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Andrea's Spotlight (originally titled Big Animal Musical Number) is a American animated comedy television series originally produced by Nelvana, with the present season produced by Cartoon Pizza and Glass Ball Productions. It began airing on June 5, 2002 on GoAnimate Network.

With the first 78 episodes and both 45-minute-long specials produced by Nelvana, Andrea's Spotlight began with a total of four seasons of 95 22-minute-long episodes (including two one-hour specials). The series aired on February 11, 2010 and included an acoustic version of the theme song by Brian Melo. DVD and iTunes releases have been made in North America, and the first four seasons are available on the streaming service Tubi. A special reunion PSA titled "Vote, Dude!" was released on September 12, 2018, with the original cast reprising their respective roles to raise awareness for voting in the 2018 US midterm elections, though no plans to bring back the show have been announced.

Plot
Andrea's Spotlight is an animated comedy for older children, preteens, and teenagers. The plots take place almost entirely in a megaplex shopping mall known as the Galleria mall. The Galleria mall is a cross between the Toronto Eaton Centre and the West Edmonton Mall. The series follows the cast of six 16-year-old friends in everyday lives, including their first part-time jobs. The show is rated TV-G.

Andrea's Spotlight is focused on the common issues related to teenagers. The main characters are: Andrea, William, Matthew, Isaiah, Astral, Russell, Karen, Tamakey, Akaney, Bella, and Adrian. They deal with first infatuations, first jobs, first bank accounts, and a sweet taste of freedom. Astral finds himself successfully working at Flamin' Fashion, a store where he would shop himself, while Andrea has found her dream job at a sports shop, but makes some mistakes. As a running gag, William manages to get fired from a new store in almost every episode with a few exceptions. Matthew falls hopelessly in love with his older co-worker. Russell works at the Sandwich Express. Karen endures the daily idea of working at the lowest store in the mall's hierarchy of cool – Chocoberry, a frozen yogurt stand shaped like a sundae, where she's required to wear a hat shaped like a ice cream as a part of her uniform.

Development
GoAnimate Network announced on June 5, 2002, that they had greenlighted the show for production, which began in early 2002. The show was first conceived when Billy Theal, creator of the show, saw Julianna Revilla. "The girl had so much confidence. She can nail a joke. She can sing. She can play instruments. It's like China was some sort of child prodigy... And that's when it hit me: Why not build a show around a child prodigy? Someone who's got all of this natural talent & ability, but is still challenged when she's sent off to high school at the age of 11?" Signer said in an interview. After the first few episodes of the show were shown, GoAnimate Network bumped up their order of episodes for the show from 13 episodes to 26 episodes for the first season. On May 6, 2003, the series was renewed for a second season, which would start filming in early May.

Casting
Sierra McCormick was cast after an audition where she continually talked about tigers. Dan Signer stated "And as I heard her continually talking about tigers, I thought 'That's just how Olive would sound,' because Olive is a fast-talking, intelligent student whose talent is memory. Which is how Sierra got that part." Jake Short was the last of the three core characters to be cast. Caroline Sunshine was originally cast as Lexi and Stefanie Scott as the role of Tinka Hessenheffer in Andrew Orozco, but Dan Signer decided that Sunshine would be better as Tinka and Scott as Lexi, so the two switched roles. Sunshine, however, would later guest star in the episode "some enchANTed evening".

Achievements

 * Andrea's Spotlight was the number one show on GoAnimate Network in 2011 within the 6-11 demographic.
 * It was nominated for an NAACP Award in February of 2012.

Characters
Julianna Revilla as Andrea McQuack

Elijah Johnson as William Pomeranian

Jacob Jones as Matthew Husky

Alex Johnson as Isaiah Fox

Isaiah Morgan as Astral Starfox

Freddy Pome'e as Russel Corsican Hare

Ahnya O'Riordan as Karen Dragon

Olivia King as Tamakey Wallaby

Sierra Brogmus as Akaney Wolf

Indigo Star as Bella Fox

Grant Knoche as Adrian Lizard

Episodes
Main article: List of Andrea's Spotlight episodes

Soundtrack

 * Main article: Andrea's Spotlight Soundtrack

Tracklist

 * 1) Exceptional (China Anne McClain)
 * 2) Baby (Justin Bieber)
 * 3) One Little Victory (Rush)
 * 4) Dancing with Myself (Billy Idol)
 * 5) Calling All the Monsters (China Anne McClain)
 * 6) Working Man (Rush)
 * 7) Livin' On A Prayer (Bon Jovi)
 * 8) Unstoppable (China Anne McClain)
 * 9) Beautiful (China Anne McClain)
 * 10) My Crush (China Anne McClain)
 * 11) Pose (Stefanie Scott and Carlon Jeffery)
 * 12) Summertime (Carlon Jeffery)
 * 13) Perfect Mistake (McClain Sisters)
 * 14) Electronic Apology (McClain Sisters)

Critical reception
The series's premiere earned mixed reviews. It also currently holds a 6.0 making "Fair" rating (based on 56 votes) on TV.com, and 5.2/10 rating (based on 142 votes and 5 reviews) on IMDb.com.

Ratings
The sneak preview of the series earned 4.4 million viewers on its premiere night, ranked as TV’s No. 1 Telecast in Total Day among Tweens 9-14 (441,000/1.8 rating) and was also TV’s No. 1 Telecast among Kids 6-11 (544,000/2.2 rating). Its lead-in, the series finale of The New Woody Woodpecker Show, got 4.6 million.

The episode "Locked Away", is currently the most-watched episode of the series, scoring 4.6 million viewers. It did better than its lead-in The Lab Gators, which got 4 million viewers.

Comic books
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Film

 * Main article: Andrea's Spotlight: The Groovy Movie Ever

Video games
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Merchandise
Since the show's premiere, various forms of merchandise based on the show have been released, such as home media releases, action figures, clothing, food, and more.

Trivia
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