Nickelodeon Greece to Celebrate 15 Years of 'Winx Club' with Magical Marathon and Competition on Monday 28th January 2019

Winx Club is 15 years old! And to celebrate 15 years of WINX, Nickelodeon Greece (Ελλάδα) will be hosting a Winx Club marathon featuring four back-to-back episodes of the magical animated series on Monday 28th January 2019 starting at 14:00!

To further celebrate 15 years of WINX, Nickelodeon Ελλάδα will also be hosting a Winx Club watch & win competition throughout the marathon, in which fans have the chance to WIN-X some magical Winx Club prizes, including a Tynix Fairy Diary and a set of Bloom Tynix and Elas dolls! All fans need to do to win these WINX-tastic prizes is watch the marathon and count how many times the magical stars appear on their TV screens throughout it. Once they've counted all the stars, they need to race to the contest page on nickelodeon.gr and enter the competition by filling out the quick entry form!

WINX 15 YEARS ANNIVERSARY MARATHON


Winx Club is the evergreen classic that follows the adventures of a group of young fairies as they combine school life with battling against the forces of evil. The show mixes action/adventure with comedy and appeals to girls from 4 to 10 right up to tween/teen. The brand first debuted in 2004 and now boasts 182 produced episodes, 4 TV movies and 3 theatrical releases. Series 8 – featuring 26 brand new episodes – will premiere at the beginning of 2019 to celebrate 15 years since the launch of the brand. The fifteenth anniversary will also see Rainbow launch a global marketing plan that will reach out to the millions of Winx fans across the world and involve lots of exciting and engaging activities and involve the brand’s licensing partners. Fans can also catch a spin-off series titled World of Winx on Nickelodeon Greece.

15 χρόνια WINX: Πάρε μέρος στον πιο νεραϊδένιο διαγωνισμό!

Οι Winx κλείνουν 15 χρόνια και το γιορτάζουμε με έναν special Μαραθώνιο Επεισοδίων και τον πιο νεραϊδένιο διαγωνισμό!

Την Δευτέρα 28 Ιανουαρίου στις 14:00 το μεσημέρι παρακολούθησε 4 επεισόδια στη σειρά.

Μέτρα πόσες φορές εμφανίστηκαν τα μαγικά αστέρια, συμπλήρωσε τη φόρμα δαγωνισμού και διεκδίκησε μοναδαικά δώρα Winx (Winx Fairy Diary και Winx Bloom Tynix & Elas).

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Nickelodeon Greece To Premiere "World Of Winx" On Saturday 30th September 2017

Nickelodeon Greece will start to premiere and show World of Winx, a brand-new animated series inspired by the globally successful Winx Club franchise, every Saturday and Sunday at 13:30 from Saturday 30th September 2017!



Locally titled Ο κόσμος των Winx, World of Winx sees Bloom, Stella, Flora, Musa, Tecna and Aisha from Winx Club return to Gardenia, Bloom's hometown on Earth, to act as scouts for talent show WOW! and search the globe for talented kids. But all is not as it seems, as they soon uncover the evil activity of the Talent Thief – a mysterious and despicable villain who is capturing gifted children - who they must stop without revealing their magical powers!

Online at nickelodeon.gr, fans can find out more about World of Winx and watch videos from the series.

World of Winx is created by Iginio Straffi and produced by Italian animation studio Rainbow. The series launched globally on Netflix in November 2016. B-rights, one of the leading licensing agencies in Greece, which represents Winx Club and Regal Academy in Greece will now also represent Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends - which Nick Greece premiered earlier this month and World of Winx in the region. Nickelodeon Greece acquired the rights to World of Winx and Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends in August 2017.

Additional source: Wikipedia.

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Nickelodeon Greece Acquires Rights To Rainbow's "Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends" And "World Of Winx"

Rainbow has announced plans to bring two of its hit shows to Nickelodeon Greece, strengthening its relationship with the broadcaster!

Hit live-action show Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends and the animated hit World of Winx are both on their way to the network, with the former airing weekdays at 10pm from Monday 4th September 2017, as well as two shows daily at weekends. The arrival of Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends on Nickelodeon Greece will be preceded by a strong launch campaign. World of Winx, a new series inspired by the globally successful Winx Club, will also air from September.

Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends, pictured above, is a live-action dramedy that follows the adventures of Maggie and Bianca – two very different girls who meet at the prestigious Milan Fashion Academy. Nickelodeon Greece joins stations in many other territories, including Italy’s free-to-air channel Rai Gulp, Gulli in France, TV Cultura in Brazil, Karousel in Russia and Disney Channel in Germany, as well as Nickelodeon in Poland and Benelux. Netflix is the worldwide VOD partner for the show.

Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends, the Italian animation studio’s first full live-action series, has already proved a success in other regions, leading to a third season and two 50-minute TV movies as well as a live tour and a number of multi-territory licensing deals.

World of Winx, pictured below, sees the six fairies familiar to millions from Winx Club travel to Earth to act as scouts for talent show WOW! and search the globe for talented kids. But all is not as it seems, as they soon uncover the evil activity of the Talent Thief – a mysterious and despicable villain who is capturing gifted children! The show has been available on Netflix, where it has been released worldwide, since November 2016. It is also currently screening or about to be launched on Rai Gulp in Italy, TV Zoom in Israel and Karusel in Russia and will be broadcast in a number of other countries in the coming months.

The arrival of these two shows further strengthens Rainbow’s position in the Greek market and its relationship with Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon Greece already airs re-runs of Winx Club on weekdays at 4pm and weekends at 1.30 pm throughout the year. The good ratings performance of Winx Club is matched by the success of Regal Academy, a fabulous, hilarious and highly original re-imagining of the world of fairy tales.

The first series of Regal Academy ran on Nickelodeon Greece from October 2016 to July 2017. Season one reruns start from late August in the weekday 9.30pm slot.

B-rights, one of the leading licensing agencies in Greece, which already represents Winx Club and Regal Academy in Greece will now also represent Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends and World of Winx in the region.

The news follows Nickelodeon Greece acquiring the rights to Gwen Stefani's popular music-driven, street fashion-inspired animated series Kuu Kuu Harajuku.

Original sources: Licensing.biz, Kidscreen, Animation Digital Digest.

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Rainbow Set to Light Up MIPTV 2016 With New Shows

Original Rainbow Press Release via Animation World Network:

Rainbow Set to Light Up MIPTV

LONDON – Rainbow, a leading animation studio and licensor in Europe, has announced the arrival of some brand news shows ahead of MIP TV 2016. Among them is Regal Academy and Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends, and World of Winx, the first NetFlix Originals show from the global hit Winx Club.

'Regal Academy'

Regal Academy takes the familiar world of fairy tales and turns it on its head! This fresh and funny new show is the creation of Iginio Straffi, the man behind Winx Club. It focuses on the adventures of Rose Cinderella, a normal girl who suddenly she finds herself in the world of Fairy Tales where she discovers that Cinderella is her granny! Rose is enrolled at the fabled Regal Academy where her fellow students include Hawk SnowWhite, Travis Beast, Joy LeFrog, Astoria Rapunzel and LingLing Iron Fan, all of whom belong to the school's founding families.

This new series features a mixture of comedy, music and exciting new animation techniques. Regal Academy has a worldwide deal with Nickelodeon. The series is also showing its licensing potential, with the main categories already snapped up, including the Pan-European master toy license, which has been awarded to Giochi Preziosi.

Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends is Rainbow's first foray into a full live-action production and promises to delight audiences around the world with a tale of two cultures coming together. The show tells the story of Maggie, an ordinary American girl with a dream of becoming the world's greatest fashion designer. She gets her chance on her 16th birthday, when she becomes the youngest contestant ever to win a two-year scholarship at the Milan Fashion Academy. There she meets Bianca, a self-proclaimed Italian princess, and together they make friends with other students, who all share a passion for fashion and music. The show follows their friendships, competitions, love stories, dreams and disappointments, as well as the discovery of secrets that change their lives forever!

This show has also enjoyed a powerful licensing response across many categories, led by Simba as the Pan-European master toy licensee.

World of Winx is an all-new show starring the characters from the hugely popular Winx Club, with all the fun, excitement, mystery, action and humor that has made Winx Club such a popular girls' property. In this new show, the Winx fairies visit earth as scouts for talent show WOW! As they search across the globe for talented kids they come across the Talent Thief, a mysterious villain who is capturing gifted children! The Winx must go undercover and hide their fairy identities, often with hilarious consequences, to outfox the Talent Thief, find his secret headquarters and protect the children of earth.

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Iginio Straffi Announces Plans For "Winx Club" Season 8!

Iginio Straffi, the creator of "Winx Club", has announced in a super interview with The Pocket Mama during the Winx Club Worldwide Reunion in September 2015, that Rainbow S.r.l. are planning to produce a eighth season of the popular animated series "Winx Club", and that season eighth is currently in the writing stages! Iginio also revealed that a fourth "Winx Club" movie will be released in 2017!

In the interview, Iginio also talks about the upcoming "Winx Club" spin-off series "World of Winx", co-produced with Netflix.

In "World of Winx", the fairies embark on an undercover journey all around the world looking for talented kids in art, sports, music and science. These kids have their own kind of magic, and the Winx Club fairies are enchanted by them though it doesn't take long before trouble sets in, and a new and dangerous mystery for Bloom and the others to solve arrives. There will be a Netflix stamp on the storylines in the spinoff, which will be more serialized to fit the binge viewing patterns of the streaming company's customers.

The new series is produced by Italian animation studio Rainbow. "World of Winx", formally titled "Winx Club WOW", will be exclusively available in all Netflix territories, including France and Germany. The first of the two seasons, each comprising 13 22-minute episodes, are slated to be available by early 2016 with the second to follow in the fall.

Nickelodeon also recently acquired the global broadcast rights to Rainbow's major new children's property "Regal Academy", set to debut in 2016.

"Winx Club" season seven premieres on Nick Jr. USA on Sunday 22nd November 2015 at 10:30am ET/PT.

Original source: Winx Club Wiki member BelieveInMagic814.

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Netflix Orders "Winx Club WOW: World Of Winx" From Rainbow; "The Mystery Of The Abyss" To Debut On SVoD Service Following Theatrical Release

The entertainment and media news websites Variety and Deadline are reporting the Winx-Tastic news in the following articles that the subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) service Netflix is expanding its original kids programming slate with "Winx Club WOW: World Of Winx", a spinoff from the popular "Winx Club" franchise!

Netflix has teamed with "Winx Club" producer Rainbow Studios, the company of the franchise's creator Iginio Straffi, for two seasons of the new series, which is due to debut in early 2016 and Autumn/Fall 2016. The seasons, each consisting of thirteen 22-minute episodes, will be exclusively available in all Netflix territories including France and Germany.

In "Winx Club WOW", the fairies embark on an undercover journey all around the world looking for talented kids in art, sports, music and science. These kids have their own kind of magic, and the Winx Club fairies are enchanted by them though it doesn't take long before trouble sets in, and a new and dangerous mystery for Bloom and the others to solve arrives. There will be a Netflix stamp on the storylines in the spinoff, which will be more serialized to fit the binge viewing patterns of the streaming company's customers.

The new series is produced by Italian animation studio Rainbow. "Winx Club WOW" will be exclusively available in all Netflix territories, including France and Germany. The first of the two seasons, each comprising 13 22-minute episodes, are slated to be available by early 2016 with the second to follow in the fall.

Under is existing pact with Rainbow Studios, Netflix offers prior seasons of "Winx Club" worldwide, as well as fellow Rainbow properties "PopPixie" and "Mia and Me". Additionally, the most recent "Winx Club" movie, "The Mystery of the Abyss", is slated to be available exclusively on Netflix in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland and France shortly after this month's theatrical release.

As part of its efforts to ramp up kid content, Netflix recently hired Brian Wright, previously Nickelodeon's Senior Vice President (SVP) of live-action development, to head up acquisition of kids and family programming in July 2014.

Created by Straffi, "Winx Club" is regarded as one of the most successful Italian animated series ever. It is hugely popular in Europe and is the first Italian cartoon to be sold in the U.S. where it is carried by Nickelodeon and Netflix.

It is currently unknown whether "Winx Club WOW" will air on Nickelodeon channels around the world following the debut of the series on Netflix.

From Variety:

Netflix Orders 'Winx Club' Spinoff, as Streamer Keeps Up Kidvid Splurge

Netflix, in another move to bulk up on original children's programming, has ordered two seasons of “Winx Club WOW: World of Winx,” a spinoff of the “Winx Club” Italian toon franchise, in which girls embark on magical journeys looking for talented kids.

The new series is produced by Italian animation studio Rainbow. "Winx Club WOW" will be exclusively available in all Netflix territories, including France and Germany. The first of the two seasons, each comprising 13 22-minute episodes, are slated to be available by early 2016 with the second to follow in the fall.

The show is the latest addition to Netflix's kid-oriented fare — a key genre for parents to let their offspring binge-watch age-appropriate entertainment, without any advertising. The SVOD company has pacts with DreamWorks Animation, Scholastic Media, Mattel and others for original kids' shows. The DWA deal is the biggest of the deals, covering more than 300 hours of original programming including series "Turbo FAST" and new seasons of "DreamWorks Dragons." In addition, under a pact with Disney, Netflix will get pay-TV window rights to future theatrical releases from Pixar and Disney Animation starting in 2016.

"'Winx Club' is already a very successful show on Netflix in all our territories; it's exciting to be expanding our relationship with such a great European animation studio," Erik Barmack, VP of content acquisition at Netflix, said in announcing the spinoff.

In “Winx Club WOW,” the girls embark on an undercover journey all around the world looking for talented kids in art, sports, music and science. “We are very happy to be building a solid and wide collaboration with Netflix, so extending it to include new and original content is fantastic news,” commented Rainbow Group president and CEO Iginio Straffi.

Under is existing pact with Rainbow Studios, Netflix offers prior seasons of “Winx Club” worldwide, as well as other Rainbow properties “PopPixie” and “Mia and Me.” Additionally, the most recent “Winx Club” movie, “The Mystery of the Abyss,” is slated to be available exclusively on Netflix in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland and France shortly after this month's theatrical release.

As part of its efforts to ramp up kid content, Netflix in July hired Brian Wright, previously Nickelodeon's senior VP of live-action development, to head up acquisition of kids and family programming.

Also, from Deadline Hollywood:

Netflix Orders 'Winx Club' Spinoff Series

Netflix is expanding its original kids programming slate with Winx Club WOW: World Of Winx, a spinoff from the popular Winx Club girls fairy animated franchise. Netflix has teamed with Winx Club producer Rainbow Studios, the company of the franchise's creator Iginio Straffi, for two seasons of the new series to debut in early 2016 and fall 2016. The seasons, each consisting of thirteen 22-minute episodes, will be exclusively available in all Netflix territories including France and Germany.

In Winx Club WOW, the girls embark on an undercover journey all around the world looking for talented kids in art sports, music and science. These kids have their own kind of magic, and the Winx Club fairies are enchanted by them though it doesn't take long before trouble sets in, and a new and dangerous mystery for Bloom and the others to solve. There will be a Netflix stamp on the storylines in the spinoff, which will be more serialized to fit the binge viewing patterns of the streaming company's customers.

Created by Straffi, Winx Club is probably the most successful Italian animated series ever. It is hugely popular in Europe and is the first Italian cartoon to be sold in the U.S. where it is carried by Nickelodeon and Netflix. The most recent Winx Club movie, The Mystery Of The Abyss, will be available only on Netflix in the U.S., Canada, UK, Ireland and France shortly after its theatrical release earlier this month. "Winx Club is already a very successful show on Netflix in all our territories; it's exciting to be expanding our relationship with such a great European animation studio," said Erik Barmack, VP of Content Acquisition at Netflix.

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