Studio 100's English-language version of House of Anubis is nominated for this year's BAFTA British Academy Children's Awards. The awards ceremony takes place on 27 November.
House of Anubis is nominated in the Best Drama category. A co-production between Lime Pictures, Studio 100 and Nickelodeon UK, the teen series originally aired on Nickelodeon US at the beginning of this year. Both Nickelodeon UK and Australia in the meantime also started scheduling House of Anubis. Besides the original Dutch and the English-language series, there is also a German-language version called Das Haus Anubis. Dubbed versions are shown in territories such as Sweden and Mexico.
House of Anubis is the first Nickelodeon series to be filmed outside the US, as well as the first soap commissioned by the network aimed at children and teenagers. The series follows a group of eight teenagers who live together in Anubis House, an eary 1900s-era building that serves as a boarding house for an elite boarding school in the UK. Nina Martin, an American girl who had been living with her grandmother since the death of her parents, leaves the States to attend and move into the school; at the same time, another resident, popular student Joy Mercer, suddenly disappears without warning and the school's strict caretaker, Victor Rodenmaar, attempts to eliminate Joy's existence from the school.