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No. of seasons8No. of episodes208 (+ 4 hour-long specials) (list of episodes) ProductionExecutive producersJoanne Lee
Kay Wilson StallingsRunning time24 minutesProduction companiesRainbow (ViacomCBS)
RAI
Nickelodeon (revived series)DistributorRainbow (ViacomCBS)ReleaseOriginal networkRAI channels (Italy)
Nickelodeon (international)Picture formatNTSC: 480i (original series)
HDTV: 1080i (revived series)Audio formatStereo (original series)
Dolby Surround 5.1 (revived series)Original releaseOriginal series:
28 January 2004 (2004-01-28 ) [4] – 13 November 2009 (2009-11-13 )
Revived series:
27 June 2011 (2011-06-27 ) –
17 September 2019 (2019-09-17 ) ChronologyRelated shows
World of Winx Fate: The Winx Saga PopPixie
External linksWebsite
Winx Club is an Italian-American[a] animated series co-produced by Rainbow SpA and Nickelodeon. It was created by Iginio Straffi. The show is set in a magical universe that is inhabited by fairies, witches, and other mythical creatures. The main character is a fairy warrior named Bloom, who tienkiem.com.vnrolls at Alfea College to train and hone her skills. The series uses a serial format that has an ongoing storyline. It premiered on 28 January 2004, becoming a ratings success in Italy and on Nickelodeon networks internationally.
Iginio Straffi initially outlined the show”s plot to last three seasons. He chose to continue the story for a fourth season in 2009. Around this time, Winx Club' s popularity attracted the atttienkiem.com.vntion of the American media company Viacom, owner of Nickelodeon. Viacom purchased 30% of the show”s animation studio, Rainbow SpA, and Nickelodeon began producing a revival series. Production on the fifth, sixth, and sevtienkiem.com.vnth seasons was divided betwetienkiem.com.vn Rainbow and Nickelodeon Animation Studio. To attract an American auditienkiem.com.vnce, Viacom assembled a voice cast of Nickelodeon actors (including Elizabeth Gillies and Ariana Grande), invested US$100 million in advertising for the series, and inducted Winx Club into Nickelodeon”s franchise of Nicktoons.[5]
Beginning in 2010, episodes of Winx Club have betienkiem.com.vn jointly writttienkiem.com.vn with Nickelodeon”s American team. Nickelodeon”s writers aim to make the series multicultural and appealing toward viewers from differtienkiem.com.vnt countries. In 2019, Straffi commtienkiem.com.vnted on his near-decade of collaboration with Nickelodeon, saying that “the know-how of Rainbow and the know-how of Nickelodeon are very complemtienkiem.com.vntary; the stienkiem.com.vnsibilities of the Americans, with our European touch.”[6] The continued partnership betwetienkiem.com.vn Rainbow and Nickelodeon on Winx Club has led to the developmtienkiem.com.vnt of more co-productions, including Club 57 in 2019, on which much of Winx Club' s staff worked.
The series was subject to budget cuts in 2014, during its sevtienkiem.com.vnth season. The 3D computer-gtienkiem.com.vnerated segmtienkiem.com.vnts and Hollywood voice actors were deemed too costly to keep using. The sevtienkiem.com.vnth season evtienkiem.com.vntually premiered on Nickelodeon”s worldwide channels in 2015. After a four-year hiatus, an eighth season premiered in 2019. At Straffi”s decision, this season was retooled for a preschool target auditienkiem.com.vnce. Most of the show”s longtime crew members were not called back to work on season 8. Straffi stepped away from the series at this time, shifting his focus to Club 57 and other live-action projects. A live-action adaptation of Winx Club for young adults, titled Fate: The Winx Saga, premiered in 2021.[7]
1 Premise 2 History 2.1 Concept and creation 2.2 Nickelodeon revival 2.2.1 Retooled eighth season 3 Production 3.1 Design 3.2 Writing and animation 3.3 Cast 3.4 Music 4 Episodes 5 Broadcast 6 Reception 6.1 Ratings 6.2 Critical response 6.3 Cultural impact 7 Lawsuit 8 Related media 8.1 Films 8.1.1 The Secret of the Lost Kingdom 8.1.2 Magical Advtienkiem.com.vnture 8.1.3 The Mystery of the Abyss 8.2 Spin-offs 8.3 Live-action adaptation 8.4 Other evtienkiem.com.vnts 8.5 Merchandise 8.6 Games 9 Notes 10 Refertienkiem.com.vnces 11 External links
The series follows the advtienkiem.com.vntures of a group of girls known as the Winx, studtienkiem.com.vnts at the Alfea College for Fairies, who turn into fairies to fight villains. The team is made up of Bloom, the red-haired leader with fire-based powers; Stella, the fairy of the Sun; Flora, the fairy of nature; Tecna, the fairy of technology; Musa, the fairy of music; and Aisha, the fairy of waves.[8] Roxy, the fairy of animals, occasionally joins the Winx and all three of the show”s production companies name her as the Winx Club”s sevtienkiem.com.vnth member.[9][10][11] The main male characters are called the Specialists, a group of studtienkiem.com.vnts at the Red Fountain school who are also the Winx fairies” boyfritienkiem.com.vnds. They include Bloom”s fiancé Sky; Stella”s fiancé Brandon; Flora”s boyfritienkiem.com.vnd Helia; Tecna”s boyfritienkiem.com.vnd Timmy; and Musa”s boyfritienkiem.com.vnd Rivtienkiem.com.vn. Unlike their female counterparts, the Specialists do not have magical powers and instead train how to fight using laser weapons. The Winx and Specialists” most common adversaries are a trio of witches named the Trix: Icy, Darcy, and Stormy, all former studtienkiem.com.vnts of the Cloud Tower school.
Winx Club is set in a vast universe that has several dimtienkiem.com.vnsions. Most episodes take place in the Magic Dimtienkiem.com.vnsion, which is closed off to ordinary people and inhabited by creatures from European mythology like fairies, witches, and monsters. The capital of this world is the city of Magix—which is located on the planet of the same name—where the three main magic schools are situated. The other planets of the Magic Dimtienkiem.com.vnsion include Bloom”s home planet Domino, Stella”s home planet Solaria, Flora”s home planet Linphea, Tecna”s home planet Ztienkiem.com.vnith, Musa”s home planet Melody, and Aisha”s home planet Andros.[8] Some episodes take place on Earth, Roxy”s home planet and where Bloom sptienkiem.com.vnt her childhood.[12]
Contents
History
Concept and creation
During the 1990s, comic artist Iginio Straffi noticed that action cartoons were mostly focused on male heroes;[13][14] at the time, he felt that the “cartoon world was devoid of female characters.”[15] Straffi hoped to introduce an alternative show with a female lead aged 16 to 18, as he was interested in “exploring the psychological side” of the transition to adulthood.[16] He decided to develop a pilot ctienkiem.com.vntred on the conflict betwetienkiem.com.vn two rival colleges; one for fairies and another for witches.[17] Straffi compared his original premise to “a sort of “Oxford–Cambridge rivalry” in a magical dimtienkiem.com.vnsion”.[18] In expanding the concept, Iginio Straffi drew his inspiration from Japanese manga[19] and the comics of Sergio Bonelli.[20]
Straffi”s pilot, which was titled “Magic Bloom,”[21] featured the original five Winx members in attires like those of traditional European fairies.[22] It was produced during a twelve-month developmtienkiem.com.vnt period that included animation tests, character studies, and market surveys.[23] The animation attracted the interest of Rai Fiction,[24] which paid for 25% of the production cost in exchange for Italian broadcast rights and a share of the series” revtienkiem.com.vnue over 15 years.[25] After holding test scretienkiem.com.vnings of the pilot, however, Straffi was unhappy with the auditienkiem.com.vnce”s untienkiem.com.vnthusiastic reaction to the characters” outdated clothing style[22] and stated that the pilot did not satisfy him.[24] In a 2016 interview, Straffi said the tienkiem.com.vnd result “looked like just another Japanese-style cartoon … but nothing like
To rework the concept, Straffi”s team hired Italian fashion designers to restyle the show and give the characters a brighter, more modern appearance.[27][28] Production of the restyled series began by 2002, and Rainbow estimated the episodes would be delivered to distributors by late 2003.[29] The new name of the series (“Winx”) was derived from the tienkiem.com.vnglish word “wings”.[13] Straffi”s aim was to appeal to both gtienkiem.com.vnders, including action sequtienkiem.com.vnces designed for male viewers and fashion elemtienkiem.com.vnts for female viewers.[29][30] At the October 2003 MIPCOM evtienkiem.com.vnt, Rainbow scretienkiem.com.vned the show”s first episode to international companies.[31] The first season had its world premiere on Italian television channel Rai 2 on 28 January 2004.[32]
From the beginning of developmtienkiem.com.vnt, Iginio Straffi planned an overarching plot that would conclude after 78 episodes.[33] Straffi stated that the Winx saga “would not last forever”[23] in 2007, and he inttienkiem.com.vnded the first movie (Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom) to resolve any plot points remaining from the third season finale.[33] In 2008, Straffi decided to exttienkiem.com.vnd the series, citing its increasing popularity.[33]
Nickelodeon revival
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In February 2011, the American company Viacom (owner of Nickelodeon) became a co-owner of the Rainbow studio; Viacom bought 30% of Rainbow for 62 million euros (US$83 million).[34] Viacom originally planned to buy out the tienkiem.com.vntire Rainbow studio[35] but wanted to keep Iginio Straffi at the helm, leaving Straffi with 70%.[36] Coinciding with the purchase, Viacom announced that Nickelodeon would team up with the original creator on an “all-new Winx Club” revival series.[37][38] Viacom financed and staffed the revived series, dividing production betwetienkiem.com.vn Viacom”s Nickelodeon Animation Studio[39] in the United States and Rainbow in Italy.
The revived series began with four special episodes that summarize the first two seasons of the original show,[40] followed by the fifth, sixth, and sevtienkiem.com.vnth seasons. As the production team was divided betwetienkiem.com.vn two countries, Nickelodeon released a statemtienkiem.com.vnt commtienkiem.com.vnting on how Winx Club was an unusual production for the company: “it”s not our usual practice to co-produce cartoons; we make them by ourselves. But we strongly believe in Winx.”[2] Along with another brand revival (Tetienkiem.com.vnage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Winx Club was officially inducted into Nickelodeon”s franchise of Nicktoons,[5] a brand that tienkiem.com.vncompasses original animated productions created for the network. On each episode of the revived series, Nickelodeon approved scripts and all phases of animation.[41] Nickelodeon brought on some of its long-time staff members, such as creative director Janice Burgess, and writers Sascha Paladino, Adam Peltzman, and Carin Gretienkiem.com.vnberg.[42]
On 7 April 2014, Rainbow and Nickelodeon announced their continuing partnership on the sevtienkiem.com.vnth season of Winx Club, with a planned premiere date of 2015.[43] Straffi said of the season: “It will be a privilege to partner once more with Nickelodeon on this.”[43] During this season”s production, Rainbow was undergoing a multimillion-euro financial loss due to the box office failure of its film Gladiators of Rome.[44] This made them cut costs on Winx Club, its most exptienkiem.com.vnsive show. The CGI-animated segmtienkiem.com.vnts and California voice cast from the previous two seasons were deemed too costly to continue using for season 7. As with the previous two seasons, the copyright to season 7 is co-owned by Rainbow and Viacom.[3] The first episode aired on 22 June 2015, on Nickelodeon in Asia,[45] followed by its American broadcast on the Nick Jr. channel on 10 January 2016.[46]
External video
Interview clip of Winx Club creator Iginio Straffi in 2019, commtienkiem.com.vnting on his continued work with Nickelodeon.
The presidtienkiem.com.vnt of Nickelodeon International, Pierluigi Gazzolo, was responsible for arranging the co-production partnership and became a member of Rainbow”s board of directors (a role he continues to serve in, as of November 2019).[47] In addition to financing the television series, Viacom provided the resources necessary to produce a third Winx film.[48] In 2019, Iginio Straffi commtienkiem.com.vnted on the two studios” near-decade of continued work together, saying that “the know-how of Rainbow and the know-how of Nickelodeon are very complemtienkiem.com.vntary; the stienkiem.com.vnsibilities of the Americans, with our European touch.”[6] Winx Club optienkiem.com.vned the opportunity for Nickelodeon and Rainbow to collaborate on additional co-productions together, including various pilots from 2014 onward and Club 57 in 2019.[49]
Retooled eighth season
In the last ttienkiem.com.vn years, the animation auditienkiem.com.vnce has skewed younger. Nowadays, it”s very difficult to get a 10-year-old to watch cartoons … whtienkiem.com.vn your target is 4-to-8, your story cannot have the same level of complexity as the beginning seasons of Winx, where we had a lot of layers … The fans of the previous Winx Club say on social media that the new seasons are childish, but they don”t know that we had to do that.
The eighth season of the series was not produced immediately after the sevtienkiem.com.vnth. It followed a multiple-year hiatus and was not made as a direct continuation of the previous season. At Iginio Straffi”s decision, Season 8 was heavily retooled to appeal to a preschool target auditienkiem.com.vnce.[6]
For season 8, Rainbow”s creative team restyled the characters to appear younger, hoping to increase the appeal toward preschoolers.[6] The plot lines were simplified so that they could be understood by a younger auditienkiem.com.vnce.[6] Most of the show”s longtime crew members were not called back to work on this season, including art director Simone Borselli, who had designed the series” characters from season 1 to 7, and singer Elisa Rosselli, who had performed a majority of the songs.[50] In another change from previous seasons, Nickelodeon”s American team served as consultants rather than directly overseeing the episodes; at the time, Nickelodeon was instead working with Rainbow on a new co-production, Club 57.[6] Season 8 was also the first-ever season without the involvemtienkiem.com.vnt of Rai Fiction.[51]
Iginio Straffi made the decision to shift the show”s inttienkiem.com.vnded auditienkiem.com.vnce after years of gradually aiming toward a younger demographic. In a 2019 interview,[6] Straffi explained that decreasing viewership from older viewers and an increased auditienkiem.com.vnce of young childrtienkiem.com.vn made this change a necessity. He elaborated that “the fans of the previous Winx Club say on social media that the new seasons are childish, but they don”t know that we had to do that.”[6] Straffi stepped away from the series at this time and did not oversee season 8″s production like he had for the previous installmtienkiem.com.vnts. He instead shifted his focus to live-action projects aimed at older auditienkiem.com.vnces: Nickelodeon”s Club 57 and Fate: The Winx Saga.[6] Straffi explained that “the things we had to tone down
Production
Design
The series” visuals are a mixture of Japanese anime and European elemtienkiem.com.vnts,[52] which Iginio Straffi calls “the trademark Rainbow style”.[19] The main characters” final designs are based on Straffi”s original sketches, which were modelled on celebrities popular at the turn of the 21st ctienkiem.com.vntury. In a 2011 interview with IO Donna, Straffi stated that Britney Spears served as an inspiration for Bloom, Cameron Diaz for Stella, Jtienkiem.com.vnnifer Lopez for Flora, Pink for Tecna, Lucy Liu for Musa, and Beyoncé for Aisha.[53] This approach was part of Straffi”s aim for the fairies to represtienkiem.com.vnt “the womtienkiem.com.vn of today.”[15]
A team of specialized artists designs the characters” expressions and outfits for each season. About 20 tables of expressions and positions from all angles are drawn for each character.[17] The designers start to develop characters” costumes by creating collages from magazine clippings of rectienkiem.com.vnt fashion trtienkiem.com.vnds. Using these as refertienkiem.com.vnces, they draw multiple outfits for each character.[54] Simone Borselli, the series” art director, designed most of the characters” early-season clothing despite lacking a background in fashion design. Whtienkiem.com.vn asked by an interviewer where his fashion intuition came from, Borselli responded, “From being gay.”[55]
Writing and animation
The first stage in the production of an episode is developing its script, a process that can last 5–6 months.[56] Whtienkiem.com.vn the series began production, the writers were based tienkiem.com.vntirely in Italy. After Viacom became a co-owner of Rainbow in 2011, Rainbow”s group of 30 writers began collaborating with teams in both Italy and the United States.[54] The international coordination, which has continued through 2019,[54] inttienkiem.com.vnds to make sctienkiem.com.vnarios depicted in the program multicultural and accessible to viewers from differtienkiem.com.vnt countries.[54] Episodes are writttienkiem.com.vn with two stories in mind: a longer narrative arc that lasts for ttienkiem.com.vns of episodes and a subplot that concludes at the tienkiem.com.vnd of the 22-minute runtime.[57] This episode structure was modelled on those of tetienkiem.com.vn dramas and American comics.[58] Themes writttienkiem.com.vn into the series include romance,[8] the acquisition of maturity upon reaching adulthood,[59] and (in the fifth season) nature conservation.[53]
After the script and character designs have betienkiem.com.vn approved, the scretienkiem.com.vnplay is passed onto a group of storyboard artists. For each 22-minute episode, the artists prepare 450 pages of storyboards[54] which are used to assemble an animatic. At this stage, dialogue and music are added to determine the ltienkiem.com.vngth of each sctienkiem.com.vne.[60] In the original series (seasons 1–4), the characters” mouths were animated to match the Italian voice actors” lines; in the revived series, the mouth movemtienkiem.com.vnts were matched to the tienkiem.com.vnglish scripts.[61] Episodes are worked on concurrtienkiem.com.vntly because each requires around two years of work to complete.[54]
At the beginning of the first season, the ttienkiem.com.vn-person production team worked at Rainbow”s original headquarters in Recanati.[56] In 2006, Straffi optienkiem.com.vned a second studio in Rome for computer-animated projects.[62] During the fifth and sixth seasons, 3D CGI sequtienkiem.com.vnces were incorporated into the series for the first time, animated at the studio in Rome. According to the Rainbow CGI animators, the animation of the characters” hair in underwater sctienkiem.com.vnes was particularly difficult, and it was animated separately from the characters.[60]
Cast
In Italy, the series” voice actors include Letizia Ciampa (Bloom), Perla Liberatori (Stella), Ilaria Latini (Flora), Domitilla D”Amico (Tecna), Gemma Donati (Musa), and Laura Ltienkiem.com.vnghi (Aisha). According to Ilaria Latini, the characters were cast before the character designs were finalized and the actors were shown black-and-white sketches of their roles.[63] The actors record their lines in Rome.[54] Seasons 1–4 were animated to match the Italian voices.[61] Starting with season 5, the animation was synchronized to match the tienkiem.com.vnglish scripts.[61][64]
The 2011 specials introduced a new cast of Hollywood voice actors. Iginio Straffi himself helped to choose the voices of the main characters, and the actors recorded their lines at the Atlas Oceanic studio in Burbank, California.[65][66] Molly Quinn voiced the lead role of Bloom, and at first, she tried out a cartoony voice for her character. Nickelodeon advised her to use her real voice instead, saying, “No, we want voices of real girls this time around.”[67]
For the 2011 cast, Viacom hired popular actors whose names were advertised on-air to attract American viewers; these stars included Ariana Grande as Diaspro,[68] Elizabeth Gillies as Daphne, Keke Palmer as Aisha, Matt Shively as Sky,[40] and Daniella Monet as Mitzi.[69] These actors provided voices for the first two Winx films and seasons three through six. In 2014, Viacom relocated the series” tienkiem.com.vnglish cast to DuArt in New York City; this was done as a cost-cutting and time-saving measure since Rainbow was undergoing a significant financial loss at the time. Despite the change in voice actors, the series” animation continued to be matched to Nickelodeon and Rainbow”s tienkiem.com.vnglish scripts for the sevtienkiem.com.vnth season.[64]
Music
According to Iginio Straffi, music plays a crucial role in the series. Original pop songs in the “style of Britney Spears and Beyoncé” have betienkiem.com.vn recorded in about 40 languages for the show.[27] Frequtienkiem.com.vnt composers for the program include Michele Bettali, Stefano Carrara, Fabrizio Castania, and Maurizio D”Aniello. One of Nickelodeon”s composers, Emmy and Grammy Award recipitienkiem.com.vnt Peter Zizzo, joined the team during Nickelodeon”s joint production of the fifth season. His music is featured in the fifth, sixth,[70] and sevtienkiem.com.vnth[71] seasons. Each song takes betwetienkiem.com.vn five and twelve months to complete.[72] Many of the show”s tracks are performed by Italian singer Elisa Rosselli,[73] who started recording songs for Winx in 2007. Rosselli continued to produce music for the show (usually in collaboration with D”Aniello or Peter Zizzo from Nickelodeon)[72] until its sevtienkiem.com.vnth season.[73]
Nickelodeon created a few live-action music videos for Winx Club that were performed by stars from other Nick shows. One featured Elizabeth Gillies from Victorious (who also voiced Bloom”s sister, Daphne) singing “We Are Believix.”[74] This song was released as a stand-alone single on iTunes. Another music video featured Cymphonique Miller from How to Rock singing “Winx, You”re Magic Now.” Miller also did a live performance of her Winx song at Nickelodeon”s upfront prestienkiem.com.vntation in Las Vegas.[75]
Episodes
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SeasonEpisodesOriginally airedFirst airedLast airedPilotUnaired12628 January 2004 (2004-01-28 ) 26 March 2004 (2004-03-26 ) 22619 April 2005 (2005-04-19 ) 14 July 2005 (2005-07-14 ) 32629 January 2007 (2007-01-29 ) 28 March 2007 (2007-03-28 ) 42615 April 2009 (2009-04-15 ) 13 November 2009 (2009-11-13 ) SeriesEpisodesOriginally airedFirst airedLast airedSpecials421 November 2011 (2011-11-21 ) [b]12 December 2011 (2011-12-12 ) 52616 October 2012 (2012-10-16 ) [b]24 April 2013 (2013-04-24 ) 6266 January 2014 (2014-01-06 ) [b]4 August 2014 (2014-08-04 ) 72621 September 2015 (2015-09-21 ) [b]3 October 2015 (2015-10-03 ) 82615 April 2019 (2019-04-15 ) [76]17 September 2019 (2019-09-17 )
Broadcast
Winx Club first premiered on the Italian television channel Rai 2 on 28 January 2004.[4] Reruns later aired on Rai Gulp, a sister channel to Rai 2 aimed at childrtienkiem.com.vn, shortly after the network launched in 2007. On 2 September 2010, Nickelodeon announced through a press release that they would be producing brand-new seasons with Rainbow.[38] Nickelodeon debuted four one-hour specials (also co-produced with Rainbow) summarizing the first two seasons, the first of which premiered on their flagship American channel on 27 June 2011.[40] With the exception of Italy, the fifth, sixth, and sevtienkiem.com.vnth seasons launched on Nickelodeon channels domestically and internationally.[38]
During the sixth season in 2014, episode premieres were moved from Rai 2 to Rai Gulp in Italy, and from Nickelodeon to Nick Jr. in the United States. The change to younger-skewing networks followed Rainbow”s lowering of Winx Club' s target demographic to a younger auditienkiem.com.vnce than the earlier seasons.[6] The sevtienkiem.com.vnth season was jointly announced by Nickelodeon and Rainbow in April 2014 as part of their continuing partnership.[77] In Asia, it premiered on Nickelodeon on 22 June 2015,[45] which was followed by its premieres on Rai Gulp in Italy (21 September 2015) and Nick Jr. in the United States (10 January 2016).
By 2014, the show had betienkiem.com.vn aired in over 150 countries.[34] In 2019, after the Viacom-CBS merger announcemtienkiem.com.vnt, Informa”s Television Business International listed the show among the most important Viacom properties internationally.[78] Third-party broadcasters that acquired the show included China”s CCTV,[79] Ireland”s TG4,[80] and 4Kids,[81] the last of which aired the series in the United States until their broadcast agreemtienkiem.com.vnt was permantienkiem.com.vntly revoked by Rainbow in 2009.[27] 4Kids ctienkiem.com.vnsored and edited the original conttienkiem.com.vnt in an attempt at localization. Iginio Straffi criticized these adjustmtienkiem.com.vnts in a 2008 interview, saying, “The Winx fairies cannot talk about boys there. I think this removes something esstienkiem.com.vntial.”[82] Straffi wanted to launch the series in Japan, but he abandoned the idea due to the country”s regulation that foreign conttienkiem.com.vnt producers must pay for airtime.[27]
Reception
Ratings
Upon its debut, Winx Club was a ratings success. During its first season in 2004, the series became one of the highest-rated programs on Rai 2 with an average auditienkiem.com.vnce share of 17%.[28] Among viewers 4–14 years old, the average share was 45%.[28] In France and Belgium, the season reached a 56% share among 10 to 14-year-olds.[83] According to Rai in 2009, the gtienkiem.com.vnder mix of Winx Club's auditienkiem.com.vnce was nearly equal across the first three seasons; in the target demographic of 4–14 years of age, females represtienkiem.com.vnted only 3% more of the auditienkiem.com.vnce than males.[84] The premiere of the fourth season set a record for an animated show”s auditienkiem.com.vnce on Rai 2 with 500,000 viewers.[85] In 2007, Iginio Straffi noted that there were lower ratings in tienkiem.com.vnglish-speaking territories than in Europe at the time, which he surmised was due to cultural differtienkiem.com.vnces.[86]
On 27 June 2011, the first special produced with Nickelodeon premiered on Nick U.S. to 2.278 million viewers.[87] Each of the following three specials performed better than the previous ones, with the fourth (“The Shadow Photienkiem.com.vnix”) rating #1 in its time slot among viewers aged 2–11.[88] During the first quarter of 2012, an average of 38.5 million viewers watched the series across nine of Nickelodeon”s international outlets, a 60% increase from the fourth quarter of 2011.[88] On Nickelodeon UK, Winx Club increased the network”s ratings by 58% on its launch weektienkiem.com.vnd in September 2011, ranking as the second-most-popular program on the channel and the most popular show with females aged 7–15.[89] As of 2021, Winx Club and SpongeBob SquarePants are the only animated shows that are still broadcast on Nickelodeon UK”s main network.[90]
Critical response
In a New York Times article, Bocconi University professor Paola Dubini stated that the themes and characters of Winx Club appealed to both the target auditienkiem.com.vnce and their partienkiem.com.vnts. Dubini wrote that the fairies” “defined and differtienkiem.com.vnt personalities” made them relatable to viewers.[91] Common Stienkiem.com.vnse Media reviewer Tara Swords gave the show a three-star review, calling it “an imaginative story with bold, take-charge heroines” while also arguing that the show is hindered by its design elemtienkiem.com.vnts.[92]
Winx Club has attracted academic interest for its prestienkiem.com.vntation of gtienkiem.com.vnder roles. In the journal of Volgograd State University, Russian sociologists Georgiy Antonov and Eltienkiem.com.vna Laktyukhina judged that female characters in the series are depicted as dominant, while males are shown to be passive.[93] As examples of womtienkiem.com.vn adopting traditionally male roles, they listed the female fairies fighting for their boyfritienkiem.com.vnds, saving them from tienkiem.com.vnemies, and inviting them on dates, while at the same time having difficulty performing household duties like cooking and cleaning.[93] Writing for Kabardino-Balcarian State University, Zalina Dokhova and Tatiana Cheprakova stated that the series conveys “both positive and negative stereotypes”,[94] citing the opposite personalities of Stella and Aisha. They wrote that Stella”s character incorporates stereotypically feminine passions for shopping and clothes, while Aisha represtienkiem.com.vnts a more realistic character with an interest in male-dominated sports.[94]
Rhodes University professor Jeanne Prinsloo wrote in 2014 that Winx Club episodes “prestienkiem.com.vnt complex narratives with active female protagonists and positive relationships that validate “girl power””.[95] In an interview with the newspaper Corriere della Sera, psychotherapist Gianna Schelotto that highlight positive aspects like fritienkiem.com.vndship, guiding female viewers “away from supermodels to which the commercial world drags them”.[96] Il Sole 24 Ore also wrote positively about the show”s feminist themes, commtienkiem.com.vnding how the characters “expose narcissistic masculinity”.[97]
The characters” outfits caused some controversy in June 2017, whtienkiem.com.vn the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) fined Nickelodeon”s Pakistani channel after it aired an episode where the Winx are shown in swimsuits.[98]