Winx Club

Winx Club is an animated television series created by Iginio Straffi. It is co-produced by Rainbow SpA and Nickelodeon, which are both part of ViacomCBS. The series premiered on January 28, 2004 in Italy.

Dubbing History
For its first four seasons, Winx Club was produced entirely in Italian, at the Rainbow SpA studio in Italy. The American company Viacom became a co-owner of Rainbow in 2011, and the show's animation (from season 5 onward) is matched to their American English scripts.

Seasons 1-4
The Montreal, Canada-based studio Cinélume recorded an English dub-over of the first four seasons. It translated the original Italian without adjustments, making it 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.

The series was also re-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. 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 In 2007, the license for 4Kids Entertainment was revoked by Rainbow and the final rerun of Winx Club ended on July 17, 2010 with the Season 3 finale being (incorrectly) announced as the series finale.

Seasons 5-present
On September 2, 2010, Nickelodeon announced that it would be developing new seasons of Winx Club. In February 2011, Viacom (Nickelodeon's parent company) became a co-owner of Rainbow SpA.

At Viacom's suggestion, a cast of well-known American actors recorded for the fifth and sixth seasons at Atlas Oceanic Sound & Picture in California, near Hollywood. (They also re-recorded for seasons 3-4, the four specials, and the first two movies.) Unlike all previous seasons (which were originally recorded in Italian), the animation was matched to this cast. As the master audio track, voice actors like 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 Hollywood cast was deemed too expensive, and as a result, DuArt Film & Video in New York was hired to dub over the seventh season.

In an unusual choice for an animated show, the DuArt voices were cast after the animation for season 7 had been completed. An article from 2014 said "The crew will also head straight into the animation phase before recording any character dialogue. By matching up the famous fairies to strong English scripts penned by Nickelodeon, the voices can be filled in later." 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.

In 2019, the dubbing production was moved to 3Beep Inc. for the rebooted eighth season. It maintained some of DuArt's cast, though various members of the main cast were replaced.

Video Releases
Paramount Picture's releases of the films The Secret of the Lost Kingdom and Magical Adventure also contain Nick's dubs of episodes 79-85 and 105-111 respectively.