Groove High

Groove High is a British musical comedy television series that premiered on Disney Channel on 10 November 2012. The series was created by Frédéric Puech and Vriglle Troullot. The show has 130 episodes in the five seasons and is a mixture of live action and animation.

Premise
Groove High is a live action/animated comedy series following a group of talented kids that attend a quirky school for performing arts. The show uses both live action and animation. Each show begins in live action whereby Tom and Zoe (played by Samantha Barks and Jonathan Bailey in the english-language version) are two rock superstars tourin with their band. Between shows they like to remember the good old days at their high school Groove High. As they remember key events the show presents their memories as animated flashbacks. Often their memories are slightly distorted or exaggerated and Tom and Zoe's live action counterparts frequently interrupt the flashbacks to disagree about how it really happened.

Production
Groove High is a co-production between French animation companies Planet Nemo and Nexus Factory and Irish production company Telegael. Voice recording work for the animated sections began in April 2010, with live action filming completed at Telegael Productions in Ireland, October 2011.

Animation was completed by two companies, Jetoon in China, and PASI in the Philippines.

All music in the show including the generique wree originally written arranged and recorded by Belgian composers Eric Renwart and Marja Supponen, then sung by lead actors Jonathan Bailey and Samantha Barks.

In October 2013 the second, third, fourth and fifth seasons was announced, which would be co-produced by DQ Entertainment (seasons 2-5), MoonScoop (seasons 2-3), Globosat and ZDF Enterprises (seasons 3-5) to be aired in November 2013 to March 2017.

Original Main Cast

 * Tom Mason/Rockstar Mask - Florian Frin
 * Zoe Myer/Princess Singer - Alice Gingembre

Main cast

 * Tom Mason/Rockstar Mask - Jonathan Bailey
 * Zoe Myer/Princess Singer - Samantha Barks

Other characters

 * Baz Trobatori - Rasmus Hardiker
 * Victoria (Vic) Benson - Jules de Jongh
 * Lena Michelle Fayot - Rebekah Staton
 * Lex Turtletaub - Rasmus Hardiker
 * Sasha Turtletaub - Rasmus Hardiker
 * Myriam (Coco) Clarington - Beth Chalmers
 * Duke Kincaid - Rupert Degas
 * Jessica Lawson - Montanna Thompson
 * Clara Hastumer - Emma Tate
 * Fred Wilson - Jimmy Hibbert
 * Alex Carlin - Nisha Nayar
 * Lulu Myer (Zoe's little sister)/Princess Mini Singer - Dani Harmer
 * Harry Kante - Joe Starrs
 * Max Govern - Connor Byrne
 * Sam Rockwell - Sonny Muslim
 * Anna Patterson - Alicia Hooper
 * Zack Chong - Luke Youngblood
 * Justine Samar - Chloe Hibbert-Waters
 * Rick Batambuze - Darragh Mortell
 * Ben Edwards - James Cartwright
 * Sarah Harrington - Abby Rakic-Platt
 * Bridget Lavillant - Chelsie Padley
 * Roxy Shanaka - Deepal Parmer
 * Chantal Boyak - Sophie Sherrington
 * Georgia Littlewood - Nicola Reynolds
 * Kelly Shanaka - Annette Bentley
 * Peter Harryson - Craig Roberts
 * Miss Singleton/Chaos Singleton - Beth Chalmers
 * Dr. Khan/Shadow Man - Rupert Degas
 * Rouge Militia - Lisa Coleman
 * Scoot (Zoe's lizard) - David Freedman

Broadcast
The series airs on Disney Channel in the UK, France, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Australia, and New Zealand. It also airs on Kids Central in the United States, Teletoon+ in Poland, BBC Kids in Canada, Nickelodeon in the Benelux, Germany and Scandinavia, Arutz HaYeladim in Israel, PBS in Malta, TG4 in Ireland, Televisa in Latin America, YLE in Finland, TV5 Monde in France, MBC 3 in the Middle East and E-Junior in the United Arab Emirates.