The Little Lulu Show: A New Life

***The Little Lulu Show: A New Life*** is an live action/animated TV series, which debuted on September 19, 2015 on Teletoon. It is a reboot of the original series. The new series using in live action and flash animation instead of traditional animation used in the original series. All the characters from the original series was returning for the new series, along with some new characters. The show was produced by Nelvana, Zodiak Kids (formerly as Marathon Media), Fresh TV, DreamWorks Classic Productions, Thuristar and Splash Entertainment until 2017 and Ellipsanime Productions took over production for MoonScoop SA. It aired in celebration of The Little Lulu Show's 20th anniversary. Unlike the original series, this show is not stand-up comedy (which means Lulu and her friend Tubby don’t have the three 7-minute stories and two 60-second short films), the changes of the episode structure from three 7 minute episodes (and two 60 second shorts) to two 12 minute episodes (some specials are longer).

In 2014, Teletoon announced that it would produce a reboot to The Little Lulu Show titled *The Little Lulu Show: A New Life* The series stars Lulu and Tubby, now two 13-years-old kids, who goes into a quirky city for New York and sprinkled with a little live-action. The series has been picked up for 26 episodes and had its premiere on Teletoon on September 19, 2015.

## Plot

The episodes themselves intersperse live action with Lulu Moppet and Tubby Tompkins (played by Victoria Justice and Matt Bennett in the english-language version) are two best friends and flash cartoon sequences with the other children. Initially these cartoons would often be followed by a more realistic interpretation of what happened, but this was in the beginning and at the end of the live action segments with the cartoon segment after the first live action segment. The theme song was written and performed by Victoria Justice and Matt Bennett (Miranda Cosgrove and Nathan Kress in season 3).

## Trivia

* The series has been subjected to multiple amounts of criticism from fans and television critics (mostly for the fact the original designs were replaced with 'Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls' designs). Some examples include these: humans gain different outfits, wide eyes, curved-shaped up-turned nose, straight thin eyebrows (Note: eyebrows gains have colours instead of normal black), have eye colours (Lulu has brown eyes, Tubby and Alvin have emerald green eyes and Annie, Gloria and Wilbur have blue eyes) and have five thin fingers on each hand instead of normal, and also, female humans gain eyelashes.
	+ In the original series, most episodes start at the Center Stage, but in the reboot, this does not happen but instead using the bedroom in Los Angeles, California for a live action segment.
* The first series to not feature Tracey Ullman, Jane Woods, Bruce Dinsmore, Ricky Mabe, Angelina Boivin, Jacob Tierney, Jonathan Koensgen, Dawn Ford, Danielle Desormeaux, Sonja Ball, Justin Bradley, Susan Glover, Arthur Grosser, Pauline Little, Terrence Scammell, Holly Gauthier-Frankel, Michael Yarmush, Michael Caloz, Andrew Henry, Gary Jewell and Ellen David part of the original voice cast.
* While the series' creator, Lauren Faust (who also created Hasbro's *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic*) hasn't at all expressed any dislike to the reboot, she has admitted that the then newly-announced revamp of the show was a big risk. Faust has even acknowledged that making changes to a popular series could be controversial, and had experienced this herself as a viewer.
* Some voice actors from the *Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir*, *Geronimo Stilton* and *Bob the Builder* series have also voice acted on the reboot.

## Link

For a look at the episode guide for A New Life, *click here* or for a look at the character guide for A New Life, *click here*.