Alaina Gleen (TV series)

Alaina Glenn is an American animated children television series originally created by Thalia Ward for CBS. The 1 television series produced by Thalia Ward Productions for 20 Television Animation, it centers on an kind and smart teenage girl named Alaina Glenn, her imaginary friend Max Hat and her friends Jason Baxter and Lucy Jones, living in the fictional town of Applewood, Colorado and parodies American culture and society. They try to live in a normal everyday life to occasionally prevent attacks from a professor named Hinkle Higgins and his henchmen who wants to capture Max, so the gang must team up to stop Professor Higgins plans.

Thalia Ward created the title character for an unpublished comic book series in 1987, and later reluctantly pitched the series to CBS as a Saturday morning cartoon in 1989. The network gave the staff a large amount of creative freedom, with the writers targeting both children and adults.

The series originally premiered on CBS on November 17, 1990, which led to a series of half hour episodes, and was later moved to the Fox Kids block on February 6, 1993, then to Cartoon Network during their Cartoon Cartoon Fridays block, on July 9, 1999.

Alaina Glenn received wide critical acclaim throughout it 1 8 or 9 seasons, which are generally considered its Golden Age. It gained over 25 awards during it original run, including 5 Daytime Emmy Awards, 7 Kids Choice Awards, with Time calling it the best and funniest animated phenomenon of the 90 decade and has been largely commercially successful it has spawned a successful Franchise and adaptations into other media, such as comics, toys, and Video Games. The series ended on August 13, 2004 with a total of 12 seasons and 294 episodes, tying Alaina Glenn as the 2 longest running American animated television series, behind The Simpsons at that time. As a result of the show popularity, a feature length film, titled The Alaina Glenn Movie, was released into theaters on September 17, 2004, a month after the series finale.

On October 22, 2010, 20 Century Fox Animation released a 3D Computer Animated Reboot Film Under The Same Name as a new incarnation of the original series it was followed by 2 sequels, Alaina Glenn 2 in 2013 and Alaina Glenn 3 Imaginary Vacation in 2017 respectively with An 4 Film coming in 2021. In May 2018, 20 Century Fox announced that Disney Channel and Fox Family had picked up the original series for 24 new episodes that began airing on February 8, 2019. The series has been renewed for a 14 season, which premiered on April 3, 2020. In addition, a direct to video crossover film featuring the Kate And Chris characters titled Kate And Alaina was released on DVD, Blu ray and Digital HD on September 24, 2019.

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Animation
The series 1 and 2 seasons was produced by Hanna Barbera, and was produced in association with Wang Film Productions in Taiwan, Mr. Big Cartoons in Australia, and Fil Cartoons in the Philippines. However, due to difficulties with the animation studios, production was switched from Hanna Barbera to Klasky Csupo for the 3 and 4 seasons. By season 5, co founder Gabor Csupo wanted to have 1 producer to oversee the animation Ward refused and production was switched to Film Roman and Rough Draft Studios for the remainder of the series run.

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United States

 * CBS
 * Syndication
 * Fox Kids
 * Fox Family
 * Cartoon Network
 * Telemundo
 * Disney Channel

Canada

 * YTV
 * Tele Toon
 * Fox Family
 * Disney Channel
 * Tele Toon Retro
 * CBC Radio Canada

Latin America And Brazil

 * ZAZ
 * Cablin
 * Chile Vision
 * Canal 5
 * Magic Kids
 * Rede Globo

Spain

 * Canal
 * Clan TVE

France

 * Gulli

United Kingdom And Ireland

 * CITV
 * Channel 4
 * Pop
 * Nick Toons
 * Fox Kids
 * Disney Channel
 * RTE2

Italy

 * Italia 1

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 * NHK
 * Fuji TV
 * TV Tokyo

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Disney Channel And Fox Family Revival
On August 17, 2018, after years of rumors, speculation and outcry that the original series would come back to television, it was announced that Fox had picked up the show for 26 new half hour episodes that will begin airing simultaneously on February 8, 2019 on both Fox Family and Disney Channel following the Disney acquisition of Fox. A smaller writing crew will return. Thaila Ward announced that the original cast Catherine Cavadini, Tom Kenny, Jason Marsden, Jodi Benson, Jim Cummings, Billy West, Dan Castellaneta, Jeff Bennett, with Charlie Adler, and Kath Soucie would be returning for the new episodes.

When the revival of Alaina Glenn aired February 8, 2019, on Fox Family, it helped the network to it highest rated day in 2019 and it highest rated Friday nighttime in the network history. The revival aired on Disney Channel the next day. In May 2019, it was announced that Alaina Glenn had been renewed for a 14 season, consisting of at least 23 episodes, scheduled to air in spring 2020. The 1 episode of season 14 premiered on April 3, 2020.

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Home Media
CBS Fox Video released 4 videos of Alaina Glenn between 1993 and 1995. From 1996 to 2004, 20 Century Fox Home Entertainment released several VHS tapes of the series, each containing 4 episodes of the series.

20 Century Fox Home Entertainment later released the 1 2 seasons on DVD in 2002 and 2004, but in April 2006, Fox gave Shout! Factory the rights to release the series. Season 3 was released that November, followed by season 4 in 2007. That same month, Shout announced that Season 4 would be released sometime in 2006, but Shout delayed the release to an unknown date before finally releasing Season 4 in December 2007 and Seasons 5 and 6 in November 2008 and June 2009. From there on, Shout made a plan to put out the final 6 seasons in 2010. Season 7 saw a release in November 2009, followed by Seasons 8, 9, 10, and 11 in 2010 and 12 in February 2011, completing the entire series.

Following the DVD and Blu ray release of the 2010 3D computer animated reboot, Shout released a box set containing all seasons of the show and a bonus disc. The set went out of print in October 2015 along with the season DVD. On March 11, 2020, Disney and Fox announced that the complete series including Season 13 of Alaina Glenn would be released for the 1 time on Blu ray and an shelf friendly DVD box set with the Blu ray containing a new 1080p restoration and a remastered DTS HD Master Audio 5.1 audio remix on every episode of the show and was confirmed to be released on November 17, 2020 to commentate the 30 anniversary of the series.

As of April 2020, the show and movie is available to stream on Disney in the United States and Canada.

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