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Nikita (re-titled La Femme Nikita in some markets) was a Canadian-produced television series loosely based on the movie of the same name (see Nikita). It ran for five seasons from 1996 to 2001 and was created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran, who together went on to create 24. The series was canceled after its fourth season, but an intense campaign coordinated by the LFN fan club "First Team" was able to convince the USA Network (the American broadcaster of the series) and Warner Brothers to renew the show for an abbreviated fifth season. In Canada the series was initially aired on CTV. Image File history File links This is a DVD cover. ...
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Joel Surnow is best known as the executive producer of the television series La Femme Nikita, but has also written scripts for other popular series such as Miami Vice and Wiseguy. ...
Robert Cochran is the co-creator of the television series 24 which is currently airing on the Fox television network. ...
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Joel Surnow is best known as the executive producer of the television series La Femme Nikita, but has also written scripts for other popular series such as Miami Vice and Wiseguy. ...
Robert Cochran is the co-creator of the television series 24 which is currently airing on the Fox television network. ...
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In 2001 a computer game based on Nikita was announced for the Xbox system, but was later canceled. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
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The first season of the series was released to DVD in 2003. Due to a problem in obtaining the rights to a song featured in one episode (later resolved by replacing the song with another piece of music), the second season DVD release did not occur until March 15, 2005. The third season was released on June 28, 2005. DVD release of the remaining two seasons has yet to be announced as of November 2005. DVD-R writing/reading side, based on Photo DVD.jpg. ...
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Background The television series revolves around the life of Nikita (Peta Wilson) as a counter-terrorism operative. Originally homeless, she was falsely accused of murdering a police officer and consequently sentenced to life in prison. Selected as a recruit, she was abducted from her prison and presented the opportunity to work for Section One as a potential counter-terrorism operative. The alternative given to this "offer" was immediate execution. It appeared (at first) that Section One falsely believed that Nikita killed the police officer, and is therefore capable of committing deadly acts of violence. After accepting Section One's proposal, all traces of her former life were altered or purged and her official records were rephrased to state that she had committed suicide while in prison. She underwent two years of training as a recruit under the supervision of top operative Michael Samuelle (Roy Dupuis) and after barely passing the final field test, was reluctantly given the code name "Josephine", thereby affirming her operative status. She was provided with a new identity by Section One and given a small apartment to house her during the time not spent working for the organization. Eventually, Nikita went on to form distinct relationships with various members of Section One, most notably with Samuelle. On the cover of Playboy, July 2004 Peta Gia Wilson (born November 18, 1970 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian born actress and model. ...
Counter-terrorism refers to the practices, tactics, and strategies that governments, militaries, and other groups adopt in order to fight terrorism. ...
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Over time, Nikita learns to accept her new life, becoming an efficient (and, when necessary, cold-blooded) killer along the way.
Style Despite being advertised as an action-oriented series, the show's uniqueness primarily stems from its lack of emphasis on action and reliance rather on dialogue and complex plot structure to maintain itself within the spy fiction genre, which traditionally had placed less importance on these aspects. Since its inception, the show was never able to support a large enough budget to finance complex action sequences (as seen in other spy fiction series such as Alias or 24). This resulted in a wider efforts taken to develop plot structure, character development, and dialog (all of which required much fewer expenditures). Movie poster for Die Another Day, the 20th James Bond movie. ...
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The spy fiction genre (sometimes called political thriller) arose before the World War I, at about the same time that the first modern intelligence agencies were being formed. ...
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The autonomous nature of Section One gave the show's writers the freedom to explore areas not usually associated with the genre. Section One, while founded as a counter-terrorism organization (traditionally represented within fiction as good), used (as a standard) immoral means to achieve their objectives citing efficiency and "service of the greater good" as justification for their actions. This led to the standardized implementation of draconian procedures which included the use (upon both terrorist and innocent) of intimidation, torture, murder, assassination, abduction, suicide operatives, false imprisonment, and terrorist cooperation. In one episode, for example, Section One handed over a woman to a sadist to be carved up, in exchange for information. Autonomy is the condition of something that does not depend on anything else. ...
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Unlike most counter-terrorist organizations, Section One's personnel did not work for monetary or ideological devotion; rather, they worked out of fear of execution due to sub-standard performance or disloyalty. Consequently, this fostered a bleak social environment where there existed little interaction among members (excluding work-related issues). This environment, combined with the realist nature of counter-terrorism and Section One's mantra of efficiency resulted in the show embrace of a darker minimalist theme. Evidence of this can be found in all aspects of the show most notably in its fashion, music, dialog, plot, and facial expressions. Realism is commonly defined as a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary. ...
Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features. ...
The harshness (both mental and physical) of the environment under which operatives had to perform resulted in the show abandoning attempts to romanticize any positive aspects of the organization and the show's characters (excluding Nikita, Birkoff or Walter). The show instead adopted a darker tone to reflect the effects of Section One's characters subverting to the philosophies and tactics used by their own organization. Unlimited resources coupled with ulterior motives and personal adherences to moral relativism resulted in widespread intra and inter-departmental infighting as well as frequent occurrences of secret alliances, backstabbing, blackmail and abuses of power between all characters of the show. Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement in the history of ideas that originated in late 18th century Western Europe. ...
In philosophy, moral relativism is the position that moral or ethical propositions do not reflect absolute and universal moral truths but instead are relative to social, cultural, historical or personal references, and that there is no single standard by which to assess an ethical propositions truth. ...
The paradoxical nature of a counter-terrorism organization resorting to terrorist methodology to succeed in its goals presented the basis from which fresh insights into morality were explored. Nikita's unwavering belief in moral absolutism (compared with Section One's philosophy of situational ethics) formed the underlying conflict that was the driving factor in the majority of the show's storylines. For other meanings of Paradox, see Paradox (disambiguation). ...
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Main Cast On the cover of Playboy, July 2004 Peta Gia Wilson (born November 18, 1970 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian born actress and model. ...
Roy Dupuis (born April 21, 1963) is a celebrated French-Canadian (Québécois) actor. ...
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The "Save LFN" campaign Following the show's cancellation, the "Save LFN" effort became notable for being the first ever fan campaign to incorporate the extensive use of the internet in rallying and focusing the efforts of its fan base. The relative ease with which websites could convey information (compared to other possible mediums at the time) resulted in a well organized international effort to revive the show. Over 10,000 emails were sent to Warner Brothers and USA Network mailboxes in addition to 15,000 letters, sunglasses (Nikita's signature accessory), VCRs, and 3000$ in cash. Most of these efforts were coordinated through a website maintained by First Team (www.savelfn.org) which was set up exclusively to support efforts for the renewal of the show. The use of the internet represented a precedent in levels of fan-participation and speed of fan feedback. Networks were now able to evaluate much quicker how their show was being perceived by audiences through email and internet forums while these new mediums provided a much faster and easier method for fans to express their opinions thus boosting overall fan participation. A website, Web site or WWW site (often shortened to just site) is a collection of webpages, that is, HTML/XHTML documents accessible via HTTP on the Internet; all publicly accessible websites in existence comprise the World Wide Web. ...
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The result of these efforts was the production of a fifth, final season of the series.
("LFN" refers to La Femme Nikita, which was the title under which Nikita was shown in American markets.)
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