The JoJo Siwa Show

The JoJo Siwa Show is an American animated television series on the Nickelodeon network created by singer and actress JoJo Siwa. The series debuts on Nickelodeon’s regular network with a sneak peek pilot about a year prior.

The series features JoJo Siwa who is an energetic yet sympathetically misunderstood high school student with her friends Miley, Kyra, Grace, and Jacob on many adventures and challenging situations in the humongous city of LA. She lives with her mom Jessalynn Siwa and her older brother Jayden Siwa. She even has a pet teacup Yorkie named BowBow who loves to get into neighborhood shenanigans. Miley loves being in band at high school while she has a part time job raising horses at a local farm, Jacob is the comic relief male companion who likes to play tennis and sometimes get into risky situations, Kyra is the self-appointed leader of group activities who also is a fan of the olympics, and Grace is the caring yet anxious individual who loves cooking and artistic crafting. In high school Madelyn is a recurring nerd obsessed with physical science, Brittany is a cheerleader who rivals with JoJo‘s popularity, Miss Rose is the bossy yet awkwardly spoken teacher, and Mr. William is the comical scatterbrained principal who tries keeping the school together.

The cartoon is designed to appeal to older audiences as much as to kids with the portrayal of being the popular kid while also showing the main character as a sympathetic person. The reality they live in is made as a wackier environment where animals can react, characters can have cartoon logic, and more to being a cartoon than a live action world. The setting of the episodes usually take place in Jumbow High School, in the city, at the park, at JoJo’s house, or at a concert.

Characters

 * JoJo Siwa
 * Miley
 * Jacob
 * Kyra
 * Grace
 * Jessalynn Siwa
 * Jayden Siwa
 * BowBow the Dog
 * Madelyn
 * Brittany
 * Miss Rose
 * Principal William
 * Band Instructor
 * Janitor
 * Neighbor

Production
After Season 2 of The JoJo and BowBow Show Show was completed and released, a third season was announced in 2020. It was going to feature 6 episodes with JoJo Siwa with the addition of her family including her mother Jessalyn Siwa and her older brother Jayden Siwa in new imagined adventures. However due to the poor reception of The JoJo and BowBow Show Show along with the failure of her movie The J Team and the controversy with her KCA ceremony, most of the executives had been fired and replaced with new ones in mid 2022.

In late 2022, Nickelodeon announced a new JoJo Siwa animated television series that will be made for all ages. With the new executives working and supervising the studio, many old writers, directors, and animators worked on the series who had been in shows like Doug, Hey Arnold, Rugrats, and even Danny Phantom. The creator JoJo Siwa added new characters and helped come up with what the episodes could be about.

The animation process was outsourced to Rough Draft Studios in South Korea. Unlike The JoJo and BowBow Show Show the style is a lot less limited and more cartoonish and fluid. JoJo helped invest with the series budget giving the show a more visually pleasing look than before.

Trivia

 * Unlike the JoJo and BowBow Show Show, the series not only airs on Nickelodeon’s television networks but also has a much larger production budget. The episodes have gradual development in each storyline, more characters were created while old ones had more traits added, the animation is worked on by an entire team like other Nickelodeon cartoons while also giving it the hand drawn style of a classic Nicktoon, several familiar voice actors join the cast, and the series has messages about friendship, mental health, and for truly being who you are to educate children about more serious topics.
 * This series is not canon to the JoJo and BowBow Show Show web mini-series.
 * 5 musical numbers in the series were originally composed for the soundtrack while 3 of them were from previous JoJo Siwa songs prior to production.
 * Unlike The JoJo and BowBow Show Show, BowBow along with other animals that appear do not speak and instead express silently or with animal noises.
 * The series will have the a-b plots for each episode while any specials fill up the entire running time.
 * The series is rated TV-Y7 in the USA