High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Genie in the House is a British situation comedy broadcast on Nickelodeon about a widowed father (Philip) with two teenage daughters (Emma and Sophie) who find a dusty old golden lamp while exploring the loft of their new home. A quick rub of the lamp releases Adil, a trainee genie from Balamkadaar who has been confined to life in the lamp for 1000 years. Philip has banned any use of magic in the house, yet the girls and Adil the Genie find ways to get themselves into trouble using Adil`s wish granting powers. The mother is never mentioned, except on Adil`s birthday when Philip mentions being a widower.