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SheZow

Australian-Canadian animated television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ1431946 ↗
Source-derived summary

SheZow is an animated superhero comedy television series created by Obie Scott Wade. Inspired by Shazam!, the series features the adventures of a boy who inadvertently inherits the role of a superheroine, which imposes an explicitly feminine theme to his costumed appearance and equipment. It began airing on Network Ten in Australia on 15 December 2012. The series is aimed at children aged 6-11. Produced by Moody Street Kids and Kickstart Productions, it is distributed by DHX Media, and funded in part by Film Victoria. It was designed by Australian artist Kyla May.

As of December 2013, 52 eleven-minute episodes have been made, which are broadcast in pairs to make one season of 26 half-hour episodes. In a 2013 interview, Wade expressed interest in making a second season.

In a 2016 interview, Wade mentioned that he went on to start production of season 2 of SheZow at Hub Network with a bigger budget than the first season. However, after Hub Network went under a major rebranding to Discovery Family, Wade was informed that SheZow season 2's production came to a halt.

Editorial summary

“SheZow” enters the record as australian-Canadian animated television series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what SheZow, Australian-Canadian and animated can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 2013, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2012-12-15. Its strongest next move is a source search built around SheZow, Australian-Canadian and animated.
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“SheZow” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, SheZow, Australian-Canadian and animated provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1431946. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012, 2013 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “SheZow” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.