Mortified

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Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Angela Webber
Written by	Angela Webber Sam Carroll Tim Gooding Johanna Pigott Steve Wright Max Dann Chris Anastassiades Shirley Pierce Adam Bowen Helen McWhirter
Directed by	Pino Amenta Paul Moloney Ian Gilmour Michael Pattinson Evan Clarry
Starring	Marny Kennedy Nicolas Dunn Maia Mitchell Dajana Cahill Luke Erceg Rachel Blakely Andrew Blackman
Theme music composer	Frank Strangio
Opening theme	"Get Me Out of Here"
Template:Pluralize from text of origin	Australia
Original languageTemplate:Pluralize from text	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	26
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Executive producerTemplate:Pluralize from text	Phillip Bowman Jenny Buckland Bernadette O'Mahony Jo Horsburgh
ProducerTemplate:Pluralize from text	Phillip Bowman Bernadette O'Mahony
Camera setup	Single-camera (videotape used for end credit scenes)
Running time	24 minutes
Production Template:Pluralize from text	Enjoy! Entertainment Australian Children's Television Foundation Film Finance Corporation Australia Nine Network
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Mortified is an Australian children's television series, co-produced by the Australian Children's Television Foundation and Enjoy Entertainment for the Nine Network Australia that premiered on June 30, 2006 and ended on April 11, 2007 with two seasons and a total of 26 episodes.

Premise

Mortified follows the imaginative life of Taylor Fry, an 11-year-old girl living in a beachside town in Australia called Sunburn Beach, struggling to make it through her pre-teen years with her flawed and embarrassing family. She is embarrassed by her parents, Don and Glenda; sometimes jealous of her close friend/neighbour Brittany; unaware that her best friend, Hector, has a crush on her while she has a one-sided crush on popular Leon. Taylor frequently breaks the fourth wall and speaks directly to the audience. Her imagination causes inanimate objects to seemingly come to life.

Cast

Main

• Marny Kennedy as Taylor Fry, the main character and protagonist who is embarrassed by her parents Don and Glenda, annoyed by her older sister Layla and has a crush on her classmate Leon (while her best friend Hector has a crush on her, but she does not know it as he won't even admit it). Taylor regularly breaks the fourth wall and talks directly to the audience. Marny later received an Australian Film Institute Award for the role.
• Nicolas Dunn as Hector Garcia, Taylor's loyal best friend who often gets dragged along on her crusades. However, he falls out with Taylor twice-- in the episode "Flag Fall" when he volunteers to raise the new Sunburn Primary School flag and Taylor calls him a dork and in the episode "School Trivia Night" when Taylor conspires with Leon to sabotage their families during the event, but he reconciles with her both times. In the episode "DJ Taylor," as Hector secretly has a crush on Taylor, he even goes so far as to send her a Valentine's Day card (though Taylor mistakenly assumes the card was from Leon, though even after finding out that this was not the case, as Leon humiliates Taylor on the airwaves by revealing he doesn't like Valentine's Day, Hector still does not tell her the card was from him). It is revealed in the episode "Taylor Gets a Job" that he is allergic to cats.
• Maia Mitchell as Brittany Flune, Taylor's friend/next-door neighbour who sometimes has a competitive friendship with Taylor. She is beautiful and is best known for being perfect. Like Taylor with her parents Don and Glenda, Brittany is shown to feel embarrassed by her parents, Michael and Loretta. She talks in flowery language and appears to be the leader of a clique in the episode "Bigger Than Vegas."
• Dajana Cahill as Layla Fry, Taylor's older sister who is nasty, annoying and always getting on Taylor's nerves. She is obsessed with fashion (as evidenced in the episode "Mother in the Nude" when she gets a job of presenting Hibb's Apricot Hand Cream in a TV commercial and steals Taylor's hairbrush in the episode "The Chosen One") and is always finding and dumping boyfriends. Despite the feud between them, however, Layla does show some positive actions towards Taylor (if that's even possible to believe), as in the episode "Taylor Gets a Job," after realizing that everything Taylor said about her being selfish and irresponsible was true, she decided that, since Taylor had worked so hard to earn money to buy a mobile phone of her own since Don and Glenda wouldn't buy one, Layla gave Taylor her old mobile phone (forgetting to let all her friends know she spent the money she earned working at the Underpant Emporium to buy an updated phone, meaning Taylor ended up getting phone calls from random people) and helped Taylor and Hector rebuild their half-destroyed model of a Roman kitchen in the episode "Rome Wasn't Built in a Day" after Taylor reunited her with Dave, the pizza-delivery driver boyfriend Layla dumped for Matt (who, ironically, dumped Layla earlier in the episode after Layla had to cancel her movie date with Matt because Don and Glenda were going to Don's high school reunion and someone had to babysit Taylor). It is revealed in the episode "Taylor Turns Bad" that while Glenda considers Layla a rebel, Taylor considers her to be an idiot after Layla's friend Katie's mum confronts Don and Glenda about what a bad influence Layla is.
• Luke Erceg as Leon Lipowski, the class heartthrob whom Taylor and Brittany both have crushes on while Hector is biased against him since Taylor has a crush on Leon (when Hector has a crush on Taylor) and when Leon always throws "missiles" at him in class, much to the annoyance of Mr. McClusky. His father, Gary, is nicknamed "Fingers" and Leon mostly enjoys surfing and sports. It appears Leon is an only child like Brittany and Hector-- that is, until the episode "School Trivia Night," when his older brother, Brett, makes his only appearance in the series. It is revealed in the episode "DJ Taylor" that Leon's middle name is Vivian (the only one who knew this secret was Hector when Leon told him in kindergarten).
• Rachel Blakely as Glenda Fry, Taylor and Layla's mum and Don's wife who, like Don, is ditzy and wacky and, personality-wise, is stuck in the 1960s. She often helps Don at the Underpant Emporium store. Like her cousin Mystic Marj, she is obsessed with things like chakras/mind/body/spirit and often meditates.
• Andrew Blackman as Don FryTaylor and Layla's dad and Glenda's husband referred to as the "Underpant King" and even has a shop that sells underpants in the local shopping centre. Despite being ditzy and wacky, like Glenda, he does show mature effects (as evidenced in the episode "Mother in the Nude," when he rescued Taylor who was in danger of drowning after she had fallen into the sea while wearing a mermaid costume in a failed attempt to prevent the public from seeing Glenda's nude sculpture.

Recurring

• Sally McKenzie as Mystic Marj, Glenda's seer/fortune teller/mystic/prophetic/psychic cousin who is eccentric and, like Glenda, has a passion for chakras, making a living out of reading tea leaves. Despite her reputation, Marj is often thought to be a fraud and a bit insane (in the episode "Bigger than Vegas," Taylor goes to ask her advice for something and Marj correctly guesses that Taylor had been nominated for school captain, but only because Glenda told her (blabbermouth) and in the episode "Mother in the Nude," she and Taylor create a video where Marj predicts a series of cataclysmic events occurring at the seaside at the time of Sculpture by the Beach-- e.g. rainstorms, glaciers, landslides and thunderstorms-- so as to get the event cancelled and no one believed her).
• Steven Tandy as Mr. McClusky, Taylor, Hector, Brittany and Leon's primary school teacher (and presumably Layla's old primary school teacher, as evidenced in the episode "Taylor Turns Bad," when he keeps saying her name and acts like he really knows her; he doesn't). He is wise and can be strict at times (especially with Leon when he throws "air-born missiles" at Hector). With the exception of the episode "The Talk," Mr. McClusky appears in every episode of series one, but is completely absent in series two since Taylor, Hector, Brittany and Leon depart for high school (though he is mentioned briefly by Taylor in the episode "Little Fish" that Taylor misses him and his bush-walking socks, to which Hector replies "Seriously?").
• Peter Kent and Veronica Neave as Michael and Loretta Flune, Brittany's lawyer dad and doctor mum, respectively, who are brilliant musicians (as revealed in the episodes "Taylor's DNA" where they play a piano solo for the Sunburn Beach school talent quest and in "Mother in the Nude" where Loretta plays the piano and Michael plays the cello) and like to keep everything "perfect" and are zero-tolerant of stains (as evidenced in the episode "Girl Power," when Taylor accidentally spilled raspberry cordial on the carpet and Brittany ended up getting in trouble for it) and have strict house rules (as seen in the episode "Taylor's Song" when Taylor tries to play the piano without wearing gloves).
• David Anderson as Gary Lipowski, Leon and Brett's dad. His wife is not shown, suggesting/implying that he is either widowed or divorced. He owns a repair shop for things like radios and televisions and microwaves. In the episode "School Trivia Night," he was thought to have briefly stolen the Flunes' television and donated it to Driftwood High School instead of repairing it (even though there was nothing wrong with the TV other than Loretta driving Michael crazy at home).

Development and production

Mortified was created by screenwriter and author Angela Webber and directed by Pino Amenta. It consists of 26 24-minute episodes. The first season of Mortified had a budget of A$9.3 million. It was shot on location in Coolangatta, Palm Beach, Currumbin, Burleigh Heads, Elanora, Tugun and Bilinga on the Gold Coast while most of the school scenes were filmed at the local Palm Beach Currumbin High School and Coolangatta State School starting on 8 June 2005, with the shopping centre scenes filmed at The Pines Shopping Centre at Elanora, primarily outside Woolworths and inside the Dimmeys store located opposite Woolworths. Mortified was launched in Cannes at MIPTV in April 2006.

International broadcast

Country / Region	Network(s)	Broadcast run	Title
	Disney Channel ABC3		Mortified
	Disney Channel Spain, Cartoon Network Spain, Antena 3 (Spain)	2006–2007	¿Por qué a mí?
	Disney Channel Latin America	2007–2011	¿Por qué a mí?
	ORF eins		Meine peinlichen Eltern
	Disney Channel Brazil, TV Cultura	2007–2011	Ninguém Merece!
	BBC Kids		Mortified
	Canal 13	2008	¿Por qué a mí?
	Señal Colombia	2010	¿Por qué a mí?
	Ecuavisa		¿Por qué a mí?
	Disney Channel France		Morte de honte!
	KiKa	12 March 2008	Meine peinlichen Eltern
	Disney Channel India	2007–2008	मोर्टीफाईड (Hindi)
	RTÉ	2007-10
			כזאת מושפלת
	NHK	31 March 2008–?	気分はぐるぐる
	Disney Channel Italy		Perché a me
	Disney Channel Latin America, Canal Once	2007–2015	¿Por qué a mí?
	Zapp		Mortified Zóóó gênant
	NRK Super		Dødsflaut
	Canal Panda		Que vida a minha
	Disney Channel Russia		Непокорная
	EBS		테일러는 12살
	SVT Barnkanalen		Pinsamheter
	CBBC, Pop Girl		Mortified
	Starz Kids & Family	1 March 2011–present	Mortified
	Televen	2010	¿Por qué a mí?
	HTV3	28 November 2012 – present	Tuổi ô mai

Crew

• Series creator: Angela Webber
• Executive producers: Phillip Bowman, Jenny Buckland, Bernadette O'Mahony, Jo Horsburgh
• Producers: Phillip Bowman, Bernadette O'Mahony
• Writers: Angela Webber, Sam Carroll, Tim Gooding, Johanna Pigott, Steve Wright, Max Dann, Chris Anastassiades, Shirley Pierce, Adam Bowen, Helen McWhirter
• Directors: Pino Amenta, Paul Moloney, Ian Gilmour, Michael Pattinson, Evan Clarry
• Script editors: Sam Carroll, Steve Wright

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Recipient	Result
2007	New York Festivals Television Programming and Promotion Awards	Grand Award for Best Youth Program	-	Won
		Gold World Medal for Youth Programs ages 7 to 12	-	Won
2006	Australian Film Institute Awards	Best Children's Television Drama	-	Won
		Young Actor Award	Marny Kennedy	Won
		Best Direction In Television	Pino Amenta (for the pilot episode "Taylor's DNA")	Nominee
		Best Screenplay In Television	Angela Webber (for the pilot episode "Taylor's DNA")	Nominee
	Chicago International Children's Festival	First Prize in the Live Action Television category	-	Won
	54th Columbus International Film and Video Festival	Bronze Plaque for Children and Youth Programs	-	Won
	Australian Teachers of Media Awards	Best Children's Television Series	-	Won

External links

• Mortified at IMDbTemplate:Edit at Wikidata
• Mortified on YouTube