Nikki in the City

Nikki in the City is an American teen comedy-drama  television series on  TUPN. It is a sequel  to the television series  All About Us and based on the  book of the same name  by Maryam Wells. The first season of the show focuses on Nikki Merrick, one of the imfamous AAU Girls, living in New York with her aunt and twin cousins and being a student at Fashion Institute of Technology and interning as a fashion house.

Cast and Characters

 * Britt Robertson - Nikki Merrick
 * Amanda Pace - Taylor Quimby
 * Rachel Pace - Jessica Quimby
 * Kelly Ruthford - Francine Quimby

Filming Locations
Primarily filming in New York, Nikki in the City has been declared by  New York Magazine  as the "Most funniest Show Since The Nanny," citing the pilot episode  filming locales such as the Japanese restaurant, Geisha, the  Campbell Apartment  where Nate and Serena were filmed having sex and the  New York Palace Hotel  bar  Gilt .| [38]  Other New York City landmarks and well-known establishments were filmed throughout the first season. Victor/Victrola filmed the fictional infamous Chuck Bass burlesque club, Victrola, at The Box Manhattan, a sister club to The Box Soho  in London.| [39]  The fictional Middleton Academy, based on novel writer Cecily Von Ziegesar's alma mater,  Nightingale-Bamford  used external shots of the  Museum of the City of New York .| [40]

The second season premiered at the Hamptons  and began filming in mid-June. The season premiere opening montage showed a scene at Cooper's Beach that was instead filmed in Rockaway Beach followed by an elaborate white party.| [41] | [42]  For the sixth episode of the season,  Columbia University  was used to film the  Yale campus, an episode that followed disappointment from Yale fans due to its erroneous portrayal of the admissions process and reliance on  Ivy League university  stereotypes.| [43]  During the season's seventh episode, the Brooklyn Inn is integrated into the show.| [44]  Remaining true to its New York locations, the show filmed at the  Russian Tea Room .| [45]  | [46]

The fourth season premiered on September 13, 2010 with the first two episodes filmed in Paris.| [47] | [48]   New York Magazine  revealed several locations shot at the French University,  La Sorbonne  in the Latin District (or Quartier Latin) of Paris on July 5.| [49]  | [50]  Other locations include the  Musée d'Orsay, the  Eiffel Tower , the  Gare du Nord ,  Avenue Montaigne .| [51]  and  Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Columbia University became the primary filming location for the first few episodes of the season following the Paris story arc.| [52]

The fifth season premiered on September 26, 2011 with the first two episodes filmed in Los Angeles, California .| [53]

Because of its location in New York, executive producer Stephanie Savage said "We were quickly told it would be too expensive, too complicated" at the beginning of the series. She told it had been proposed to shoot in a Los Angeles studio that would recreate Central Park but they eventually filmed the series in New York.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-54">| [54] Savage explained their choice to film there: "There's no New York City on TV, or there wasn't when we started making the pilot, except what you could see in the background behind the dead bodies on cop shows. We've never seen the city from the point of view of teenagers. It felt like a world with high stakes for young people." Schwartz added: "What's funny about these teenagers is they grew up watching Sex and the City, even though it wasn't about them. And I think they've probably incorporated that into how they mythologize New York. I fought really hard to shoot the show in New York because we want New York to be a character in the show."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-55">| [55]