Little Lulu Show R

***Little Lulu Show R*** is a German-British-American musical comedy TV series created by Gerhard Hahn and Virglle Trouillot. It incorporates both live action and 2D flash animation. The show centers around touring rock pop stars Lulu and Tubby as they reminisce their time at their performing arts high school New Peekskill High. In America, *Little Lulu Show R* started airing on Hub Network in 2014. It is based on the American animated television series *The Little Lulu Show*.

Since 2016, *Little Lulu Show R* has been entirely owned by M4E AG. The M4E company has made a fourth season, according to Kidscreen's article.

The "new friends" as well as Lulu's teenage look was introduced in 2009. The characters include Annie, Georgie, Tubby, Alvin, Wilbur, and Margie alongside the teen Lulu.

A feature film titled *Little Lulu Show R: Lulu on Parade* was produced by Nelvana, Made 4 Entertainment, Hahn & m4e Productions, Nexus Factory, Telegael, Studio B Animation, Studio 100 Animation and Flying Bark Productions. It was released in Germany on May 25, 2023.

## Premise

Little Lulu Show R is a live action/animated comedy series following a group of talented kids that attend a quirky school for performing arts. The show uses both live action and animation. Each show begins in live action whereby Lulu and Tubby (played by Samantha Barks and Jonathan Bailey in the english-language version for the first two seasons and Margot Nuccetelli and Adrian Moore from season 3 onwards) are two rock superstars tourin with their band. Between shows they like to remember the good old days at their high school New Peekskill High. As they remember key events the show presents their memories as animated flashbacks. Often their memories are slightly distorted or exaggerated and Lulu and Tubby's live action counterparts frequently interrupt the flashbacks to disagree about how it really happened.

## Series overview

*Check out: List of Little Lulu Show R episodes*

## Characters

*Check out: List of The Little Lulu Show characters*
## History

Little Lulu Show R is a co-production between German companies Made 4 Entertainment (formerly Lucky Punch), Hahn Film AG and ZDF, Canadian animation company Nelvana, French animation company Nexus Factory and Irish production company Telegael. Before the 2016 German buyout, the show was a French-Italian-Canadian co-production between Dargaud Media, Rai Fiction, Cookie Jar Group, March Entertainment and Rainbow S.p.A.. *Little Lulu Show R'*s history can be dated back as early as 2010. Virglle Trouillot started to work on character designs at the time. Then Cookie Jar asked Michael Hirsh and Rainbow S.p.A. founder Iginio Straffi if they considered doing a pilot for the show. They didn't pitch the idea, but they always felt that Georgie deserved her appears in her spin-off show. The character was quite popular already with the audience and viewers when she used to make appearances on *Tales of New Peekskill High* (especially with her debut book The Audition), and they liked the idea of creating a show that was centered on musical comedy and original songs. By March of 2010, 26 episodes (of Season 1) were ordered and the series was in production (this was announced in a press release on March 27, 2010). Voice recording work for the animated sections began in April 2011, with live action filming completed at Telegael Productions in Ireland, October 2012.

Animation was completed by two companies, Jetoon in China, and PASI in the Philippines.

All music in the show including the theme song were originally written arranged and recorded by Belgian composers Eric Renwart and Marja Supponen, then sung by lead actors Jonathan Bailey and Samantha Barks.

## Trivia

* The series first premiered on CBBC on March 29, 2013.
* The show began its second season on June 7, 2014 on CBBC.
* Despite being a CBBC series in its home country, it aired on Nickelodeon in the United Kingdom and Southeast Asia, Canal+, Boing and France 3 in France, Disney Channel in Turkey, YTV in Canada, KiKA in Germany, Rai 2 and Rai Gulp in Italy, La Trois in Belgium, Minimax in Eastern Europe, Gloob in Brazil, Canal Panda in Portugal and Clan TVE in Spain. Cartoon Network in Latin America also showed it.