Lola & Virginia

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Lola & Virginia
Created byMyriam Ballesteros
Developed byMyriam Ballesteros
Written byGaëlle Baron
Micha
Txema Ocio
Isabeau Merle
Fethi Nedjari
Directed byMyriam Ballesteros
StarringYolanda Mateos
Ana Esther Alborg
Amparo Bravo
Carmen Cervantes
Jorge Saudinos
Ricardo Escobar
Adolfo Moreno
Inés Blázquez
Vicky Angulo
Sara Vivas
ComposerJohn Gladstone Smith
Country of originSpain
Basque Country
Original languagesSpanish
English
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes26 (52 in 15 minutes)
Production
Executive producersDoug Murphy
Sergi Reitg
EditorJavi Cuesta
Running time30 minutes
Production companiesICON Animation
Imira Entertainment
Euskal Telebista
Televisió de Catalunya
Original release
Network Disney Channel Spain
EITB (Basque)
Release14 March 2006 (2006-03-14) 
2007 (2007)

Lola & Virginia is a Spanish-Basque animated television series that ran in 2006 until 2007 and was produced by Imira Entertainment. It lasted 26 episodes for one season.

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Plot

Lola is a young girl who has a hard life taking care of her siblings and putting up with her friends. Along comes Virginia Toffen, a stuck-up, bratty, rich girl who always gets in her way. They soon become enemies and begin fighting over everything.

Episodes

  1. The Onion Trick/Incognito
  2. I Saw it First/Ideal Boyfriend
  3. Beauty Treatment/Haunted House
  4. Good Food & Rock N' Roll/Planet girl
  5. Mayhem in the Snow/Bye, Doll
  6. Roller Coaster/Problem Pets
  7. Dream Team/Elder Brother
  8. Unhappy Birthday/Lola Fashion
  9. Magic Garden/The Secret Club
  10. A Moped for Two/Perfect Friendship
  11. Headline News/Pair of Aces
  12. A Shoulder to Cry on/Kinky Kindred
  13. Afraid of What?/Oh No, Not Her!
  14. Hugo in Love/Fan Club
  15. Blackmail/30 Minutes Flat
  16. On the Sidelines/I Survived 100 Days in San Lorenzo
  17. Good Morning San Lorenzo/Love Soap
  18. Frog Party/Tyrannosaurus Virginia
  19. Carnival/Frozen Heart
  20. The Olympic Torch/Teacher's Pet
  21. Pyjama Party/San Lorenzo vs. Columbus
  22. Brushstrokes/The Uniform
  23. Dear Diary/The Lightning Man
  24. 21st Century Cinderella/Compulsive Buyer
  25. Dear Lola/A Boyfriend for Haide
  26. High Treason/Secret Love (final episode)

Characters

Lola - The show's protagonist. Lola lives in a working-class family with one younger brother, one baby sister and her mother, and her enemy is Virginia. Her father is never shown. She mainly wears a short red buttoned dress which is identified as one of the cheapest clothes to wear in the episode "The Uniform" and she is short and stout with short black hair and also wears round purple glasses.

Virginia Toffen - The show's antagonist, daughter of a very wealthy and successful toilet paper entrepreneur. Virginia suffers from a symptom where she thinks she is the centre of the universe, as revealed in the episode "The Uniform". Her enemy is Lola, and she is used to hanging out with a girl named Beatrice and formerly Leticia. She is a bratty rich girl who always gives her parents a hard time and usually getting what she wants. She is tall and thin with long blonde hair and is usually seen wearing a black leather coat, blue jeans and black and silver sunglasses.

Poppy - One of Lola's best friends is a tomboy who wears a pinkish-purple top with a skull on it. She is often seen accompanying Lola in their adventures.

Haide - Another of Lola's friends, she is usually seen with Lola and helping her with problems, along with Poppy. She and Poppy are sometimes involved in trying to reveal Virginia's plans. She believes deeply in astrology and originally from Cuba.

Agi and Yukio - The twin geniuses at San Lorenzo High. They are frequently seen working together on creating robots and other gadgets. Their adventures take them to various places, including trips to the Amazon rainforest and the Gobi desert.

Beatrice - One of Virginia's friends, or so she thinks. She is always seen with Virginia and helping her with her plots and schemes to embarrass Lola. She is also briefly seen helping Lola (but only to get Virginia's friendship back).

Charlie - A student from San Lorenzo High. Charlie hangs out with Lucas and Chuck and loves skateboarding. Lola and Virginia have crushes on him, often fighting to get him.

Lucas - The sneak. His closest friends are Charlie and Chuck. In one episode, Virginia paid him to impersonate Marco Amore and make Lola sad. However, Lola discovered Virginia's scheme, and he ended up dressing up as Marco to take Lola home. The episode concluded with the "Marco" cake that Lola made being thrown at his face.

Chuck - One of Lola's classmates, his best friends are Charlie and Lucas. Haide used to have a crush on him and Lola used to date him, a revealed secret which nearly broke Lola and Haide's friendship. He is African-Spanish.

Suzie - One of Lola's classmates. She is a sweet, childish girl who still plays with dolls. She has an older brother, who Lola and Virginia formerly had crushes on. She is seen hanging out with Lola and some of her other classmates.

Marco - A boy at Lola's school. He is shy and a bit quiet. He has blond hair and wears a red shirt. He is not to be confused with Marco Amore.

Hugo - One of the students from San Lorenzo High, Hugo is the school's most talented dancer, even being the star of one of Marco Amore's music videos. He loves food and formerly dated Virginia.

Marco Amore - The hit singer from San Lorenzo, Marco has all of adoring fans, including Lola, Virginia and the rest of Lola's class. Lola loves him a lot, especially since she is the head of the Marco Amore fan club. His real name is John Johnson.

Leticia - Virginia's former friend from her old private school, Columbus. Their friendship broke apart in the episode "San Lorenzo vs. Columbus" because of Virginia winning a horse race, thanks to Lola angering Virginia. Virginia later says (as recorded by Haide on Lola's video camera) that she doesn't need Leticia.

Ana - Teacher of San Lorenzo High.

Gustavo Buliavez - The school's chef. He used to teach Lola, her friends and Marco Amore's music.

Telecast and home release

Lola & Virginia was broadcast on several European channels, including Disney Channel (Spain) & Disney Channel Italy, France 3, Pop Girl, POP!, RTP 2, and was previously shown on Animania HD before it ceased operations in 2009. In Brazil, the show also aired on SBT. Nickelodeon South East Asia has stopped broadcasting the show, although it was one of the original channels. In the Netherlands the show aired from 2008 until 2009 on Nickelodeon. In September 2014, the series was headed to Hulu. As of 2022, the show is now streaming on Amazon Prime.

Live action

Imira Entertainment, Spain's leading production and distribution company specialising in youth programming, moved into the live action arena with a brand new live action version of the animated hit series, "Lola & Virginia" which is being co-produced with Brave Films. The show is jointly owned and produced in partnership with RAI cinema, and is pre-sold to Nickelodeon for Spain, Portugal and Italy.

Video game

In 2008, a self-titled video game was released for the Nintendo DS by Virgin Play under their publishing brand V.2 Play. The gameplay consists of the player (Lola) completing a series of tasks, included with some mini-games.

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