Penny on M.A.R.S. facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Penny on M.A.R.S.
Genre	Dramedy
Created by	Beatrice Valsecchi
Written by	Beatrice Valsecchi Fabrizio Lucherini Giacomo Berdini Angelo Pastore
Directed by	Claudio Norza
Starring	Olivia-Mai Barrett Shannon Gaskin Finlay MacMillan Damien Walsh Luke Walsh Olivia Chan Jessica Alexander Ryan Dean
Theme music composer	Giordano Cremona, Federico Mercuri, Marco Sissa and Colin Paul Buffet
Opening theme	We are the M.A.R.S
Country of origin	Italy
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	39 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Nadia Grippiolo, Lucio Wilson
Producer(s)	Piero Crispino
Production location(s)	Milan, Italy
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	3Zero2 The Walt Disney Company Italy
Release
Original network	Disney Channel (Italy) Rai Gulp Disney+ (Italy)
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	May 7, 2018 (2018-05-07) – July 3, 2020 (2020-07-03)
Chronology
Preceded by	Alex & Co. (2015-2017)

Penny on M.A.R.S. is an Italian teen dramedy television series that premiered on Disney Channel in Italy on May 7, 2018. The series is a spin-off of the Italian series Alex & Co. The series is commissioned by 3Zero2 in cooperation with The Walt Disney Company Italy. The series premiered on June 4, 2018 on Disney Channel in the United Kingdom. On April 2018, the series was renewed for a second season. The second season began premiering on 18 February, 2019, in the United Kingdom. The show’s third and final season premiered on 17 February, 2020, in the United Kingdom.

Plot

Penny passes the auditions to enter the M.A.R.S. high school, one of the most exclusive performing arts schools in the world. The M.A.R.S. has strict rules and is very competitive, Penny and her schoolmates have to pass a daily test. But Penny is special, she has a secret that must keep over all: she is the daughter of Bakìa, one of the biggest pop stars of the moment, who has managed to make nobody know about her daughter by enrolling her in a boarding school in Switzerland so that she could have a "normal" childhood and not hinder her career.

Now Penny is growing up and wants to follow her dream: attending the M.A.R.S. together with Camilla, her best friend, and finally live like all the girls of her age. That's why she signs up for the M.A.R.S. with a fake name, she wants to test her talent and make it by herself without having to deal with her mother's cumbersome success.

The only one at the M.A.R.S. who knows her real identity is Camilla. They are like sisters and nothing can separate them, or that's what they thought until they fall in love with the same boy at school, the charming Sebastian. And while she follows her dream, Penny will also have a mystery to solve: finding out who her father is.

Episodes

List of Penny on M.A.R.S. episodes

Cast

Main

Recurring

Production

In April 2017, it was announced that The Walt Disney Company Italy planned to produce an English language spin-off from the successful series Alex & Co. The start of shooting for the 17-part first season was planned for Autumn 2017. Penny on M.A.R.S. was produced in English instead of Italian because it was believed that the series could be sold better internationally. The characters Penny, Camilla, Bakìa and Freddy Wolf from Penny on M.A.R.S. had performances in the special episodes (the last episodes) of Alex & Co., in which the spin-off series was introduced. On June 29, 2017, the spin-off series after the last episode of Alex & Co. was officially announced in a teaser, thereby also announcing the title Penny on M.A.R.S..

The first table read for the first season was on September 20, 2017. Shooting for the first season began on September 28, 2017 and ended on December 15, 2017. The shooting took place in Milan and the surrounding area. The backdrop of the Music Arts Reiner School (short M.A.R.S.) is the building of the design department of the Bovisa's headquarters of the Polytechnic University of Milan.

Soundtrack

The first album from the series was released on May 4, 2016 in Italy. It contains the following list of songs:

See also

In Spanish: Penny en M.A.R.S. para niños