Winx Club is an Italian-American[a] animated series co-produced by Rainbow SpA and Nickelodeon, which are both part of Paramount Global. The show was created by Iginio Straffi, who also worked on Club 57. Both shows were produced by Rainbow SpA.
Winx Club follows a group of fairy warriors called the Winx as they enroll in Alfea College and learn to fight mythical villains.
From the beginning of the show's development, Iginio Straffi planned an overarching plot that would conclude after three seasons.[1] A feature-length film followed the third season, intended to wrap up the series' plot as the fairies graduate from Alfea College.[1][2] In 2008, Straffi made the decision to extend the original series with a fourth season, citing its increasing popularity.[1] During the production of the fourth season, the American company Viacom (owner of Nickelodeon) engaged in a "long courtship"[3] with the Rainbow studio. Viacom became a co-owner of Rainbow to produce their own episodes of Winx Club.[4]
In 2010, Viacom announced that "Nickelodeon is teaming up with the original creator to present an all-new Winx Club."[5] Viacom's Nickelodeon Animation Studio started production on a revived series, in which the Winx are once again students at Alfea, as they were before their graduation in the original show. The Nickelodeon revival began with four television specials that summarize the first two seasons of the original series.[6] After the specials, Viacom's brand-new fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons were broadcast on Nickelodeon networks worldwide ahead of the Italian broadcasts.[b]
Winx Club employs a serial format, with each episode contributing to the overall storyline. Episodes are written with two stories in mind: the longer narrative arc that lasts for tens of episodes and a subplot which concludes at the end of the 22-minute runtime.[7] This episode structure was modeled on those of teen dramas and American comics.[8]
Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha>
tags or {{efn}}
templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}}
template or {{notelist}}
template (see the help page).
zap2it
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).© MMXXIII Rich X Search. We shall prevail. All rights reserved. Rich X Search