Zoop was an award-winning Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 youth-oriented TV soap opera

Soap opera

A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

 about eight young adults working in the Ouwehands Dierenpark zoo in Rhenen

Rhenen

Rhenen is a municipality and a city in the central Netherlands.The municipality also includes the villages of Achterberg, Remmerden, Elst and Laareind. The town lies at a geographically interesting location, namely on the southernmost part of the chain of hills known as the Utrecht Hill Ridge ,...

. The series was sold to Brazil, France, India and Sweden.

The series has had three seasons since 2004, all on the Dutch Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon (Netherlands)

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 channel. The series also spawned three spinoff films. Episodes continued to be broadcast up until 2009. Director Johan Nijenhuis has said that there will be no more episodes or movies produced.

Cast

• Sander Jan Klerk (Aaron Zomerkamp)
• Juliette van Ardenne (Sira Schilt)
• Viviënne van den Assem (Elise Pardoel)
• Nicolette van Dam
  Nicolette van Dam
  Nicolette van Dam is a Dutch actress.-Biography:Van Dam was born in Amsterdam in 1984. After finishing high school at the havo level at the age of 18, Van Dam went to study at HBO. She didn't finish her study—instead, she was discovered and became a model...
  
   (Bionda Kroonenberg)
• Ewout Genemans (Bastiaan van Diemen)
• Jon Karthaus (Moes Brinksma)
• Sabine Koning (Gaby Meerman Berenger)
• Patrick Martens (Mike Bosboom)
• Raymi Sambo (Bowey Berenger)
• Monique van der Werff (Taffie Arends)
• Kim Boekhoorn (Filo Schilt)
• Ernst Löw (Siegfried Schilt)
• Hugo Maerten (Roy Akkermans)
• Pieternel Pouwels (Maxime Schilt)

Movies

The spinoff movies followed the characters to countries where they continued their education in zoology

Zoology

Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...

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• Zoop in Africa
  Zoop in Africa
  Zoop in Africa is a 2005 Dutch family film, directed by Johan Nijenhuis. The film is based on the TV series Zoop and is followed by Zoop in India and Zoop in South America ....
  
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• Zoop in India
  Zoop in India
  Zoop in India is a 2006 Dutch family film. It follows Zoop in Africa and is followed by .The film received a Golden Film in 2006 for the first 100,000 visitors in the Netherlands.-External links:*...
  
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• Zoop in South America
  Zoop in South America
  Zoop in South America is a 2007 Dutch youth film. The film received a Golden Film for 100,000 visitors....
  
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  2007 in film
  This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...
  
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Awards

• "Gouden Stuiver" (Golden Nickel), an award for best Dutch youth program.
• "Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Award", an award for the best TV series.
• "Kinderkast Televisieprijs", an award for the best youth TV series.

Fan days

Zoop "fan days" were organised, where cast members would sign autographs. An average of 11,000 people showed up at each event. After several public appearances almost got out of hand (because the actors were overwhelmed by hundreds of fans), Nijenshuis announced in 2006 that the security details provided to the actors would be enlarged.