Luke & Lauren

Luke & Lauren "Luke & Lauren" Logo. Genre: Teen sitcom Fantasy Supernatural Created by: NYCgleek Starring: Marcus McCloud Shelly Yanes Katy Young Kelly Lloyd Theme Music Composer Kris Allen Opening Theme: "Better With You" performed by Marcus McCloud Country of origin: United States Original language(s): English No. of seasons: 1 Production Executive producer(s): NYCgleek Nutter Butter Camera setup: Videotape (filmized); Multi-camera Running time: 24 minutes, 46 minutes for specials Production company(s): Wiki Channel Productions City Girl Entertainment Production Location(s): Wiki Center Studios. Hollywood, California Show Location(s): Malibu, California Broadcast Original channel: Wiki Channel Picture format: 480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) Audio format: Stereo Original run: November 29, 2013

Luke & Lauren is a brand new half hour Wiki Channel Original comedy series. It is also the first Wiki Channel Original Series to feature to lead roles The series was originally thought of as "Luke & Lola" but ulitimately changed due to the creator's (NYCgleek) vision, plus the creator thought the name Lauren sounded nicer in the title. The name Lola was given to a character in an upcoming sci-fi/horror original film coming to the Wiki Channel titled "ZAYN". New episodes air on Friday nights at 8:30 on Wiki Channel.

Overview

The series follows two high school sophomores who live in Malibu, California that are not friends at all, that is until one they both end up getting detention and realize that a journal they found is actually magic. Whenever they write something down in the journal, words magically appear that give them a statement, message, or response to whatever they wrote down. Now it doesn't always give the answers they want, but the journal is sort of looking out for the two guiding these two newly friends through high school, along with getting them into some crazy adventures along the way. The series was mentioned in the Wiki Times, the article written by Joyce Monroe stated "..the series is kind of like the iPhone's Siri, but way more interactive. I definitely think that this series will be a great addition to the Wiki Channel. Both Luke and Lauren have characteristics that I believe both male and female viewers will love. Though all of the characters having some type of popularity in their own groups of interest isn't really normal, it still adds a bit of reality to the show. Meaning we are all popular with our own people or clique so to speak. I almost kind of wish there was a magic journal that helped me while I was in high school."

Luke as seen in the pilot.

Lauren thinking if she should help Luke find out who framed them in the pilot.

The show was picked up for a second season. Creator NYCgleek, promises to show more friendship and have funnier situations during the second installtion of the series.

Season 2.

Main Cast

Marcus McCloud as Luke Dawson - Luke is a pretty popular guy around the school. He is captain of the soccer team and is a pretty funny, athletic, interesting guy. He's a good person who will always do anything for his friends. He is confident, goofy and is a lot more chill than Lauren, nevertheless he becomes a good friend and often tries to help her. When first meeting Lauren at the begining of the school year, he tries to help her pick up her things after accidently running into her while talking to his friends in the hallway. She quickly declines his help as she tells him to leave her alone, Luke then again re-offers as she takes her books and walks away. Luke is very cool and gets attention from a lot of the girls at school and on the cheerleading team. His parents are divorced and he is okay with it. He is an only child.

Luke photoshoot for season 1.

Shelly Yanes as Lauren Conner - Lauren is a very creative, artistic and out spoken girl. She gets good grades, always does the right thing and tries her best to help other people. When first meeting Luke, she is convinced he is just a mean jock who does whatever he wants to get his way. Lauren is also quite popular around school, she is editor-in-chief of the school's news paper and main anchor on the school's morning news network. Lauren is sweet, kind and very smart, all while looking her best. She likes to dress in very girly outfits, but is sometimes known to dull it down and wear a pair of jeans. Lauren also loves to write. She comes from a very loving family and is an only child.

Lauren in photos throughout season 1.

Katy Ryleigh Young as Sasha Jones - Sasha is Lauren's fashionable, fearless and confident best friend. She is one of the captain's of the school's cheerleading team and secretly really good at math. She is popular and a lot of people are sometimes afraid of her because of her attitude, nevertheless she is always super nice to her friends and even sticks up for Lauren from time to time. Sasha isn't afraid to speak her mind and loves to go shopping. She has known Lauren since they were both 8 and have been best friends since. She is often hit on by jocks at the school. She is also one of the few cheerleaders who does not obsess over Luke, though she becomes good friends with him after he and Lauren tell him about the journal. 

Sasha throughout season 1.

Kelly Lloyd as Riley Howard - Riley is Luke's random, ditzy best bud in the series. Though he is not on the soccer team with Luke, he still hangs out with him a lot. He is very popular along with the rest of the group. He is also big on theatre and acting. He tries to be the lead in every school production. Though sometimes he can be a bit random, clumsy and bubbly without even realizing it. He is one of the nicest people in the world, who honestly wouldn't hurt a fly, though he does get mad enough to just want to punch someone from time to time, he won't do so without apologizing in advance. He is happy-go-lucky and is often known to overreact, nevertheless he is a great actor and performer. Though he is a bit random and crazy at times, he is definitely a vital memeber to the team. He becomes the school's mascot, for the Malibu Sharks.

Riley seen throughout season 1.

Series Overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired (U.S. dates)
			Season premiere	Season finale
	1	19	November 29, 2013	May 25, 2014
	2	26	August 8, 2014	TBA

Episodes

Season 1

The first season of Luke & Lauren was order for a total of 19 episodes which will premiere August 31 as a part of the channel's new saturday night line-up. Confident the first season will be a success, Wiki Channel extended the series, this would then count as a second season which according to NYCgleek has 26 episodes. 

Series #	Season #	Title	Written by	Directed by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. Ratings (in Millions)
1	1	"Lies & Life Lessons"	NYCgleek	David Deluise	November 29, 2013	101	3.7
When popular jock Luke accidently gets framed with good girl Lauren, the two end up detention. While in detention the two realize that they have a magic journal that reveals answers and responses to life's mysterys. The two now must use the journal to find out who set them up and get escape from detention.  Note: This episode is a part of the 2 episode premiere. Which features two different episodes of "Luke & Lauren".
2	2	"Diaries & Dire Needs"	Kevin Kopelow and Heath Seifert	Joel Zwick	December 6, 2013	102	4.0
When Luke and Lauren both realize the diary is a little to much for just the two of them, they share it with Sasha and Riley, this however complicates things. Note: This episode is a part of the 2 episode premiere. Which features two different episodes of "Luke & Lauren".
3	3	"Bees & Bad Situations"	Shelley Jensen	Danny Zuko	December 13, 2013	103	3.3
When Luke and Riley get assigned to makewatch over bee's for a class project they accidently let them out in Lauren's bedroom. Now they have to figure out a ay to capture back the bees so they can get a good grade on their assignemt and save Lauren's room.  Note: This episode is part of the "Bee My Valentine Week" airing in 2014 on Wiki Channel. Lauren gets her new bedroom that is featured in a lot of episodes after this one. Guest Star:
4	4	"'Christmas & Charoles"	NYCgleek	Shelley Jensen	December 20, 2013	104	4.0
Lauren writes an amazing play for the school's winter musical about the joys of Christmas, but feels bad when the plays opening night is the same as the school's food drive for the homeless. Luke and Sasha plan to sing Christmas Charoles around school to make money to donate. Note:  Absent: Guest Star:
5	5	"Rileys & Roles"	Jessie1010 and NYCgleek	David Israel	January 3, 2014	105	2.3
When Riley asks the journal if he'll get the starring role in the school play, the journal tells him a confusing answer. To ensure that he gets the role, with the help of Lauren, Riley takes the answer in every context possible and does different crazy things that may make him get the role. Meanwhile, Sasha helps Luke pick up cheerleaders. Note: The confusing answer is "If you give a pig a parsnip." Absent: Guest Star:
6	6	"Red & Read"	NYCgleek	NYCgleek	January 10, 2014	106	4.1
When a new band named "Red Hammer" comes to Malibu, the gang gets tickets to attend his concert. But when Luke gets another bad quiz grade, his parents tell him he must get at least a B on his next test to attend the concert. He needs a certain book to get a good grade on the spelling test, but they find trouble when the book is not available anywhere. Lead singer, Red (of Red Hammer) has a copy of the book and the gang must find a way to get it before Luke's test.
7	7	"Bets & Bravery"	NYCgleek	Ryder Lee	January 24, 2014	107	2.2
When the magic journal tells Lauren to have more fun with her life. Lauren tries to be more fun to a win a bet and prove to Luke and Riley that she's not all about school and work. Meanwhile, Sasha gets a job at a hot dog place (much to her dismay) and tries to keep it without getting rude with customers in a bet she made to Lauren that she can be nice to everyone. Finally Luke and Riley make a bet to the girls that they can't go a week without breaking something. Note: Absent: Guest Star:
8	8	"Journals & Justice"	Nutter Butter	Mikey Ryan	January 31, 2014	108	4.4
When Sasha's poem is stolen and submitted to the school newspaper anonymously, Sasha asks the journal who did it. When the answer is "Ask Riley", Sasha immediately assumes that Riley is the one who did it, and ignores Riley for the rest of the week- even though Riley doesn't know why. Sasha and Riley not getting along is ruining Luke and Lauren's friendship as well, so they try to figure out what the journal meant. Note: Absent: Guest Star:
9	9	"Dating Rules & Dating Ghouls"	NYCgleek	Lucy Lexington	February 7, 2014	109	3.2
When Luke begins dating a girl the journal doesn't think is the best choice for him, Luke ignores the journal, he then has a dream that everyone is zombies, ghost, goblins, and ghouls. In his dream the journal is now a magical ghost and instead of writing in it, they ask it questions. Note: Absent: Guest Star:
10	10	"Tricks & Trouble"	Austin9393	Mark Taverns	February 21, 2014	110	3.4
When Luke gets kicked out of the soccer team, he must track down who's behind it and get his place on the team back with help from the magic journal, but in order to do it, he needs to go undercover. Note: Absent: Guest Star:
11	11	"Grades & Gifs"	Jessie1010	Shelley Jensen	February 28, 2014	111	5.0
When Lauren ends up staying up too late working on a project, she realizes she forgot to study for her math test. To make sure she gets an A, she uses the magic journal to get the answers to the test. Lauren hates doing the wrong thing but she is convinced the answers the journal gave aren't 100% right so she uses them anyway. But when the answers end up being completely accurate and Lauren gets an A, she feels guilty and tries in every way possible to bring her grade down in math class to make up for it. Meanwhile, Riley and Luke try to make a gif of themselves, hoping it will go viral on Fumblr. Note: Fumblr is a parody of Tumblr. Absent: Guest Star:
12	12	"Artsy & Artie"	NYCgleek	David Israel	March 9, 2014	112	3.6
When the journal inspiries Lauren to enter the art show downtown LA, she makes a master piece that is sure to win and intrust it with Luke, but when Luke's rival Artie and him decide to hold a soccer ball kick off to see who can kick the best they accidently ruin Lauren's master piece. Now Luke, Sasha, and Riley try to fix it before the big art show without Lauren finding out.  Note: This is the first appearance of Artie, who is on the soccer team with Luke.  Guest Star: Austin Edwards as Artie.
13	13	"Leprechauns & Luck"	Lucy Lockheart	NYCgleek	March 16, 2014	113	2.0
Lauren is excited to celebrate St. Patrick's Day and get in touch with her Irish culture. The problem is, she has a deadly fear of leprechauns. So she'll be able to finally celebrate the day without being paranoid of leprechauns, Lauren enlists the help of Luke, Sasha, Riley, and the journal to help her get over her fear. Note: Absent: Guest Star:
14	14	"Confiscations & Catastrophes"	NYCgleek	Ryder Lee	March 30, 2014	114	2.6
Luke and Lauren fear that the secret of the journal is threatened after Luke gets it taken away by his math teacher, Ms. Nooke, after using it in class when he was supposed to be doing work. The four friends must now do everything in their power to get it back. Note: Absent: Guest Star:
15	15	"Comebacks & Campaigns"	Michael O'Conner	Ryder Lee	April  6, 2014	115	2.4
Luke gets kicked off the soccer team after he gets another detention. He then enlists the journal's help to get back on the team. Meanwhile, Lauren wants people to attend her "Save the Bears" campaign day so she uses Luke and Riley's Fumblr fame from their viral gif to catch people's attention. Note: Absent: Guest Star: Austin Edwards as Artie.
16	16	"Beatles & Beetles"	Jessie1010 and NYCgleek	Danny Zuko	April 13, 2014	116	3.4
When Lauren struggles to find a good idea for the music festival, the book takes her and the gang back in time to meet one of tge most popular music group, the Beatles, this is later to be revealed as a dream. Luke tries to help Sasha conquer her fear of bugs so the two of them can enter a game show called "Scare Show" Note: "Scare Show" is a parody of fear factor. Absent: Guest Star:
17	17	"Pizzas & Pittas"	NYCgleek	Mark Taverns	April 20, 2014	117	2.9
The gang helps an old pizza place keep up business so it doesnt get shut down. With hep from the journal they learn how to manage finaces. Note: Absent: Guest Star:
18	18	"Little Brothers & Little Worries"	NYCgleek	Mark Taverns	April 27, 2014	118	3.2
Sasha and Lauren plan a special Saturday night out but then Sasha is stuck babysitting her little brother, Kaden. Lauren has Luke and Riley takeover so she can still hang out with Sasha. But Sasha has trouble focusing on the night out with Lauren because she's worried the boys won't be responsible enough to take care of Kaden. Note: Absent: Guest Star: Railyn Chandler as Kaden
19	19	"Translations & Transfers"	NYCgleek	Mark Taverns	May 25, 2014	119	5.1
The magic journal tells Luke & Laurn that someone will be leaving, this becomes bad news when Sasha's parents consider moving to Texas. Meanwhile, a new soccer prodigy from Europe joins the team that Luke is on and quickly becomes very popular around the school, and tries to take Luke's place as captain. Note: This is the season finale. Sasha ends up moving to a new street called "Texas Drive" and is not leaving town.

Season 2

Series #	Season #	Title	Written by	Directed by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. Ratings (in Millions)
20	1	"Slushies & Plushies"	NYCgleek	David Deluise	August 8, 2014	201	4.0
Riley creates a slushie stand in order to make some money and sastify hot people down at the beach during a series heatwave, but when a rival slushie stand makes their way onto the malibu beaches the gang works together in order to drive them out of business. A big human sized plushie doll is walking around the beach and everyone tires to figure out who is inside. When they use the journal to try and figure out who is inside it doesn't respond to them which leaves them to figure it out on their own. It ends up being someone from the rival food truck spying on them in order to find out their slushie flavors. Note: This is the season 2 premiere.
21	2	"Triplets & Trumpets"	NYCgleek	Mark Taverns	August 22, 2014	202	3.2
When Luke offers to watch his neighbors kid and walk them to their orchestra performance, he doesn't realize he is watching triples and ends up losing two of them and askes the journal for help on how to find them. Lauren is the one teaching the children's orchestra lesson and has a hard time stalling the show while Luke find the three trumpet players. Riley and Sasha split up with Luke to help find the triplets.
23	3	"Birthdays Cakes & Party Mistakes"	Heatherblast9 and NYCgleek	Mark Taverns	Setpember 19, 2014	203	2.0
The gang plans a surprise birthday party for Sasha, but since she thinks that they had forgotten, she asks the journal if they had. When she finds out what they are doing, she tries to indirectly tell them how to throw it to make it her perfect party without them knowing. Things make a turn for the worst when the cake explodes at the party. Note: This is the first time Sasha uses the journal by herself.
24	4	"Cafe & Coffee"	NYCgleek	Cory Cockrhan	October 8, 2014	204	2.7
When a new coffee shop/cafe named the "The Waterfall Cafe" opens up downtown, everyone in town gets addicted to it, becuase of the nice girl name Olivia (Julia Harkens) that runs it. The book informs the kids that everything is not what is seems with Olivia, which makes them try to snoop around and find out what's going on, this becomes hard when she is nice and compliments Lauren on her writing, Luke on his soccer skills, Sasha on her outfits, and Riley on his sketches. During soccer practice Luke gets hit in the head with a ball, when he wakes up, Luke then starts to believe she is brainwashing everyone through the coffee drinks and such, and runs away becauseof his friends trying to attack him. Right before Olivia tells everyone to get him, he screams and he suddenly wakes up again and it was all a dream, and Olivia is just a nice perky girl. Meanwhile, Riley is being blocked from going into his favorite comic book store by a bully and keeps avoiding him, until he finally decides to stand up for himself and speak out. Note: This is the beginning of a new hangout for the group. "Waterfall Cafe", this episode airs at a special day and time due to Stand Up Week on Wiki Channel. Guest Star: Julia Harkens as Olivia.
25	5	"Part-Time & Parting Time"	NYCgleek	Mark Taverns	October 16, 2014	205	3.0
During the october season, Olivia and some of the other workers are getting the place ready for Halloween,but when one of the new workers, Jackie (Liberty Dillon), is really bad and ends p being the managers daughter. Which the gang finds out from the book before Olivia tries to fire her. Now Luke, Lauren, and Riley try to help Olivia in getting Jackie to quit so that she Olivia doesn't have to fire her, which ends up being a harder task inwhich they thought. Lauren tries to join a yoga club, but realizes it's not as easy as she intended. Note: Guest Star: Liberty Dillon as Jackie, Julia Harkens as Olivia.
26	6	"Lauren & Luke (part 1)"	NYCgleek	Shelly Jensen	November 21, 2014	206
When Lauren starts to get more attention around school than Luke after winning a song writing contest for a popular movie called Boy of the World about a kid who saves the world, getting to record her song professionally and meeting the famous actor Dyson Jett (Riley Sun) who stars in the movie, he starts to feel a bit of competition when kids around school start flocking to her, especially guys and may even be jealous of the new actor that she is spending her time with. Luke askes the journal to do at the end of the episodes and it says "act on your emotions or do nothing at all" before Luke does anything "To Be Continued" appears on the screen and the episode goes off. Note: Luke questions if he has romantic feelings for Lauren. Guest Star(s): Riley Sun as Dyson Jett. Song(s) Featured: "All About You" by Shelly Yanes.
27	7	"Lauren & Luke (part 2)"	NYCgleek	Mark Delorosa	November 28, 2014	207
Dyson ask Lauren on a date and Lauren askes Sasha what she should wear. Luke is struggling to confess his crush for Lauren, but when he is thinking out loud. Sasha over hears him and he makes her promise to keep it a secret from both Lauren and Riley. Dyson and Lauren go on their date at the Waterfall Cafe and Luke tries to sabotage it, until he falls in through a window and crashes a salad bar embarressing himself and Lauren. Olivia helps Luke clean himsself off before Dyson later confronts Luke, letting him know it's obvious that he likes Lauren (Luke tries to deny it at first but later comes clean) and he tells him and Lauren talked about him syaing he was one of her most important friends. He promises Luke not to tell Lauren that he likes her and says he has to go shoot a new movie and tells Luke he should go for it. Dyson later tells Lauren he has enjoyed hanging out with her and that he has to get back to work in Canada. When Lauren tells Dyson "I don't think I'll ever find a guy as cool as you", Dyson responds "you will and he might even be closer than you think", he hugs her and walks away before Luke comes in to apologize.  Note: Luke realizes he has feelings for Lauren. Luke doesn't tell Lauren he has feelings for her and neither does Sasha. Lauren and Riley are still unaware. Guest Star: Riley Sun as Dyson Jett. Julia Harkens as Olivia. Song(s) Featured: "All About You" by Shelly Yanes.
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International Release

Country / Region	Channel	Series premiere	Title in country
United States	Wiki Channel	November 29, 2013	Luke & Lauren
Canada	YTV	November 29, 2013
United Kingdom  Ireland	Disney Channel (UK & Ireland)	February 4, 2014
Australia	Nickelodeon	2014