Post by BlueLick on Jan 29, 2010 20:56:47 GMT -5
Series Name: Janit O'Day
Genre: Drama
Run-Time: 1 hour or 60 minute drama
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Taping: ICE Studios in Toronto, Ontario & filmed on location in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Picture Quality: ABC10 HD in 720p
Studios: ICE Studios, ABC10 Studios, Bradeson Television Distribution, and BlueLick Media Group
Corporate Executive Producers: Pat Devine and Michael Bradeson
Created By: Michael Bradeson
Tagline: "Some teens were born innocent but when their mixed with the guilty ones that's where the game of trouble begins"
Characters:
Bell Academy Students & Staff
Shawn Wilson - Shia LaBeouf
Alyssa Milano - Joy Benson
Aubrey Graham a.k.a. Drake Drizzy - Drake Smith
Rose McGowan - Erica Bardelli
Kristian-Joy Alfonso – Counselor Anna Strong
Tiffany Giardina - Janit O'Day
Kelsi Baldwin - Wendy Barkley
Kelly Monaco - Elizabeth "Liz" Leyland
Bella Thorne - Macy Walters
Rachel Melvin - Chelsea Melvin
Kurt Kennedy - Randy Melvin
Shane West – Arian Walters
Henry Simmons - Matt West
Katherine Moennig – Shane McCutcheon
Joanna “JoJo” Levesque - Georgia Kinsler
Kevin Alejandro - Sonny Bardelli
Shareeka Epps - Precious Brown
Mia Kirshner – Whitney Williams
Elijah Kelley – Malik Jones
Kristina DeBarge – Nina Rodriguez
Courtney Hanson – Gym Teacher Britney Loughlin
Janit O’Day - 9:00pm - ICE Wednesday
Drama
The biggest drama on ICE. All of the life struggles and adventures that are primed through this story of 30 dangerous teenage girls who deal with life away from structured home environments at a Philadelphia public school's reform center. Janit O'Day is about a troubled young Philadelphia teen who has had a bad history of child and drug abuse which led her into changing into a number of foster and group homes. By the time Janit hit the age of 13 she had a record that was full of stuff not done by any other youth in that entire region. When Janit reached the age of 14 the state of Pennsylvania couldn't take it anymore so they ordered her to live and attend Bell Academy as an example to future youths. A year later Janit is faced with her biggest challenge yet when a girl the total opposite of her takes residence in her life.
Created & Written By: Michael Bradeson
Main Cast (Regulars):
Shawn Wilson as Shia LaBeouf
Alyssa Milano as Joy Benson
Aubrey Graham a.k.a. Drake Drizzy as Drake Smith
Rose McGowan as Erica Bardelli
Kristian-Joy Alfonso as Counselor Anna Strong
Tiffany Giardina as Janit O'Day
Kelsi Baldwin as Wendy Barkley
Allison Shields as Konny "Con Lady" Seleca
Kelly Monaco as Elizabeth "Liz" Leyland
Bella Thorne as Macy Walters
Rachel Melvin as Chelsea Melvin
Kurt Kennedy as Randy Melvin
Shane West as Arian Walters
Henry Simmons as Matt West
Katherine Moennig as Shane McCutcheon
Joanna “JoJo” Levesque as Georgia Kinsler
Kevin Alejandro as Sonny Bardelli
Shareeka Epps as Precious Brown
Mia Kirshner as Whitney Williams
Elijah Kelley as Malik Jones
Kristina DeBarge as Nina Rodriguez
Courtney Hanson as Gym Teacher Britney Loughlin
Recurring Roles:
Will Smith as Superintendent Harvey Odom
Chris Brown as Sisqo Evans
Lexi Ainsworth as Maggie
Eric Close as Colby Henry
Rick Hearst as D.A. Rick Morris
Rebecca Herbst as Nurse Angie Benson
Angel McNichol as Abigail “Buddy” Lawrence
Willa Holland as Kaitlin Cooper
Executive Producers
Michael Bradeson
Will Smith
Kristian-Joy Alfonso
Adam Brody
Matt Dillon
Episode List
Season 1
We first follow the beginnings of Janit O’Day and how she got her last hearing then later on we meet Wendy Barkley who has recently gotten in trouble with a bunch of her friends and has to spend the night in one of the city’s finer establishments. Then we will begin life at Bell Academy.
New, HD, “First Day of School”, (2009), (TV-14), This story of a troubled dangerous teen named Janit O’Day begins at a KFC Chicken joint in South Philly where she gets in trouble with the law after a drug deal goes bad. Janit is taken to lock up and is dealt with the state the very next morning where she is sent to a new Philadelphia public school reform center. Our story picks up a year later where the new school year is about to begin in the Philadelphia area and we meet the innocent Wendy Barkley who has recently gotten in trouble with a bunch of her friends and has to spend the night in one of the city’s finer establishments. Then we will begin life at Bell Academy where Wendy struggles to adjust to her new environment. It’s Thursday September 10, 2009 which is also the first day of school for all students of The School District of Philadelphia. During the first day of school Wendy gets raped by Janit with a plunger in the bathroom. (Crime Drama)
S01 E01
Original Airdate: 10/19/09
New, HD, “Wendy’s Aftermath”, (2009), (TV-14), After being brutally raped by one of roommates during the first day of school, Wendy struggles with what happened after she feels neglect from her authority figures. Wendy gets comfort from one of her classmates and the girl’s her roommates. Janit roles with Chelsea to get a new shipment of drugs from their old neighborhood in South Philly from a heavy hitter crime boss. Randy and the rest of the boys make the Freshmen boys life hell and meet their new gym teacher slash football coach Britney Loughlin who happens to be a female but a former male child molester. Liz has some problems connecting to the girls at the reform center. (Crime Drama)
S01 E02
Original Airdate: 10/21/09
New, HD, “The New Threat”, (2009), (TV-14), A new threat comes to the school in the form of a new bad girl Georgia Kinsler who has recently transferred from a juvenile detention center in Pittsburgh. Georgia is a former tough girl from South Philly who doesn’t tolerate much but respect and is rumored to be the missing daughter of Sonny Bardelli who is the school's inside connection to drug pushing and weapon distribution. She becomes a rival to the girls at the reform center when it comes to the 60/40 split for drug and weaponry pushing. Wendy starts to grow a friendship with Precious who looks over Wendy and tries to protect her from the predators of the school. Liberty joins the school’s pom-pom squad but she has to compete against her roommate Maggie. Undercover Philadelphia detective Shane McCutcheon starts her duty going after Ms. Loughlin who starts her work on the boys on the football team but little does she know that her suspect is her one night stand mate from the night before. (Crime Drama)
S01 E03
Original Airdate: 10/26/09
New, HD, “You Need a Damn Bodyguard”, (2009), (TV-14), Head security guard Matt West has a hard time protecting Bell Academy as crime heats up at the school making it difficult to manage so in order to ease his depressing life he warms up the girl’s teacher Joy Benson. Precious finally convinces Wendy to step up to the plate and tell Mom (Joy Benson) what happened to her during the first day of school and Janit’s action on her after that. Joy Benson is later threatened by Janit who finds out from an unknown source to not tell authorities what’s been happening to Wendy. Konny steals drugs that detrimental to the school’s 60/40 split system and secretly gets away with it. With the new threat in town Georgia the worst boys and girls of the school sets up a scheming protection program by bullying students into paying them for protection money which they will use to support their habits. Young Macy goes away with Buddy to talk about their life. Coach Loughlin adds Shane to her team of assistant coaches without knowing Shane’s true identity. (Crime Drama)
S01 E04
Original Airdate: 10/28/09
New, HD, “Football Games Can Be Very Dangerous”, (2009), (TV-14), Bell Academy has a very important home game against their suburban rivals of the west for a chance to be apart of a regional game in November. The game turns out to be a bloody mess as both serial twins Chelsea and Randy commit random attacks on students from the suburban school before, during, and after the game. Liberty has her first game as a cheerleader and it turns out to be a mistake for her as she slips and falls during the performances. Janit has her first encounter with Wendy since she tricked on her and it isn’t pretty as Wendy’s life is threatened. Coach Loughlin has oral sex with Sisqo who is the star running back on the team but the activity is forced. Bell Academy loses the game in overtime which erupts into a cradle of violence at the school’s multi-million dollar stadium among the students from the rival schools. Konny and her friends head to the home of the players who are at the game from the rival school to steal a grand amount of things while their gone so they can add them to their campus houses including money through a armored vehicle from thug Shawn Wilson who sets up the whole theft in progress. Sonny and Erica Bardelli’s relationship takes another tumble after an argument over not figuring out where their missing daughter is at. (Crime Drama)
S01 E05
Original Airdate: 11/2/09
New, HD, “Look Who Comes to Visit”, (2009), (TV-14), Superintendent Harvey Odom played by Will Smith visits Bell Academy to check out on how things are going at the prison like school. Mr. Odom isn’t very happy so he calls a staff meeting to get everyone to shape up and try to decrease the crime in the school. You may ask why in the hell Mr. Odom shows up now? Well the day after the game the nearby neighbors of the Bell Academy reproduced the bad history between the school and the community when many parents from the town protested the state of the school and the riots after the game that took place putting their children in danger including the missing person’s reports of at least six children. Detectives and FBI marshals come to the campus to start the routine of questioning to figure out what happened to the missing persons. Wendy starts to spend more time at the house of her friends Macy, Kaitlin, and Nina as Precious joins them so Wendy can stay clear of Janit but this upsets Liz who wants all 30 of her girls to not spend nights outside of the campus especially in wake up Mr. Odom, police, and the community taking an interest in some unfortunate happenings recently. Janit and Georgia have a heated discussion over the split as Georgia has tried taking some deals from her turf causing what could be a future war with the Lizzies and the Heathers who are two female gangs from the city. A missing body washes up on the shore of the campuses nearby river.
S01 E06
Original Airdate: 11/4/09
New, HD, “Summer Protects Her Girls”, (2009), (TV-14), With investigations looming from authority figures over the campus the responsible parties start to protect the students from the various dangers. One of the dorm’s college caretakers Summer has been a young role model for troubled Wendy who has been spending many nights over there with Summer and her new friends. With that Summer and the head residential R.A. has taken heavy action to put the girls on lockdown and keep them from leaving the house except going to school but the girls have continued sneaking out behind Summer’s back which could put her in trouble with the R.A. and lose her license to continue take residence there and look after the students. A forensics detective becomes eye candy to the girls of Bell Academy making Matt West an old crush for the girls. Matt becomes jealous and nasty to the detective making Matt look bad in front of the ladies so the two have a one on one basketball game to determine their differences. Janit helps Chelsea and Randy hide more bodies. During one of the Buddy and Macy’s walks down by the river they discover a dead body on the shore. Arian has his first day of intervention classes at Bell Academy and it doesn’t work out well for him as he’s almost attacked by one of his students. (Crime Drama)
S01 E07
Original Airdate: 11/9/09
New, HD, “Whitney Why?” (2009), (TV-14), One of Shawn’s old flings Whitney shows up at Bell Academy which is bad for him because it causes a distraction for the girls as Whitney looks to put the girls helping him with his crimes do his dirty work through the modeling business. Whitney enters the standout model Janit through a runway competition in Center City Philadelphia but before that happen Whitney has a thing for Janit and invites her to her expensive Center City condo. Whitney tries to get Janit drunk but Janit is too smart for her as she doesn’t drink a sip and attempts to play with Whitney in an innocent role. The tables turn on Whitney as Janit has a huge fight with Whitney and smacks her with a pot almost killing Whitney. Shawn comes by in the morning and notice that Janit and Whitney are gone from the apartment. Macy and Angel vow to keep what they found a secret while the parents continue to grieve over their missing children. (Crime Drama)
S01 E08
Original Airdate: 11/11/09
New, HD, “Lizzies vs. Heathers”, (2009), (TV-14), Georgia travels to South Philly for a meeting with Sonny on the split only to run into Heather Mack who is the leader of the growing young female gang The Heathers which is an affiliate of The Eagles gang. Heather threatens Georgia’s life which starts the war that had previously ignited between Georgia and Janit just a few weeks back. Later that night Georgia’s gang The Lizzies face-off with The Heathers in a South Philly shootout. Meanwhile Shane spends another night with Coach Loughlin. (Crime Drama)
S01 E09
Original Airdate: 11/12/09
New, HD, “The War”, (2009), (TV-14), The war between The Lizzies and the Heathers continues erupting all over town. Liberty meets Whitney late that night while sneaking out with the Barbies. Shawn and Konny try to figure out what happened to Whitney. Joy and counselor Anna Strong make a real commitment to try to get to know the students who they deal with on a personal basis. Drake starts his rapping career by freestyling with students on the campus. Another body rushes to shore. (Crime Drama)
S01 E10
Original Airdate: 11/16/09
New, HD, “Medical Mercy”, (2009), (TV-14), A real-life medical soap opera takes place at the Bell Academy’s general hospital as Joy’s sister Angie finds that the hospital is overrun with gang members from the war being shot up. (Crime Drama)
S01 E11
Original Airdate: 11/18/09
New, HD, “THE TEST”, (2009), (TV-14), After the war ends the students return to school for the most important time of the year for the school as the district wide test takes place to help finance the budget for The School District of Philadelphia. Many students have plans to blow the test off while teachers are finding it hard to keep order in their school. Over 600 students out of the 4,000 students that attend Bell Academy completely blow the test off completely by not showing up to the class while another 2,800 students don’t give a damn about it and do bad on it on purpose. Among those 600 blowing the test off are Ms. O’Day.
