Carly Shay
Carly Shay (Miranda Cosgrove) is the teen star of her own popular web show, iCarly, which she produces with her two best friends, Sam and Freddie. She is age 13 as the series begins. Carly lives with her 26-year old brother Spencer in the Bushwell Plaza, a fictional apartment building in Seattle. Her father is in the Navy and stationed on a submarine (it is said in the first episode that he is currently in Europe), and it's unclear what happened to her mother. Because of iCarly, Carly is a local celebrity, which sometimes helps her get out of sticky situations, but she remains an average teenage girl who never lets fame get to her head. Carly is quite intelligent and hates to lie about anything or anyone, implied in the episode iPromise Not to Tell, where she was overcome by guilt when forced to keep Sam's troublemaking a secret. Carly has very high grades in school and is even offered a scholarship to Briarwood Academy, an elite private school.
[edit] Samantha "Sam" Puckett
Samantha Puckett (Jennette McCurdy) is Carly's best friend and co-host of iCarly. While she's also friends with Freddie, their relationship is strained at best, since Sam enjoys torturing him. Sam tends to be the opposite of her best friend; while Carly is the level-headed one, Sam is argumentative, hot-tempered, sarcastic, stubborn, and at times intimidating. Sam is almost always at Carly's apartment to get away from her family; it's implied that she has a dysfunctional home life and an unreliable mother, who apparently never wakes up before 12:00 p.m., and is supported more by Sam than vice versa. Sam is very focused on food, and is often seen eating or talking about food. She is a bit of a bully, her main targets being Freddie, classmate Gibby, and anyone else who crosses her. Sam is also a troublemaker and extremely lazy, and as a result she often gets in trouble with Principal Franklin and other authority figures, especially Miss Francine Briggs.
[edit] Fredward "Freddie" Benson
Freddie (Nathan Kress) is the technical producer of iCarly and Carly's neighbor who lives across the hall, where he stays with his obsessively protective mother who would have preferred a daughter. He has a huge crush on Carly, though Carly has made it clear that at the moment, she is not interested. While he and Sam are actually best friends, he bears the brunt of her abuse and they have a somewhat unreliable relationship. Freddie has had one girlfriend, an iCarly fan with ulterior motives named Valerie in the episode iWill Date Freddie. Freddie is also particularly close to Carly's brother Spencer, whom he tends to rely on as an older male figure.
[edit] Spencer Shay
Spencer (Jerry Trainor) is Carly's 26-year-old brother and legal guardian. He is an artist by profession and is an impressive sculptor. He is goofy, weird, and sometimes immature (which sometimes embarrasses Carly), but he has also proven to others that he is a responsible guardian to Carly in the episode iWanna Stay With Spencer. Spencer went to law school for three days, and his marginal law knowledge has occasionally proven useful to Carly and her friends, such as in the episode iPromote Techfoots, when Carly and the gang use Spencer as their lawyer to get out of a contract with Daka Shoes. As a running gag, whenever Spencer builds or fixes something, it tends to burst into flames spontaneously. Another running gag is that whenever one person who is close to Socko, Spencer's friend who makes unusual socks, is mentioned, it is usually a pun (such as Tyler for ties, Otto for vehicles/automobiles, Penny for Penny T's, and Rob when Spencer needed somebody to steal a couch back for him in iGive Away a Car).
[edit] Episodes
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| Season | Episodes | Season Premiere | Season Finale |
| Season 1 | 25 | September 8, 2007 | July 25, 2008 |
| Season 2 | 25 | September 27, 2008 | 2009 |
[edit] Special Guest Appearances
Columbia Records and Nickelodeon Records has released a soundtrack for the show entitled iCarly. It includes the theme song and four original songs by the Miranda Cosgrove. Several tracks by guest artists and cast dialogue are also included.
[edit] DVD releases
Paramount Home Entertainment and Nickelodeon released iCarly: Season 1, Volume 1 Box Set on DVD September 23, 2008. [1] The DVD has 13 episodes on two discs, which means it is only half of season one. It includes the bonus feature of the song, "Leave It All to Me" by Miranda Cosgrove.
iCarly: Season 1, Volume 2 Box Set will be released on March 17, 2009 with 13 episodes on two discs, including a bonus episode because there was an odd number of episodes in this season. So far bonus features have been announced.
[edit] Website
The iCarly.com website contains many promotional videos by the cast (as their respective characters), as well as content created and sent in by viewers. Other features on the site include characters' blogs, pictures from the set, songs, games, and comments from viewers. Many fictional websites from this show and other TEENick shows redirect to this page. For example, Zaplook (a parody of Google), SplashFace (a parody of YouTube) and Nevelocity redirect to this page. Also, fictional websites from the show Drake & Josh (mysweetmonkey.com), redirect to this page.
[edit] Worldwide
iCarly has premiered worldwide as well in the following countries:
| Region | Network(s) | Series premiere |
 United States | Nickelodeon | September 8, 2007 |
 Canada | YTV | October 8, 2007 |
 Germany | Nickelodeon Germany | February 23, 2008 |
 Brazil | Nickelodeon Brazil | April 17, 2008 |
 United Kingdom | Nickelodeon UK | Easter 2008 |
 New Zealand | Nickelodeon New Zealand | May 4, 2008 |
 Australia | Nickelodeon Australia | May 8, 2008 |
 Israel | Nickelodeon Israel | May 15, 2008 |
 Philippines | Nickelodeon South East Asia | May 31, 2008 |
 Latin America | Nickelodeon Latin America | April 16, 2008 |
 The Netherlands | Nickelodeon (Netherlands) | May 17, 2008 |
 United Arab Emirates | E-Junior | June 2008 |
 Singapore | Okto | October 19, 2008 |
