Heidi (2015 TV series)
| Heidi (also known as "Heidi 3D") | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Genre | Drama |
| Created by |
Christel Gonnard (writing bible) Jan Van Rijsselberge Johanna Spyri (base novel) |
| Written by |
Laurent Auclair Sophie Decroisette Christel Gonnard Jean-Rémi François Thierry Gaudin Christelle Rosset An Keo Bruno Merle Pascal Mirleau Bruno Regeste Jean-Philippe Robin Tony Scott Nicolas Verpilleux Cleon Prineas Zoe Harrington Sam Meikle Sophie Decroisette (participating writer)[1] |
| Voices of |
Nathalie Homs (narrator) Emmylou Homs Benoît Allemane Lucille Boudonnat Vania Pradier Gilduin Tissier Julie Turin Gabriel Bismuth Leslie Lipkins Thierry Kazazian Thierry Gondet Evelyne Grandjean Gilbert Levy Céline Ronté |
| Theme music composer |
French theme song: Music: David Vadant Romain Allender Patrick Sigwalt Lyrics: Sophie Decroisette International theme song: Music: Johan Vanden Eede Lyrics: Gert Verhulst Hans Bourlon Alain Vande Putte |
| Opening theme | "Heidi" (both theme songs) |
| Composer(s) |
David Vadant Romain Allender Patrick Sigwalt |
| Country of origin |
France Belgium Australia |
| Original language(s) | French |
| No. of seasons | 2 (39 episodes per season) |
| No. of episodes | 41 (currently) |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Katell France |
| Running time | 23 minutes (approx. per episode) |
| Production company(s) |
Studio 100 Animation Heidi, Pyld |
| Release | |
| Original release |
2007 (Swiss first airing) 2015 – present |
| External links | |
| Website |
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Heidi is a French animated children's TV series, based indirectly on Heidi by Johanna Spyri.[2] The original 2007 television series was a Swiss-French-Australian co-production in 27 episodes of 26 minutes. A "remake" of Heidi, Girl of the Alps, the story is much the same; the titular character is a then-five-year-old girl, who's taken to her grandfather, by her aunt, Dete, to live with him in the Swiss Alps and while she ends up improving his life with him, she also befriends Peter, the goatherd of the town below, Dorfli, who causes her to find an biggest passion, goats, but now are also a trio, Therese, William and Thomas, who try usually to do something that would happen to degrade Peter, who they often refer to as a mountain goat, in some way or another. But a letter is gotten, eventually, that will change another's life in that one's future time.
The series has been distributed in 138 countries around the world.
Characters
- Heidi (voiced by Monique Hore): The title character.
- Heidi's grandfather (voiced by Peter McAllum)
- Peter (voiced by Nicole Shostak): Young goatherd.
- Aunt Dete (voiced by Beth Armstrong: Heidi's mother's sister. She works as a maid in the Sesemann household.
- Theresa (voiced by Charlotte Hamlyn):
- William (voiced by Charlotte Hamlyn):
- Thomas
- Clara Sesemann (voiced by Sophia Morrison)
- Josef: Heidi's grandfather's Saint Bernard.
- Miss Rottenmeier (voiced by Beth Armstrong): The Sesemann household's governess.
- Sebastian (voiced by Jamie Croft): The Sesemann household's butler.
- Mr. Sesemann (voiced by Peter McAllum): Clara's father.
- Alda: Therese's mother.
- Tobias: Heidi's deceased father.
- Mr. Keller (voiced by Peter McAllum, Jamie Croft)
- Mrs. Keller (voiced by Nicole Shostak)
- Briggite (voiced by Beth Armstrong)
- Grandmother (voiced by Beth Armstrong)
- Barble (voiced by Kate Fitzpatrick)
- Grandmama (voiced by Penny Cook)
Production
On the behalf of ZDF, one of the series' co-producers, with the intention of renewing Heidi, Girl of the Alps and fellow series to the modern children's audience, the series was produced from 2013–14, mainly in France, that much like Maya the Bee and Vicky the Viking before, including being done by the same main studio, on the behalf of ZDF, but in this production, multiple other companies, including the Australia-based, specifically-made Heidi Pyl, joined in on making the series.
In the first production, from the writing bible, written by Christel Gonnard, was the first twenty-seven episodes first had their locations shot with high-definition footage, for reference to the animators making the now-fictionalized locations of the series, in Haute-Savoie for the Alps (referred to as that, rather than the Alm, as in the base series and novel) and in Friborg for Frankfurt, similarly to Zuyio (later Nippon)'s team shooting pictures of the official locations themselves, for the setting references to background painters and writers, for the base series. The two halves that happened to be made in that production were directed, respectively, by Pierre-Antoine Hiroz and Anne Deluz. The theme music was two songs at the time; the credits song, replaced by an bit of an piece of background music from the series, when the series was bought the rights out of, was sung by Cindy Santos, first known in 2006, when she participated in the French show Nouvelle Star.
The first three episodes were screen as an "world preview" at Gevena's Tout Ecran Movie Festival (Festival Cinéma Tout Ecran) on October 31, 2007 (albeit only coincidentally for Halloween). Later, was an twenty-episode documentary series, of three minutes, each episode and produced by Rita and Chocolat TV Productions, aired on Télévision Suisse Romande as well as on Chocolat's website, before the latter was removed, which documented the first production. Afterwards, an account of an promoter, impersonated an now-teenage Heidi, was opened on an blog website and MySpace, where the character promoted the series. The series premiered on the Swiss network Télévision Suisse Romande on December 22, 2007, in Swiss HD. In France, Studio 100 Animation bought the rights in 2013 and produced a 3D series of 39 episodes of 26 minutes each, now directed by Jérôme Mouscadet, from that year to 2014 and the completed series began airing in 2015.
Due to the partnership of Eurovision Fiction, was the series sent to their affiliated countries, including Ireland, Norway (see below), Cyprus (in Greek dub), Slovakia (also see below), Bulgaria and Poland and aired (as of recent, at least part-finished) on the EBU member chains of those countries.
Changes
From Heidi, Girl of the Alps, for time and/or other reasons, were several changes made in this version:
- The characterizations were heavily simplified; for example, with Heidi, her emotions were more up-played and her friendship with Peter is less affected by his beating tendencies of the goats, partly because they're stopped at once, when Heidi sees that and does her action.
- Sub-plots, from Heidi's relationship with the fir trees to the finding and soon living in the winter home, are either altered (including with simplification) or removed entirely, or even made for the series: as an example of the last point, partway through Heidi learning how to read, while still in Frankfurt, she, Clara and her grandmother, this during her visit, informs her of: "Princess and the Frog", which they turn to play out of, even being taught by the grandmother to sing her lines, to remember them and it's performed by Heidi and Clara, some evenings later; that based on that fairy tale being one of those shown with its illustration to Heidi, while Clara's grandmother first encouraged her to learn how to read, that night.
- Many of the base series' more episodic plots are re-told; the "Sad News-Snowflake" two-parter is told as: "Save Sweetheart", where the butcher is independent of the goat, the plants searched for saving the goat is in a singular place and adds the sub-plot of Therese trying to keep one of the flock at bay, while Peter and Heidi climb the nearby mountains for the plants.
- Clara's training to being walking begins while Heidi's still in Frankfurt and progresses from there to episode thirty-eight.
- Elements from the two-part novel, including the religious elements (generally removed in the base series for comprehensibility issues with the more current Buddhist audience) are returned, sometimes loosely; Heidi's tendend prayers to the little star is based on her praying to God, to find a way to get her home to the Alm, as inspired by Clara's grandmother's advice.
- A "terrible trio" group of villains are introduced, most prominent in the first third of the series, where they usually try to get Peter's secret cabin to themselves, especially from Heidi. Their trio ends when William moves away.
Critical reception
While it was a simple success in France, in countries where the original series is well-loved, from Mexico to Germany, at the most positive, it had gotten a lukewarm reaction, including claims from Latin American fans that the story changes "ruined" the entire series, as similar with many such series. In Germany, the series had the reincarnation of the famous German theme song, now sung by folk star Andreas Gabalier, been criticized for his harshly flat singing ability.[3]
Worldwide titles
United Kingdom*: Heidi - Tiny Pop
Ireland*: Heidi - TG4
France: Heidi - TF1
Norway*: Historien om Heidi ("The Story of Heidi") - NRK Super (no longer airing, since 2017; also in New Norwegian)
Latin America: Heidi 3D - Disney Channel (Latin America)
Germany: Heidi - ZDF and KiKA
Austria: Heidi - ORF1
Hungary*: Heidi - Minimax
Spain: Heidi 3D - CLAN and Canal Panda
Portugal: Heidi 3D - Canal Panda
Italy: Heidi - Rai YoYo
Brazil: Heidi 3D - Disney Channel Brasil
Mexico: Heidi 3D - Cartoon Network Mexico (second airing in the country)
Switzerland*: Heidi - Télévision Suisse Romande (the original French version)
Slovakia*: Heidi - :2
Israel*: היידי - Yes Kidz
Australia*: Heidi - Nine Network
- The country has not aired Heidi, Girl of the Alps before this series.
References
External links
- Heidi on Internet Move Database