi bar called Sushi Rox, which is frequently patronized by the students, some of whom work there. The campus also has student lounges for both girls and boys.

Season 1

In the pilot episode, we meet the main characters of the show. The episode opens with Zoey (Jamie Lynn Spears who was recently on All That), her brother Dustin Brooks (Paul Butcher) and their father driving them to boarding school. When Zoey arrives at PCA, she meets Chase (Sean Flynn). Chase develops a crush on Zoey when he first sees her, causing him to crash his bike into a pole, and graze his arm. He offers to show her to her dormitory room, #101 (hence the show title, Zoey 101). Soon after she arrives at her dorm, she meets her new roommate and soon to be best friend, Nicole Bristow (Alexa Nikolas), who is screaming at the sight of a male toilet. When they walk back to their room, they meet their other roommate, Dana Cruz (Kristin Herrera). Dana and Nicole fight constantly. Quinn Pensky (Erin Sanders), another character on the show, is a weird but an extremely intelligent girl.