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La Femme Nikita: Created by Joel Surnow. With Peta Wilson, Don Francks, Eugene Robert Glazer, Roy Dupuis. A clandestine anti-terrorist organization fakes the death of a convicted murderer and trains her in the fighting skills necessary to succeed in her new job.
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- 1997-01-13
- Action, Crime, Drama
- 60
- Comparison with The Film
- Cast and Characters
- Broadcasting History
- CW Series
- Merchandising
- Critical Response
- References
In the original Luc Besson film—and in the American remake Point of No Return (also released as The Assassin), released by Warner Bros.—Nikita is a drug-addicted juvenile delinquent who kills a police officer in cold blood during an attempted robbery of a pharmacy. She is later arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in Nikita, and to death by ...
Characters are listed in order of title credit and by appearance on the show. 1. = Main cast(credited) 2. = Recurring cast(2+) 3. = Guest cast(1) Note
Ratings success
La Femme Nikita was the number-one drama on basic cable channel USA Network for its first two seasons. It had been "greenlighted" by the network's founder and "cable network pioneer" Kay Koplovitz and nurtured by former USA Network president Rod Perth, a "key player" in its development. But, after Barry Diller assumed control of the network in April 1998, he replaced Perth with Stephen Chao as network president. Heyn observed, "Although both Diller and Chao praised La Femme Nikita publicly, i...
"Save LFN"
Following the series' cancellation in 2000, its dedicated viewers mounted an extensive fan campaign to revive it. "Save LFN" was not the first successful fan campaign to use the internet to rally fans and renew a canceled series. "These kinds of efforts had resurrected canceled series before, beginning with the original Star Trek on NBC in 1968 all the way up to UPN's Roswell in 2000". However, "Save LFN" is notable for its size and inventiveness, including an "online renewal petition" which...
Naming Convention
In La Femmeall the episodes had the same number of words in their titles as the series number. All episodes in series 1 had one word titles, in series 2 two word titles and so on.
On January 28, 2010, it was reported that The CW Television Network would develop a new TV pilot based loosely on the French film Nikita. The new show, which shares its name with the film, is executive-produced by McG, with Peter Johnson and Craig Silverstein serving as executive producers and writers. It is a joint production with Warner Bros. Stu...
Home media
The complete series is available on DVD through Warner Bros. Home Video. The box sets use the USA/international title, La Femme Nikita. Each DVD boxed set features a solitary image of Peta Wilson on the cover, with the remainder of the cast featured on the interior artwork. Only the covers for seasons one and five feature images of Wilson taken specifically as promotional photographs (for advertising campaigns and later marketing purposes) during those seasons. The DVD cover images for season...
Soundtracks
An official soundtrack, released in June 1998, is still available on CD from TVT Records. It features the title theme from composer Mark Snow, as well as numerous songs heard during the first two seasons of the show from artists like Depeche Mode and Afro Celt Sound System. A "promotional release" in a limited run of 2000 CDs of Emmy-award winning composer Sean Callery's selections from his orchestral score for Nikita was first made available by Callery during the Close Quarters Standby 4 fan...
Series merchandise
According to Christopher Heyn, "To many long-time viewers, La Femme Nikita had always been a natural for merchandising. Besides the usual array of T-shirts, jackets, coffee mugs, posters and other trinkets, the action content of the series lends itself perfectly to the development of video games, comic books, toys and action figures. Yet, during the entire run of the series, Warner Bros. released only one piece of merchandise—the soundtrack CD on TVT Records. Beyond that, there was nothing. T...
On Metacritic, the first season received a score of 68/100 based on 7 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Andrea Higbie, writing for The New York Times said, "The show, which has received good reviews in publications including New York magazine, USA Today and The New York Times, is like a long MTV video, with few words but lots of mu...
Heyn, Christopher. Inside Section One: Creating and Producing TV's La Femme Nikita. Intro. Peta Wilson. Los Angeles: POV Press, 2006. ISBN 0-9787625-0-9.
La Femme Nikita. Season 1. Condemned to death for a vicious crime she didn't commit, Nikita (Peta Wilson--Mercy) reluctantly chooses to live as a secret government assassin whose life is controlled by a mysterious agent (Roy Dupuis--Screamers) and his colleagues. 769 IMDb 7.4 1997 22 episodes. X-Ray TV-14.
La Femme Nikita is a television series from Warner Bros. and Fireworks Entertainment. The series premiered on USA Network on January 13, 1997 and ended March 4, 2001, with a total of 96 episodes over the course of five seasons.
No. OverallNo. In SeasonTitleDirected By11"Nikita"22"Friend"Guy Magar33"Simone"44"Charity"La Femme Nikita. Buy La Femme Nikita on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. When homeless, young Nikita is framed for the killing of a policeman, she is given a choice -- join Section One or...
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La Femme Nikita was the highest-rated drama on American basic cable during its first two seasons. It was also distributed in some other countries, and it continues to have a strong cult following. La Femme Nikita was a Canadian action/drama television series based on the French film Nikita by Luc Besson.
While living in a crime-ridden neighborhood, young, beautiful Nikita is wrongly accused of murdering a police officer and falsely imprisoned.
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