Pixel Pinkie

Pixel Pinkie is an Australian/Canadian and British animated television series produced and created by Blue Rocket Productions in association with the Nine Network and principally funded by The Film Finance Corporation Australia. It started airing on 29 August 2009.^[1]

Plot

Pixel Pinkie is about two girls, Nina and Anni. On her birthday Nina gets a mobile cellphone with a digital genie named Pixel Pinkie in it which can make her wishes come true. Each episode sees the girls wishing for something from Pixel Pinkie then they offend her when their wish goes wrong, the girls then have to solve their problem alone.^[2]

Characters

Nina

Nina is a 12-year-old girl who likes basketball, going for a drink at the core juice bar and listening to the band Coolest Luke. She tries to fit in with Suzi and her friends and tries a number of times to become popular.

Anni

Anni is Nina's best friend, she likes science and maths. She does not care what people think of her and is always giving good advice to Nina and helping her solve problems, especially when digital genies are involved. She attends Plenty High with Nina.

Suzi

Suzi is Nina's arch-enemy. She is the most popular girl at Plenty High School, she is always trying to humiliate Nina and spying on her.

Zeph

Ninas father, he is a type of hippie. He makes star charts and predicts the future with a crystal ball. He has brown dreadlocks.

Fern

Nina's Mother, she likes to protest anything harming or threatening the environment and likes being eco-friendly and overprotective

Emily

Emily is one of Suzi's best friends, she is too popular and usually accompanies her with Nicki on their quests to embarrass Nina

Nicki

Nicki is very close to Suzi, she is popular at Plenty High. She likes hanging out with Emily and Suzi, as well as shopping for clothes

Max

Max is in the basketball team at Plenty High and is in a band. He likes playing the guitar. Nina likes Max however he is not so keen.

Cast

• Katherine Cohn Beck - Anni, Emily
• Isabella Dunwill - Nina
• Paige Walker - Pixel Pinkie
• Olivia Pigeot
• Di Adams
• Alex Cook
• Mary Ann Henshaw - Fern, Max
• Keith Buckley - Zeph
• Paul Gleeson
• Jacqui Lofgren
• Eliza Logan
• Robina Beard
• Daniel Wyllie
• Marta Dusseldorp
• Matthew Whittet
• Hannah Schofield - Suzi, Vincent
• Steve Rodgers
• Meaghan Davies
• Deborah Kennedy
• Roslyn Oades
• Shannon Murphy - Nicki
• Benson Anthony
• Anthony Hayes
• Hayley McElhinney
• John Leary
• Charlotte Gregg
• Steve Le Marquand
• Jamie Croft - Coolest Luke

Episodes

1. Meeting Pixel Pinkie/Daddy Cool
2. Clones R Us/Playing Chicken
3. On the Nose/A Cracked Idea
4. Invisible Nina/Orienteering Disaster
5. Valentine's Day/Zoom of Doom
6. Blinded with Science/Virtual Pest
7. Harvest Hoopla/Home for the Holidays
8. Bowled Over/Truth or Dare
9. Coolest Luke/Real Cool Girl
10. Dreadful Weather/Pink to the Core
11. Tran Zit/The Lost Voice
12. Dare to Be Scared/Trick or Treat
13. Tall Stories/The Grand Final
14. Finding Nina/My Friend Anni, Superstar
15. April Fools' Day/If the Shoe Fits
16. Trading Places/Ninja Nina
17. Sick Pixels/More Than a Meal
18. Uncoolest Luke/Bad Hair Day
19. Pixel Punkie/Nina the Diva
20. The Show Must Go On/Extreme Nina
21. Not a Laughing Matter/Disco Bowling
22. Upgraded/To Fern with Love
23. Double Trouble/Peter Pixel
24. Nelly the Nag/Rebel Yell
25. The "B" Word/Phone Tag
26. Sleepover/The Final Countdown

Production

There have been two series developed with 52 twelve-minute episodes. In Australia the twelve-minute episodes are joined together to make 12 twenty-six-minute episodes in each series. The first series was developed in 2007 and first aired in 2009.

International broadcasts

References

External links

• http://www.pixelpinkie.tv/