Top 10: Nick Shows for Netflix by Jerry Whitworth
With the debut of Disney+ and the coming of AT&T’s HBO Max, Viacom’s Nickelodeon and Netflix have formalized their working arrangement into a multi-year alliance. Formerly, Nickelodeon offered a streaming channel for its content on AT&T’s service VRV called NickSplat where for $5.99 a month, you could stream shows like All That, Angry Beavers, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, CatDog, Doug, Kenan & Kel, and Rocket Power. Also, Amazon Prime has been home to shows like SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora the Explorer, Blue’s Clues, Backyardigans, Victorious, Bubble Guppies, Fairly OddParents, and iCarly since 2013 and Philo has been host to Nickelodeon’s content for some years. The while, Netflix has offered virtually every season of Power Rangers (which Nickelodeon has the broadcast rights for in the United States) and Nickelodeon films Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling (2019) and Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus (2019). Further, a live action series based on Avatar: The Last Airbender and animated films based on Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Loud House are in development at the service. But as part of this extended partnership, more new content based on Nickelodeon’s catalog of intellectual property is being made for Netflix including a spin-off based on SpongeBob SquarePants‘ Squidward. It’s unknown what effect the likely merger of Viacom and CBS (with its CBS All Access service) in the future will inevitably have in this deal, but for now, lets examine what could be some of the content coming to Netflix.
