The Wonderful Adventures of The Villas

The Wonderful Adventures of The Villas (simply known as The Villas) is an American-Canadian animated series created by sisters Honestie Palmer and Harmonie Palmer. It aired on Nickelodeon and it's sister network Nicktoons. The show premiered on Nickelodeon on April 15, 2000 (following the Kids Choice Awards 2000, Alan & Adian, and The Alpha Squad.) The series was cancelled on March 21, 2009 and reruns of the show continued to air until September 27, 2009 when the show left the network for good. It wasn't until December 13, 2017 when the show made its historical return on television.

Plot
Like The Jacobs, the series follows the many misadventures of the Villa kids. Sophia, Jaiden, Xanthe, Xoe, Anthony, and Jasmine.

Cast

 * Grey DeLisle as Sophia Villa
 * Sunday Muse as Xoe Villa
 * Tajja Isen as Xanthe Villa
 * Janice Kawaye as Jasmine Villa
 * Scott McCord as Anthony Villa
 * Jonathan Wilson as Jaiden Villa

Development
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Writing
The writing was done by Disney-Nick-WB alumni Douglas Langdale, Craig McCraken, Lauren Faust, Bob Boyle, Sue Rose, Rob Davies, and The Palmer Sisters.

Music
The Music was done by The Salteens, The Postmarks, Trembling Blue Stars, and Frequent Flyer.

Voice Acting
Janice Kawaye auditioned to play the role of Sophia Villa, one of the Villa children, however Honestie Palmer was so fascinated and impressed by her good improvision, that she gave Kawaye the role of Jasmine Villa. Honestie turned to hiring Canadian sisters, Tajja and Nissae Issen to do the roles of Xanthe and Xoe Villa, and they agreed to do it. However, Nissae steped down due to her mother not being ready for Nissae to pursue her acting career not yet. So Honestie turned to Sunday Muse to play Xoe Villa instead. Muse agreed to do so. Now that the younger-aged Villas had voices, Honestie began seeking voices for Sophia, and The Villa Boys, Anthony, and Jaiden. For Sophia, Honestie turned to Grey DeLisle and Tara Strong. Both were working in production for Fairly OddParents, another Nickelodeon show, at the time so Strong had rejected due to her playing the main character of FOP, Timmy Turner. DeLisle granted her opportunity to be on the show since she wasn't much of a regular on FOP. With DeLisle playing Sophia, Honestie had went on a hunt trying to find 2 voice actors for the boys, Anthony and Jaiden Villa, the stars of the show. Honestie had asked Jack Black, Jeannie Elias, Tress MacNeille, Josh Server, Rob Paulsen, Scott McCord, and Johnathan Wilson to play the boys. Black and Elias declined, however MacNeille, Server, Paulsen, McCord, and Wilson were all intrested in taking on the roles. Honestie ended up giving the role of Anthony to McCord and the role of Jaiden to Wilson. Honestie did ask MacNeille, Server, and Paulsen if they would like to voice additional characters, all three equally accepted.

Animation
The animation was done by The Palmer Sisters, DiC Entertainment, Cookie Jar, and Nickelodeon Animation Studios.

Critical Reception
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Spinoff
In 2004, The Palmer Sisters decided to make a spin-off focusing only on the older-aged Villas, Jasmine, Anthony, and Jaiden. The Palmer Sisters asked Decode Entertainment to lead in the animation and Neil Court took head lead of animation. Court drafted a team of animators from other studios such as Studio B, Cookie Jar, Klasky Csupo, and even Nickelodeon Animation Studios. This made the in-house animation studio, Bonfire Productions, a subsidiary of Decode Entertainment. Cookie Jar and Nickelodeon Animation eventually helped Decode and it's in-house animation studio to produce and animate the spin-off. The pilot of the spin-off was pitched to Nickelodeon and was aired under Noggin's The N block, TEENick, in Early-2005, and eventually The N channel. For unknown reasons, it was shortly aired on Kids' WB! until August of 2007 when the show vanished of Kids' WB! for good. It is unknown how Kids' WB! had rights to broadcast the show or unknown what went on broadcasting-wise. The series was cancelled in 2009, around the time when the main series was cancelled as well.