Heidi (2015 TV series)


Heidi is a Swiss-German computer animated children's TV series, based indirectly on the 1881 novel Heidi by Johanna Spyri. The original 2007 television series was a Swiss-French-Italian-Australian co-production in 27 episodes of 26 minutes. A "remake" of Heidi, Girl of the Alps, much of the story is the same; the titular character is a then-five-year-old girl, who's taken to her grandfather on the Swiss Alps by her aunt, Dete to live with him and while the girl ends up improving his life, she also befriends Peter, the goatherd of the village Dorfli below and the one who causes her to find a big passion of hers, goats and other animals in general. But in this version, there is also a trio, Karl, Theresa, and William, who usually try to do something that would downgrade Peter, whom they often refer to as a mountain goat, in some way or another. But in the first winter up there, a letter is eventually gotten and what results from there will end up changing another's life, as well.
The series has been distributed in 138 countries around the world.

Characters

The actors cited are from the Australian cast.
  1. Up to the Mountain
  2. First Day in the Mountains
  3. The Challenge
  4. Save Chippy
  5. The Treehouse Oath
  6. A Night Out
  7. For a Loaf of Bread
  8. Trapped in the Manor
  9. Beware of the Wolf
  10. Peter's Treasure
  11. Attack the Treehouse!
  12. Save Sweetheart
  13. The End of Spring
  14. Clara
  15. The Bell Tower
  16. The Promise
  17. Papa Returns
  18. Home Schooled
  19. Let's Make a Show
  20. At the Park
  21. Clara Stands
  22. Goats in the City
  23. The Resignation
  24. A Tree for Shelter
  25. The Ghost
  26. The Letter
  27. Back to Dörfli
  28. A New Goat in the Herd
  29. The Broken Statue
  30. The Brooch
  31. The School Test
  32. Scavenger Hunt
  33. Goat's Hour
  34. The Storm
  35. The Devil's Bridge
  36. Friedrich
  37. The Wheelchair
  38. Forgiven
  39. The Edelweiss
Season 2
  1. My Best Friend
  2. Goodbye Snowflake
  3. Rico
  4. The Hike
  5. The Competition
  6. Bridgette's Secret
  7. The Violin
  8. Francesco
  9. The Watch
  10. The Resolution
  11. The Choice
  12. The Operation
  13. The Lady in Red
  14. The Matchmakers
  15. A Mariage is announced
  16. Reunited
  17. A Question of Time

    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 and in Friborg for Frankfurt, similarly to Zuyio '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 a bit of a 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 a "world preview" at Geneva's Tout Ecran Movie Festival on October 31, 2007. Later, was a 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 a promoter, impersonating an now-teenage Heidi, was opened on a blog and a MySpace page, 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, Cyprus, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Poland and aired 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:
While it was a simple success in France, in countries where the original series is well-loved, from Mexico to Germany, it has, at the most positive, gotten a lukewarm reaction, including claims from Latin American fans that the story changes "ruined" the entire series, much like other series like this. In Germany, the series had its reincarnation of the famous German theme song, now sung by Austrian folk star Andreas Gabalier, attacked for his "horrendous" singing ability.

Worldwide titles

Ireland*: Heidi - TG4
France: Heidi - TF1
Norway*: Historien om Heidi - NRK Super
Latin America: Heidi 3D - Disney Channel Latin America and Nat Geo Kids
Germany: Heidi - ZDF and KiKA
Austria: Heidi - ORF1
Hungary*: Heidi - Minimax
Kazakhstan: Heidi - Balapan
Spain: Heidi 3D - CLAN and Canal Panda
Portugal: Heidi 3D - Canal Panda
Italy: Heidi - Rai YoYo
Brazil: Heidi 3D - Disney Channel Brasil
Switzerland*: Heidi - Télévision Suisse Romande
Slovakia*: Heidi - Dvojka
Turkey: Heidi - TRT Çocuk
Israel*: היידי - Yes Kidz
Australia*: Heidi - Nine Network
Poland: TVP ABC, Filmbox Family
United States: Heidi - Netflix
Slovenija*: Heidi- oto, pop
- The country has not aired Heidi, Girl of the Alps before this series.