Terukid: Adventures of a Teenage Alien Terudoll

Terukid: Adventures of a Teenage Alien Terudoll is a Live-action/animated hybrid TV series created by the 1997 Parasol Girl movie's top animator, Abigail Stones for Petalboy Channel. The series follows Terukid, a teenage alien who came from the planet Terutopia following it's destruction by the Space Gladiators to live on Earth. He is also the adopted "pet" of a straight A's girl named Tiffany who with her Jock friend Dewey and their dumb friend Hennery, have adventures throughout Queen Jokester County. The series made its debut on April 28, 2022 at 5 PM. Reruns air on Rose TV.

Starting on August 11, 2022, the series made its debut on Rainbow and WildBrainTV with it set to enter syndication one week afterwards.

Premise
Terukid revolves around a 15-year old Alien boy of the same name as he goes on adventures with his Earth friends. While relaxing on Earth, it is often threatened by otherworldly foes affiliated with the Space Gladiators, evil aliens who want to take over Earth and enslave the human race. When the aliens aren't around, h often disguises himself as a 10th grader at Dracula High often testing out wacky inventions.

The series is targeted towards teenage girls with some episodes talking about issues most teens face as side plots and as a running gag, some episodes are briefly interrupted by Dewey to explain an issue of the episode and explains why real-life teens experience it. The series is live action, but the aliens are animated via CGI.

Characters

 * Terukid - The main protagonist of the series. He is 15 years of age and crash landed on Earth.
 * Tiffany Ann - Terukid's "owner". She is an 11th grade principal's Honor Roll student who has all A's on her grades.
 * Jay Ann - Tiffany's younger brother. He is an 8th grader who's in to fighting games.
 * Dewey Kidd - Tiffany's best friend. He is a 9th grader who is mad with extreme sports. He is a jock and often visits the gym weekly. He is an only child.
 * Hennery H. - Tiffany's other friend. He is a 12th grader who is notable for being the school's class clown. He often jokes about and easily gets in trouble.
 * Terugirl - Terukid's girlfriend. Originally created by the Space Gladiators to hunt him down, she didn't like the idea and gained a crush on him. She dreams of marrying him and to start a family of Aliens on earth.
 * Anti-Terukid - Terukid's rival. Another clone made by the Space Gladiators. Unlike Terugirl, he hates Terukid with a burning passion.
 * Queen Gladi - The main antagonist of the series. She was originally Terukid's species but her desire to rule over others has overtaken her other personalities so she now has evolved into an empty shell full of egotism and dreams of taking over the universe so she can rule over everything. But Terukid knows good and well that it's impossible to rule everything when she's flawed too.
 * Judas K. - Tiffany's rival/mortal enemy. Both have seen to hate each other since they were in Kindergarten. At the age of 13, he became Queen Gladi's Earth vessel and is known as the "Earth Keeper". Since both hate Terukid, she uses this as an opportunity.

Production
Production of Terukid started in 2010 when the series was originally pitched to Nickelodeon as a 5 minute animated short named "Terukid and the Invaders of Darkness". Unlike the final product, this pilot episode was in an anime influenced style. However, Nickelodeon rejected the show because they found it to be too dark for the network.

The series was shelved for a few years before Universal Studios decided to add the pilot as an extra on home media releases of the animated movie "Minions". Since then, the pilot had a growing fanbase and eventually, Universal pitched the show to Netflix. Unlike the pilot and more like the final product, the series was in live-action and starred Terukid as a cartoony CGI character. But Netflix too rejected the idea.

Shortly afterwards, Petalboy Channel picked up the rights for the show and the series started production. Originally slated for a Spring 2021 release, the show was delayed to 2022 for final revisions. On April 28, 2022, the series made its first debut on Television with Invaders of Darkness announced to be the show's possible movie.

Reception
Terukid: Adventures of a Teenage Alien Terudoll has been met with a Positive reception. The series was praised for its quirky humor and fun cast. But the series was criticized for being too similar to Parasol Girl in terms of being a Sci-fi show about a cute teenager saving Earth from an otherworldly evil. Currently, the series has an 8.2 on IMDb and an 86 on Metacritic.

Episodes
The series has currently one series pitched containing 22 episodes. It's unknown if a second season is confirmed.