For about five seconds in Paramount’s revival of iCarly, the Nickelodeon tween show that ran from 2007 until 2012, there’s a glimpse of the self-aware resuscitation that could have been. In one of the final scenes of the premiere, the twentysomething former webcaster Carly Shay, a role reprised by a now 28-year-old Miranda Cosgrove, once again stands in front of the camera – this time, an iPhone, filming the intro to her rebooted web series iCarly, which drew thousands of fictional young teenage fans on a show which once attracted 11.2 million live viewers. “Welcome to the new iCarly,” she says. “This is still iCarly, but it’s grown up
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