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Classic Rugrats Comic Strip for Monday, January 4, 2021 | Nickelodeon
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CBS Sports and Nickelodeon Team up for 'NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon'; To Feature 'Kamp Koral' Sneak Peek

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CBS Sports and Nickelodeon Team up for NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon, Special Slime-filled Telecast Tailored for Family Fun Airing Sunday, Jan. 10

Noah Eagle, CBS Sports’ Nate Burleson and Nick Star Gabrielle Nevaeh Green to Call Game, with Nick Star Lex Lumpkin Reporting

Kid-Focused Presentation of NFL Wild Card Game to Feature Special Halftime Sneak Peek of Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years


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HOLLYWOOD, Calif.--Dec. 15--CBS Sports and Nickelodeon are getting kids and families into the game with a special slime-filled presentation of the National Football League’s Wild Card game on Sunday, Jan. 10, at 4:30 p.m. (ET). The NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon will feature one-of-a-kind kid-focused content and Nick-themed elements throughout, including a special halftime presentation, guest reporters and original on-field graphics, virtual filters and more. The NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon will air alongside CBS Sports’ broadcast of the game on The CBS Television Network.

Update (1/4/21) - The game will be between the New Orleans Saints and the Chicago Bears!


Play-by-play announcer Noah Eagle will be joined by CBS Sports’ analyst Nate Burleson and Nick star Gabrielle Nevaeh Green (All That, Nickelodeon’s Unfiltered) in the booth to call the NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon. Additionally, Nick star Lex Lumpkin (All That, Nickelodeon’s Unfiltered) ­­­will serve as a reporter during the game. Nickelodeon’s coverage begins with “The SpongeBob SportsPants Countdown Special,” a sports-themed compilation special at 4 p.m. (ET) hosted by the Denver Broncos’ Von Miller, highlighting SpongeBob’s best sports moments and featuring pre-kickoff appearances by CBS Sports’ Jim Nantz and Tony Romo, as well as Eagle, Burleson and Green.


The NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon will also include a special halftime sneak peek of Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years, which follows 10-year-old SpongeBob SquarePants and his pals as they spend their summer building underwater campfires, catching wild jellyfish, and swimming in Lake Yuckymuck at the craziest camp in the kelp forest, Kamp Koral. The series will debut in 2021 on ViacomCBS’s rebranded streaming service Paramount+ and then on Nickelodeon later in the year.

Gabrielle Nevaeh Green

“This is a first of its kind presentation for the NFL together with Nickelodeon, and we are very excited to create a unique telecast that will maximize the co-viewing appeal for kids and families, while maintaining the integrity of the game and its traditions,” said Sean McManus, Chairman, CBS Sports. “Partnering with Nickelodeon to showcase the NFL Playoffs is a great opportunity to highlight the power, depth and reach of ViacomCBS, as we continue to unlock the true potential of our merged company with the first of many opportunities between CBS Sports and our ViacomCBS family.”

Lex Lumpkin

“Our game plan is to make sure the NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon definitely lives up to its name by infusing the telecast with Nick’s sensibility of surprise and fun at almost every turn,” said Brian Robbins, President of ViacomCBS Kids & Family Entertainment. “We’re incredibly proud to team up with CBS Sports and the NFL to elevate the thrill of this game for kids and families to enjoy together.”

The NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon will only be available to be streamed on mobile for free for all fans via the NFL App. The game airing on CBS will be streamed on CBS and NFL digital properties across devices, and on mobile via the participating teams’ mobile properties, and Yahoo Sports and other Verizon Media mobile properties.

Noah Eagle

NFLNickPlay.com will serve as the official online destination for the NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon, helping to educate kids on football basics and entertain them with a variety of NFL-themed content leading up to and during the Wild Card game. Kids will be able to engage with quizzes, polls, fun facts, info galleries, sports-themed short-form videos, Weekly Pick ‘Em printables and more, earning points and unlocking badges along the way. For three days leading up to the game and on game day, viewers can scan QR codes on-air, unlocking sports-themed SpongeBob SquarePants and The Loud House collectibles and participating with interactive content throughout the live game. Additionally, participants will be able to enter a sweepstakes for the chance to win an exclusive game ball signed by a Wild Card player, along with other exclusive prize packs.

Nate Burleson

The NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon is produced by CBS Sports in association with Nickelodeon Productions. Sean McManus and Harold Bryant serve as Executive Producers of THE NFL ON CBS. CBS Sports’ Shawn Robbins is Coordinating Producer of the game along with Producer, Ken Mack and Director, Suzanne Smith. Production for Nickelodeon is overseen by Rob Bagshaw, Executive Vice President, Unscripted Content.

Nickelodeon, now in its 41st year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The brand includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, digital, location based experiences, publishing and feature films. For more information or artwork, visit http://www.nickpress.com. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of ViacomCBS Inc. (Nasdaq: VIACA, VIAC).

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Update (12/19) - Following concerns that NFLNickPlay.com may expose children to gambling, NFL and ViacomCBS issued the following statements:

“We have worked (and will continue to) with CBS/Viacom on the elements in and around this game and there is nothing gambling-related or intended,” said Alex Riethmiller, VP of communications for NFL Media.

“We have no other details to announce surrounding the game at this time, but you can keep an eye on https://www.nflnickplay.com in the coming weeks,” said Bailey Knecht, communications coordinator for ViacomCBS.

As Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand explains, the Nickelodeon broadcast will also include slime dumps in the end zone (superimposed on the screen), close-ups of players filtered with googly eyes and other graphics, and animated re-enactments of plays from previous games. CBS provided a sample of what’s to come on Twitter:

"The NFL is very intent on reaching a younger audience, and we thought this would be a great way to do it," CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus told The Athletic’s Richard Deitsch. "When we went in to give our pitch to the NFL, this was front and center in that pitch. They loved it right at the outset. I don't know how big a factor it was in us being successful in acquiring the wild-card game, but I think it certainly played a part. We were able to prove to them in a very real and tangible way that we could implement this. It was a fun pitch to make."

“This is going to look different than a normal CBS broadcast, and I think the NFL understands that,” CBS Sports Chair Sean McManus told Sports Business Daily. “They really see the value. They are intent on reaching a younger audience. They think that’s where the fans of the future are. They think this is a really cool idea.”

Designed specifically to appeal to kids and keep them engaged during one of the NFL’s wild-card games, the Nickelodeon broadcast will feature amazing effects like:

- End zones with special graphics that spray virtual green slime on players who score touchdowns;

- Googly eyes or other Snapchat filter effects superimposed onto the faces of players who celebrate or mug for the camera;

- Special graphics and visual effects during plays;

- SpongeBob’s face virtually inserted between the goal posts during field goals;

- A green slime trail behind the football.


Richard Deitsch over at The Athletic clarified that the real-time broadcast will be the same as a standard affair, but the highlight packages will be spiced up with the slime and what have you. So SpongeBob's face will not be between the uprights during a crucial field goal attempt, but he will show up in the highlight cut leading to commercial.

He also asked the question that came to the forefront of everyone's mind when this was first announced: What happens if an injury occurs on the field? It would not be particularly appropriate to slime it up or put googly eyes on everyone as a lineman gets carted off after his leg twisted in the wrong direction. CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus had this to say:

“I trust the men and women in the truck to handle these situations with the sensitivity, and maybe more of a sensitivity in the Nickelodeon telecast,” McManus said. “We can’t predict what’s going to happen. We’re going to cover what takes place on the field. If there’s a way to modify that coverage appropriately, we will do so. The men and women of CBS have dealt with these situations in the past, and I think they will keep their audience in mind when they are documenting what’s happening on the field or off the field.”

From Deadline:

CBS Sports And Nickelodeon Preview Cable Network’s NFL Playoff Game Telecast

CBS Sports and ViacomCBS sibling Nickelodeon have offered a preview of the custom telecast of an NFL wild-card playoff game the kids network will present next month. Bottom line: Viewers opting for that version instead of the regular CBS telecast should expect plenty of Snapchat-like filters, computer animation, on-screen (and on-player) graphics and plenty of other “Nick-ification.”

The booth for the January 10 contest will feature play-by-play announcer Noah Eagle (adult son of CBS announcer Ian Eagle), with Nate Burleson of CBS and Gabrielle Nevaeh Green of Nickelodeon’s All That. Lex Lumpkin, another All That cast member, ­­­will be a reporter during the game.

The telecast, which joins a streaming playoff game that same weekend on NBCUniversal’s Peacock, is part of the NFL’s effort to broaden out to a wider audience. Ratings, while they have slipped 7% in this Covid-19-affected season, remain strong, but the NFL is always looking to shore up as many audience segments as possible. Thursday night games, for example, are not only streamed by Amazon but by its younger-skewing, game-centered platform, Twitch.

The network and the NFL have worked closely before, with Super Bowl activations and a heavy presence by league stars at Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards and a sports-centric offshoot.

Shawn Robbins, a coordinating producer of the game, told Deadline in an interview that the goal is to appeal to both parents and kids. “From the huddle to the whistle, the game will look somewhat the same,” he said, though the down-and-distance marker will be “Nick-ified,” a term he said the production team has used liberally in its internal planning. “We’re not going to mess with your football and put stuff on if that’s going to take away from the viewing experience. This is a co-viewing experience, so we know we’re satisfying the parents and the kids. As soon as that play is over, fair game – you’ll see some fun stuff. We may show you some enhanced replays.”

Surveys have shown that no more than 15 minutes of a typical three-hour NFL telecast are taken up with actual action. The rest of the time is devoted to breaks between plays, penalty calls, time-outs, and other lulls.

Brian Robbins, President of ViacomCBS Kids & Family Entertainment, said the network “jumped at the chance” to mount the alternative telecast. “The big challenge was, ‘How do we make this different?’ That’s where the fun began.”

While fun is a primary goal, CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus is mindful of the realities of broadcasting NFL games during a season with empty stadiums and constant flux due to the pandemic. Asked how the splashy plans could be affected by news of a sudden coronavirus outbreak or other news that merits addressing on-air but is less compatible with bright-green slime, he said it’s a balancing act CBS has faced all year.

“We’re always flexible when it comes to these things,” McManus said. “We’re pretty good at thinking on our feet. If there were a major story, we would adjust and we would tell that story. We try to reflect the appropriate tone in all of our broadcasts.”

He added, “We’re documenting what’s taking place .. and we’ll document it responsibly and in a very creative way.”

The game will be preceded by The SpongeBob SportsPants Countdown Special, a sports-themed compilation special hosted by the Denver Broncos’ Von Miller. Also in the works is a halftime sneak peek of Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years. The spinoff will debut in 2021 on Paramount+, the planned rebrand of CBS All Access, before airing on Nickelodeon later in the year.

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How Nickelodeon, CBS Sports Plan to 'Nick-ify' an NFL Playoff Game

The ViacomCBS cable network will simulcast a wild card contest in January with several flourishes aimed at its young audience.

SpongeBob SquarePants will not be calling the NFL wild card game that's set to air on Nickelodeon on Jan. 10. The cable network's longest-running animated star will, however, have a presence during the kid-focused cable network's telecast, which will air alongside CBS' traditional coverage.

The game will feature Nick-inspired graphics — including animated slime in replays of big moments — a SpongeBob-inspired pregame show and Nickelodeon stars Gabrielle Nevaeh Green and Lex Lumpkin (All That) involved in the broadcast — with Green becoming the first woman in the broadcast booth for an NFL playoff game produced by CBS Sports.

The NFL playoffs will expand from 10 to 14 teams this season, meaning two extra games in the wild card round. CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus told The Hollywood Reporter that his division wanted to make CBS' pitch for one of the extra games stand out, so CBS Sports teamed up with Nickelodeon. (ESPN is doing something similar with its wild card telecast, offering traditional coverage on ESPN and ABC and alternate feeds and announcing teams on both ESPN2 and Disney's young- and female-skewing cable network Freeform.)

"One of the things we've been telling the NFL is that we are able to reach a broader and more diverse audience now that we're one with Viacom. It's not just the CBS television network anymore, it's all the platforms that come with Viacom," McManus said. "We pitched the idea, and they loved the idea immediately. I think it was a factor in us being able to acquire the game."

Noah Eagle and Nate Burleson will call the game action and will be joined by Green on commentary. Lumpkin will have a role reporting from the sideline — "not a typical sideline role, but he'll lead and tag some fun packages" during the game, coordinating producer Shawn Robbins told THR.

Game action will be called straight, although Eagle and Burleson may do a little more explaining of play calls and rules than they would on a traditional broadcast. Green is there to "be herself," Robbins said: "I'm sure she's a fan and will be a fan in the booth, and if she has questions, we'll answer them."

Replays and the moments coming into and out of commercials will get a Nickelodeon spin, with extra on-screen animation and other enhancements. (Watch a preview below.)

"As plays are happening, they come into the truck and we're then selecting what we want to 'Nick-ify,' is the word we've been using a lot," said Robbins. "So we'll decide what plays we want to Nick-ify. We send them to the Nickelodeon animators in New York. They then send them back to us. It's happening within minutes. So something that may happen early in a series could come back and be on your screen in a bumper to commercial."

ViacomCBS Kids & Family Entertainment president Brian Robbins said for Nickelodeon, an NFL game represents a chance to bring some new viewers, and a lot of kids and parents watching together.

"I think the way we're going about it, which is offering our sensibility up along with the game, should pique the curiosity of kids and families to show up and watch the broadcast that they might not otherwise do," said Brian Robbins (no relation to Shawn). "We have a great pregame show on tap, a whole SpongeBob highlight show, we have a sneak peek at halftime of our new SpongeBob spinoff [Kamp Koral]. So there will be a lot of surprises and cool stuff for the fans."

McManus said the team working the Nickelodeon game did a rehearsal during CBS' coverage of the Green Bay Packers-Philadelphia Eagles game on Dec. 6, "and it looked terrific. It's really forward thinking, really innovative. We're trying to talk about the benefits and strategic plans for the new ViacomCBS, and this is right in that wheelhouse."

Brian Robbins also thinks the producing team will walk a line between drawing in Nick's core audience and satisfying older football fans.

"I think we're paying the utmost respect to the game, first and foremost. We don't want to intrude on that experience," he told THR. "But I can tell you as the father of a 6-year-old girl who's been riding shotgun with me on this whole process, checking out all the graphics and all the plans, she's so excited. I know it's going to be really fun to have her next to me to watch this game together."

[above] is a sizzle reel of some of the "Nick-ified" replays and other enhancements CBS and Nickelodeon will feature.

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NFL, Nickelodeon Debuting Kid-Friendly Broadcast For Wild Card Game

End zones will be filled with superimposed slime during next month’s NFL Wild Card game telecast on Nickelodeon. Additionally, when a player mugs for the camera following a big play, cartoonish googly eyes -- or some other Snapchat-type of filter -- will be superimposed onto him during replays. Nickelodeon’s production, which was part of CBS Sports’ winning bid to carry the game, will have a distinctly Nickelodeon look-and-feel -- one that the NFL hopes will have more young viewers sample the game scheduled for Jan. 10 at 4:30pm ET. “This is going to look different than a normal CBS broadcast, and I think the NFL understands that,” said CBS Sports Chair Sean McManus. “They really see the value. They are intent on reaching a younger audience. They think that’s where the fans of the future are. They think this is a really cool idea.”

Noah Eagle will call the game in the Nickelodeon booth, with CBS’ Nate Burleson and Nickelodeon’s Gabrielle Nevaeh providing analysis. Nick’s Lex Lumpkin will be the sideline reporter. Nick’s pregame show will be “The SpongeBob SportsPants Countdown Special” hosted by Broncos LB Von Miller. The halftime show will be a sneak peek of “Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years,” which debuts on Nick later in the year. After a touchdown, the Nickelodeon telecast will cut to an animated SpongeBob and his friend Patrick screaming “Touchdown!” “They are the kinds of things, I imagine, that if all goes well after this broadcast, that you’re going to see on the Internet for days and days to come,” said ViacomCBS Kids & Family Entertainment President Brian Robbins. “They’re really cool visuals.”

Many of the advertisements will be the same across both the CBS and Nickelodeon telecasts, McManus said, though Nick will have some different ads more tailored to its younger audience. CBS Sports’ ad sales team is handling ad sales for both telecasts. Right now, McManus does not anticipate the CBS telecast adding any of the Nickelodeon graphics. “I don’t close any doors,” McManus said. “If there’s some kind of activation graphically that makes sense on CBS, I wouldn’t necessarily say no to it. But right now, it’s planned to be a traditional broadcast.”

CBS and Nickelodeon tested the “Nickified” game during the Dec. 6 Eagles-Packers game. “Something that happens on a previous drive, maybe by the next commercial break we can have that Nickified play come back to the truck,” said CBS Sports Coordinating Producer Shawn Robbins. “That’s what we were testing.” Robbins said the test worked out well, with replays coming back to the production truck quicker than anticipated. “It was the most unique thing I’ve ever seen doing football for a while,” he said. “In realtime, replays were pushed to the Nick animation studio and sent back to the truck.”

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NFL on Nickelodeon Will Be Quite a Unique Viewing Experience

True firsts in the broadcasting world are rare, but January 10 will bring such a circumstance when one of the NFL Wild Card games will be dualcast on CBS and Nickelodeon. Yes, Nickelodeon, the cartoon channel made for children yet to reach their teenage years. The NFL announced the arrangement last offseason shortly after they announced they were expanding the playoff format to add one extra wild card team per conference.

Three weeks to the main event, we were given a glimpse of what, exactly, a football broadcast tailored to such a young audience would look like. It's going to be a unique viewing experience unlike any other in the sporting world.

The network also announced Noah Eagle and Nate Burleson would be on the call alongside two Nickelodeon talents, Gabrielle Nevaeh Green and Lex Lumpkin. Lumpkin, only 14-years-old, will be the sideline reporter and if he can put together a good performance he'll have a future in the industry based on the appeal of his name alone.

Richard Deitsch over at The Athletic clarified that the real-time broadcast will be the same as a standard affair, but the highlight packages will be spiced up with the slime and what have you. So SpongeBob's face will not be between the uprights during a crucial field goal attempt, but he will show up in the highlight cut leading to commercial.

He also asked the question that came to the forefront of everyone's mind when this was first announced: What happens if an injury occurs on the field? It would not be particularly appropriate to slime it up or put googly eyes on everyone as a lineman gets carted off after his leg twisted in the wrong direction. CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus had this to say:

“I trust the men and women in the truck to handle these situations with the sensitivity, and maybe more of a sensitivity in the Nickelodeon telecast,” McManus said. “We can’t predict what’s going to happen. We’re going to cover what takes place on the field. If there’s a way to modify that coverage appropriately, we will do so. The men and women of CBS have dealt with these situations in the past, and I think they will keep their audience in mind when they are documenting what’s happening on the field or off the field.”

The NFL nor any of its rights holders have ever tailored a broadcast targeted at such a specific age group. While there will likely be more kids upset that they can't watch their favorite shows for the better part of four hours than kids who will suddenly discover a love of football, it will be very interesting.

[...] the NFL rarely tries new things on premier broadcasts, and it'll be fun to see how this goes.

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From Sportico:

CBS Signs SpongeBob SquarePants for NFL Wild Card Game Simulcast on Nickelodeon

Having already earned a spot on CBS’s 53-man roster back in the spring, everyone’s favorite member of the phylum Porifera is now gearing up for the NFL postseason. And while it’s anyone’s guess where they’ll find a helmet that’ll fit his quadrilateral-shaped head, SpongeBob SquarePants will be activated on Wild Card Sunday as part of a scheme designed to introduce the footy-pajamas set to pro football.

In an effort to draw a crowd of younger viewers to its bonus Wild Card game, CBS Sports is working with corporate sibling Nickelodeon to develop a kid-centric simulcast of its opening-round NFL broadcast. Set to air on Sunday, Jan. 10, in the 4:30 p.m. slot, the playoff presentation will get the full pineapple-under-the-sea treatment, one that will include special graphics overlays, a one-of-a-kind halftime performance and a sneak peek at the upcoming CBS All Access/Paramount Plus series Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years.

First announced on March 31, in conjunction with the news that CBS and NBC would each air an additional Wild Card game in 2021, the NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon will feature a standalone booth crew in Noah Eagle, Nate Burleson and rookie broadcaster Gabrielle Nevaeh Green, who stars in the Nick revival series All That. Green’s co-star Lex Lumpkin will prowl the sidelines during the game, which has been scheduled for what’s been the highest-rated time slot of Wild Card Weekend three out of the past four years. NBC last season averaged 35.1 million viewers and a 19.2 household rating in the Sunday 4:30 window, which saw Russell Wilson and the Seahawks beat a banged-up Eagles squad, 17-9.

Speaking Monday afternoon via Zoom, CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus said the proposed Nickelodeon simulcast went a long way toward securing one of the bonus Wild Card outings. NFL owners this spring voted to approve the postseason expansion, which bumped the number of playoff teams from 12 to 14 and gave broadcasters a chance to be a part of the new back-to-back triple-header format.

CBS paid around $70 million for the rights to air its bonus NFL playoff game, while NBC, which will air its own additional Wild Card broadcast in the Sunday primetime slot, forked over a fee said to be closer to $75 million. (For its part, Disney pays $100 million for the Saturday afternoon Wild Card game that airs simultaneously on ESPN and ABC. That cooperative effort will get even more inclusive this year as Disney’s Freeform, the cable network targeting women 18-34, will be added to the “MegaCast” roster.)

To get a sense of how the Nickelodeon simulcast may play out in real time, Shawn Robbins, the coordinating producer CBS Sports’ NFL coverage, staged a rehearsal effort in Green Bay. Animators enhanced the Packers game with a kid-friendly blend of vivid on-screen graphics and filters that served as a virtual means of punctuating the in-game action with a series of colorful and kinetic visual overlay. In another synergistic wrinkle, specially-selected inserts made it seem as if SpongeBob and his aquatic pals were reacting to the game alongside the home audience.

The various cartoonish elements were added to the game footage by a team working in the production truck, which allowed for what amounted to a series of eye-catching instant replays. The process of animating the footage and then bumping it back into the broadcast feed was all but instantaneous, Robbins said, which means that even the most distractible kids won’t have to wait very long to take in the enhanced version of a given play.

Robbins said the in-house fraternizing would extend to the Nickelodeon pre-game show, during which the flesh-and-bone Jim Nantz and Tony Romo will make a cameo appearance from their booth. In other words, we’re all that much closer to seeing Romo try to explain the intricacies of the cover-6 to an excitable, trousers-wearing sponge.

If the Wild Card experiment allows CBS and Nickelodeon to collaborate on one of TV’s biggest stages, it also should help the NFL make some inroads with the hard-to-reach younger crowd. According to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, viewers under 18 make up just 6% of the primetime NFL audience, and while advertisers don’t necessarily value these grammar-school denizens, you don’t have to be Whitney Houston to realize that the children are the future.

If the NFL is to retain its hegemony over the American media space, it has to make converts of a whole bunch of young people. And the best place to do that via linear TV is arguably Nickelodeon, which has been the leading light in kids’ entertainment for nearly all of its 41-year history. Even though the target audience is now far more likely to access the Nick content via their handheld screens, the network can still draw a crowd with a big event. In May, Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards averaged 2.4 million viewers in its opening weekend, half of whom watched the show in real time.

As one might expect, the advertisers who buy time in Nickelodeon’s interpretation of the NFL Wild Card game for the most part won’t be the same brands supporting the flagship broadcast on CBS. (McManus allowed that there “may be some duplication” in the two commercial loads, as some advertisers will look to take advantage of the adult co-viewing that is likely to take place on the kids’ channel.) And while the CBS Sports boss added that the same team would sell both feeds, he did not expand on how the simulcast would be sold or what sort of ratings guarantees would be offered to Nickelodeon ad buyers.

According to Standard Media Index data, CBS in 2020 generated $41 million in ad sales revenue on the back of its Saturday primetime Wild Card broadcast. In upsetting the New England Patriots, Derrick Henry and the Tennessee Titans helped CBS deliver an average audience of 31.4 million viewers and a 17.1 household rating, making it the weekend’s second-biggest NFL game behind only the aforementioned Seahawks-Eagles battle on NBC. Based on pricing estimates and the volume of ads sold in the Kids’ Choice Awards, the Nickelodeon Wild Card simulcast could add another $6 million to $7.5 million to the kitty.

When asked if a successful crossover might serve as a precursor for future CBS-Nickelodeon NFL collaborations, McManus said he’d just as soon “wait and see how this works out” before committing to another kid-targeted telecast. Circling back to the question, McManus later said similar brand mash-ups would “probably be fairly few and far between.”

While there’s no telling which teams will appear in the bonus Wild Card game, Brian Robbins, President of ViacomCBS Kids & Family Entertainment, said he’d be particularly chuffed if the Kansas City Chiefs were part of the mix on Jan. 10. “Patrick Mahomes would be perfect for this,” Robbins said, citing the Super Bowl LIV MVP’s outsized standing among younger viewers. A dynamic quarterback who almost singlehandedly has injected “Fun” into the No Fun League, Mahomes also sports a haircut that wouldn’t look out of place at the Krusty Krab.

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NFL to air kid-friendly playoff game on Nickelodeon

Differing from their normal telecasts on CBS and FOX, the National Football League will air a “kid-friendly” broadcast of their 4:30 p.m. ET Wild Card Game on January 10 on Nickelodeon.

“This is going to look different than a normal CBS broadcast, and I think the NFL understands that,” CBS Sports Chair Sean McManus said, via the Sports Business Journal.

“They really see the value. They are intent on reaching a younger audience. They think that’s where the fans of the future are. They think this is a really cool idea.”

Some of the distinguishing features will include superimposed slime in the end zones and adding Snapchat-style filters, such as googly eyes, to players during replays.

When a touchdown is scored, the network plans to cut to an animated scene of SpongeBob SqaurePants and Patrick Star yelling, “Touchdown!”

The NFL previously tested this type of broadcast during the December 6 game between the Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles at Lambeau Field.

Noah Eagle will call the Wild Card Game, with CBS’ Nate Burleson and Nickelodeon’s Gabrielle Nevaeh providing color commentary. Lex Lumpkin, who also works for Nickelodeon, will be the sideline reporter.

Many of the advertisements will be the same as the CBS broadcast, but McManus said there will be some different commercials for their younger audience.

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From TheWrap:

Here’s a Sneak Peek at What Nickelodeon’s NFL Playoff Broadcast Will Look Like, Green Slime and All (Video)

Animators will be busy in January

If you’re excited about the upcoming “Space Jam” sequel, you won’t have to wait until next summer to get your fill of live-action sports melding with cartoons. CBS Sports put out a sizzle reel showing what to expect when Nickelodeon airs its own broadcast of an NFL playoff game next month.

Get ready to see players with googly cartoon eyes and the football leaving a green slime trail. Don’t believe us? Check out the video [above].

CBS Sports’ coordinating producer Shawn Robbins told TheWrap that during the game, Nickelodeon will have an animation team back in New York ready to, as Robbins puts it, “‘Nick-ify’ the footage.” As you can see above, it will look very different than your average NFL broadcast.

“It’s happening in real-time,” Robbins explained, likening the process to how the CBS broadcast will get video replays on the air so quickly. “That [process] takes seconds. This is a little more of a process.”

As part of the NFL’s expanded playoffs this season, the opening weekend of the postseason will feature two extra games, with NBC and CBS broadcasting one apiece (giving each network two each during that weekend). Nickelodeon’s game will be an AFC matchup on Sunday, Jan. 10 at 4:30 p.m. ET; CBS will air a traditional broadcast of that game as well.

For the Nickelodeon game, Noah Eagle will serve as the play-by-play announcer with former NFL player and CBS sports analyst Nate Burleson and “All That” castmember Gabrielle Nevaeh Green as the two booth analysts. Green’s fellow “All That” castmember Lex Lumpkin will be the sideline reporter. Denver Broncos star Von Miller will host the “Spongebob SportsPants Countdown Special” at 4 p.m.

During halftime of the game, Nickelodeon will air a sneak peek of the upcoming “Spongebob” spinoff, “Kamp Koral,” that will air on Paramount+ next summer.

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From AP News:

SpongeBob, slime, football: Nickelodeon ready for NFL game

Get ready for SpongeBob SquarePants running out of the tunnel, players being covered with digital slime after touchdowns and commentary from the cast of “All That” when Nickelodeon airs an NFL playoff game.

CBS Sports and Nickelodeon revealed their plans on Tuesday for the kid-focused channel’s broadcast of a wild-card game on Sunday, Jan. 10. The Nickelodeon feed will be tailored for younger audiences with the usual broadcast airing on CBS and online at CBS All Access.

CBS and NBC got the rights to the two new wild-card games after owners voted earlier this year to expand the field from six to seven teams in each conference. There will be six games on wild-card weekend. The Jan. 9 and 10 games are scheduled to kick off at 1 p.m., 4:40 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. EST, and the middle Sunday game will get the Nickelodeon simulcast.

CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus said adding a broadcast for families with young children was part of the discussions with the NFL when negotiations began on which networks would receive the additional games.

“The minute we brought it up to the NFL, they thought it was really a good idea because they are trying to reach a younger and more diverse demographic,” McManus said. “This was a great way of adding to the presentation without in any way shape or form harming the CBS broadcast.”

A trial run took place during the Dec. 6 Philadelphia Eagles-Green Bay Packers game to test graphics, animation and filters. Shawn Robbins, who will be the game’s coordinating producer, said Nickelodeon animators were able add their touches to certain plays and get them ready to go in less than 5 minutes.

“We had a live feed coming out of the Green Bay rehearsal and I was really blown away. It was so entertaining, fun and innovative,” McManus said. “We’re going to be able to respect the integrity of the game, but all the animations and the fun stuff is really going to make it look and feel very, very different than a CBS broadcast, which it should. I think it’s really going to be fun.”

Noah Eagle, the radio voice of the Los Angeles Clippers and son of longtime CBS play-by-play announcer Ian Eagle, will call the game along with “NFL Today” analyst Nate Burleson and Nickelodeon’s Gabrielle Nevaeh Green. Lex Lumpkin, who stars with Green on “All That,” will be a field reporter.

Nickelodeon will air “The SpongeBob SportsPants Countdown Special” before the game. The 30-minute show will be hosted by Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller and features SpongeBob’s best sports moments.

“When Sean told us that this is really going to happen, we were thrilled and excited. But the next day after that was, well, how do we make this different? So we really put our creative teams together,” said Brian Robbins, the president of ViacomCBS Kids & Family Entertainment. “I think we’ve come up with a really fun and differentiated broadcast, that we know that our kids, you know, the Nickelodeon audience should really enjoy along with their parents.”

CBS, which will broadcast this season’s Super Bowl, and Nickelodeon are under the same umbrella after last year’s ViacomCBS merger.

CBS isn’t the only network doing something extra on wild-card weekend. NBC’s prime-time broadcast on Jan. 10 will air on Telemundo and stream on Peacock. ESPN’s broadcast will also air on ABC.

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From Variety:

ViacomCBS Taps SpongeBob SquarePants to Get Kids to Watch NFL

You won’t believe who’s taking the field in a bid to help CBS impress the National Football League.

SpongeBob SquarePants and green slime will be among the elements featured in a broadcast of a January 10th NFL Wild Card game that will appear on Nickelodeon while a traditional presentation runs on CBS. While gridiron aficionados take in the regular sports show, Nickelodeon will put on a game that parents and kids can watch together.  The kid-focused event will feature play-by-play commentary and reporting from two members of the network’s popular “All That” sketch-comedy series, animated graphics and intriguing visuals.

“Everything from just the attitude to the talent to the graphics packages is going to have a kid’s point of view and a Nick point of view, and we are really going to try to create a new experience for kids and parents,” says Brian Robbins, president of kids and family entertainment for ViacomCBS, the networks’ parent company, in an interview.

Nickelodeon is best known as the home of series like “Henry Danger” and “Rugrats,” but it is taking a seat at the adult table by assisting in one of the top business initiatives of its corporate parent. Every big media company that shows NFL games is in the midst of trying to secure a new rights package, with many of the current contracts set to lapse by the end of 2022. One way to dazzle the football league is to fulfill one of its big requests: bring new audiences to the sport.

Many of ViacomCBS’ rivals are trying to do exactly that. NBC Sports recently added NBC News politics guru Steve Kornacki to “Football Night in America” and the “Sunday Night Football” halftime show, a way to woo fans of his data-driven reportage. At MSNBC, Kornacki examines a candidate’s path to victory in a presidential race. In football segments, he analyzes the probability any team has tomove forward in the weeks before the playoffs. Meanwhile, Walt Disney has this season tested several “mega-casts” that put different versions of a single football game on its various cable networks and ABC. A coming Wild Card broadcast will be tailored for the young, female viewers of the cable network Freeform.

CBS and NBC won rights to show new Wild Card games the NFL added for this season. “When we approached the NFL about getting the rights for this Wild Card, we were trying to show them how we could reach a new and younger audience, which is one of the main priorities of the NFL,” says Sean McManus, chairman of CBS Sports, in an interview. “Any negotiation we are doing in the future, I think, will have a ViacomCBS element to it, whether it’s through programming or being able to reach a vastly different audience than we could have in the past before the merger.” The former Viacom and CBS merged anew at the end of 2019 in a pact valued at $11.8 billion.

Nickelodeon will rely on Noah Eagle, the 23-year-old son of CBS Sports regular Ian Eagle and the new play by play voice for Los Angeles Clippers games, and CBS Sports analyst Nate Burelson, to give viewers color commentary and play by play. They will be paired with “All That” cast member Gabrielle Nevaeh Green. “We are not asking her to be anything other than Gabby in the booth,” says Shawn Robbins, the coordinating producer of the Nickelodeon broadcast. Meanwhile, Green’s “All That” colleague, Lex Lumpkin, will report from the sidelines.

Producers expect the experience to create heartwarming family moments, says Robbins, the Nickelodeon chief, with some parents and children taking in their first sporting event together.

At the same time, executives understand the show must appeal to a generation that watches video in decidedly different fashion than its parents. “I would think it would be a good bet that there will be at least one device in a child’s hand at the same time they are watching the game — if not one, maybe two,” says Robbins. “We all know how our audience consumes content. They are watching the show and talking to their friends about it at the same time, and that’s OK.”

With that in mind, the game will come with digital components. A site, NFLNickPlay.com, will educate younger fans on football basics and provide NFL-themed content in the days before the game, as well as during it. Viewers in the three days before the event can use QR codes that will surface on the kids cable outlet to unlock collectibles related to SpongeBob and the Nick series “The Loud House.”

SpongeBob will help frame the Wild Card broadcast with a pre-show and a halftime sneak peek. “The SpongeBob SportsPants Countdown Special” will be hosted by Von Miller from the Denver Broncos and will offer highlights of the title character’s best sports moments. Jim Nantz and Tony Romo from CBS Sports will make live pre-kickoff appearances along with Eagle, Burelson and Green. At halftime, Nickelodeon will preview the SpongeBob spinoff “Kamp Koral,” which centers on SpongeBob’s camp memories. The show will debut on the new ViacomCBS streaming outlet Paramount Plus.

The kids’ outlet isn’t the first to experiment with creating professional sports broadcasts for the younger set. ESPN in 2019 tested a “kidscast” during its annual coverage of the Little League World Series. A game simulcast on ESPN2 featured two 16-year-olds  in the broadcast booth and two 15-year-old sideline reporters, who were assigned to report on the refreshments as well as any dugout action. Earlier in that year, the Walt Disney sports giant  tried streaming a version of Game 2 of the NBA Finals tailored for young men that had Katie Nolan and guests chatting on screen all while the game proceeded, with some of the action punctuated by emojis and stat-laden graphics.

While most football games often carry ads for beer, shaving gear and cars, the Nickelodeon broadcast is likely to feature commercials from a different set of sponsors, says McManus, who want to reach younger consumers and their families. Some advertisers, he adds, may choose to buy spots in both games.

How will Nickelodeon’s signature green goo be utilized throughout the game? Producers won’t give specifics. But viewers should count on seeing it. “There will be a lot of slime,” vows Robbins, the producer.

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From Fatherly:

5 Very Good Reasons to Watch Football With Your Kids

If you aren't spending NFL Sundays with your family, you're missing out. Here's why.

This story was produced in partnership with Nickelodeon.

For the 224 NFL players whose fathers also played the game professionally, learning to play (and love) football was likely akin to learning to play (and love) a family business. Unfortunately, watching the game isn’t as cool as playing, and non-NFL dads can face an uphill journey in getting their kids ready for some football.

But just because your kid might not be naturally inclined to learn the intricacies of the Tampa 2 defensive scheme doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to teach them. Here are five reasons sharing your love of football with your kids is a great idea.

1. You Get More Time With Your Kids
The more time you spend with your kids, the better they do in life. This well-evidenced fact means that the more you can bring the kid into your interests, the better. If you’d call an NFL game an interest (we’re guessing you do), think of bringing your kid into the game as good parenting. Whether you’re analyzing the action, bemoaning your head coach’s decision-making, or just laughing at the commercials, there’s no wrong way to watch football as a family.

2. You Might Get Them to Play By the Rules
Football is a game of rules, and seeing their heroes pull off amazing feats while playing within the rules — and their team suffer the consequences of committing penalties — is a good lesson for kids. If Stefon Diggs can make an absolutely insane catch without committing offensive pass interference, your kids can clean their room without just shoving their dirty laundry under the bed.

3. Your Game Day Foods Will Only Improve
Football snacks are the best snacks, and watching the game as a family makes it easier to celebrate with pizza, burgers, wings, or whatever your kids like. We’re not exactly sure why these kid-friendly foods have become the unofficial Sunday menu for football fans everywhere, but we’re not complaining. With your kid in the room? Hey, we’ll have what he’s having.

4. You Will Want to Get Outside More
Kids love to imitate their heroes, so watching Patrick Mahomes evade rushers and pull off a no-look pass down the field is a great way to make them want to hit the gridiron themselves. A family game of two-hand touch at halftime is a good way for parents and kids to burn off some calories, and it can help kids discover the joy of leading an active life like their football heroes do.

5. You Just Started Up a New Family Tradition
Watching the NFL is an activity that lends itself to tradition. Football season is the same time every year, and the games air at the same time every week. That makes it easy to make football a weekly and yearly tradition, and the more family traditions you have the stronger your family unit is.

To help your kids get hyped for football, check out nflnickplay.com. It has plenty of games and information designed to help kids learn the game. And don’t forget to tune into Nickelodeon the weekend of January 9 for the AFC Wild Card game, complete with Nick visuals that will help you gain you a football buddy for life.

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Originally published: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 20:41 GMT.

H/T: Nickandmore!, Anime Superhero Forum /@kanc; Additional sources: Awful Announcing, FTW, The Bleacher Report, NBC Sports, ComicBook.

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Nickelodeon UK Ratings For Week Of Monday 21st - Sunday 27th December 2020

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Nickelodeon UK Network Ratings for week of Monday 21st - Sunday 27th December 2020.


The Nickelodeon UK Network's ratings were a bit of a mixed bag again this week, according to BARB data, compared to the previous week (Dec. 14-20). Ratings were down across the Nickelodeon Network, with only Nick Jr. Too (Nick Jr. PAW Patrol) reporting a slight increase in viewership.

Nickelodeon Total:

1. ICARLY (TUE 18:00) - 64,500
2. HORRID HENRY (SAT 08:15) - 59,900
3. HORRID HENRY (THU 06:44) - 58,600
4. SAM & CAT (TUE 16:29) - 57,100
5. ICARLY (TUE 17:32) - 52,700
6. HORRID HENRY (THU 06:30) - 51,700
7. HORRID HENRY (WED 12:14) - 49,700
8. HORRID HENRY (WED 06:00) - 48,100
9. HORRID HENRY (WED 06:15) - 48,100
10. HORRID HENRY (WED 06:31) - 46,000
11. THE THUNDERMANS (TUE 13:00) - 43,300
12. THE THUNDERMANS (TUE 12:29) - 43,300
13. THE THUNDERMANS (WED 18:00) - 42,200
14. HORRID HENRY (WED 11:59) - 37,600
15. VICTORIOUS (THU 14:59) - 34,700

NickToons Total:

1. HORRID HENRY (MON 10:45) - 61,100
2. HORRID HENRY (MON 10:30) - 58,800
3. SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS (MON 12:15) - 58,200
4. SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS (MON 12:30) - 58,200
5. THE LOUD HOUSE (TUE 20:15) - 57,300
6. ALVINNN!!! AND THE CHIPMUNKS (WED 14:45) - 54,800
7. THE LOUD HOUSE (TUE 20:00) - 54,400
8. THE LOUD HOUSE (TUE 15:00) - 50,200
9. SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS (MON 13:45) - 47,100
10. THE LOUD HOUSE (TUE 15:15) - 46,300
11. HORRID HENRY (WED 10:00) - 45,100
12. THE LOUD HOUSE (TUE 20:30) - 44,200
13. ALVINNN!!! AND THE CHIPMUNKS (TUE 14:45)  - 41,400
14. THE LOUD HOUSE (WED 11:45) - 40,600
15. HORRID HENRY (WED 10:15) - 38,500

Nick Jr. Total:

1. PEPPA PIG (THU 12:20) - 140,200
2. PEPPA PIG (SUN 15:05) - 106,300
3. PEPPA PIG (MON 14:30) - 105,700
4. BABY SHARK'S BIG SHOW (THU 16:29) - 102,800
5. PEPPA PIG (TUE 12:20) - 100,600
6. PEPPA PIG (TUE 12:15) - 97,400
7. PEPPA PIG (WED 15:30) - 94,300
8. PEPPA PIG (THU 12:15) - 93,900
9. PEPPA PIG (THU 15:50) - 88,500
10. PEPPA PIG (THU 13:00) - 87,500
11. PEPPA PIG (MON 15:35) - 86,200
12. PEPPA PIG (MON 10:29) - 85,900
13. PEPPA PIG (THU 12:00) - 85,400
14. PEPPA PIG (WED 15:35) - 83,700
15. PEPPA PIG (WED 15:05) - 83,700

Nick Jr. Too:

1. PAW PATROL (WED 09:59) - 111,600
2. PAW PATROL (THU 14:44) - 108,100
3. PAW PATROL (THU 14:59) - 105,500
4. PAW PATROL (THU 17:45) - 91,600
5. PAW PATROL (THU 19:45) - 91,200
6. PAW PATROL (SUN 19:29) - 88,100
7. PAW PATROL (SUN 20:14) - 88,100
8. PAW PATROL (SUN 19:44) - 88,100
9. PAW PATROL (SUN 20:00) - 88,100
10. PAW PATROL (THU 14:29) - 84,100
11. PAW PATROL (MON 10:59) - 82,600
12. PAW PATROL (THU 14:14) - 82,400
13. PAW PATROL (SUN 20:44) - 80,600
14. PAW PATROL (THU 13:30) - 80,000
15. PAW PATROL (THU 13:59) - 80,000

Notes: Nick Jr. Too is listed as Nick Jr 2 on BARB; the channel is named Nick Jr. PAW Patrol during December 2020.

Nickelodeon Network:

1. PEPPA PIG (THU 12:20) - Nick Jr Total - 140,200
2. PAW PATROL (WED 09:59) - Nick Jr 2 - 111,600
3. PAW PATROL (THU 14:44) - Nick Jr 2 - 108,100
4. PEPPA PIG (SUN 15:05) - Nick Jr Total - 106,300
5. PEPPA PIG (MON 14:30) - Nick Jr Total - 105,700
6. PAW PATROL (THU 14:59) - Nick Jr 2 - 105,500
7. BABY SHARK'S BIG SHOW (THU 16:29) - Nick Jr Total - 102,800
8. PEPPA PIG (TUE 12:20) - Nick Jr Total - 100,600
9. PEPPA PIG (TUE 12:15) - Nick Jr Total - 97,400
10. PEPPA PIG (WED 15:30) - Nick Jr Total - 94,300
11. PEPPA PIG (THU 12:15) - Nick Jr Total - 93,900
12. PAW PATROL (THU 17:45) - Nick Jr 2 - 91,600
13. PAW PATROL (THU 19:45) - Nick Jr 2 - 91,200
14. PEPPA PIG (THU 15:50) - Nick Jr Total - 88,500
15. PAW PATROL (SUN 20:00) - Nick Jr 2 - 88,100

Ratings data provided by BARB.

Programmes of less than 5 minutes duration are excluded from these reports.

Linear TV viewing only; Data for viewing programming on PC/laptops, Tablets and Smartphones is currently unavailable.


Originally published: Monday, January 04, 2021
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Nickelodeon's Noggin Launches First-Ever Original Long-Form Series 'Noggin Knows'

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Nickelodeon's Noggin Launches First-Ever Original Long-Form Series Noggin Knows


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Noggin, Nickelodeon's interactive learning service for preschoolers, is launching its first-ever original long-form series Noggin Knows (5 x 22-min eps), a brand-new educational variety show hosted by actor and entertainer Emmanuel Carter. Available now exclusively on Noggin, the show follows Carter, an engaging instructor, as he uses his love for learning, dancing and singing to guide kids through a series of themed lessons, alongside their favorite Nickelodeon preschool characters.

In the series premiere of Noggin Knows, "Dinosaurs," Emmanuel teaches viewers all about dinosaurs with the help of beloved Bubble Guppy, Molly, and class ends with a dino-mite dance party. Episodes will continue to roll out weekly.


Set in a unique classroom, Noggin Knows makes learning fun and interactive, and aligns with Noggin's educational approach which aims to help preschoolers build big hearts, strong minds and healthy bodies. Lessons focus on social and emotional skills, math, literacy, problem solving, movement and concepts that expand kids' horizons in a playful and engaging way.

Noggin Knows is the latest addition to Noggin\\u2019s content slate which includes the recently launched original series Kinderwood, School of Yum, Word Play and Imagination Trips, among others.


In Noggin, learning is led by the Nickelodeon preschool characters kids know and love, and developed by education and child development experts. The interactive service offers an ever-expanding library of books, learning games, activities, exclusive shorts and 1,000+ ad-free episodes of preschool favorites like PAW Patrol, Peppa Pig and Blue's Clues & You!

'SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated' Coming to iOS, Android Devices on January 21

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Update (1/4) - Below is the official press release announcing the spongeriffic news!:

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom- Rehydrated to Surface on Mobile Devices January 21


Giebelstadt, Germany, January 4th, 2021: After the success of SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated on PC and consoles, THQ Nordic family member HandyGames teamed up with Nickelodeon to bring SpongeBob SquarePants to iOS and Android as a premium title. Launching January 21, the world's most beloved sea dweller is getting ready to save Bikini Bottom on mobile device, and he brought all his friends (and enemies) to join in on the fun. Prepare yourself, for there is evil afoot!

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated is available now for pre-order on the Apple AppStore and pre-register on Google Play.

The spongetacular remake of this fan-favorite title will have players battle raging robots with bubble blasting abilities and show the evil Plankton once and for all that the secret formula belongs to no one other than Mr. Krabs himself. Play as SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy and use each one's unique set of skills. Run, bounce, and underpants-bungee-jump through Bikini Bottom and meet countless characters from the beloved television series. The battle is on!

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated Mobile will release on January 21st, 2020, and be priced at $9.99 / €9.99 / £8.99
 
Pre-order now at the Apple AppStore:

Pre-register now at the Google Play Store:
 
About SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated Mobile:
The SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated mobile port features all of the irreverent humor and Bikini Bottom adventures found in the PC and console game available at iOS and Google users’ fingertips. Originally released in 2003 and remade (some say with the help of a secret formula) in 2020, the Battle for Bikini Bottom is a cult-classic game featuring high-end visuals, modern resolutions and carefully polished gameplay. In the mobile version, the controls have been meticulously optimized for devices with touch screens, with a controller also available.
 
Features:

  • Play as SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy and use their unique skills
  • Curb Plankton's evil scheme to rule Bikini Bottom with his army of rusty robots
  • Experience memorable encounters with countless characters from the series
  • Enjoy overhauled visuals for modern devices and polished controls for a marvelous mobile experience
  • Play with a gamepad thanks to full controller support
  • Ravel in childhood memories with the characters' original voices from the TV series







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Original post:

Publisher HandyGames and developer Purple Lamp Studios will release SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated, a remake of the cult favorite 2003 SpongeBob SquarePants video game for iOS via the Apple App Store and Android via Google Play on January 21 for $8.99 / 9,99 euro - without microtransactions or hidden paywalls, the companies announced.

Here is an overview of the mobile port version, via HandyGames:

"SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated is available now for pre-order on the Apple AppStore and pre-register on Google Play and releases as a premium title, on January 21st, 2021

After the outstanding success of SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated on PC and consoles, THQ Nordic family member HandyGames teamed up with Nickelodeon to bring this unique experience to iOS and Android as a premium title without microtransactions or any hidden paywalls. You pay once and play the full game to your heart’s content.

The world’s most beloved sea dweller is getting ready to save Bikini Bottom on your mobile device, and he brought all his friends (and enemies) to join in on the fun. Prepare yourself, for there is evil afoot!

The spongetacular remake of this fan-favorite title will have you battle raging robots with your bubble blasting abilities and show the evil Plankton once and for all that the secret formula belongs to no one other than Mr. Krabs himself. Play as SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy and use each one’s unique set of skills. Run, bounce, and underpants-bungee-jump your way through Bikini Bottom and meet countless characters from the beloved TV series. The battle is on!"


Battle for Bikini Bottom is a 3D platformer from 2003, based on the hilarious antics of the titular sea sponge from Nickelodeon's hit TV show. It boasted gameplay similar to classic titles like Banjo-Kazooie, and was generally considered a cult classic for its success at emulating the madcap humor of the show.

The classic title garnered enough love from its fans to warrant a remake, which released in 2020. Battle For Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated rebuilt the game from the ground up, giving it better gameplay, restored cut content, a multiplayer mode, and drastically improved graphical quality. Fans adored the remake for letting them relive the experience from 2003.

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated first launched for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam and GOG in June 2020.

Watch the mobile announcement trailer below.


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Originally published: Saturday, January 02, 2021 at 22:19 GMT.

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The Cast of 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' to Host Reunion in January 2021

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The cast of Avatar: The Last Airbender will be reuniting in 2021!


Word of the big event came from Dante Basco’s Twitter account and fans are absolutely ecstatic about the development. While the show originally ran between 2005 - 2008, fans of all ages really got back into the show this year during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. Also adding to that surge of popularity was the fact that Netflix uploaded the entire run onto their service this summer as well. So, with not a ton to do, people were all too happy to revisit their favorite animated series.


Presented by Noveria Management, the virtual Avatar: The Last Airbender reunion will see the Zuko voice actor reunite with his Avatar co-stars, including Jack de Sena (Sokka), Grey Griffin (Azula), Olivia Hack (Ty Lee), Cricket Leigh (Mai), Jennie Kwan (Princess Suki), and Michaela Murphy (Toph) to name a few of the actors.

Zachary Tyler Eisen, who voiced Aang, and Mae Whitman, who voiced Katara, have not been slated to participate, but Whitman was tagged by Basco in the Instagram post so ... fingers crossed?

Eisen did an interview in June 2020 — his first after nearly 10 years — with Ted Jones World and shared that as a child voice actor, he didn’t always have the opportunity to work with his ATLA co-stars in person. It would be a real treat for the audience if he decides to attend the reunion, as he typically avoids the anniversary events for the series too.

Fans are rightfully excited and January 9th is going to be a great time. Check out Basco’s tweet down below:

Earlier this summer, Basco revealed that he was as surprised as anyone that Avatar just blew up again.

“Yeah, I think it kind of blew up out of nowhere, which is great and unexpected,” Basco explained. “But it really goes to show you: A, the power of Netflix, and B, the power of a really good project that kind of lasted over the years now. And it's like you said, it may be more popular than when it was first out.”

When it comes to the reliability of Zuko, Basco knows all too well how much the fanbase loves him.

“Of course, man. I mean, ‘That's rough buddy,’ has become one of the most quoted lines. It’s strange that these lines that we don’t think much of them when we do them. It’s just how the project came out. It doesn't strike me why they become a part of the zeitgeist in whatever world we're in,” he reflected.

“’That's rough buddy…’ and ‘Hello, Zuko here,’ little lines that I didn't think much of when we did and something stuck with how the project came out, become these kinds of catchphrases in life for people to use, that they use in their regular life. I get a kick out of all that,” Basco continued. “Again, little things that none of us could predict. You know we didn't plan any of these things, these things happened organically. I appreciate, I'm proud of that multiplying, you know.”

The Avatar: The Last Airbender cast reunion will take place virtually on Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. PT / 6 p.m. ET. The event will last 30 minutes. Tickets are available via StageIt.com, and cost 100 notes (10 notes = $1). Autographs and recordings from the cast are also available to purchase.

Merchandise and autographs are also available via Noveria which includes print images of ATLA characters, autographs and video and audio recordings from the cast.

Show Description:

Avatar: The Last Airbender Cast Reunion Verified artist
Noveria Management Presents: ATLA - Cast Reunion
30 min. show | January 09 at 3:00 PM PST | Price: 100 Notes

Water. Earth. Fire. Air.

Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony, then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.

Join the cast of Avatar: The Last Airbender as they discuss the Emmy award winning show and how it still holds a special place in animation history even 15 years later.

Special Guests:
Dante Basco
Jack de Sena
Grey Griffin
Olivia Hack
Cricket Leigh
Jennie Kwan
Michaela Murphy
... and more to be announced!

Autographs and recordings from the cast are available [at StageIt.com.]

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The reunion news follows fans receiving disappointing news in August 2020, when Avatar: The Last Airbender creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko shared they were backing out of the live-action Netflix project. The series was originally announced in 2018 and had been stalled in development since then. Currently, there are rumors that it may be getting shelved.

Fans were looking forward to seeing DiMartino and Konietzko’s vision come to life with the Netflix adaptation but accepted the outcome. The best way to keep up with past, present, and future stories in the ATLA universe is to grab the comic book series, as well as a upcoming cooking book. Both co-creators are keeping things alive.

Nickelodeon’s animated versions of ATLA and The Legend of Korra are still streaming on CBS All Access and Netflix, raking in millions of views and new fans. To stay plugged in with the Avatar world, fans can follow DiMartino and Konietzko on social media.

Tune in on Jan. 9 for the cast reunion to see who shows up; it’s possible there will be a few surprises.

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Bollywood Singer Shaan Lends Voice to ‘Keymon Ache’ Title Track

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Bollywood singer Shaan has lent his voice to the title track of Nickelodeon India's popular kids show, Keymon Ache. He says kids’ genre remains to be unexplored and untapped for him.


“I’m glad to have partnered with the channel to curate the song. Having raised two sons of my own, I’ve always been in awe of their unbridled enthusiasm and joy that kids have for the characters,” Shaan, pictured above, said.

“Working for kids genre is something very close to my heart; it always leaves me feeling refreshed and inspired to live life with the same passion that kids do. This genre has also been unexplored and relatively untapped for me, the title track of Keymon Ache was so catchy that I had to make sure I take this a notch higher making it even more exciting to dive into! I am hoping that the song is received well by the kids,” he added.


Keymon Ache, an animated television series, airs on Nickelodeon Sonic and is available to stream via VOOT Kids. The show revolves around a kid, Rohan, who along with his magical friend, Keymon Ache, tries to get rid of his problems, but the magic always lands him in trouble.


Additional source: Sambhav Khabar.

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Nickelodeon USA's January 2021 Premiere Highlights

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Below are Nickelodeon USA's currently announced January 2021 premiere highlights for Nick, Nicktoons, Nick Jr., Nick at Nite and TeenNick:
Latest Update: 1/3 (Check back regularly for the latest updates!)

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All times ET/PT

Schedules are always subject to change without notice.

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Friday, January 1, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. - Day 76: (#108)

Friday, January 8, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. - Day 84: Mission Control failed to transfer control to the ground, which means the kids are now driving the space craft. With only one day of training, the kids must steer a spacecraft into Venus’s orbit without it burning up in the planet’s atmosphere. (#109)

Friday, January 15, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. - Day 85: An unexpected development prompts doubts among the kids about returning home, and an unknown threat attempts to destroy the Odyssey before the astronauts can make their next move. (#110; season one finale)

Airs: Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 4:30 p.m. (ET)

CBS Sports and Nickelodeon are getting kids and families into the game with a special slime-filled presentation of the National Football League’s Wild Card game on Sunday, Jan. 10, at 4:30 p.m. (ET). The NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon will feature one-of-a-kind kid-focused content and Nick-themed elements throughout, including a special halftime presentation, guest reporters and original on-field graphics, virtual filters and more. The NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon will air alongside CBS Sports’ broadcast of the game on The CBS Television Network.

Play-by-play announcer Noah Eagle will be joined by CBS Sports’ analyst Nate Burleson and Nick star Gabrielle Nevaeh Green (All That, Nickelodeon’s Unfiltered) in the booth to call the NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon. Additionally, Nick star Lex Lumpkin (All That, Nickelodeon’s Unfiltered) ­­­will serve as a reporter during the game. Nickelodeon’s coverage begins with “The SpongeBob SportsPants Countdown Special,” a sports-themed compilation special at 4 p.m. (ET) hosted by the Denver Broncos’ Von Miller, highlighting SpongeBob’s best sports moments and featuring pre-kickoff appearances by CBS Sports’ Jim Nantz and Tony Romo, as well as Eagle, Burleson and Green.

The NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon will also include a special halftime sneak peek of Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years, which follows 10-year-old SpongeBob SquarePants and his pals as they spend their summer building underwater campfires, catching wild jellyfish, and swimming in Lake Yuckymuck at the craziest camp in the kelp forest, Kamp Koral. The series will debut in 2021 on ViacomCBS’s rebranded streaming service Paramount+ and then on Nickelodeon later in the year.

The NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon will only be available to be streamed on mobile for free for all fans via the NFL App. The game airing on CBS will be streamed on CBS and NFL digital properties across devices, and on mobile via the participating teams’ mobile properties, and Yahoo Sports and other Verizon Media mobile properties.

NFLNickPlay.com will serve as the official online destination for the NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon, helping to educate kids on football basics and entertain them with a variety of NFL-themed content leading up to and during the Wild Card game. Kids will be able to engage with quizzes, polls, fun facts, info galleries, sports-themed short-form videos, Weekly Pick ‘Em printables and more, earning points and unlocking badges along the way. For three days leading up to the game and on game day, viewers can scan QR codes on-air, unlocking sports-themed SpongeBob SquarePants and The Loud House collectibles and participating with interactive content throughout the live game. Additionally, participants will be able to enter a sweepstakes for the chance to win an exclusive game ball signed by a Wild Card player, along with other exclusive prize packs.

Airs: Sunday, January 10, 2021 during NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon

Catch a spongeriffic sneak peek of Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years during the NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon special! The all new spin-off from SpongeBob SquarePants follows 10-year-old SpongeBob SquarePants and his pals as they spend their summer building underwater campfires, catching wild jellyfish, and swimming in Lake Yuckymuck at the craziest camp in the kelp forest, Kamp Koral. The series will then debut in 2021 on ViacomCBS’s rebranded streaming service Paramount+ and then on Nickelodeon later in the year.

Airs: Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. leading up to the NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon

“The SpongeBob SportsPants Countdown Special” is a brand new sports-themed compilation special hosted by the Denver Broncos’ Von Miller, highlighting SpongeBob’s best sports moments and featuring pre-kickoff appearances by CBS Sports’ Jim Nantz and Tony Romo, as well as Eagle, Burleson and Green. (#888)


Monday, January 18, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. - Lighthouse Louie/Hiccup Plague: When SpongeBob cleans up the Boating School's lighthouse, he meets a cute but uncomfortable companion; no one is safe from a case of contagious hiccups. (#261)


Saturday, January 23, 2021 at 8:30 p.m. - KidDING! Dongs: (#107)

Saturday, January 30, 2021 at 8:30 p.m. - Lunch Boxed In: (#108)


Friday, January 22, 2021 at 7:00pm - Cow Pie Kid/Saved by the Spell: (#507)

Friday, January 29, 2021 at 7:00pm - No Bus No Fuss/Resident Upheaval: (#509)


Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. - Donut vs. The Volcano: Darci Lynne Farmer, Gabrielle Nevaeh Green and Lex Lumpkin ask questions and gather clues to try to unveil two mystery guests. (#201; season 2 premiere)

Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. - : (#202)


Thursday, January 7. 2021 at 7:30 p.m. - The Miz: Pro wrestler Mike “The Miz” Mezanin says heyo to mayo, goes astronomical, and gets prehistoric as The Substitute. (#205)

Thursday, January 14. 2021 at 7:30 p.m. - DeAndre Jordan: NBA Superstar DeAndre Jordan tackles his fear of heights, goes full flower power when killing weeds, and grillz and chills some mis-steaks as The Substitute. (#206)

Thursday, January 21. 2021 at 7:30 p.m. - Peyton List: (#204; TBC)

Thursday, January 28. 2021 at 7:30 p.m. - Zedd: (#207)


Friday, January 22, 2021 at 7:30pm - The Kid Plays in the Picture/Achy Breaky Art: (#201)

Friday, January 29, 2021 at 7:30pm - Guilt Trip/Short Cut: Ronnie Anne and her primos try to win a trip around the world for Maria / When Carlota fails at hair cutting, she trains with CJ, the master barber. (#203)


Saturday, January 23, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. - Vidja Games: (#114)

Saturday, January 30, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. - Test Friends: (#115)

Specials

Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. - The SpongeBob SportsPants Countdown Special: (see above)

Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 4:30 p.m. - NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon: (see above)

Sunday, January 10, 2021 - Kamp Koral sneak peek: (see above)

Movies

Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. - Apollo 13: This Hollywood drama is based on the events of the Apollo 13 lunar mission, astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) find everything going according to plan after leaving Earth's orbit. However, when an oxygen tank explodes, the scheduled moon landing is called off. Subsequent tensions within the crew and numerous technical problems threaten both the astronauts' survival and their safe return to Earth.  Historical drama (1995)

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Bursting onto the scene this New Year are Kai, Lola, Rammy and Bobbi – the DEER SQUAD. These four lovable, enthusiastic and heroic young deer friends are the protectors of Central Forest and all who inhabit Platinum City, the futuristic metropolis surrounding their woodland home.

Deer Squad (formally Deer Run) is Nickelodeon’s brand new CG-animated adventure rescue show that follows the four friends on their daily adventures as they learn about the world around them and lend a helping hand to the animals of Central Forest and humans of Platinum City. From tackling giant doughnuts to tornadoes to ice robots, when there’s trouble the Deer summon their Planet Powers and transform into a team that is capable of solving problems using their Planet Powers of Water (Kai), Wood (Lola), Earth (Bobbi) and Sun (Rammy).

Packed with action, comedy and heart, each episode of DEER SQUAD tells relatable yet meaningful stories that help build character and teach valuable life lessons like teamwork and problem-solving.

Monday, January 25, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. - Goodnight Central Forest/Steelzilla: (#101)

Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. - Save The Bees/Duck Dilemma: (#102)

Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. - Catfish Capers/Bubble Debacle: (#103)

Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. - Kai Express/Ducknado: (#104)

Friday, January 29, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. - Donut Panic/I Scream: (#105)


Friday, January 8, 2021 at 12:30 p.m. - The Treasure in the Sky/Sidekick Switcheroo: After finding a cosmic treasure map, Santiago and crew take to the stars to track the treasure down. / During a high seas scuffle, Kiko and Sir Butterscotch swap places! (#108)

Friday, January 15, 2021 at 12:30 p.m. - Cecilia and the Magic Rubies/Under the Pirate Moon: Santi and crew go underwater to stop Escarlata la Pirata before she steals all the magic rubies. / Escarlata turns the moon into a fish. (#120)


Friday, January 15, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. - Pups vs. the Ruff-Ruff Pack: In the debut episode of PAW Patrol theme Moto Pups, the Motercycle Stunt Show comes to town - bringing famed stunt cyclist Wild Cat, and the trouble-making cyclists, the Ruff-Ruff Pack. Wild Cat joins the Paw Patrol to help stop the baddies from trashing the town! (#720) [more info]


Friday, January 1, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. - Blue's Big Dance Party: Show us your dance moves! Josh and Blue are having a dance party, and we play Blue’s Clues to figure out Blue’s favorite dance. As we groove to find clues, we learn Magenta’s favorite dance and help Bunny Jo learn a new dance! Special guest star Misty Copeland. (#205) [sneak peek]

Friday, January 22, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. - Blue's Big Imagination: (#209)


Monday, January 4, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. - Ryan's Tacklin' Playdate: Ryan's gotta tackle his challenges in order to get to his winnin' playdate. Special guest star Los Angeles Rams' 2x NFL Defensive Player of the Year Aaron Donald. (#320A) [info]

Tuesday, January 5, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. - Ryan's Bakin' Playdate: Mmm, it's startin' to smell good in the playroom! Ryan's gotta whip past his challenges in order to see what his playdate is cookin' up! (#320B)

Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. - Ryan's Blue Playdate: Ryan must paint his way through his challenges to get to his colorful playdate. Special guest stars the Blue Man Group. (#319A) [info]

Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. - Ryan's Challengin' Playdate: Ryan gotta wiggle through his challenges in order to meet up with his content-makin' playdate. (#319B)


Friday, January 29, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. - Dino Derby: (#603)


Friday, January 22, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. - The Mighty, Untidy Titans!: (#514)

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Sunday, January 3, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. - Car Wash; Preston's Shipwreck: (#225)

Sunday, January 10, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. - Wid, Wild Horses: Safari Away From Me: Preston's latest get-rich-quick scheme to sell wild mustangs goes awry. / A man causes a baby elephant to become separated from her mother.


Sunday, January 3, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. - Mo and Bo Go Toe to Toe; Abby and the Rooftop Playground: (#225)

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Noggin


Noggin, Nickelodeon's interactive learning service for preschoolers, is launching its first-ever original long-form series Noggin Knows (5 x 22-min eps), a brand-new educational variety show hosted by actor and entertainer Emmanuel Carter. Available now exclusively on Noggin, the show follows Carter, an engaging instructor, as he uses his love for learning, dancing and singing to guide kids through a series of themed lessons, alongside their favorite Nickelodeon preschool characters. Episodes will continue to roll out weekly.

Set in a unique classroom, Noggin Knows makes learning fun and interactive, and aligns with Noggin's educational approach which aims to help preschoolers build big hearts, strong minds and healthy bodies. Lessons focus on social and emotional skills, math, literacy, problem solving, movement and concepts that expand kids' horizons in a playful and engaging way.

Monday, January 4, 2021 - Dinosaurs: Emmanuel teaches viewers all about dinosaurs with the help of beloved Bubble Guppy, Molly, and class ends with a dino-mite dance party.

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Friday, January 1, 2021 - The Haunted Hathaways seasons 1 and 2 [info]

Friday, January 15, 2021 - Henry Danger seasons 1, 2 & 3 [info]

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2021 on Nickelodeon | New Shows, Specials, Podcasts, Events, Movies, Episodes, and More

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With lots of brand-new shows and tons of brand-new episodes, 2021 is set to be another epic year on Nickelodeon! Check out Nickelodeon's upcoming highlights below!


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New Shows and Seasons:

Rugrats Revival
Expected: 2021


Nickelodeon will relaunch the iconic kids’ TV series Rugrats with a CG-animated 26-episode new season, which will include new adventures with beloved characters Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Susie and Angelica, and will also introduce a new world of characters!

Original creators Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó and Paul Germain will return to the TV series as executive producers. Nickelodeon’s Rugrats will be produced in Burbank, Calif., with production already underway. Additional news of the TV series, airdate and casting--and Reptar sightings--will be announced in the coming months. Veteran cast members are expected to return to reprise their roles.

Rugrats focuses on a group of toddlers, Tommy Pickles, Chuckie Finster, twins Phil and Lil DeVille, and Angelica Pickles, and their day-to-day lives that became adventures in their imaginations. The original Rugrats series launched in August of 1991 and instantly became a groundbreaking phenomenon, spawning consumer products, three hit theatrical releases and cementing its place in pop culture history through its iconic characters, storytelling and unique visual style. Rugrats was in production for nine seasons over the course of 13 years. The series earned four Daytime Emmy Awards, six Kids' Choice Awards and its own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

A live-action Rugrats movie featuring CGI characters from Paramount Players was in the works, but it's release is currently on hiatus.

Star Trek: Prodigy
Expected: 2021


Nickelodeon and CBS Television Studios have announced the greenlight of a new animated Star Trek series to be developed by Emmy Award winners Kevin and Dan Hageman (Trollhunters and Ninjago) and overseen for Nickelodeon by Ramsey Naito, EVP, Animation Production and Development, Nickelodeon.

Debuting exclusively on Nickelodeon, Star Trek: Prodigy expands the Star Trek universe for a new generation of fans. The new original CG-animated series follows a group of lawless teens who discover a derelict Starfleet ship and use it to search for adventure, meaning and salvation.

The series will see Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek: Voyager) reprise her role as the fan-favorite Captain Kathryn Janeway.

Award-winning director and producer Ben Hibon (Codehunterswill direct, co-executive produce and serve as the creative lead of Star Trek: Prodigy. Nami Melumad (An American Pickle, Absentia, Miss Arizona) is expected to score the series.

Star Trek: Prodigy will be from CBS’ Eye Animation Productions, CBS Television Studios’ new animation arm; Secret Hideout; and Roddenberry Entertainment. Alex Kurtzman, Heather Kadin, Katie Krentz, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth will serve as executive producers alongside Kevin and Dan Hageman. Mac Middleton will serve as a producer with Aaron Baiers as co-executive producer.

The new Star Trek series is the third animated series from CBS Television Studios, following Star Trek: Lower Decks for CBS All Access and Our Cartoon President for SHOWTIME.

Claudia Spinelli, VP Animation Development, Nickelodeon, is the executive in charge of the new animated Star Trek series for Nickelodeon. The series will also be overseen by Alec Botnick, SVP, Comedy Development and Head of Animation, CBS Television Studios.

ViacomCBS Consumer Products are looking to release a range of Star Trek: Prodigy products following the show's launch.

Expected: Early 2021
Platform: CBS All Access/Paramount in the U.S.; Nickelodeon channels internationally. The series is slated to also eventually air on Nickelodeon USA later in the year.
Sneak Peek: Sunday, January 10, 2021 during the half-time of the NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon.


A prequel spin-off from SpongeBob SquarePants, Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years, is a CG-animated series which follows 10-year-old SpongeBob SquarePants and his pals as they spend their summer building underwater campfires, catching wild jellyfish, and swimming in Lake Yuckymuck at the craziest camp in the kelp forest, Kamp Koral.

Produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio, the series is slated to debut in 2021 exclusively on the newly rebranded Paramount+ streaming video on demand service. Following the season’s run on Paramount+, the series will also air on Nickelodeon later in the year.

In Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years, SpongeBob meets Patrick, Sandy, Squidward, Plankton and Mr. Krabs, where the new friends embark on all the joys of camp, including hunting for treasure, slaplining and more. The CG-animated series (13 episodes) is the first original spinoff of Nickelodeon’s iconic hit show SpongeBob SquarePants.

Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years features Tom Kenny (SpongeBob), Bill Fagerbakke (Patrick), Rodger Bumpass (Squidward), Clancy Brown (Mr. Krabs), Carolyn Lawrence (Sandy) and Mr. Lawrence (Plankton) reprising their iconic roles. Carlos Alazraqui (Rocko's Modern Life, The Casagrandes) and Kate Higgins (Blaze and the Monster Machines) join as new characters Nobby and Narlene, narwhal siblings who live in the woods surrounding the camp.

Marc Ceccarelli (SpongeBob SquarePants), Vincent Waller (SpongeBob SquarePants) and Jennie Monica (SpongeBob SquarePants) are co-executive producers of the series. Production of Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years is overseen by Kelley Gardner, Vice President, Current Series Animation, Nickelodeon.

Nickelodeon will air a sneak peek of Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years during the half-time of the NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon.

Expected: TBC


SpongeBob's neighbor and BFF Patrick Star is getting his own spin-off series! Reportedly to be in the vein of The Larry Sanders Show and Comedy Bang! Bang!, The Patrick Star Show will see the superstar sea star saviour hosting his own late-night talk show. The series is said to revolve around Patrick and his family.

The series will see the character’s longtime SpongeBob voice actor Bill Fagerbakke reprise his iconic role of the not-so-bright but kind-hearted sea star, who lives under a rock. Fagerbakke is being joined by a largely new cast voicing new characters, with SpongeBob cast members expected to make occasional appearances, reprising their respective roles.

The series has a 13-episode order and comes from the creative team behind the mothership series.

Expected: Mid-2021

Big Nate (middle character)

Nickelodeon is taking the misadventures of Big Nate from page to screen with an all-new CG-animated TV series based on the best-selling children’s books written and drawn by acclaimed author and cartoonist Lincoln Peirce.

The eponymous 26-episode series follows Nate, a precocious 11-year-old boy, and his best friends as they navigate sixth grade with humor and style. Big Nate is produced by Nickelodeon in Burbank, Calif.

The TV series will feature brand-new original storylines centered on Nate and his mischievous shenanigans that usually result in disaster, detention or both. Whether trying to convince everyone that their school is haunted to get out of a test, or accidentally setting the pet iguana free in the school’s air ducts, Nate and his friends cause trouble everywhere--and must keep their cool before they get caught.

The Big Nate TV series is executive produced by Mitch Watson (All Hail King Julien) and John Cohen (The Angry Birds Movie), with Peirce serving as consultant throughout development and production. Bridget McMeel is co-producer.

Peirce’s humor-based books about Nate and his friends have spent more than 150 weeks on the New York Times’ Best-Seller list. The Big Nate book series (https://bignatebooks.com/) is published worldwide in 33 languages and available as ebooks and audiobooks and as an app, Big Nate: Comix by U! Additionally, the Big Nate comic strip is syndicated by Andrews McMeel Syndication and appears in more than 400 newspapers and online daily at www.gocomics.com/bignate. The Big Nate comic strip books are published by Andrews McMeel Publishers and the Big Nate novels are published by HarperCollins Children’s Books.

Expected: Early 2021


It's morphin' time!

65 million years ago an ancient force brought the power of the Morphin Grid to planet Earth. Now, the forces of evil have come to claim that power, and a group of heroes must rise up to meet this challenge. Harnessing the energy of the Morphin Grid with the prehistoric power of Dino Fury. They will unlock incredible new Morphers, Dino Powered Weapons, powerful new Zords, and astonishing new Megazords. In the tradition of dinosaur teams of the past comes a brand new entry, Power Rangers Dino Fury.

The 28th season of the iconic franchise, adapted from the Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger season of Japanese Super Sentai series, gets a modern update with a prehistoric twist when an army of powerful alien beings is unleashed on Earth, threatening life as we know it. A brand-new team of Power Rangers, fueled by the prehistoric power of the dinosaurs, are recruited to deal with the threat.

Power Rangers Dino Fury will star Russell Curry as Zayto / Red Ranger, Hunter Deno as Amelia / Pink Ranger, Kai Moya as Ollie / Blue Ranger, Tessa Rao as Izzy / Green Ranger (a genderswap from the Super Sentai counterpart), and Chance Perez as Javi / Black Ranger

Among those battling the Dino Fury rangers will be a villainess “Boomtower” - which some fans might recognize as Tankjoh from Kishiryu Sentai RyuSoulger - and two monsters of the day, “Doomsnake” and "Shockhorn".

Like previous seasons, Power Rangers Dino Fury will transcend into the toy aisle with brand new merchandise based on the show.

Expected: Mid-2021


Nickelodeon has ordered a new original animated series, Middlemost Post (working title), which combines quirky characters with hilarious adventures and unwavering friendship. Created and co-executive produced by John Trabbic III (SpongeBob SquarePants, storyboard director), the 20-episode 2D-animated series follows a former rain cloud, a brawny mailman and their magical pet walrus as they deliver packages to the unusual inhabitants of Mount Middlemost. Middlemost Post is produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank, with Dave Johnson serving as co-executive producer and story editor. Additional casting news and premiere date will be announced in the coming months.

In Middlemost Post, Parker J. Cloud, an exuberant raincloud, lives and works in the Middlemost Post Office with Angus, a burly, rule-abiding mailman who cherishes his solitude and values efficiency, and Russell, their magical pet walrus whose stomach is so big that it doubles as a storage room. Together they journey through Mount Middlemost and the six territories of Somewhere to deliver the mail, while meeting some exceptionally quirky and peculiar people along the way. But as this loving and unconventional trio grows closer, they remain blissfully unaware that they have been brought together by one fateful stormy event.

To Trabbic, a recovering addict, the story about a “reformed rain cloud, who doesn’t want to rain on people any more, he just wants to brighten people’s days,” is also about his own evolution. Besides the animation, “it leans into humor and I am incorporating stop-motion sets.” Trabbic is also working on getting the show ready to premiere on Nickelodeon in 2021.

Chris Battle and Gracie Pryor are working as character designers on the series.

The Barbarian and the Troll
Expected: Early-2021


Nickelodeon announced the greenlight of The Barbarian and the Troll (formally titled Brendar the Barbarian, 13 episodes), a brand-new live-action puppet comedy series from co-creators Mike Mitchell (Trolls, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part) and expert puppeteer Drew Massey (Mutt & Stuff, Sid the Science Kid).  The series follows Evan, a bridge troll in search of adventure, and Brendar, a fierce female warrior, on a quest to defeat the evil demon who has imprisoned her brother.  Filming on The Barbarian and the Troll commenced October 19, 2020 at North Shore Studios in Vancouver, Canada, and is expected to wrap on February 12th, 2021. The Barbarian and the Troll is slated to premiere on Nickelodeon in 2021.

In The Barbarian and the Troll, Evan, a troll who has never ventured out from under his bridge, decides to explore the world for the first time in search of a great adventure and inspiration to fulfill his dream of becoming a singer.  He soon meets Brendar, Gothmoria’s most feared and revered warrior, and joins in her quest across treacherous terrain and confrontations with bizarre and magical creatures.  Throughout their journey and encounters with an eclectic puppet cast of wacky characters, they both learn that they’re better together and form an unbreakable friendship.

The Barbarian and the Troll is co-created, written and executive produced by Mitchell, who also serves as director, and Massey, who also serves as lead puppeteer.  Production of The Barbarian and the Troll is overseen for Nickelodeon by Shauna Phelan, Senior Vice President, Live-Action Scripted Content; and Zack Olin, Senior Vice President, Live Action.

Expected: TBD


Nickelodeon has struck a multiplatform deal with James Corden and Ben Winston, and their production company Fulwell 73, to produce an animated movie and TV series, based on the recently released children’s book title, Real Pigeons Fight Crime. The movie and TV series are being developed to air on all Nickelodeon platforms.

Written by Andrew McDonald and illustrated by Ben Wood, Real Pigeons Fight Crime was published in Australia by Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing and is now available in over 10 territories including North America, where it was recently released by Random House Children’s Books. Hilarious, engaging and completely ridiculous, the Real Pigeons series has sold hundreds of thousands of books and has amassed legions of fans around the globe. Real Pigeons Fight Crime reveals the secret life of crime-busting pigeons who set out to keep a town safe. The deal underscores key elements of Nickelodeon’s content strategy, to build and expand the worlds of popular franchises and give audiences more of what they love.

The Real Pigeons Fight Crime TV series is executive produced by Corden and Winston, with Andrew McDonald and Ben Wood serving as consultants throughout development and production.

Andrew McDonald is a children’s author who lives in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of the Real Pigeons series and loves writing stories that make kids laugh, gasp, think and wonder. His books have been shortlisted for the Readings Children’s Book Prize and the Australian Book Industry Awards.

Ben Wood is the illustrator of the Real Pigeons series and has always been drawn to stories with humor and heart. He has illustrated over 30 books for children, with several titles recognized on the Children Book Council of Australia (CBCA)’s “Notables” lists and was shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Awards in 2019 and 2020.

McDonald, Wood, and Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing are represented by UTA and Writers House.

Expected: TBD


Nickelodeon has reportedly won the rights in a competitive situation to Dana Simpson’s comic strip Phoebe and Her Unicorn, a property that the ViacomCBS studio is eyeing as a multi-platform franchise across an TV animated series, movies and more. The final deal points are still to be announced.

Phoebe and her Unicorn follows 9-year-old Phoebe Howell, a girl in the fourth grade, who deals with childhood challenges alongside her unicorn Marigold, friend Max and enemy Dakota. Phoebe meets Marigold after skipping a rock across a pond, accidentally hitting the unicorn in the face. Freed from her own reflection, the unicorn—named Marigold Heavenly Nostrils—gives Phoebe one wish, which she decides to use by making the unicorn her best friend. Marigold has magical powers, i.e. she can divert or redirect rain and send text messages and broadcast a Wi-Fi hotspot through her horn. Her most highly coveted power though is her “Shield of Boringness” spell, which causes humans to view her as nothing out of the ordinary and allows her to interact with them on a daily basis.

The daily comic strip initially launched on Universal Uclick’s GoComics website in 2012 before it launched in 100 newspapers in 2015.

Roy Lee and Miri Yoon of Vertigo Entertainment are partnering with Bridget McMeel of Andrews McMeel Entertainment to produce Phoebe and Her Unicorn content. Lee brought the project into Darlene Caamaño Loquet, Senior Vice President (SVP) of Nickelodeon Movies, who’ll over the project for Nickelodeon. Roy and Yoon will oversee development.

Fred Nelson and Matt Sheppo will oversee Phoebe and Her Unicorn for Andrews McMeel Entertainment (AME), the entertainment unit of Andrews McMeel Universal.

Expected: TBD


Nickelodeon is slated to premiere Adventures in Wonder Park, an animated series inspired by Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies hit 2019 theatrical feature Wonder Park, sometime in the future! The series in feature the voices of: Kitana Turnbull as June, Greg Cipes as Peanut, Ken Hudson Campbell as Boomer, Jill Talley as Mom, Cam Clarke as Dad, Rachael MacFarlane as Greta, Kevin Michael Richardson as Gus, Aryan Simhadri as Banky, Stephen Tobolowsky as Uncle Tony, Daran Norris as Principal Peters, Kate McGregor-Stewart as Aunt Albertine, and Raymond McLeod.

Counting Stars
Expected: 2021


Counting Stars is a brand-new series following a group of mega-talented freshmen at the most elite music performance boarding school in the country who compete to perform at the year end talent showcase. The scripted music series will feature original music in every episode.

Casting took place during late-2019. Filming was slated to commence in January 2020, but was postponed to November 2020.

Counting Stars is the Simon Fuller/Ryan Tedder-Produced Untitled Project announced during Nickelodeon Upfront 2019.

Simon Fuller is a legendary, multi-hyphenate creator, producer and manager behind iconic franchises such as the global Idol phenomenon and Spice Girls. Grammy Award-winning Ryan Tedder is the frontman of OneRepublic and writer behind countless hit songs from artists ranging from Beyoncé and Adele, to Camila Cabello, Ed Sheeran and Kelly Clarkson, among others.

Characters in the show will include: Taylor Hutchinson (Lead; female, 13-15); Eva Ruiz (Lead, female, 13-15); Madison Montgomery (Female, 13-15); Jacob Evans (Lead; male, 12-15); Chase Jones (Lead; male, 13-15); and Austin Peterson (Lead; male, 13-15).

The Smurfs: A New Touch Of Blue
Expected: Early-Mid 2021


Nickelodeon and LAFIG Belgium and IMPS, the worldwide licensors for The Smurfs, are partnering to bring a brand-new original CG-animated series based on the iconic property to a new generation of kids and families around the world. Under the deal, Nickelodeon has licensed the global rights to The Smurfs, which follows the beloved characters--Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Brainy, Hefty, Clumsy and others--on all-new adventures, packed with humor, heart and high-stakes action. The series is slated to debut in 2021 in the U.S., followed by Nickelodeon channels internationally.

In addition to the content partnership, ViacomCBS Consumer Products (VCP) will manage consumer products licensing for The Smurfs property across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Malaysia. VCP will seek new merchandising and promotional partners in select categories and territories for The Smurfs classic brand, in addition to a new product line for the new animated series The Smurfs, spanning categories including toys, stationery, apparel and accessories, home, consumer packaged goods and more, to launch at retail in 2022.

Global master toy manufacturer for The Smurfs, Jazwares will create a toy line reviving the internationally beloved franchise for today's generation of children. The Smurfs toy line is set to hit retail in 2022.

The Smurfs is produced by Peyo Productions and Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel. It is directed by William Renaud (Calimero, Casper’s Scare School, A Kind of Magic) and written by Peter Saisselin (Sonic Boom, Alvin!!! And the Chipmunks) and Amy Serafin (Sonic Boom, Alvin!!! And the Chipmunks).

The Smurfs is being overseen by Layla Lewis, Senior Vice President, Global Acquisitions and Content Partnerships and Dana Cluverius, Senior Vice President, Current Series Animation.

Created in 1958 by Belgian cartoonist Peyo, pen name of Pierre Culliford (1928-1992), the Smurfs (French: Les Schtroumpfs) evolved from secondary comic characters in Peyo's Johan and Peewit (French: Johan et Pirlouit) comic series and spinning off into their own series the following year, in which they became the small centerpieces of the massive franchise that skyrocketed to global fame with the 1981 launch of The Smurfs (Smurfs' Adventures) Saturday morning cartoon series, which, produced by Hanna-Barbera aired new episodes on NBC until 1989, running for more than 250 episodes and several specials over nine seasons. It would eventually manifest in live-action CG-animation hybrid splendor on the big screen. The 2011 feature film of the same name and its 2013 sequel, The Smurfs 2 were produced by Sony Pictures Animation and released by Columbia Pictures. Hank Azaria and Neil Patrick Harris starred in live-action roles, with voiceovers by Anton Yelchin, Jonathan Winters, Katy Perry (famously providing the voice of Smurfette), Jayma Mays, and George Lopez. A fully CG-animated standalone movie, The Smurfs: Lost Village was released in April 2017, featuring the voices of Demi Lovato, Rainn Wilson, Ellie Kemper, Julia Roberts and Mandy Patinkin. The Smurfs have also featured in two shorts.

Meet the Voxels
Expected: TBA


Nickelodeon originally announced the development of Meet the Voxels (working title), an original TV, virtual reality and augmented reality series conceived by Chris Young, Senior Vice President of Nickelodeon’s Entertainment Lab, in August 2018. The animated sitcom, created in a game engine, marks a first for Nickelodeon in its use of cutting-edge virtual cinema technology, including real-time full body and facial performance capture, bringing an innovative approach to immersive storytelling. Nickelodeon’s Entertainment Lab is the network’s division established to spearhead long-range research and development around emerging platforms and new technology. Meet the Voxels is being developed to air across Nickelodeon’s channels globally.

The series will feature an African-American and Latinx family where everyone is from a different video game.

Meet the Voxels takes kids behind the scenes of a video game world and follows a family of video-game characters, the Voxels, on their adventures on-and-off-duty. When the project was first announced, the family members were named: Hunter, the 13-year-old star of a laser-tag video game; Maude, a 16-year-old girl fighting to pop as many bubbles as she can; their younger brother Cody who has not found his video game calling yet; Mom, a popular street fighter in her game; and Dad, a 90’s-era classic console game character who quit the business years ago. It's currently unknown whether any of these details have changed since the property was originally announced.

The pilot for Meet the Voxels has been written by Jana Petrosini (Henry Danger, Kid Danger, Game Shakers) and Sean Gill (Henry Danger, Kid Danger, Game Shakers).

Meet the Voxels represents a significant expansion of both the Entertainment Lab’s capabilities and Young’s work. To date, the Lab has been responsible for the creation and implementation of SlimeZone and The Loud House 360, and now Meet the Voxels represents an evolution of content development and creation using real-time animation technology.

Actor, writer, comedian and host Kelly Vrooman will have a role on the series.

Live-Action Avatar: The Last Airbender Netflix Series
Expected: TBD


Netflix has announced that it is set to produce a live-action series based on Nickelodeon’s mid-2000s hit animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender. The new series will be made in partnership with Nickelodeon, and will air exclusively on Netflix.

Original creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko were initially onboard the project executive producers and showrunners, however, the duo left the production during summer 2020 citing creative differences.

The series will feature a culturally appropriate, non-whitewashed cast.

Dan Lin (Sherlock Holmes1 & 2, The Lego Batman Movie, ITChapters 1 & 2, the Netflix adaption of Death Note) has boarded the project as a producer under his Lin Pictures banner.

In Avatar - The Last Airbender, the world is divided into four nations; the Water Tribe, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation and the Air Nomads. Each of these are represented by a natural element for which the nation is named. The Benders have the ability to control and manipulate the element in their nation. Only the Avatar is the master of all four elements. The ruthless Fire Nation wants to conquer the world but the only bender who has enough power, the Avatar, has disappeared until now. His tribe soon discovers that Aang is the long lost Avatar. Now Katara and Sokka must safeguard Aang on his journey to master all four elements and save the world from the Fire Nation.

Konietzko and DiMartino also created a follow-up series, The Legend of Korra, that returned to the world of Avatar years after Aang’s death to follow Korra, his successor as Avatar. That series ran between 2012-2014.

The stories of both Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra have continued on in graphic novel series.

iCarly Revival
Expected: 2011
Platform: Paramount+


ViacomCBS' Paramount+ streaming service (currently known as CBS All Access) has ordered a revival of the wildly popular Nickelodeon comedy iCarly, with original stars Miranda Cosgrove (Carly Shay), Jerry Trainor (Spencer Shay) and Nathan Kress (Freddie Benson) all set to return.

Produced by Nickelodeon Studios for Paramount+, the new iCarly series will be aimed towards adults rather than kids and tweens.

Jay Kogen (School of Rock, The Simpsons, Frasier) and Ali Schouten (Diary of a Future President, Champions, Merry Happy Whatever) have signed on to develop the update. They also will executive produce and serve as co-showrunners.

Production is set to commence in March 2021, with the series premiering on Paramount+ later in the year.

It's currently unknown whether the new iCarly project is a reboot - as in, starting the series from scratch - or a revival, picking up where the characters are now.

Jennette McCurdy, who played Sam Puckett is currently missing from the main returning cast and there's also no sign of Gibby (Noah Munck).



Kevin Kopelow & Heath Seifert, Executive Producers/showrunners of Nickelodeon’s All That and creators/EP of the network’s Cousins For Life, are making another comedy for the ViacomCBS network.

It's understood that the pair have scored a pilot order for Warped!, a comedy set in a popular comic book store.

Kopelow and Seifert, who also created Austin & Ally for the Disney Channel and wrote on Kenan & Kel, starring a young Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell, are writing and exec producing the project, with former Paramount Network, TV Land and CMT President Kevin Kay also exec producing. Kay left Viacom in 2018.

It follows Milo, the beloved head geek and manager at a popular comic book store whose microcosm is disrupted when his boss hires the loud and excitable, Ruby. Despite their differences, the two form an unlikely alliance when they team up to create the next great superhero franchise.

ViacomCBS has applied to register the trademark for Warped!, which could mean that Nickelodeon is moving ahead with the series.

Garfield
Expected: TBA


Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIA.B), through one of its subsidiaries, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Paws, Inc., the entity holding global intellectual property rights to the Garfield and the U.S. Acres (a.k.a. Orson’s Farm) franchises--including corresponding rights related to content, consumer products, and location-based experiences. The deal will see Nickelodeon develop a new Garfield animated television series, as well as new Garfield content for all platforms for a new generation of fans.

The acquisition of Garfield is part of Nickelodeon’s strategy to be the home for the biggest franchises kids and families love, and it expands Nickelodeon’s growing portfolio of influential properties that already includes SpongeBob SquarePants, PAW Patrol, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the forthcoming Blue’s Clues & You!, the first-ever SpongeBob spinoff, Kamp Koral, and all-new animated Star Trek and Paddington series.

Nickelodeon also recently revived its iconic '90s sketch series All That, as well as partnered with LEGO and YouTube influencer “Ryan,” the central figure in the online series “Ryan ToysReview”, to launch two new series, LEGO City Adventures and Ryan's Mystery Playdate.

Global merchandising rights to Garfield will be managed by Viacom Nickelodeon Consumer Products (VNCP), including the property’s existing portfolio of licensees. Garfield creator Jim Davis will continue to produce the Garfield syndicated comic strip as he has done since creating the lazy feline since 1976. The cartoon has chronicled the life of the eponymous cat, his owner Jon Arbuckle and Odie the dog, as well as various friends. Known for his love of lasagne and coffee and his disdain for Mondays, Garfield has spawned a slew of movies and TV shows - Garfield and Friends in the 1980s and '90s on CBS and the CG-animated The Garfield Show on Cartoon Network from 2009 to 2012 — and a pair of feature films, Garfield: The Movie (2004), a live-action/animated hybrid in which the corpulent cat was wryly voiced by Bill Murray (Ghostbusters), opposite Breckin Meyer’s Jon, and Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) and three straight-to-video sequels. The property has received four Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program for the animated specials Garfield on the Town, Garfield in the Rough, Garfield’s Halloween Special and Garfield’s Babes and Bullets. Garfield and Friends previously aired on Nickelodeon USA between 1997–2000.

Created by cartoonist Jim Davis, Garfield is the most widely syndicated comic strip in the world (Guinness World Records), and the franchise spawned movies, TV shows, stage shows and merchandise. Garfield has received four Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program, and Davis was inducted into the Licensing Hall of Fame in 1998.

Expected: TBD
Platform: Netflix


Netflix and ViacomCBS International Studios (VIS) has announced Sharkdog, an animated series from Singaporean creator Jacinth Tan.

The 20 x 7 minute episode animated series is being produced by ViacomCBS International Studios, in partnership with Singaporean based CGI animation studio One Animation, and will premiere in 2021.

Logline: The series follows 10 year old Max and his best friend Sharkdog - half shark, half dog, all appetite. Blissfully unaware of his own strength, stealth and general sharkiness, Sharkdog often leaves a trail of chaos in his wake. But, like all good half-dogs, he's Max's BFF and Max is his.

Sharkdog is VIS' first internationally originated global animated series for Netflix. It is also the first animated series from Singapore to come out of Nickelodeon's Global Animated Shorts Program, designed to identify and develop long form original comedy-driven content for kids globally. A short-form Sharkdog series also aired on Nickelodeon South East Asia.

Legends of the Hidden Temple Reboot
Expected: 2021
Platform: Paramount+


In December 2019, Quibi announced that it was reviving and reimagining of Legends of the Hidden Temple, Nickelodeon's cherished 90's competition show that included teams competing against one another to retrieve “historical artifacts”, for adults. The streamer then issued a casting call for contestants in March 2020.

Now, this is where it gets tricky! Since March, the world has been getting to grips with the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. The series was then dealt another blow when Quibi announced that it was planning to closedown just months after launching.

It's currently unknown whether the series was even filmed at this point. However, if it was, Nickelodeon and Stone & Company Entertainment (Paradise Run, A Season With, The Mole), who were producing the series for Quibi will most likely not want to see the show go to waste. Keeping in mind that the contestants in the Legends of the Hidden Temple reboot are adults as opposed to kids like in the original series, the most likely place the series will end up is Paramount+, ViacomCBS' rebranded SVOD platform (currently named CBS All Access).

This new, supersized, reimagined version will preserve many of the favorite original elements of the show - the contestant-soaking Moat Crossing; Olmec, a disembodied talking stone head; and the game-culminating Temple Run, a maze full of treacherous obstacles where young adolescents would flex their physical and mental prowess - but will see them "grown up" for an audience that's grown up along with them. Instead of being filmed at Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida, the entire set will be taken out of the studio, into a jungle and scaled up with tougher challenges and bigger prizes on the line.

The original Legends of the Hidden Temple game show was originally hosted by Kirk Fogg, with Dee Bradley Baker (SpongeBob SquarePants, American Dad) providing the voice of the all-knowing Olmec. The pair returned and reprised their respective roles for a TV movie inspired by the series (with Michael Benyaer as Olmec’s human form) in 2016. It also featured elements from the show, like the Steps of Knowledge, and featured cameos from animals who lend their names to the competition teams. No word on Fogg or Baker's involvement in the new series.

Zoey 101 Reboot
Expected: N/A


Following the cast of Nickelodeon's beloved noughties series Zoey 101 reuniting on All That, Jamie Lynn Spears, who starred as Zoey Brooks in the series about a fictional boarding school - Pacific Coast Academy (PCA) - in southern California, revealed that a Zoey 101 reboot is “definitely happening”. Not much else is currently known about the project, except that the team had found a creative direction they were “all very happy with”.

Spears has hinted that the Zoey 101 reboot will either pick up with what the characters are doing now, or feature her daughter as Zoey.



Very little is currently unknown about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Next Chapter, however, ViacomCBS has applied to trademark the title under "entertainment services in the nature of continuing program series, featuring animation, comedy and drama provided through cable television, broadcast television, internet, video-on-demand, and through other forms of transmission media; providing online information in the field of entertainment concerning television programs," which suggests that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Next Chapter will be a new TMNT series, rather than the recently announced CG-animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theatrical movie Nickelodeon Animation is currently producing with Point Grey Pictures - although it could be a series based on the movie. It's also not thought to be related to Netflix's Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, expected to premiere next year.

Nickelodeon Preschool:

Premiered: Monday, January 4, 2021 on Noggin


Noggin, Nickelodeon's interactive learning service for preschoolers, is launching its first-ever original long-form series Noggin Knows (5 x 22-min eps), a brand-new educational variety show hosted by actor and entertainer Emmanuel Carter. Available now exclusively on Noggin, the show follows Carter, an engaging instructor, as he uses his love for learning, dancing and singing to guide kids through a series of themed lessons, alongside their favorite Nickelodeon preschool characters.

In the series premiere of Noggin Knows, "Dinosaurs," Emmanuel teaches viewers all about dinosaurs with the help of beloved Bubble Guppy, Molly, and class ends with a dino-mite dance party. Episodes will continue to roll out weekly.

Set in a unique classroom, Noggin Knows makes learning fun and interactive, and aligns with Noggin's educational approach which aims to help preschoolers build big hearts, strong minds and healthy bodies. Lessons focus on social and emotional skills, math, literacy, problem solving, movement and concepts that expand kids' horizons in a playful and engaging way.

Premieres: Monday, January 25, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. ET/PT on Nickelodeon



Bursting onto the scene this New Year are Kai, Lola, Rammy and Bobbi – the DEER SQUAD. These four lovable, enthusiastic and heroic young deer friends are the protectors of Central Forest and all who inhabit Platinum City, the futuristic metropolis surrounding their woodland home.

Deer Squad (formally Deer Run) is Nickelodeon’s brand new CG-animated adventure rescue show that follows the four friends on their daily adventures as they learn about the world around them and lend a helping hand to the animals of Central Forest and humans of Platinum City. From tackling giant doughnuts to tornadoes to ice robots, when there’s trouble the Deer summon their Planet Powers and transform into a team that is capable of solving problems using their Planet Powers of Water (Kai), Wood (Lola), Earth (Bobbi) and Sun (Rammy).

Packed with action, comedy and heart, each episode of DEER SQUAD tells relatable yet meaningful stories that help build character and teach valuable life lessons like teamwork and problem-solving.

Get set for adventure with DEER SQUAD! Premiering on Nickelodeon USA on Monday, January 25, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. ET/PT! Following launch, new episodes will air weekdays at 9:00 a.m. (ET/PT).

Produced by iQIYI under the creative guidance and supervision of Nickelodeon, Deer Squad was developed with global audiences in mind. From the storyline to the characters and production, all elements have been created to meet the highest international standards. The story cleverly combines adventure, education, and humour to convey universal values such as love, courage and responsibility. The series has also been meticulously curated to feature inspiring role models and tips on staying safe. It is the first time Nickelodeon Asia is taking a Chinese original IP on its network from conception phase. A second season has been commissioned, and a third is in the planning stages.

Deer Squad season one premiered on iQIYI in China on Wednesday 15th July 2020. Following its world debut, Deer Squad premiered on Nickelodeon South East Asia on Monday 3rd August 2020. The series is also rolling out internationally.

Expected: TBD


Herbivore social media sensation The Tiny Chef is bringing his culinary adventures to Nickelodeon in a brand-new series. The Tiny Chef Show (working title) will follow the talented chef as he whips up tasty ‘weshipees’ and the world’s tiniest plant-based dishes from his tree-stump home.

Produced in association with Imagine Kids+Family, Tiny Chef Productions, and Nickelodeon Animation Studio, the series will premiere on Nick’s preschool platforms in the U.S., as well as Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. channels internationally.

The Tiny Chef Show will be executive produced by Imagine Entertainment Executive Chairmen Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, Imagine Kids+Family President Stephanie Sperber, as well as Kristen Bell, Morgan Sackett, and Tiny Chef creators Rachel Larsen, Adam Reid and cinematographer Ozlem Akturk for Tiny Chef Productions.

The Tiny Chef Show marks Nickelodeon’s second project with Imagine Kids+Family, following the previously announced live-action adventure series The Astronauts. Production of The Tiny Chef Show for Nickelodeon Animation Studio is overseen by Eryk Casemiro, Senior Vice President, Nickelodeon Preschool and by Elly Kramer for Imagine Kids+Family.

The Tiny Chef is represented by CAA.

Expected: Mid-2021


Nickelodeon has inked a deal with Scooter Braun’s SB Projects to bring the musical stylings of The BeatBuds to TV with a brand-new animated preschool series based on the popular kids’ music duo. Each episode of The BeatBuds (working title) will follow the musical adventures of Jonny, Matty and the rest of the ‘Buds, and feature an original song.

Written by Evan Sinclair (Ryan’s Mystery Playdate, The Aquabats! Super Show!), The BeatBuds short-form series (10 episodes) will begin production this summer and premiere on Nickelodeon’s preschool platforms in 2021.

Formed in 2012, the BeatBuds are best friends and musical partners Jonathan Jonah and Matthew Shapiro, who have been playing together since the age of six. Their energetic shows aim to introduce young kids to the “to the pure joy and educational benefits of music.” Their modern, almost indie-rock sound also resonates with adults. Among their toddler-approved hits are the songs “Gravity,” “Sam the Garbage Man” and “When the Rain Falls Down.” The duo count Kim Kardashian West, Pink, Fergie and Braun among their famous fans.

The BeatBuds is executive produced by Scooter Braun and Scott Manson on behalf of SB Projects. Production of The BeatBuds for Nickelodeon is overseen by Eryk Casemiro, Senior Vice President, Nickelodeon Preschool.

Expected: TBD


Family, friendship and fashionable fun drive Nickelodeon’s brand-new animated preschool series, Made by Maddie (formerly Fashion Ally). Created by Paula Rosenthal and produced by Silvergate Media (Sunny Day, Peter Rabbit, The Octonauts, Hilda), the series (22 half-hour episodes) follows 8-year-old Maddie in New York City, as she uses her imagination and design ingenuity to turn every problem into a positive with the perfect fashion fix.

Throughout the season, Made by Maddie will feature guest voice appearances by: Karamo Brown (Queer Eye); Rhyon Nicole Brown (Empire); Danny Burstein (Broadway’s Moulin Rouge!); David Burtka (Professional Chef); Monét X Change (RuPaul’s Drag Race); Joey Fatone (*NSYNC); Griffin Robert Faulkner (Raising Dion); Nina Garcia (Project Runway); Joy Lynn Jacobs (The Blacklist); Claudia Morcate-Martin (Seneca); Wanya Morris (Boyz II Men); Christine Pedi (Steven Universe); Christiani Pitts (Broadway’s King Kong); Al Roker (TODAY); D’Angelo Russell (Minnesota Timberwolves); Horatio Sanz (Black Monday); and Nico Tortorella (Younger).

Made by Maddie centers on Maddie (Alyssa Cheatham, Santiago of the Seas), a quick-thinking little girl with a big personality and a huge heart, who has a passion for fashion. Maddie finds design inspiration around every corner and her big ideas couldn’t become a reality without the love and support of her aspirational and talented fashion designer mom, Dee (Patina Miller), and her super cool and upbeat musician dad, Rashad (James Monroe Iglehart), along with the assistance of friends and neighbors, including kind, animal-loving best friend, Jada (Sophia Torres), and the twins—rule-following Harper (Amanda Dressel) and fearless Hudson (Ames McNamara)—who are always up for adventure. Maddie’s creative thinking and dazzling designs are a reflection of the bustling, colorful city of New York and its residents. Maddie confidently embraces her own unique style, celebrates individuality, treats everyone with kindness, and encourages others to take risks and be themselves.

Production of Made by Maddie for Nickelodeon Animation Studio is overseen by Eryk Casemiro, Senior Vice President, Nickelodeon Preschool.

Nickelodeon originally planned to launch Made by Maddie on the Nick Jr. channel in September 2020. However, due to controversy about similarities between the show's characters and those in the Oscar-winning short Hair Love, Nickelodeon decided to pull it from the schedules.

In a statement to the press, Nickelodeon said: "In response, and out of respect to all voices in the conversation, we are removing the show from our schedule as we garner further insight into the creative journey of the show. We are grateful to Silvergate Media for all of their work. And we hold Matthew A. Cherry and the wonderful and inspiring Hair Love in the highest regard."

As Nickelodeon and Silvergate have invested a lot of time and money on the project, it's hard to see them just leaving the show to sit on a shelf gathering dust. Given the current situation, it's more than likely that Made By Maddie will go straight to SVOD, either on Noggin and Paramount+.

The Loud House Movie - April 2021
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie - 2021
Platform: Netflix


As part of its strategy to generate new content for third-party digital and linear platforms, Viacom has struck a deal with Netflix to produce a pair of original animated feature films based on Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Loud House! Not much is currently known about either movie, however, they're both expected to debut on Netflix in 2021!

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
Expected:February 2021
Platforms: Exclusive to CBS All Access/Paramount+


SpongeBob SquarePants, his best friend Patrick Star and the rest of the gang from Bikini Bottom hit the big screen in the first-ever all CGI SpongeBob motion picture event, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run! After SpongeBob’s beloved pet snail Gary is snail-napped, he and Patrick embark on an epic adventure to The Lost City of Atlantic City to bring Gary home. As they navigate the delights and dangers on this perilous and hilarious rescue mission, SpongeBob and his pals prove there’s nothing stronger than the power of friendship.

Based on the TV series created by Stephen Hillenburg, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (formally titled The SpongeBob Movie: It's a Wonderful Sponge) is produced by Ryan Harris, with Stephen Hillenburg executuive producing. Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Movies present, in association with MRC A United Plankton Pictures production. Written and directed by Tim Hill.

SpongeBob SquarePants voice actors Tom Kenny (SpongeBob), Bill Fagerbakke (Patrick Star), Rodger Bumpass (Squidward Tentacles), Clancy Brown (Mr. Krabs), Mr. Lawrence (Plankton), Jill Talley (Karen), Carolyn Lawrence (Sandy Cheeks), Mary Jo Catlett (Mrs. Puff), and Lori Alan (Pearl) will reprise their roles for the Paramount film about the absorbent, porous and yellow creature who lives in a pineapple under the sea. Composer Hans Zimmer will also be providing the music. Awkwafina, Reggie Watts, Snoop Dogg and Keanu Reeves will guest star in the feature. An actor named Antonio Raul Corbo will be voicing young SpongeBob.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run is the third SpongeBob SquarePants feature film, following The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in 2004 and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water in 2015.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run was originally intended to be released in theatres during summer 2020. However, due to the on-going COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures decided to move the film to digital. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run is slated to be released on Premium Video-on-Demand (PVOD) and CBS All Access/Paramount+ during early 2021.

Internationally, Netflix bowed the movie in most countries in November 2020.

Expected: Winter 2021


Nickelodeon is literally bringing to life the popular animated characters from its Emmy Award-winning The Loud House with the greenlight of an all-new original live-action holiday TV movie: The Loud House: A Very Loud Christmas! (working title).

In The Loud House: A Very Loud Christmas!, Lincoln is gearing up for the ultimate Christmas, until he finds out that most of his sisters have plans to be elsewhere for the big day. Determined to remind his family that they all need to be together, Lincoln and his best friend Clyde embark on a mission to sabotage their plans and preserve the family’s holiday traditions.

Production on The Loud House: A Very Loud Christmas! feature-length TV movie was originally scheduled for summer 2020, with the film slated for a Q4 release. However, it looks like filming for the movie was postponed due to the on-going COVID-19 health emergency.

The live-action television film is written by Liz Maccie (Siren) and executive produced by Michael Rubiner (The Loud House).

Platform: Theaters
Expected: TBD


Nickelodeon and award-winning Point Grey Pictures’ Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver are producing an all-new CG-animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theatrical motion picture. Marking the Nickelodeon Animation Studio’s first-ever CG theatrical production, in partnership with Ramsey Naito, Executive Vice President, Animation Production and Development, overseeing production for Nickelodeon. Josh Fagen is overseeing for Point Grey Pictures. Paramount Pictures will handle worldwide distribution of the film.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theatrical motion picture will be directed by Jeff Rowe (Gravity Falls, Connected, Disenchantment) and written by Brendan O’Brian (Neighbors, Sorority Rising, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates).

PAW Patrol The Movie
Platform: Theaters
Expected: August 20, 2021


Spin Master in association with Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures will release PAW Patrol: The Movie, a brand new film inspired by Nickelodeon's beloved CG-animated PAW Patrol preschool series in theatres on August 20, 2021!

In PAW Patrol: The Movie, Ryder and the pups are called to Adventure City to stop Mayor Humdinger from turning the bustling metropolis into a state of chaos. Get ready for exciting missions, high-stake rescues, new pups and amazing new vehicles making this the biggest Paw Patrol story ever! "No city is too big; no pup is too small!"

Representing a new chapter for this continually growing entertainment franchise, the PAW Patrol feature film will be directed by animation veteran Cal Brunker (Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature; Escape From Planet Earth). Spin Master Entertainment's Executive Vice President, Jennifer Dodge, will produce the film and Ronnen Harary, Spin Master's Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Adam Beder, Spin Master's Executive Vice President Strategic Partnership & Franchise Development and Peter Schlessel will executive produce.

PAW Patrol: The Movie is being produced with creators, artists and producers collaborating remotely.

PAW Patrol: The Movie will boast a all-star voice cast cast: Kim Kardashian West, Dax Shepard (Chips, Idiocracy), Jimmy Kimmel, Tyler Perry (The Star), Yara Shahidi (Black-ish), Randall Park (Fresh Off The Boat, The Interview), Iain Armitage (Young Sheldon), Marsai Martin (Black-ish), and Will Brisbin (Forbidden Playground).



Writer Mark Dindal (Wonder Park, Chicken Little, The Fox and the Hound) has confirmed that he's working on a Garfield feature film for Nickelodeon!

Not much is currently known about the new Garfield film, however, it's most likely the same movie announced by Alcon Entertainment in 2018.

New Specials:

Expected: Winter 2021


Nickelodeon is set to air a brand new SpongeBob SquarePants holiday special during winter 2021! Not much is currently known, except that its been written by long-time SpongeBob scribe Kaz Prapuolenis.

Premiering: Sunday, Jan. 10, at 4:30 p.m. (ET)


CBS Sports and Nickelodeon are getting kids and families into the game with a special slime-filled presentation of the National Football League’s Wild Card game on Sunday, Jan. 10, at 4:30 p.m. (ET). The NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon will feature one-of-a-kind kid-focused content and Nick-themed elements throughout, including a special halftime presentation, guest reporters and original on-field graphics, virtual filters and more. The NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon will air alongside CBS Sports’ broadcast of the game on The CBS Television Network.

Play-by-play announcer Noah Eagle will be joined by CBS Sports’ analyst Nate Burleson and Nick star Gabrielle Nevaeh Green (All That, Nickelodeon’s Unfiltered) in the booth to call the NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon. Additionally, Nick star Lex Lumpkin (All That, Nickelodeon’s Unfiltered) ­­­will serve as a reporter during the game. Nickelodeon’s coverage begins with “The SpongeBob SportsPants Countdown Special,” a sports-themed compilation special at 4 p.m. (ET) hosted by the Denver Broncos’ Von Miller, highlighting SpongeBob’s best sports moments and featuring pre-kickoff appearances by CBS Sports’ Jim Nantz and Tony Romo, as well as Eagle, Burleson and Green.

The NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon will also include a special halftime sneak peek of Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years, which follows 10-year-old SpongeBob SquarePants and his pals as they spend their summer building underwater campfires, catching wild jellyfish, and swimming in Lake Yuckymuck at the craziest camp in the kelp forest, Kamp Koral. The series will debut in 2021 on ViacomCBS’s rebranded streaming service Paramount+ and then on Nickelodeon later in the year.

The NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon will only be available to be streamed on mobile for free for all fans via the NFL App. The game airing on CBS will be streamed on CBS and NFL digital properties across devices, and on mobile via the participating teams’ mobile properties, and Yahoo Sports and other Verizon Media mobile properties.

NFLNickPlay.com will serve as the official online destination for the NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon, helping to educate kids on football basics and entertain them with a variety of NFL-themed content leading up to and during the Wild Card game. Kids will be able to engage with quizzes, polls, fun facts, info galleries, sports-themed short-form videos, Weekly Pick ‘Em printables and more, earning points and unlocking badges along the way. For three days leading up to the game and on game day, viewers can scan QR codes on-air, unlocking sports-themed SpongeBob SquarePants and The Loud House collectibles and participating with interactive content throughout the live game. Additionally, participants will be able to enter a sweepstakes for the chance to win an exclusive game ball signed by a Wild Card player, along with other exclusive prize packs. Fans can also play-along using Nick's Screens Up app!

The NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon is produced by CBS Sports in association with Nickelodeon Productions. Sean McManus and Harold Bryant serve as Executive Producers of THE NFL ON CBS. CBS Sports’ Shawn Robbins is Coordinating Producer of the game along with Producer, Ken Mack and Director, Suzanne Smith. Production for Nickelodeon is overseen by Rob Bagshaw, Executive Vice President, Unscripted Content.

Premiering: Sunday, Jan. 10, at 4:30 p.m. (ET)


Fans have been voting for their favorite SpongeBob SquarePants sporting moments on NickPlay.com, and now, Nickelodeon is tallying all the votes up and will reveal the results of the poll in January 2021!

Nickelodeon’s NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon coverage begins with “The SpongeBob SportsPants Countdown Special,” a sports-themed compilation special at 4 p.m. (ET) on Sunday, Janauary 10, 2021, hosted by the Denver Broncos’ Von Miller, highlighting SpongeBob’s best sports moments and featuring pre-kickoff appearances by CBS Sports’ Jim Nantz and Tony Romo, as well as Eagle, Burleson and Green.

Nickelodeon Podcasts:


- Avatar / Korra Airbender Universe
- Nick Throwback (Title TBC)
- PAW Patrol Podcast (Title TBC)
- SpongeBob BingePants: The Rewatch

Tentpole Events:

Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2021
Airs: TBD


Not much is currently known about Kids' Choice Awards 2021, including how it'll be staged due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. More about the KCA 2021 situation can be found here. We do know two things, though: that it'll be hosted by a big star, and that it'll have gallons of slime!

Live Stage Shows, Events, Festivals and Tours:

Rescheduled JoJo Siwa D.R.E.A.M. The Tour
Starting: Summer 2021


After having to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Nickelodeon’s JoJo Siwa D.R.E.A.M. The Tour will be going back on the road during summer 2021!

All tickets for the original shows will be honored at the rescheduled dates. Ticket holders will receive an email notification from the ticketing company that includes information on how to request a refund if you are unable to attend the rescheduled date. For additional information about these rescheduled events, click here.

Visit JoJoDREAMTour.com for more information and tickets!

Nickelodeon SlimeFest 2021
When: TBD
Location: TBD


After having to be postponed in March 2020 due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, Nickelodeon is planning to host SlimeFest 2021! SlimeFest is the slimiest event of the year, packed with musical performances, special guests, and of course, tons of Nickelodeon's iconic green slime. Not much more information is currently known at this point. Keep checking www.nickslimefest.com for the latest details and tickets.

In the U.K., Nickelodeon has rescheduled SlimeFest 2020's dates, and will now be held in Blackpool and London during October 2021.

PAW Patrol Live! "Race to the Rescue"& "The Great Pirate Adventure" Tours


After having to be postponed due to the on-going COVID-19 health emergency, PAW Patrol Live! will once again be hitting the road, beginning Spring 2021! For tour schedules and tickets, visit www.pawpatrollive.com.

All paws on deck! Nickelodeon and VStar Entertainment Group's mega-successful action-packed, music-filled PAW Patrol Live! productions, "Race to the Rescue"& "The Great Pirate Adventure", featuring the beloved characters from Nickelodeon and Spin Master's number-one animated preschool series, will continue to tour North America and internationally in 2019!

Fans can visit www.pawpatrollive.com for PAW Patrol Live!"The Great Pirate Adventure" and PAW Patrol Live!"Race to the Rescue" tour schedules, ticket sale information and PAW Patrol Live! Tail Mail, where they can sign up to be among the first to receive tour updates and exclusive ticket pre-sale information for their city.

PAW Patrol Live!"Race to the Rescue" brings everybody's favorite pups to the stage for an action-packed, high-energy, musical adventure. When Mayor Goodway goes missing during the day of The Great Adventure Bay Race, Ryder, Chase, Marshall, Rocky, Rubble, Zuma, Skye and Everest come to the rescue! The 75-minute production, which includes two acts and an intermission, shows that "no job is too big, no pup is too small," and shares lessons for all ages about citizenship, social skills and problem-solving as the characters each use their unique skills and teamwork.

In PAW Patrol Live!"The Great Pirate Adventure," Mayor Goodway is getting everything shipshape for a big Pirate Day celebration in Adventure Bay. When Cap'n Turbot falls into a dark and mysterious cavern, it's PAW Patrol to the rescue! Chase, Marshall, Rubble, Skye, Rocky and Zuma save Cap'n Turbot and discover a secret pirate treasure map that leads them on an epic adventure. Over land and on the high seas, the pups set out to find the treasure for Mayor Goodway so the celebration can go on. Things get ruff when Mayor Humdinger wants to find the treasure first for Foggy Bottom. The pups need all paws on deck for this pirate adventure, including help from the newest pup who's all ears…Tracker! Using their heroic rescue skills, problem solving and teamwork, the pups set sail to save the day. No job is too big, no pirate pup is too small!

The PAW Patrol Live tours will also be touring again internationally, including in the UK during summer 2021 and Australia.

New Seasons & Episodes:

It's Pony season 1 (continued), season 2
Hunter Streetseason 4
Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Curse of the Shadows season 2
The Crystal Mazeseason 2
Baby Shark’s Big Show!season 1 (continued)
SpongeBob SquarePants season 13 (continued)
The Astronauts season 1 (continued)
Santiago of the Seas season 1 (continued)
Danger Force season 1 (continued)
Side Hustle season 1 (continued)
Young Dylanseason 2
All That
Kid of the Year 2021 (to be confirmed)
Nick News
The Loud House season 5 (continued), season 6
The Casagrandes season 2 (continued), season 3
The Substitute season 2 (continued)
The Bureau of Magical Thingsseason 2
PAW Patrol season 7 (continued, including new theme "Moto Pups"), season 8
Nella the Princess Knight season 2 (continued)
Ollie's Pack season 1 (continued)
Blaze and the Monster Machines season 6 (continued)
Sunny Day season 2 (continued)
ALVINNN!!! and The Chipmunks season 4 (continued); season 5
Rainbow Rangers season 2 (continued), season 3
Peppa Pig
Bubble Guppies season 5 (continued), season 6
Blue's Clues & You! season 2 (continued), season 3
Ryan's Mystery Playdate season 3 (continued), season 4
Abby Hatcher season 2
Ricky Zoom season 2
44 Cats season 2
- Blue’s Clues & You: Story Time with Josh & Blue (podcast)
- Listen Out Loud with The Loud House (podcast)
- The Casagrandes Familia Sounds (podcast)

Nickelodeon International

Best & Bester (international)
- Nickelodeon Big Base Camp
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles season 2
Goldie’s Oldies (global)
Spyders (global)
Planeta Marcia (Latin America)
Club 57 season 2 (Latin America)
Dear Squad season 2
Horrid Henry (UK & Africa)
Find Me In Paris season 3 (UK, continued)
44 Cats
Barbapapa - One Big Happy Family! (Global)
Kids' Choice Awards 2021: Deutschland, Österreich und Schweiz (Germany, Austria and Switzerland)
Hunter Street season 4
Dorg Van Dango season 1 (continued)
The Loud House season 5 (continued), season 6
The Casagrandes season 2 (continued), season 3
The Substitute season 2 (continued)
The Bureau of Magical Things season 2
SlimeFest (multiple territories, including the U.K.)
Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards Abu Dhabi 2021 (Middle East)
NickX competitive gaming eSports platform (Africa)
Kids' Choice Awards México 2021 (Latin America)
It's Pony season 1 (continued), season 2
The Crystal Maze season 2
SpongeBob SquarePants
The Astronauts
Danger Force
Side Hustle
Young Dylan season 2
All That
Shimmer and Shine
Top Wing
Butterbean's Café
Ricky Zoom season 2 (selection regions)
Ryan's Mystery Playdate (selection countries)
Abby Hatcher
Rusty Rivets
READY SET DANCE (season 2)
Ollie's Pack season 1 (continued)
Sunny Day season 2 (continued)
ALVINNN!!! and The Chipmunks season 5
Rainbow Rangers (selected regions)
Nella the Princess Knight
Corn & Peg
- Bubble Guppies
- Blue's Clues & You!
- PAW Patrol
- Santiago of the Seas
- The Adventures of Paddington
- Peppa Pig
- Blaze and the Monster Machines
Milkshake! Live - Milkshake Monkey's Musical

More Nick:Nickelodeon Updates Icons, Sets New Characters for 2021 | Next-Gen Nick!

Originally published: Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 00:46 GMT.

Additional sources: @kanc, @nickandmore

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"Day 84" on the Odyssey II | The Astronauts Trailer | Nickelodeon

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Brace yourself for the penultimate episode of The Astronauts season 1, "Day 84", premiering Friday, January 8, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. (ET/PT), only on Nickelodeon! Check out the trailer below!


On Day 84 onboard the Odyssey II, Mission Control fails to transfer control to the ground, which means the kids are now driving the space craft! With only one day of training, the kids must steer a spacecraft into Venus’s orbit without it burning up in the planet’s atmosphere. (#109)


Catch the epic conclusion of The Astronauts season 1, "Day 85", premiering Friday, January 15, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. (ET/PT), only on Nickelodeon! Catch up online, on the Nick App and via Nickelodeon on Demand!


Originally published: Saturday, January 02, 2021.

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Nickelodeon International to Premiere 'Nickelodeon Spyders' on Monday 4th January 2021

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Nickelodeon International will premiere Nickelodeon Spyders, Nickelodeon International's brand new comic action-adventure series on Monday 4th January 2021! The series follows the adventures of three siblings who discover that their parents are undercover spies for an environmental protection agency, and decide to also become spies in order to help them in secret.


Nickelodeon Spyders will air weekdays at 17:15 in Portugal, 18:00 CAT in Africa, 18:15 in Spain (España), 19:00 CEST in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) - including at 19:00 CEST in Hungary (Magyarország) and 20:00 in România - and at 21:00 in Turkey (Türkiye).

Spyders is locally titled is locally titled Tinikémek in Hungary, De-a spionii Nickelodeon in Romania and Nickelodeon Casuslar in Turkey.

Leading up to the launch of Spyders, Nickelodeon International aired the first episode as a sneak peek 

2021-01-04 1x01 The Discovery - series premiere
2021-01-05 1x02 Snooping Around
2021-01-06 1x03 The Decoy
2021-01-07 1x04 Breaking In
2021-01-08 1x05 The Disguise
2021-01-11 1x06 Critical Information
2021-01-12 1x07 The Search
2021-01-13 1x08 Stakeout
2021-01-14 1x09 The Blue Bird
2021-01-15 1x10 The Message
2021-01-18 1x11 Blackmail
2021-01-19 1x12 The Cover Story
2021-01-20 1x13 New Evidence
2021-01-21 1x14 Heartbreak
2021-01-22 1x15 The Guest
2021-01-25 1x16 The Switch
2021-01-26 1x17 Eavesdropping
2021-01-27 1x18 Prison Break
2021-01-28 1x19 The Set Up
2021-01-29 1x20 Unexpected Twist - season one finale

​"While spending a summer-long family vacation by the lake, siblings Tommy, Nikki, and Daniel Fisher discover that their seemingly boring parents are actually daring undercover spies, who are chasing a devious villain aiming to dry up the country's water supply. When the siblings realize their parents' mission is in jeopardy, they form a secret task force called THE SPYDERS in order to help them out. Tommy, 12, a cute, irresistible goofball; Nikki, 15, a well-meaning but impetuous leader, and Daniel, 16, a sedentary, anxiety-ridden computer nerd, use their brains, charm, audacity and unbridled enthusiasm to outwit and outsmart the villain, who has so far eluded their parents. Will the untrained, blundering Spyders succeed where mom and dad failed?"

Spyders (stylised as SpiderZ; originally titled The Covurts) focuses on Anna and Noah Fisher, (portrayed by Nati Kluger and Kobi Maimon (The Greenhouse), respectively) highly highly skilled undercover agents who work for a ECCO – Environmental Counter Crime Organization, and are tasked with fighting criminals who endanger nature or the environment. Little do they know that their three kids – Daniel (16; played by Amit Hechter, Dog House), Nikki (15; played by Kim Or Azulay) and Tommy (12; portrayed by Yonathan Gottlieb, Dog House, Forever) – have discovered their secret occupation and have formed a task force of their own, named Spyders.


Nickelodeon's Spyders is the first original co-production between Nickelodeon International and Israeli Nutz Productions—the subsidiary production arm of Ananey Communications Group—together with Israeli cable network HOT.

Nickelodeon has ordered 40 x 22-minute episodes, which will be distributed to Nickelodeon's international audiences spanning 170+ countries and territories via the brand’s more than 100 channels and branded blocks. The series made its world debut on TeenNick Israel on Wednesday 18th March 2020.

Spyders is created by Michal Cooper Keren, Tom Riles, David Guest and Patrick Quinn. The head writer is Israeli screenwriter Michal Cooper Keren, the creator of Nickelodeon Israel's Spell Keepers. The series is an original co-production between Nickelodeon International, Nutz Productions and Ananey Communications Group.

Michal Cooper Keren, who created Nickelodeon Israel's Spell Keepers, is also the series' head writer. The series is an original co-production between Nickelodeon International, Nutz Productions and Ananey Communications Group.

The series commenced filming in Israel during summer 2019 and wrapped in December the same year.

“After a long history of collaboration with Ananey, we are so excited to kick off our first co-production together with our partners in Israel,” said Nina Hahn, the Senior Vice President (SVP) of International Production and Development for Nickelodeon, when the show was first announced at global TV and digital content market MIPTV in April 2018. “We can’t wait for young fans around the world to meet The Spyders!”

Orly Atlas-Katz, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) OF Ananey Communications said, “We are thrilled to collaborate with Nickelodeon International. I am certain that with their vast experience in content for kids, HOT's programming expertise and our high-end productions abilities, this show will be something to look forward to."

Ananey is an Israeli content producer and pay-TV provider that serves as the Israeli licensor of several of Viacom’s biggest brands, including Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and MTV, and produces both local and international original content.

Under the partnership, Nickelodeon has become Israel's No. 1 children's channel and, alongside Nick Jr., reaches 49 percent of the youth audience, due in large part to Ananey’s original local productions for kids and teens.

The greenlight of The Spyders comes on the heels of Viacom purchasing a minority stake in Ananey Communications Group in 2017.

Nickelodeon Spyders is the second series that originated on Nickelodeon Israel to air on Nick UK, following The Greenhouse in 2014 which was filmed in Hebrew and dubbed into English. The series was later remade under the title Greenhouse Academy for Netflix.

Nutz entered a co-pro deal with Bunim/Murray Productions’ (Nickelodeon's The Crystal Maze) new BMP Kids division on the youth prank show Gotcha, which bowed on Nick Israel last December. Other popular Nutz series currently airing on Nick Israel include Spell Keepers, Bed & Biscuit (Dog House) and The Hood.

Spyders | El cumpleaños de Tommy | Nickelodeon en Español


Tres hermanos descubren que sus padres son espías encubiertos de una agencia de protección ambiental y deciden convertirse también en espías para ayudarlos en secreto.

From neeo:

Nickelodeon estrena la nueva serie Spyders, que sigue de cerca las alucinantes aventuras de los hermanos Tommy, Nikki y Daniel

El lunes 4 de enero a las 18:15h Nickelodeon estrena la nueva serie Spyders, que sigue de cerca las alucinantes aventuras de Tommy, Nikki y Daniel, tres hermanos que después de descubrir que sus padres Anna y Noah Fisher son espías encubiertos de una agencia de protección ambiental, decidirán crear su propio grupo de espías llamado Spyders. ¡Que comience la diversión!

¿Hay algo más molón que hacer un viaje especial en familia? Sí, ¡descubrir que no se trata de unas vacaciones normales sino de una misión supersecreta! Y si no, que se lo pregunten a Tommy, Nikki y Daniel quienes, después de averiguar que sus padres son espías encubiertos, se darán cuenta de que este viaje tan repentino se trata realmente de una misión secreta.

Pero la diversión no acaba aquí. Para intentar ayudar a sus padres, a los tres hermanos se les ocurrirá la brillante idea de trabajar en equipo como auténticos espías secretos, bajo el nombre de “Spyders”. Por si fuera poco, todo se volverá aún más interesante cuando comienzan a encontrar información relevante para la investigación, como la que descubrirán del dueño del hostal, el señor Goodman.

Sin embargo, mientras Nikki y Tommy continúan el espionaje secreto, Daniel se distraerá con su nueva amiga Sophie y sus emocionantes videojuegos. ¿Conseguirá esta familia de espías llegar al final de la misión sin que nada ni nadie los descubra?

Lunes 4 a las 18:15h
Lunes 4 a viernes 29 a las 18:15h

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Originally published: Monday, January 04, 2021.

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4 Boys Write Me a Love Song in Tik Tok Mansion | AwesomenessTV's Next Influencer w/ Alex Warren

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4 Boys Write Me a Love Song in Tik Tok Mansion | AwesomenessTV's Next Influencer w/ Alex Warren


Tension is at an all-time HIGH in the mansion as members drag each other into their Tik Tok drama. But one boy finds a way to steal the heart of his crush by writing her a love song. Talk about COUPLE GOALS. 💕

Secret GROUP CHAT EXPOSED in AwesomenessTV's Next Influencer #Shorts


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Alex Warren: @AlexWaarren
Colie Nuanez: @Colie.1
Gaby Obregon: @gabyobregon
Jada Wesley: @JadaWesleyy
Julian & Jovani Jara: @99goonsquad
Owen Holt: @Owen.Holt
Raul Encio: @Raulencio
Sabrina Quesada: @sabquesada 
Valeria Arguelles: @Valeriaxxargu
 
→ Crew Credits ← 
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Classic Rugrats Comic Strip for Tuesday, January 5, 2021 | Nickelodeon
Rugrats, provided to Creators Syndicate by Nickelodeon, based off the popular animated television series has been created for children and family's to laugh and enjoy together.

Follow these comics and their take on real episodes of the show and their own spin on hilarious adventures.

Read more Rugrats comic strips!: https://www.creators.com/features/rugrats

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JoJo Siwa Responds to Controversial 'JoJo’s Juice' Board Game Featuring 'Inappropriate Content'

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JoJo Siwa is addressing the criticism over the controversial Nickelodeon card game "JoJo's Juice."


The 17-year-old Nickelodeon star and social media phenomenon, who has a young fanbase, took to Instagram and TikTok on Monday, Jan. 4 to shed some light on how the children's game ended up with "inappropriate" content for the targeted six and up audience, which, up until Monday, was available for purchase online at Walmart and on Amazon, among other retailers, for around $20.

"Over the weekend, it has been brought to my attention by my fans and followers on TikTok that my name and my image have been used to promote this board game that has some really inappropriate content," the "Boomerang" singer began. "Now when companies make these games, they don't run every aspect by me, so I had no idea of the types of questions that were on these playing cards."


The internet sensation continued, "Now when I first saw this I was really, really, really upset about how gross these questions were and so I brought it to Nickelodeon's attention immediately. And since then they have been working to get this game to stop being made and also pulled from all shelves wherever it's being sold."

JoJo went on to explain that she would "never, ever, ever would have approved or agreed" to a game that reportedly included questions about being arrested and nudity.

Questions included on the multi-player game including "Have you ever been arrested?,""Who in this room would you most like to date?,""Have you ever gone outside without underwear (a bathing suit doesn't count)?,""Have you ever stolen from a store?", and "Have you ever taken money from someone's purse or wallet without asking?," as well as cards that asked players if they had "Kissed a boy" and "Learned the art of twerking."

Negative reviews for "JoJo's Juice" date back to 2018.

The Dance Moms alum ended her video on a positive note by adding, "I love you all so much. Thank you for bringing this to my attention so that way I can put a stop to it and get it fixed immediately."

Amid backlash, Nickelodeon and "JoJo's Juice" manufacturer Spin Master released a statement addressing the game. "We respect and value the relationship JoJo Siwa has with her fans and take the concerns raised regarding the game 'JoJo's Juice' very seriously," the statement read. "This game is no longer being manufactured and we have requested that retailers pull any remaining product from their shelves."

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EA Sports Teases Madden NFL x SpongeBob Crossover

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EA Sports is teasing an upcoming crossover between its hit Madden video game franchise and Nickelodeon's beloved animated series, SpongeBob SquarePants!


A teaser from the Madden NFL Twitter account today asks fans, "Are you ready?" Attached to the tweet is an image of SpongeBob's face and the reveal date: January 7. This is presumably when all will be revealed about Madden 21's campaign.


The news follows CBS Sports and Nickelodeon announcing that they are teaming up for a special NFL Playoff broadcast. This Sunday's (Jan. 10) Wild Card game between the Chicago Bears and the New Orleans Saints will be broadcast on Nickelodeon, and the televised event will include a variety of Nickelodeon-themed elements - including slime.

Play-by-play announcer Noah Eagle will be joined by CBS Sports’ analyst Nate Burleson and Nick star Gabrielle Nevaeh Green (All That, Nickelodeon’s Unfiltered) in the booth to call the NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon. Additionally, Nick star Lex Lumpkin (All That, Nickelodeon’s Unfiltered) ­­­will serve as a reporter during the game. Nickelodeon’s coverage begins with “The SpongeBob SportsPants Countdown Special,” a sports-themed compilation special at 4 p.m. (ET) hosted by the Denver Broncos’ Von Miller, highlighting SpongeBob’s best sports moments and featuring pre-kickoff appearances by CBS Sports’ Jim Nantz and Tony Romo, as well as Eagle, Burleson and Green.

Here is a glimpse at what the broadcast this weekend may look like on TV--it's pretty wild stuff. A more "traditional" broadcast will also be available on CBS.


During halftime, Nickelodeon will air a special teaser for the new SpongeBob spin-off Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years, which follows, SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward's adventures when they were children. The prequel series premieres in 2021 on the streaming platform Paramount+ and later on Nickelodeon.

It's not exactly clear, however, what role EA Sports and the Madden series may play in all of this, but it seems something is in the works and will be revealed very soon. Keep checking back for more!

This isn't the first time EA Sports and Madden have teamed up with Nickelodeon and SpongeBob SquarePants. In 2018, SpongeBob and his BFF Patrick guest starred in a trailer for NFL 19.

Madden is the latest video game franchise to feature Nickelodeon characters and shows. In 2019, Fortnite featured The Carnival of Doom from Are You Afraid of the Dark?, and in 2020, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles featured in SMITE.

As for SpongeBob, the iconic character's most recent video game adaptation, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated, is also slated to get a mobile release, which will drop on January 21.

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Gabrielle Nevaeh Green and Lex Lumpkin Talk 'NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon' | Good Day Sacramento

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CBS and Nickelodeon are teaming up to broadcast their first ever NFL Playoff Game. Good Day Sacramento's John Dabkovich talks to the hosts of the game, All That and Unfiltered stars Gabrielle Nevaeh Green and Lex Lumpkin and see what they have to say.


The NFL Wild Card Game on Nickelodeon kicks off on Saturday, January 10 with “The SpongeBob SportsPants Countdown Special” at 4:00 p.m. ET/1:00 p.m. PT, followed by the NFL Wild Card Game LIVE at 4:30 p.m. ET/1:30 p.m. PT! Look out for a very special half-time sneak peek at Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years!

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SPACE STATION CREW DISCUSSES LIFE IN SPACE WITH STEM STUDENTS

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 64 Flight Engineers Shannon Walker of NASA and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) discussed life and research on the orbital lab with students who submitted pre-recorded questions through Nickelodeon's Noggin mobile application service in an in-flight educational event Dec. 30. Walker and Noguchi arrived on the station in November, launching on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft “Resilience”.

Have you checked out Nickelodeon's Slime In Space?


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Limited Edition Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Hardcovers Launch for Pre-Order Through Kickstarter

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LIMITED EDITION MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS HARDCOVERS LAUNCH FOR PRE-ORDER THROUGH KICKSTARTER

Exclusive New High End Hardcovers Now Available With Signatures, Exclusive Artwork & More


January 5, 2021

BOOM! Studios, under license by Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS), today announced that, following the exciting new relaunch of the Mighty Morphin and Power Rangers series in 2020, the entire fifty-five issue flagship series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, along with several key tie-in issues, will be collected in six premium, limited edition Deluxe Hardcover volumes and available for pre-order individually or in a complete set through Kickstarter.

The full Mighty Morphin Power Rangers pre-order campaign can be found here at Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/boom-studios/mighty-morphin-power-rangers-complete-comic-book-collections?ref=5ylp91.


Fans will have the opportunity to pre-order a complete set of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers in BOOM! Studios “Deluxe” hardcover format, collecting the entire Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comic book series. This new pre-order campaign will offer three different versions of these hardcovers:
  • MIGHTY Editions: these Deluxe format hardcovers feature artwork by Goñi Montes exclusive to this campaign and not available on any other collected editions.
  • MORPHIN Editions: these Deluxe format hardcovers feature the previously mentioned cover artwork AND an exclusive slipcase featuring new artwork Goñi Montes, both of which will only be available through this campaign.
  • MEGAZORD Editions: these Deluxe format hardcovers feature the previously mentioned cover artwork, the previously mentioned exclusive slipcase, AND an acetate sleeve featuring new artwork of a portion of the Megazord. This version also includes a cardboard standee of Megazord (presumably not to scale with the actual Megazord) for displaying each book.
Fans can pre-order at three primary levels including (1) individual volumes, (2) a complete set of all six volumes, and (3) ultra-premium, limited collectible sets through February 4, 2021.

Additionally, BOOM! Studios is offering fans who pre-order before 10:00am PST on January 6, 2021, a free set of six Power Rangers Helmet pins as a special Thank You.

MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS was one of the biggest new comic book series launches of the decade and we’re thrilled to collect the entire series in the most high end hardcovers we’ve ever produced, available exclusively through this campaign,” said Filip Sablik, President, Publishing & Sales, BOOM! Studios. “This is a chance for fans to get the entire series in limited edition formats that will never be available anywhere else, along with special bonuses like signatures from iconic Power Rangers actors, artists, and more.”






Currently, Power Rangers is celebrating 28 continuous years on the air, making it one of the longest running kids’ live-action series in television history with nearly 900 episodes aired to date. Created by Haim Saban and launched in 1993 with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the franchise celebrates its 28th season, Power Rangers Dino Fury premiering this year on Saturdays at 8 a.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon in the U.S.

Print copies of the latest issues of Mighty Morphin and Power Rangers, kicking off a brand new era of Unlimited Power, are available now exclusively at local comic book shops (use comicshoplocator.com to find the one nearest you) or at the BOOM! Studios webstore. Digital copies can be purchased from content providers like comiXology, iBooks, Google Play, and Madefire.

Official BOOM! Studios press release:

LIMITED EDITION MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS HARDCOVERS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER

Exclusive New High End Hardcovers Now Available For Pre-Order With Signatures, Exclusive Artwork & More

BOOM! Studios, under license by Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS), today announced that, following the exciting new relaunch of the Mighty Morphin and Power Rangers series in 2020, the entire fifty-five issue flagship series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, along with several key tie-in issues, will be collected in six premium, limited edition Deluxe Hardcover volumes and available for pre-order individually or in a complete set through Kickstarter.

Fans of the Morphinominal heroes can pre-order copies of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Kickstarter Edition Hardcovers exclusively through Kickstarter.

Fans can also order or purchase our Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comics as widely available standard softcover or hardcover collections from their local comic shops and bookstores.
  • Pre-order or purchase Mighty Morphin Power Rangers standard softcover or hardcover collections from your local comic shop. You can also start a pull list at your comic shop, so you never miss a single issue of the newly launched Mighty Morphin and Power Rangers series. Find a comic shop near you by visiting www.comicshoplocator.com.
  • Pre-order or purchase Mighty Morphin Power Rangers standard softcover or hardcover collections from book stores and online retailers through our distributor portal.
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