Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! (or simply Wubbzy) is an American educational children's animated television series created by Bob Boyle. The series is animated by Bardel Entertainment in both Toon Boom and Adobe Flash software and produced by Bolder Media and Starz Media. Bob Boyle, Susan Miller, Mark Warner, and Fred Seibert-Warner are all of the executive producers. The pop rock music is performed by Brad Mossman, and the musical score is composed and conducted by Mike Reagan. The series premiered on August 28, 2006 on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. in the United States and concluded on February 21, 2010.
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Origin
According to Bob Boyle, the series began as a story created by his niece, Viviana Ogawa, that Boyle turned into a rough comic book-style storybook called The Tail of Flopsy, Mopsy, and Ted. During the series' development process, the characters were renamed Wubbzy, Widget, and Walden.
Boyle submitted his original concept as a book to Bolder Media. After more than 6000 children's book concepts were reviewed, his submission was selected for development into an animated series for preschoolers.
Production for the first season began in September 2004. The series premiered on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block on August 28, 2006. It ended on Nick's Play Date block in 2010 after it aired its final episode. It originally became a hiatus until December 2009. Reruns were moved to the Nick Jr. network. The series remained a part of the channel until April 15, 2014, when the show was pulled off the air in the US, thus officially ending the show. All traces of the show were removed from the Nick Jr. website as well. The last episode that aired in re-runs was "Save the Wuzzly/All Bottled Up." The last episode aired on the Nickelodeon network was "Lights, Camera, Wubbzy/A Wubbstar is Born", on April 30, 2009.
The show has received an Emmy, a KidScreen Best TV Movie award (for Wubb Idol, starring Beyoncé), and a Telly award.
A translated version of the series has been a popular addition to the "Cúla 4" children's programming lineup on the Irish language television channel TG4 since January 2011. The show is dubbed in 15 languages and airs in over 100 countries around the world.
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Cast
- Grey DeLisle - Wubbzy, Buggy, Madame Zabinga, Kooky Kid, Sparkle, additional voices
- Lara Jill Miller - Widget, Huggy, additional voices
- Carlos Alazraqui - Walden, Earl, Chef Fritz, additional voices
- Tara Strong - Daizy, Shimmer, additional voices
- Beyoncé Knowles - Shine
- Jeff Bennett - Cupid, Fire Chief
- Jann Carl - Jann Starl
- Tiki Barber - Touchdown Tiki
- Phil LaMarr - Jam Jam James
- Ty Pennington - Ty Ty The Tool Guy
- Michelle Kwan - Michelle Kwanzleberry
Episodes
Broadcast
Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! was shown on Nick Jr. in the United States and Treehouse TV in Canada. It also aired on Nick Jr. Too, Disney Junior UK and Ireland and TG4 in the UK and Ireland, on Disney Junior Australia and New Zealand, on NHK in Japan, and on Discovery Kids Latin America in Brazil and Mexico. In Turkey, the show aired on Cartoon Network.
Home media
In UK and Australia, Season 1, Volumes 1-2 (Episodes 1-14, and 15-26) were released as season DVD boxes; these were not released in the United States.
Anchor Bay Entertainment has released 21 DVD compilations, the first of which was released on September 23, 2008.
References
External links
- Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! at TV.com
- Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! on IMDb
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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