G2G: Got to Go! | |
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Created by | Gillian Carr |
Written by | Chris Anastassiades Ray Boseley |
Directed by | Gillian Carr |
Voices of | Esther Maloney Pina Crispo Ann Pirvu C.J. Sharpe Justin Richardson Jack Troughton Lesley Livingston Bob Onyskiw |
Composer(s) | Christopher Elves |
Country of origin |
Australia Canada |
No. of episodes | 26 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Gillian Carr Daniel Hawes Noel Resnick Gary Rogers |
Running time | 22 minutes |
Production company(s) | Moody Street Kids March Entertainment |
Distributor | Southern Star International |
Release | |
Original network |
Nine Network (Australia) Pop Girl (United Kingdom) RTÉ Two (Ireland) SIC K (Portugal) |
Original release | August 16, 2008 (Australia) |
G2G: Got to Go, is an animated television series co-produced by Moody Street Kids (Australia) and March Entertainment (Canada). The series focuses on the life of a preteen girl, Maddison Marples-Macintosh, who assumes the role of an online advice columnist on her school's website. The original series ran for 26 half-hour episodes, and premiered on the Nine Network in Australia in 2008. In 2010, the show began airing on CBC Television in Canada. The network also published an online game associated with the series, called G2G: Extra Credit.
The show typically begins with Maddison receiving an e-mail on her PDA about the troubles of anonymous students in her school and her trying to give that person advice, while ironically facing a problem nearly identical to the one described in the e-mail, which often ends up giving her the answer she needs to help the troubled sender.
G2G features mostly teenage or preteen characters, with the appearance of teachers and parents on occasion, in a fictional North American junior high school.
Maddison Marples-Macintosh (Esther Maloney) is the main character on the show, and one of the youngest, being only around 13 years old. She's a very typical preteen girl, full of giggles and gossip. She is still socially shy, yet confident in her own abilities. The full extension of her indefatigable sense of character is brought out in her duties as the "Online Oracle" of her school, Miss Communication - although this alter ego is an absolute secret. Maddie is best friends with Saffron and Rainbow, whom she usually turns to for advice, sometimes even about other peoples' problems. Maddie also has a crush on Ace, the dream date of every girl at her school. Her confidence and intelligence usually turns to babbling nonsense around Ace, and makes even talking to him difficult. After countless times trying to woo him though, she moves on and begins to get a crush on one of her friends, Leet.
Saffron Parker (Pina Crispo) is Maddison's best friend. She's one year older than Maddie, and thus considers herself much more mature and worldly. She's the kind of girl all the guys go for: blonde, beautiful, and highly fashionable. She loves to be noticed wherever she goes, and what attention she doesn't get from others, she gets from her two best friends Maddie and Rainbow. Saffron's brother, Stinky, is always looking for a way to pull a prank on Saffron, which she can usually foil, or at least get him caught in as well.