Tower Prep
| Tower Prep | |
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Intertitle from the network promo
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| Genre |
Action/Adventure Mystery Teen drama Science fiction Superhero |
| Created by | Paul Dini |
| Starring |
Drew Van Acker Ryan Pinkston Elise Gatien Dyana Liu |
| Composer(s) |
Kristopher Carter Michael McCuistion Lolita Ritmanis |
| Country of origin | United States Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Paul Dini Glen Morgan Bill O'Dowd |
| Producer(s) |
Peter Lhotka Karen Mayeda-Vranek (co-producer) Darin Morgan (supervising producer) |
| Location(s) | Vancouver, Canada |
| Cinematography | Philip Linzey |
| Editor(s) | Scott Richter Geoffrey O'Brien James Coblentz |
| Camera setup | Film; Single-camera |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Dolphin Entertainment Cartoon Network Studios |
| Distributor | Cartoon Network |
| Release | |
| Original network | Cartoon Network |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | October 16 – December 28, 2010 |
Tower Prep is a Canadian/American television series. It debuted on October 16, 2010, after the world premiere of Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster. The series is created by Paul Dini, a former producer and writer of Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series and other DC animated universe series. It is Cartoon Network's second one-hour live-action series, after Unnatural History.
The last two episodes of the first season aired on December 28, 2010. On March 23, 2011, Cartoon Network announced their new and returning programs for the remainder of 2011 and Tower Prep was not mentioned as one of the returning series.
In December 2011, over a year after the series premiered, Dini announced on his Twitter account that the series will not be returning for a second season, ending the series on a cliffhanger. When asked if he will reveal the ending to the series, Dini replied that he is "sworn to secrecy." On May 2012, Dini also revealed that there were talks of foreign financing for a second season, but the deal fell through because Cartoon Network decided not to air the show regardless.
Paul Dini wrote the first episode of Tower Prep, and Cartoon Network picked up the series as part of their initiative to develop live action programming for a family audience. The pilot was shot in 2009, and full production of the first season began in 2010 in British Columbia.
Former X-Files writer Glen Morgan was hired as executive producer and showrunner, joined by a writing team including Dini, Glen's brother Darin Morgan, Riley Stearns, Aury Wallington, Jeff Eckerle and Marilyn Osborn. Discussing his influences in creating the show, Dini states, "I thought about incidents when I was a kid. I went to a prep school, and I leaned back on my feelings of what it was like at the time – the strangeness and the alienation." From the start, the writers' goals were to create a story that did not talk down to kids, and to write natural dialogue, avoiding unrealistic slang and catch phrases. Many of the characters shift between being perceived as heroes or villains, because, Dini explains, "[throughout high school], your allegiances are switched and relationships change.... To a degree, Tower Prep is a real high school. It's just that the elements are blown out of proportion and into caricature."
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