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Release. October 12, 2007. ( 2007-10-12) –. January 6, 2012. ( 2012-01-06) Related. Wizards Beyond Waverly Place. Wizards of Waverly Place is an American fantasy teen sitcom created by Todd J. Greenwald that aired on Disney Channel for four seasons between October 2007 and January 2012.
May 15, 2024 · Four months later, the actress announced the official title of the series when she took the stage at the ABC and Disney Upfronts event in May 2024: Wizards Beyond Waverly Place . Here’s...
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May 14, 2024 · When does the Wizards of Waverly Place reboot come out? On January 18, Henrie hinted at a 2024 release date when he posted a photo of a wand sitting on top of the script for the pilot episode.
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was an American Disney Channel Original Series which ran from October 12, 2007 to January 6, 2012 on Disney Channel. The series was created by Todd J. Greenwald, and stars Selena Gomez, David Henrie, and Jake T. Austin as three wizard siblings with magical abilities competing to win sole custody of the family powers. Further main cast includes Jennifer Stone as Alex's best friend, María Canals-Barrera as the Russo's mortal mother, and David DeLuise as the Russo's former wizard father.
The series won "Outstanding Children's Program" at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards in 2009. A film adaptation of the series, Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, premiered as a Disney Channel Original Movie on August 28, 2009. The film adaptation won "Outstanding Children's Program" at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards earning the series its second consecutive Emmy. The farewell season won "Outstanding Children's Program" at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards bringing the franchise's total to three Emmy awards. Wizards of Waverly Place ended as the longest-running Disney Channel Original Series (surpassing That's So Raven) with 106 episodes over four seasons. Its series finale averaged nearly 10 million viewers (live+same day), which made that episode the most-watched series finale in Disney Channel's history.
A special, entitled The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex aired on March 15, 2013.
On January 18, 2024, Wizards, a Wizards of Waverly Place sequel series from Disney Branded Television was announced. Selena Gomez and David Henrie were confirmed to reprise their roles from the original series.
The show centers on the Russo family, which includes three wizards in training, Alex (Selena Gomez), her older brother, Justin (David Henrie), and their younger brother, Max (Jake T. Austin). The three siblings train to win the family wizard competition, giving one of the three siblings full wizard powers, leaving the other two as mortals.
The rest of the ensemble main cast includes Alex's best friend, Harper Finkle (Jennifer Stone), who finds out about the Russo's family secret in season two, and moves in with them during season three. The main cast also includes Theresa Russo (María Canals-Barrera), the Mexican-American mother of the Russo siblings, a mortal who despises magic. Finally, David DeLuise rounds up the cast as Jerry Russo, the Italian-American father of the Russo siblings who won his family wizard competition, but gave his powers to his younger brother in order to marry Theresa.
The three siblings are not supposed to use magic without supervision, but due to Alex, and occasionally Max's schemes, magic is usually misused, and Justin has to fix the problem. Alex and Justin have to keep magic a secret from all mortals (except Theresa), while studying to win the wizard competition, and balancing their love lives.
In season one, the Russo kids keep magic a secret while maintaining their social and romantic lives. Alex and Harper rival with Gigi Hollingsworth (Skyler Samuels) and her two wannabes, while Alex tries to progress her relationship with Riley (Brian Kubach), a boy from her Spanish class that is on the baseball team. Justin remains the good child of the family and constantly studies while progressing his relationship with eleventh grade, goth girl, Miranda Hampson (Lucy Hale). Over their summer, Justin is accepted into summer boarding school, WizTech, which Theresa and Jerry also make Alex attend. Alex saves Justin from getting his powers drained by Dr. Evilini (Octavia Spencer), with the help of her new friend Hugh Normous (Josh Sussman) and the headmaster Professor Crumbs (Ian Abercrombie).
In season two, Alex tells Harper about wizardry and makes her promise not to tell anyone. Alex and Justin both get new love interests. At the beginning of the season, Alex starts dating Dean Moriarty (Daniel Samonas), the school's bad boy. The couple remains together for the first seven episodes, but after that Dean disappears until the end of the season. Dean had moved to Ohio and he and Alex were trying long distance, but they decide they should go ahead and break up. Alex and Justin go back to WizTech, this time with Max. Alex briefly dates Ronald Longcape Jr. (Chad Duell) until learning that he is evil. Alex, Justin, and Max break his curse and go back to New York. Justin also creates his own spell, the helping hand. The Russo's crossover with The Suite Life on Deck where Justin, and later Max, falls for London Tipton (Brenda Song). Justin eventually meets Juliet Van Heusen (Bridgit Mendler), a young vampire who's family owns a rivaling restaurant. Justin and Juliet fall for one another and date throughout the Wizards vs. Vampires four-part saga.
In season three, Justin creates a Frankenstein-like monster and names her Frankengirl. Frankengirl makes Alex and Harper her new best friends and forces them to join the cheerleading squad. Justin graduates his wizard training class after successfully casting 5,000 spells, and moves onto independent studies. Justin takes the monster hunting course, but this endangers Juliet twice. The first time, he turns her into the monster hunting council by accident. The second time, he brings her with him to capture the mummy, only for the mummy to enslave Juliet. Justin promises to rescue her. Harper moves in with the Russo's after her parents move to Pittsburgh. Alex begins a relationship with a British werewolf, Mason Greyback (Gregg Sulkin), who helps find and rescue Juliet. Their happiness is cut short when Mason and Juliet realize that they use to date. After Mason, Juliet, and Justin get into a fight, Mason scratches Juliet, and Juliet bites Mason causing both to lose their vampire/werewolf powers. Mason turns into a wolf, and Juliet turns into her true self, a 2,193-year-old woman. Alex befriends a wizard named Stevie Nichols (Haley Kiyoko), but their friendship is short lived after four appearances when Stevie turns out to be evil. Alex freezes her and Max accidentally knocks her over, shattering her. At the end of the season, Harper and Justin’s best friend, Zeke Beakerman (Dan Benson), become a couple, Justin graduates high school and finally moves on from Juliet, Alex turns Mason back into his normal self and they get back together, and Justin tells the government about wizardry when he, his family, and Mason get captured by them. But luckily they managed to escape with a little help from one of the scientists.
The series was created and is executive produced by Todd J. Greenwald, who began developing the show, after working as a writer and consulting producer during the first season Hannah Montana. The show is produced by It's a Laugh Productions and Disney Channel Original Productions. The theme song, written by John Adair and Steve Hampton, is of techn...
Main Characters
•Selena Gomez - Alex Russo: a wizard in training, the middle child and only daughter in the Russo family. Alex becomes the family wizard and is dating a werewolf named Mason Greyback. •David Henrie - Justin Russo: a wizard in training, the oldest child in the Russo family. Justin keeps his wizard powers and becomes headmaster of WizTech while dating a vampire named Juliet Van Heusen. •Jake T. Austin - Max Russo: a wizard in training, the youngest child in the Russo family. Max loses his wizard powers, but inherits the sub shop, and is dating a mortal named Talia Robinson. •Jennifer Stone - Harper Finkle: Alex's best friend who becomes aware of the Russo's wizard powers after Alex tells her in the second season. She moves in with the Russo family and starts dating Zeke Beakerman in the third season. •María Canals Barrera - Theresa Russo: Justin, Alex, and Max's mother. She is a mortal and despises magic. Theresa is the wife of Jerry and is Mexican-American. •David DeLuise - Jerry Russo: Justin, Alex, and Max's father and former wizard, who teaches his children about magic. He gave up his powers to marry Theresa and is the oldest of three. He has a younger sister named Megan, and a younger brother named Kelbo. He is Italian-American.
Recurring characters:
•Dan Benson - Zeke Beakerman: Justin's best friend and Harper's boyfriend as of mid-season three. Justin tells him about magic in season four. •Bill Chott - Hershel Laritate: The principal at Tribeca Prep who has a love and hate relationship with Alex, and favors Justin. Mr. Laritate loves anything having to fo with the Old West and is often seen wearing a bolo tie. He commonly refers to people by their last name. •Gregg Sulkin (seasons 3-4) - Mason Greyback: Alex's werewolf boyfriend and main love interest since the third season. Mason and Alex date briefly during early season three and get back together at the end of the season. Mason and Alex date on and off throughout season four. Mason use to date Juliet Van Heusen. •Ian Abercrombie - Professor Crumbs: The headmaster of WizTech. Always seen with a fake long beard. Professor Crumbs refers to Justin as "extraordinary" while also having faith in Alex. Professor Crumbs retires from being headmaster in the series finale and turns the job over to Justin. •Bridgit Mendler (seasons 2-4) - Juliet Van Heusen: Justin's vampire girlfriend and most notable love interest. Justin and Juliet start dating during the four part saga during season two, Wizards vs. Vampires. They date through the first half of season three when Mason scratches Juliet, turning her into an old woman. At the end of season three, Justin finally moves on. After a long absence, Juliet returns young again, with the help of an angel of darkness. Justin and Juliet get back together. Juliet used to date Mason Greyback. •Amanda Tepe (seasons 1-2) - Monotone Woman: A woman with a monotone who plays various characters in the first season, as well as a hot dog vendor in the second season. Her name was said to be Elaine in the first season finale, but other times, her name tag has said Amanda. •Daniel Samonas (seasons 2 and 4) - Dean Moriarty: Alex's ex-boyfriend and main love interest of season two. Alex and Dean date throughout the second season, but when Dean moves to Ohio, they try and fail with long distance. Dean returns in season four to win Alex back, but she turns him down to get back together with Mason. •Josh Sussman (seasons 1-2 and 4) - Hugh Normous: Alex's friend who thinks he's a giant because his adoptive parents are. Hugh meets his biological parents in season two. After a long absence, Hugh returns in season four as one of the residents who live on the secret 13th floor at the Windsor apartments. •Frank Pacheco (season 4) - Felix: One of the wizard delinquents that Justin tutors in season four. Felix has a crush on Alex and is a descendant of a very powerful wizard. Felix was one of the residents who lived on the 13th floor at the Windsor apartments. •Andy Kindler (seasons 3-4) - Chancellor Rudy Tootietootie: Head of the monster hunting counsel and the love and romance counsel. Chancellor Tootietootie hosts the wizard competitions and was next in line to be headmaster of WizTech, however, Professor Crumbs gives the position to Justin.
"Wizards of Waverly Place" is a video game published by Disney Interactive Studios for the Nintendo DS. It was released on August 25, 2009 in America. The Game has many sets from the TV show along with some new ones. The game is about Alex buying a bracelet that is for adult wizards and starts freezing people.
"Wizards of Waverly Place: SpellBound" is the sequel to "Wizards of Waverly Place". It was released on November 16, 2010. The game is about finding out what happened to a dress designed by Alex Russo that goes missing just before her big fashion show.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack album for the hit Disney Channel Original Series of the same name. The album was released as a physical CD, enhanced CD and digital on August 4, 2009, under Walt Disney Records. The album includes songs from and inspired by the TV series and Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie. In response to the soundtrack, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic recognized Wizards for its "teen revamps of boomer classics that parents can enjoy too". He also stated that the album is "agreeable" and that Selena Gomez "inevitably stands out from the pack". However, Erlewine said: "the dang-awful version of America's "You Can Do Magic" by Drew Seeley is sunk by its hyper-claustrophobic rhythms, the biggest rearrangement of a tune here and easily the worst cut."
Video game
A video game based on the series was released in August 2009.
Aug 25, 2023 · Published on August 25, 2023 02:11PM EDT. Across four seasons, the Wizards of Waverly Place cast brought some much-needed magic to the Disney Channel's sitcom lineup. Premiering in 2007,...
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