Winx Club

Winx Club is an animated television series created by Iginio Straffi and his studio Rainbow SpA in co-production with Nickelodeon and RAI Fiction. The series premiered on January 28, 2004 in Italy.

Dubbing History
Winx Club has a complex dubbing history. Four different English versions of the series exist, none of which span the whole series consistently.

In the United States, the series was first licensed and dubbed into English by 4Kids Entertainment, and aired on Fox's programming block 4Kids TV (formerly FoxBox) beginning on June 19, 2004. As was typical, 4Kids made many writing changes and edits; including many plot changes, as well as many name changes, as part of the company's effort to adapt Winx Club to an American audience. Reruns of the series aired on Cartoon Network in 2005, and on CW4kids in 2009. In 2007, the license for 4Kids Entertainment was revoked by Rainbow and the final rerun of Winx Club ended on July 17, 2010 with the Season 3 finale being announced as the series finale for the series.

Simultaneously, an alternate dub of the series was recorded by the Montreal-based studio Cinélume, which aired on Okto in Singapore. The Cinélume dub is completely uncut with no script edits or censorship. Cinélume's dub only covers the first four seasons of the series, as well as the spin-off PopPixie.

On September 2, 2010, Nickelodeon announced that it would co-produce Winx Club. In February 2011, Viacom (Nickelodeon's parent company) became a co-owner of Rainbow SpA. A new cast of well-known American actors recorded for the fifth and sixth seasons at Viacom's Burbank studio. Unlike all previous seasons (which were originally recorded in Italian), the animation was matched to Nickelodeon's cast. As the master audio track, Nickelodeon's voice actor Dee Bradley Baker (who voiced non-verbal characters like Kiko) can be heard across all foreign dubs of these seasons. This cast also included many high-profile actors who did not normally do voiceover work, including Ariana Grande as Diaspro, Elizabeth Gillies as Daphne, Keke Palmer as Aisha and Daniella Monet as Mitzi.

In 2014, the show's seventh season was subject to many budget cuts as a result of Rainbow's financial losses over the past year (their film Gladiators of Rome bombed at the box office). The Burbank cast was deemed too expensive, and as a result, DuArt Film & Video in New York was hired to dub over the seventh season. The voices were recast, and DuArt's dub saw the return of some of the 4Kids voice actors (Lisa Ortiz, Erica Schroeder, Marc Thompson) though few reprised their roles. The seventh season premiered on Nickelodeon in the UK on July 4, 2015, and in the United States on Nick Jr. on January 10, 2016.