IKEA Heights
IKEA Heights is a 2009 comedic melodrama web series created by Dave Seger, Paul Bartunek, Delbert Shoopman, Spencer Strauss, and Tom Kauffman for Channel 101. A spoof of soap operas, the series was filmed covertly inside the IKEA store in Burbank, California.[1] IKEA Heights stars Randall Park, Whitney Avalon, and Matt Braunger.
IKEA Heights | |
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Genre | Comedy Melodrama Parody |
Created by | Dave Seger Paul Bartunek |
Written by | Dave Seger Spencer Strauss Paul Bartunek Tom Kauffman |
Directed by | Dave Seger |
Starring | Randall Park Whitney Avalon Matt Braunger Tom Kauffman Jess Lane Wade Randolph Abed Gheith Delbert Dean Shoopman Dean Pelton Matt Peters |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 7 |
Production | |
Producers | Dave Seger Paul Bartunek |
Production locations | Burbank, California |
Camera setup | Paul Bartunek |
Running time | ~30 minutes |
Production company | Channel 101 |
Release | |
Original release | May 31, 2009 – January 31, 2010 |
External links | |
Production website |
Entertainment Weekly's Whitney Pastorek wrote that the series "is so brilliant and awesome that its glories can really only be diminished by additional words."[2]
Madeleine Löwenborg-Frick, a spokesperson for IKEA's Canadian branch, said of the series, "Absolutely, we think it's funny. We see the humour in it and we approach our own marketing with a similar tongue-in-cheek humour. But unauthorized filming in our stores isn't a good thing. There's proper channels that people who want to film in our stores can go through."[3]
References
- NEIL, DAN (8 September 2009). "IKEA's Burbank store and the guerrillas in housewares" – via LA Times.
- "This week in guerrilla filmmaking: 'Ikea Heights'". EW.com. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
- "Taking the Ikea name to new heights - Macleans.ca". www.macleans.ca. Retrieved 2020-02-19.