Cherrypillar

Cherrypillar is an American-Canadian-French animated series aimed at teenagers created by DHX Media (or DHX Media and Cartoon Network Studios Europe in the pilot) for NBC Family. It will first premiered in June 29, 2013 on Cartoon Network and second premiered on the channel on August 6, 2020 replacing Peep and the Big Wide World's 10 PM slot (with Peep replacing Safari Tracks' 8 PM slot). It stars a 16-year old Caterpillar named Cherrypillar, her mother and nine other sisters going on adventures. It is also one of the seven 10 PM prime time shows (with the others being Doki, Animal World, Zina Supermoon, Rescue Heroes, The Adventures of Paddington Bear and Madeline) and one of the fourteen. New episodes air on Thursdays at 11. It is considered to be a sister show to Madeline and The Adventures of Paddington Bear. The show was also confirmed to have three 26-episode seasons. While the series ended on April 23, 2021, a sequel series known as Cherrypillar Story 2 - Future was announced to air as a miniseries for Gingo in 2022.

Plot
In the first episode, it is revealed that Cherrypillar and her sisters are aliens from another planet fleeing when the Pig army decided to take over their planet and kill (or zap) all females on their home planet, cherry blossom. While the nine other girls controlled well, Cherrypillar was constantly hitting asteroids. Causing her to crash land on earth (with the others landing safely). It's now up to them to stop the Pig army from taking over Earth now. Later in the episode the intense speed from her ship crashing gave her a unique ability, the ability to gain superpowers.

Cast of Characters

 * Cherrypillar - A 16-year old alien caterpillar who is the most heroic and brave of the nine but also gets into the most trouble. She is a red caterpillar with a green face and hair into a ponytail.
 * Rainbowpillar - An enthusiastic 14-year old caterpillar who treats everything like it's a friend to her. Even the Pig army. She's an earthworm with a colorful body.
 * Firepillar - A 15-year old caterpillar who can breath fire. She's the chief. She is a Red worm with a yellow head. She also has pink hair.
 * Cutieworm - An 8-year old grub who is the youngest but she denies it. She's the one who always gets kidnapped. She is a tiny black grub.
 * Smarty - A nerdy 17-year old caterpillar who designed the Ships to flee their home planet. She is a purple worm with a blue ribbon.
 * Lovapillar - She is a 16-year old red caterpillar with hearts for her antennae. She seems to have a crush on earthly larvae.
 * Emoworm - A Gothic 17-year old who can easily examine emotions. She is a purple maggot.
 * Desturctiworm - An 18-year old with anger issues. Though she didn't have many appearances in the first episodes, she is a white worm with an angry anime symbol tatto on her face.
 * Freezepillar - A shy 13-year old. She is the oppisite of Firepillar. She breathes ice and is light blue.
 * Madame Butterfly - The mother of the nine girls. She is extremely cautious and her tagline is "A bacon a day will scare the pigs away!"
 * Purpa (Introduced in Lord Cucuface's Dream Team) - An 18-year old Pupa. She is rather shy and good at running despite her lack of feet.
 * General Porker - The antagonist of the series. He is an alien pig who hates females and wants to rule the universe so he and his Pig army can destroy him. He later turns good sometime in season 2.
 * Steve - A black caterpillar related to Emoworm. He went with her because he is her cousin and fears that the Pig army would kill him.
 * The Pig Army - General Porker's army. They are a group of baddies that mindlessly serve General Porker until season 2, where they turn good.
 * Yellow Carb - An evil crab who originally was your ordinary crab before turning into Insect World's number one baddie!

Broadcast in other territories
While NBC Family has the rights in America, Gingo has the rights to the show internationally (except for UK, France, Iceland and Japan). Here are the channels the show airs and their new episode slots:
 * America - NBC Family (Thursdays at 11 pm)
 * Canada - Gingo (Sundays at 8:30 PM)
 * France - Cartoon Network (Fridays at 1 PM)
 * Russia - Universal Family (Sundays at 6 PM)
 * Japan - Tokyo TV (Mondays at 9:30 AM)
 * UK - WildBrain TV, Fox Family (Saturdays at 11 AM)
 * Africa - Gingo (Wednesdays at 9 PM)
 * Iceland - Nickelodeon (Tuesdays at 3:30 AM)

Episodes
Cherrypillar has been confirmed to have two 26-episode seasons.