LEGO Friends (TV Series)

The LEGO® Group/LEGO® Systems A/S commissioned a CGI-animated television series to accompany the debut of the LEGO® Friends line in 2012. Since then, the animated television series has principally been produced by the studio iterations of M2 Entertainment and Picture This Studio. Duckling & Sonne and Sound Earest added to the production until the Netflix series in 2016. An associated array of LEGO® Friends webisodes, 2D-animated shorts up to 5 minutes in length, was released on YouTube and the LEGO website as well.

Although shown on-air as simply Friends followed by the episode title underneath, the first season was branded as LEGO® Friends: Friends Are Forever and also acts as the Friends' first incarnation. The second season branded as LEGO® Friends: United as One and the third season as LEGO® Friends: Together Again acted as the second incarnation which features slight changes to the animation, with an exclusive Netflix original series; LEGO® Friends: The Power of Friendship taking place immediately afterwards. The series would then continue with LEGO® Friends: of Heartlake City acting as the fourth season and LEGO® Friends: Always Together as the final fifth season to conclude the the series. It would air in forms of half-hour TV episodes branded as specials that are aired every so often. The series features the 5 BFFs; Andrea, Emma, Mia, Olivia and Stephanie, alongside some recurring characters in Heartlake City.

On January 3, 2018, the Friends line's fourth incarnation: Girls on a Mission, with a complete animation revamp and the runtime halved, began airing on the same networks as the previous incarnations only for its first season and via YouTube since season two onwards. Multiple TV networks air them to suit their broadcast schedule, most notably Pop in the UK & Ireland and Nine Network in Australia. In 2019, Picture This Studio was renamed M2 Animation and combines with M2Film for the episode production. This series would end in 2021 totalling four seasons and a spinoff special in 2022, Heartlake Stories.

On October 27, 2022, LEGO announced a brand new reboot of the Lego Friends franchise called The Next Chapter, which introduced brand new characters as the protagonists while also including some previous characters. Unlike other reboots that redid the franchise completely, this reboot (like its title suggests) is a continuation that supposedly takes place after the events from the Girls on a Mission series. The ongoing series has a 22 minute runtime, being halved to 11 minutes since its third season and onwards.