Screwed By The Network / Nickelodeon

Around the mid-2000s, a trend emerged wherein, if a show on Nickelodeon doesn't pull in ratings similar to either the network favorites or their established Kid Coms during its first few weeks, there's a chance it would be screwed over, cancelled quickly, and/or eventually moved to their spin-off channels to burn off the last episodes. ^note Nicktoons for animation; TeenNick for live-action; or Nick Jr., if you're either a preschool show or a cartoon aimed at girls or younger children. In other words, the network doesn't have the patience to let a show flourish and find an audience. Any show that doesn't become an instant hit and pull in monster ratings right away (allegedly, there is an unwritten policy that if an animated show doesn't pull in the same ratings as SpongeBob's right off the bat, it's considered a failure) will be killed off by the network over time.^note The secular decline of youth-oriented cable networks in the face of competition from online services also doesn't help matters.

This trend has since become the norm for programming on Nickelodeon and its spin-offs, and because of that, it had to be given its own page. Despite this, it's very important to note that the Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank, California is a great place to work according to former animators and creators; it's the U.S cable network in New York City that's the problem.

Examples pertaining to Nicktoons now have their own page.

Live-Action TV

• Anything produced by Nick's international networks (especially their Australian and British operations) appear to air only out of a contractual obligation instead of a genuine interest to air something different for viewers, though the international producers have no say on promotion or time slots at all it seems. Witness the rebranding of the Australian series Lightning Point on TeenNick to the generically confusing Alien Surf Girls.
• 100 Things to Do Before High School, a Spiritual Successor to Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (even being made by the same production company), was quietly canceled in 2016 because of low ratings, despite being better-received than other Nick sitcoms at the time. The cancellation was so quiet that Isabela Moner (who plays the main character) didn't know of the series cancellation and found out via Lisa Arch on Twitter.
  • As for Ned's Declassified itself, there were plans for a sequel set in high school as soon as the show ended in 2007, but nothing came out of it, mainly because of the network's shift towards "tween" girls and the leads not having much appeal among the Tiger Beat crowd^note Several years later, Lindsay Shaw (Moze) stated that the showrunners' insistence on avoiding any fanservice had an ultimately adverse effect on the careers of the show's cast, as they became regarded as "too infantilized" to be noticed by talent agents, especially taking in mind the amount of press tweencom stars got at the time, as well as the network increasingly favoring Schneider's Bakery/Nickverse shows like Zoey 101 and Drake & Josh. Furthermore, it was assumed the show would get made until the actors signed for other projects in early 2009.
• The Adventures of Pete & Pete:
  • Nickelodeon messed up a lot with the show during Season 3. Chris Viscardi and Will McRobb once said that while it was hard to get them to pick it for a third season, as the series didn't exactly have strong ratings (compared to monster hits like The Ren & Stimpy Show and The Secret World of Alex Mack), the guys at Nick loved the show and greenlit it. But the discrepancy between the original airings of the mid-season episodes must mean something (hopping from November 1995 to March 1996 and from April 1996 to November 1996)...it also aired on Sundays at 1:00 PM, which is not an ideal timeslot.
  • When Viacom shifted around some key executives at Nickelodeon, it did more than separate the friendly relationship of Viacom and CBS—it eventually resulted in several "Rewind" DVD releases being postponed and eventually cancelled, which included the DVD release for this show's third and final season. This forms the basis of an in-joke between the creators and cast that Viacom must have the DVDs in a warehouse around New York or New Jersey. Everything was ready to be released—audio commentaries and some extras had all been prepared, as had been an official DVD cover–until the plug was pulled.
• AwesomenessTV was treated badly by Nick, possibly because the YouTube channel is owned by DreamWorks Animation. After somewhat decent ratings in season 1, Nick moved season 2 to Saturday nights in 2014, where the show had good advertising and decent ratings. But in September, Nick dropped all advertising for the show and moved it to an earlier time slot. Nick didn't cancel or renew the series; coincidentally, this was years before Viacom would acquire AwesomenessTV from Comcast.
• Big Time Rush regularly got above 2 million viewers, but during its fourth and final season in 2013, the new Thursday time slot had little promotion. As a result, most episodes aired rated with series lows, with the May 16th episode barely gaining above 1 million viewers.
• Australian import The Bureau of Magical Things was hit with this after its premiere on the American network. After one episode, it got booted to TeenNick to premiere the rest of the episodes.
• Drake & Josh was Adored by the Network on the main channel, even after its cancellation (reruns aired up through December 2014), but it was treated pretty badly during its final year of airing on TeenNick. Reruns could only be seen on 10:30 AM on the weekdays, when the target demographic was still in school.
• Game shows:
  • Whenever Nickelodeon was in the mood to try out new things from the late 80's through the early 2000's, they would abruptly pull the plug on their existing game shows. Many times, the staff wouldn't be notified until new seasons were ready to begin production. Some shows found shelf life in reruns before Nick GaS was launched in 1999. Even still, GaS didn't air the entirety of every series. The most commonly accepted reason for Double Dare (1986) and Finders Keepers is a water leakage destroying pre-1990 master tapes. Of the former's original run, only the three Family Double Dare seasons have every episode accounted for.
  • The two most recent revivals of Double Dare were treated harshly after both of their second production cycles ended. Double Dare 2000 had it pretty bad where Nickelodeon burned off their remaining episodes and moved it to GaS by the end of 2000. The 2018 revival had Invisible Advertising for most of its second season with very little way of telling when new episodes would air.
  • After the success of the first iteration of Family Double Dare, FOX ordered a second season of 13 episodes. However, according to host Marc Summers, FOX executives wanted to do family-unfriendly themed episodes such as Playboy Playmates vs. Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. President of Nickelodeon Gerry Laybourne balked at this idea, and the show walked out.
  • A second season of Global GUTS (GUTS's fifth overall) and a fourth season of Legends of the Hidden Temple had started production and were set to be taped in early 1996. However, Nickelodeon pulled the plug on both shows without warning in favor of three pilots. One of them, Figure It Out, was eventually green-lit.
  • During Season 8, Slime Time Live aired early in the morning when kids would be getting ready to go to school.
• Hollywood Heights, an attempt to create a telenovela-esque daily series, was supposed to be the big attraction of Nickelodeon's summer 2012 season. However, a confusing strategy which resulted it being branded as a Nick@Nite program by the time it started, along with an inexplicable looping of the first episode through the first week, which instead of attracting viewers, fatigued them from watching the series further, and the usual complaints of why a teen soap opera was under the Nick@Nite label soured those plans. By August, it had been reduced to being stuck on TeenNick and only watched by diehards. Compare this to January 2014's Every Witch Way, which received Nickelodeon's branding, a guaranteed weeknight timeslot, got a second season, and never changed its time slot in each of its month-long runs on Nickelodeon.
• House of Anubis got this pretty bad, possibly because it was made by the British version of the network. In the months leading up to the premier of the second season, they decided to re-show all the episodes of the first season. Fans were excited, as many episodes weren't on the Nick site, and so they haven't seen much of the show in a year. Well, after the first half of the season, they used up one of the episode slots to air the premier of Fred: The Show instead- and stopped showing episodes since. The third season got it bad as well. About six episodes in, they used the time slot to, instead, air yet another new show. It wasn't shown for two weeks until it was finally moved to TeenNick- a channel a portion of the fans didn't have, which caused ratings to drop.
• When explaining the cancellation of How to Rock, its executive producer talked about how Nickelodeon was "going through a transition right now". Said transition is also blamed for Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures and Fred: The Show also being cancelled after just one season each, as well as Victorious being axed during season 3. Nickelodeon wanted to stay in business with Lucas Cruikshank (the star of Fred), but the poorly-received Marvin Marvin was also canceled after one season. While it was natural for Nickelodeon to cancel these shows due to low ratings (and mixed-to-negative reception), every show that premiered after How To Rock's cancellation got, in fact, worse ratings (such as The Thundermans).
  • As for the "transition" referred to earlier, the network revealed in early 2013 that it was to air programming only for the ages 2-11 more, ignoring & alienating the 12-17 age group for now on. That response would lead to the tweens moving to arch-rival Disney Channel. By 2015, Disney was the #1 cable network in ratings while Nickelodeon's ratings were at an all time low.
• After running for 2 seasons on the main Nickelodeon network, Hunter Street moved to TeenNick for its third season along with a fourth produced season not even airing at all in the US.
• For the network as a whole, its incredible decline in ratings in 2011 can be mostly due to its odd treatment of its shows not named SpongeBob SquarePants, Victorious, The Penguins of Madagascar, Big Time Rush or iCarly. However, even iCarly received some bad treatment by the series' end. From advertising two separate episodes as the "season premiere" (The Other Wiki hasn't even established when most seasons started, forcing Wild Mass Guessing as to where each season begins since the network won't tell them), to advertising the series to run back to back, only to stop that after 4 episodes. Episodes aired in weird time slots (like December 28 for the second blooper episode, or New Year's Eve for "iStill Psycho") with no advertising. Its ratings were hammered with several episodes dropping into the bottom 5 least-watched ever, and the series as a whole dropping the average ratings of the rest of the show by over a million viewers.
• Just for Kicks lasted for only one season of 13 episodes, was buried in an awkward Sunday night timeslot for nearly its entire run, and had few, if any, reruns. After its final episode aired, the network canceled it and never reran it again, and to this day it remains one of the most obscure series Nickelodeon has ever aired.
• Legendary Dudas got tons of promotion back when it premiered in July 2016, but was canned after six episodes and got no reruns, not even on TeenNick. Except for a few videos, Nickelodeon erased the show off their website.
• Make It Pop and The Other Kingdom were canceled after two seasons (or one in the case of Other Kingdom) due to low ratings for the latter, and Nick refusing to renew the contract with DHX Media to produce the former.
• Max & Shred originally aired between October 2014 and January 2015, but was suddenly put on hiatus. The remaining episodes then aired that summer. Canada's YTV, who co-produced the series, renewed it for a second season, but Nick shifted it to Nicktoons and gave up after eight episodes.
• Mr. Meaty was moved to Nicktoons, which wasn't really surprising considering the show's ratings, but the most noticeable thing is that reruns aired at 3:00 and 3:30, with no other time slots. This stopped around November 2010, when the show was removed from the schedule.
• The Naked Brothers Band, which Nickelodeon would contribute to by the end of 2009. It quickly became one of Nick's most successful shows when it premiered in 2007. Despite this, by the end of the 3rd season, executives demanded more, urging Polly Draper and her family to lengthen the season from 13 episodes, to 60 episodes, for a show whose cast consisted mainly of kids and teens under 18. Obviously, Draper refused, citing a previous agreement that the shooting schedule would not interfere with the boys' personal lives. Nickelodeon, of course, did not conform to the demands.
• Nick Studio 10, an afternoon block introduced in 2013, gained instant ire with viewers for not only peppering commercial breaks with inane, humorless stunts and/or skits but for also interrupting programs with "important announcements" that were simply "random equals funny" video clips. Nobody except the network seemed to enjoy it, probably because its haters overwhelmed any attempts to fix the block or allow disagreement with their views. Their Twitter account was hacked with racist posts to the point where the network gave up on keeping control of it, while the program's Facebook page was best described as entirely having "feedback" of the profane variety. A promised return after Labor Day 2013 never materialized. The hosts of the block have pretty much disavowed ever appearing on it (likely due to said profane "feedback" ending up on their own personal social media timelines, which got to the point of them receiving threats for the mere reason of just doing their jobs).
• Power Rangers had it rough at Disney, so a lot of fans cheered when Saban Brands bought the franchise and made the switch to Nickelodeon. Those cheers didn't last long, thanks to a "20 episodes per season" rule that Nick forced on the show. Power Rangers Samurai, and all subsequent adaptations, were stretched out for two seasons (the second season being a direct sequel to the previous; Super Samurai, in this case) and aired over the course of two years each with 40 episodes in total. Adding to that, the broadcast of each individual season in-itself was stretched out by a long spring-summer hiatus. One fan crunched the numbers and realized that the 40 episodes of Samurai/Super Samurai have run over a longer period of time than the 150-episode run of the first three seasons of Mighty Morphin'.
  • Before coming to Nickelodeon, Power Rangers has always adapted the previous year's Super Sentai series. Now that they keep falling further and further behind, Saban has had to start skipping over certain Sentai installments. Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters got passed over in favor of Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger (But was later adapted into Power Rangers Beast Morphers), and Ressha Sentai ToQger was skipped to adapt Shuriken Sentai Ninninger (the latter was possibly a case of the series being unsuitable for an American adaptation due to its railway motif making heavy use of Japanese trains).^note This ironically came on the heels of Saban adapting two vastly different installments - Goseiger and Gokaiger - into Power Rangers Megaforce and Super Megaforce. Despite Nickelodeon's "20 episodes per season" rule still being in place and their lack of proper advertising for current seasons, the network has already renewed the show through 2021 at the earliest. Though Hasbro acquired the franchise and the other entertainment properties of Saban Brands, it is presumed that they still have to abide by this (helped by the fact that Hasbro has a close relationship with Paramount, owned by Viacom).
• Sam & Cat wasn't renewed for a third run of episodes despite high ratings for a variety of reasons:
  • After filming a 20-episode first season, Nickelodeon abruptly ordered 20 more episodes of the show on short notice and without consulting the cast & crew. The ensuing filming schedule was grueling for everyone involved, particularly Jennette McCurdy who had wanted to take time off after her mother's death in late 2013.
  • Nickelodeon also reacted badly when sexy photos of McCurdy were leaked online after her short semi-relationship with NBA basketball player Andre Drummond, causing her to publicly accuse Nickelodeon of unfair treatment and pushing her not to attend Nick's 2014 Kids Choice Awards.
  • Rumors began to circulate that McCurdy had gotten into a feud with co-star Ariana Grande or with the studio over her salary, while at the same time Ariana would have wanted out to continue her booming music career without the massive obligation of filming a TV show.
  • In the end, Nickelodeon canceled production with four episodes left unfilmed. Ariana responded to the cancellation with a long social media post praising the creator of the show, the fans, her character Cat, sharing her vision for how Cat's life would have gone, the crew of the show & Nickelodeon itself, while not naming Jennette directly at all. The fallout from the horror on-set drama effectively killed Jennette's TV career and put the kibosh on Dan Schneider's Nickverse^note He kept working with the network (although directly instead of being a contractor) for a handful of years, before a series of allegations against him led to his departure, while Ariana left television behind, adjusted her image to distance herself from Cat, and became a worldwide pop star.
• One of the earliest notable examples of Nickelodeon screwing their live-action department has to be the "SNICK Purge" of 2002, which saw 100 Deeds For Eddie Mcdowd, Caitlin's Way, Taina and The Amanda Show all get canceled within five months of each other; along with placing The Brothers Garcia on a year-long hiatus between seasons 3 and 4. This left All That and The Nick Cannon Show as the only Nick comedies airing new episodes during the entire 2002-2003 season - and even the latter ended up being canned by February. By summer 2003 it seemed a foregone conclusion that Disney's powerhouse lineup was on the brink of killing off TEENick in its infancy - and it might have done just that if not for a certain midseason phenomenon....
• Nickelodeon's sports-themed shows:
  • All In With Cam Newton and Jagger Eaton's Mega Life aired on Nickelodeon, but they were then shifted to the NickSports block. Unlike Paradise Run and Crashletes, Cam and Jagger were both canned after one season each.
  • After The Dude Perfect Show made a Channel Hop from CMT to Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon heavily advertised it, but it once again got little to no reruns on the main channel, only aired when it had new episodes, and reruns on NickSports.
• In June 2018, Star Falls was given the Korra treatment and all episodes of season 1 were released on the app. To make matters worse, the series was shifted to TeenNick and premiered the last 9 episodes of season 1 August 5 to September 2 to low ratings.
• Taina, for those unaware of it. It was about a teenage Puerto Rican girl who aspires to be a singer and actress. Other characters included a black guy friend that is sometimes the voice of reason, a guy that sometimes plays guitar for Taina's performances, and another aspiring actress who acts mostly as a rival but sometimes a friend to the main character. And if none of that sounds familiar, Taina is enrolled in Manhattan Performing Arts School. It also received similar ratings to Victorious and was moved to Saturday nights for the second season (which aired from January to May of 2002) where ratings doubled. Aside from being a popular show, it was canceled that summer. Although there were rumors that Nickelodeon axed the show because they thought it only appealed to girls (even though guys did like the show as well.), It was revealed during a 2021 interview with the star of the show, Christina Vidal that the real reasons why Nick axed the show was because she got a record deal outside of the company (a conflict of interest for the network at the time) and she was also threatening to lawyer up due to the network execs trying to skirt around child labor laws with her.
• The Troop was also treated pretty badly by the network. Nickelodeon was a bit more kind to the show in the second season, giving it a plush Saturday-afternoon time slot, right after Power Rangers Samurai. However, they decided to screw it even there by pre-empting the new episodes with SpongeBob SquarePants reruns, and the show was also moved to a prime-time timeslot on Saturday nights. The show was canceled before all the episodes of season two were even aired on the network.
• True Jackson, VP was rarely shown on the main network (but mostly shown on TeenNick). Whenever a new episode was scheduled to air, no "new episode" promo was shown until the day of the airing and whenever a rerun airing of the show was scheduled to air.
• In an odd move even by Nickelodeon standards, Victorious got this treatment during its final year: several new episodes scheduled to air during October/November 2012 were preempted by new episodes of Big Time Rush.
• Weinerville had this happen after its popularity allowed it to air on weekdays instead of Sunday afternoons. According to Marc Weiner, the series was not renewed for a third season because Nickelodeon wanted to change its lineup to include more action-oriented programming and Weinerville, with its puppet atmosphere, was deemed too childish for the new direction.
• W.I.T.s Academy, a spin-off of Every Witch Way, ended its first season on a Cliffhanger. However, before the series' producers could even think about doing another season, Todd Allen Durkin, who portrayed the role of Agamemnon, left the series to pursue an acting career.^note Oddly enough, Nickelodeon would give him a role in I Am Frankie two years after W.I.T.s. ended. Nick found it infeasible to continue without him and simply canceled the series. It only got reruns on TeenNick in April 2016.

Nick Jr.

• Nick Jr. seems to do this almost as much as Nick does. If a show does not pull in ratings as high as PAW Patrol, Blaze and the Monster Machines, Bubble Guppies or Blue's Clues & You!, it will be shoved to the Nick Jr. channel and could eventually end out of the blue without any word on a renewal or cancellation. Thankfully, Nick Jr. has much more clearance than its siblings and has pulled in better ratings than the main channel on occasion.
• One very noticeable thing that the channel tends to do is that once a show gets removed from the schedule, it doesn't come back (unlike Nicktoons, which has been recently bringing back a bunch of old shows as reruns, like El Tigre, Barnyard, Rugrats, etc.). Shows such as Ni Hao, Kai-Lan, The Fresh Beat Band and Little Bill unfortunately suffered from this, with the latter having to leave the earliest. Little Bear, The Backyardigans, and Wonder Pets! had to deal with this in late August 2018 and even former network poster children Blue's Clues and Dora the Explorer suffered this in July 2019 and September 2020, respectively. And if you're wondering, Go, Diego, Go! wasn't saved from this either. Fortunately, all mentioned shows (with the exception of Little Bill) have been added on Paramount+.
  • Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! also got this treatment shortly after Little Bill did, but to be fair, the former was never really treated that nicely on the channel.
  • As of September 2023, neither the network nor block is rerunning any ended show that didn't have a curriculum board made for the 2023 rebrand, with the oldest show on the network being Peppa Pig, which debuted in 2004 in its native UK.
  • As of August 2023, The Fresh Beat Band has been removed from Paramount+ for unknown reasons.
• During the rebrand of the channel in 2012, if a show wasn't named Dora the Explorer, Go, Diego, Go!, Team Umizoomi or Bubble Guppies (with the exception of Mike the Knight), it was put into a late night timeslot. For instance, Yo Gabba Gabba! and Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! only aired at midnight and 4am respectively.
• Despite being a network fan-favorite, very good critical acclaim, and being utterly adored by the network for some time, The Backyardigans got this treatment as well since Nick Jr held off the last couple of episodes for three years, and dumped them in 2011, 2012 and 2013 respectively.
• By the end of 2020, Abby Hatcher, Butterbean's Cafe and The Adventures of Paddington joined Corn & Peg as those who have not been renewed for new seasons since being banished to the 24/7 channel, with no announcement on whether it even was renewed or canceled. It seems this has happened to any show that gets the Channel Hop.
• Allegra's Window was canceled after three seasons due to Disney buying Jumbo Pictures.
• Blaze and the Monster Machines often falls into this territory from time to time despite being generally popular in ways and Adored by the Network. The amount of times the show runs daily has been reduced, with it now only airing once or twice on the Nick Jr. block or only 2-4 (sometimes 6) times on the Nick Jr. channel. The month after its debut, it was restricted to air only one to three new episodes a month, especially the former. By the end of the fourth season, episodes received almost no promotion and aired at 9:00 AM, and the show only aired on Nick Jr. on Nick once a day amongst an almost six-hour marathon of PAW Patrol throughout the summer of 2019. Thankfully, it is the only pre-2019 first-run show other than PAW Patrol and the now Un-Cancelled Bubble Guppies that didn't get banished to the Nick Jr. channel for new episodes.
• Blue's Room, a spin-off of Blue's Clues, only lasted 17 episodes, rarely had reruns, and was pulled from the network after its final episode aired.
• When Butterbean's Cafe first aired, it was the highest-rated preschool premiere on Nick in 5 years (due to premiering after a PAW Patrol special, which was the highest-rated airing on Nick of 2018) and it was treated well by Nick for several months. However, the ratings started dropping and by August 2019, it was already sent to the Nick Jr. channel. On August 17, 2020, it finally returned to the weekday afternoon hours.
• Nick Jr.'s broadcast of Canadian import Dino Dan in America was erratic, to say the least. The network would often hold off from airing the show for months or even a year. After losing the rights to the series, producer Sinking Ship Entertainment took it (along with spin-off Dino Dana) to Amazon, and Universal Kids acquired broadcast rights.
  • Luckily, after reruns of Abby Hatcher failed for the network when it was moved from the main Nickelodeon channel, this show, along with Hey Duggee and Max and Ruby, got sent to replace a few of its time slots in February 2020, with Corn and Peg airing at 1:30PM every weekday.
• After its predecessor was treated nicely for fourteen years, Dora and Friends: Into the City! got this treatment. After "Dora Saves Opera Land" aired, most episode premieres would take one to two months to air. Things got really bad in November of 2016 when they decided to air blocks of new episodes of the show against shows that got higher ratings; the first of which aired on the same night as Elena and the Secret of Avalor. It was quietly canceled in February 2017.
• After the twelfth episode of Face's Music Party premiered on August 12, 2022, the series started showing up on Nick Jr. less often. As of November 2022, the series cannot be found on the Nick Jr. schedule at all, its 8:00 AM time slot going to The Tiny Chef Show.
• Fresh Beat Band of Spies used to be adored as well, but was canned after one season and 20 episodes.
• Throughout 2020, all shows aired as part of "Girls Rule Sundays" went on indefinite hiatus, with no answer as to whether or not the shows would be renewed, possibly due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic slowing down production. This may have happened to Abby Hatcher as well, despite being part of Spin Master and having toys issued exclusively online, even its own channel on YouTube.
  • As of late August 2021, even Abby Hatcher's official YouTube channel (run by Spin Master) is seemingly dead after consistently uploading new content once a week since its creation in 2018.
  • The episode "The Princess Flug Bug; Abby's Farm Animal Friend" suffered from this. After being postponed several times in 2020 because the first segment had to be Distanced from Current Events, the episode premiered on April 1, 2022 at midnight, when most of the target audience would not be awake. It was thankfully released on Netflix alongside every other episode of Season 2 the very next day, allowing its viewers to finally see the episode.
• Kinderwood was in Development Hell for years, and it premiered with no warning on Nickelodeon in December 2020 after having premiered online a few days earlier. There were no articles promoting the show until the last minute, and the remaining episodes were dumped onto the Noggin app.
• Lalaloopsy premiered on the Nick Jr. block on Nickelodeon, which is only dedicated to showcasing the biggest hits, but it was quickly pulled and banished to the 24/7 channel. Both it and Julius Jr. were surprisingly treated very nicely on the 24/7 channel, having several programming blocks dedicated to them ^note along with shows like Zack and Quack, Dino Dan, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Mia and Me, and Mike the Knight with tons of promotion, and we mean tons. Things took a bad turn in late 2014 and the rest of 2015, when Nick Jr. quietly cancelled both Lalaloopsy and Julius after two seasons and fifty-two episodes each, and burned off the rest of their episodes on weekends with Invisible Advertising. Julius was immediately taken off the air after it aired its last episodes, while Lalaloopsy had reruns (on Sundays only) until late 2016. All mention of Lalaloopsy was erased off the Nick Jr. site, but Julius was lucky enough to stay on the site. Luckily, Julius is available to stream on Netflix, while the Lalaloopsy franchise was also rescued by Netflix, picking up several of its movies, and creating a spin-off called We're Lalaloopsy.
  • The reason Lalaloopsy was canceled was because of a lawsuit.
• Fashion Ally was first announced at Nick's 2018 upfront and given a 40-episode order. But when the show got renamed to Made by Maddie, the order was shortened to 22 episodes. Shortly before the series was to premiere on the Nick Jr. Channel, it was accused of ripping off the animated short Hair Love and was pulled nearly a week and was shelved before it was set to air, with its premiere being preempted with a rerun of Bubble Guppies.
• After being adored for a few years, Mutt & Stuff was moved to the 24/7 Nick Jr. channel in October of 2017, where its remaining six episodes were burned off.
• An odd example with Nella the Princess Knight and Shimmer and Shine. Despite both of them being adored by the channel, Shimmer's ratings have declined over the years, while Nick Jr. had too much faith for Nella to succeed, since some of its episodes got less than a million viewers. Because of this, Nella and Shimmer only aired on Nickelodeon (which is preserved for the most popular shows) when they had new episodes. Nella actually started airing exclusively on the Nick Jr. channel on February 12, 2018, due to abysmal ratings.
  • Both shows were eventually revealed to have been canceled, along with Sunny Day one year later.
  • Sunny Day was Adored by the Network before it premiered, which caused some Hype Backlash. Reruns on Nickelodeon were dropped after its first six weeks. Reruns were moved to Nick Jr. and, in October 2018, the show started airing new episodes exclusively on that network due to poor ratings. In late 2019, reruns of the show were pulled globally and it was given the Korra treatment with the remaining episodes being released exclusively on-demand.
  • In addition, all three shows would air only one new episode a month at some point, mostly on Sundays as part of the channel's "Girls Rule Sundays" programming. These decisions were made to make room for newer programs and an Uncancelled Bubble Guppies.
• In January of 2018, PAW Patrol reruns got removed from the Nick Jr. channel on Monday-Thursday, only airing twice a day on Friday-Sunday...at 9:00pm in an hour-long block, which is when most of the target audience is already in bed. It briefly disappeared for two months starting in March before coming back at 10:00pm in May. In August, the problem was fixed with the show getting four time slots at reasonable hours on those days.
• The UK Nick Jr.'s treatment of anything that originally aired on PBS Kids was erratic, to say the least. Any show acquired from there would get screwed over in one way or another. Here are just a few examples.
  • Angelina Ballerina is a subversion because Nick Jr. was an original broadcast network in the UK, but the 2009 series was suddenly shifted to Nick Jr. 2 or graveyard slots in 2012, after being briefly pulled altogether in late 2011.
  • Dinosaur Train used to only air on weekends, but got replaced by more reruns of Peppa Pig when it was pushed into the dead hours of the morning.
  • The Pajanimals ran for less than a year.
  • Sesame Street started out pretty nice: It had two slots on weekdays at 9:00am and 3:00pm. As Magic Adventures of Mumfie and Thomas & Friends grew in popularity on the channel, Sesame Street was pushed to weekends at 6:00am with no later showings to accompany those two shows ^note  When Mumfie ended in early 2003, the slots it took that Sesame once held were changed to slots showing Bananas in Pyjamas and original series You Do Too. Weeks later, the show was replaced by reruns of Blue's Clues, and aside from spin-offs and direct-to-video specials, it didn't air in the country again until Cartoonito started showing it in 2016, where it wasn't treated any better.
  • Sid the Science Kid only aired its first season on the channel and aired it all within a month before it was pulled.
  • Super Why! never aired any of its post-2012 episodes.
  • Some PBS Kids shows have never made it to the UK at all due to the way Nick Jr. treats them. Notable examples include the seasons of Dragon Tales that neither Nick Jr. nor Tiny Pop aired and the remaining seasons of Barney & Friends that CiTV, Cartoonito, and TCC did not air (the latter, at least, got some of the Direct to Video episodes released there and exclusive merchandise). It's a good thing that Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood and Peg + Cat are lucky to be aired on other networks in the UK.
• Peter Rabbit used to be one of the channel's most successful and promoted shows, airing on Nickelodeon daily. However, it was later banished to the 24/7 channel to air the remaining episodes and was later quietly canceled after two seasons. However, in the series' native UK, it still has decent reruns on CBeebies more than a year after it ended, and still gets some of the highest ratings on the channel.
• Rainbow Rangers was supposed to air on Nickelodeon and have a live screening of its premiere in Times Square. Six months before premiering, it was announced to air only on the Nick Jr. channel. In addition, Genius Brands hyped it up to be the next hit series by announcing a lot of merchandise tie-ins, associating it with the Disney movies that some of the staff members worked on, and the show's diversity. Due to Nickelodeon choosing not to advertise the show on TV or online (instead promoting the in-house Butterbean's Cafe, which aired on the main Nick channel), Rangers ended up flying under the radar and would later be moved to late night time slots that winter, with its other time slots being given to Dora the Explorer and Sunny Day.
  • In the fall of 2019, Butterbean's Cafe flopped, even when it was moved to the Nick Jr. channel and to promote the new merchandise line for the show. Reruns of Rainbow Rangers were added in three of the slots Butterbean once held ^note  9:30AM, 12:30PM and 4:00PM.
• Due to DreamWorks Animation suddenly buying out the rights of all Chapman shows (save for Bob the Builder), Nick Jr. heavily advertised Roary the Racing Car but wound up airing Max and Ruby at the last minute. Roary had been airing on Nick in the UK for ages, which was probably what made Nick think that they were in the clear to air the show. Prior to this, the show aired for a bit on Sprout (when it was a PBS Kids network).
• Rusty Rivets had a sneak peek on digital platforms in June 2016, and was slated to premiere on August 22, but was pulled due to Arc Productions, who animated the show, going bankrupt. All traces of it were scrubbed from the Nick Jr. website until it officially premiered on November 8, 2016. The rest of the series is animated by Jam Filled Toronto.
  • The show proved to be a hit and Nickelodeon pushed it as hard as they could, with rampant promotion, a second season renewal, and merchandise. But it wasn't as successful as fellow Spin Master show PAW Patrol. It was later shoved to the Nick Jr. sub-network, which is pretty much always a death sentence for a show. The show ended in May 2020 with little fanfare.
• Ryan's Mystery Playdate got this treatment after The Adventures of Paddington premiered. The show disappeared from the Nickelodeon channel entirely, only showing up for premieres. It also got reduced to a single airing a day on the Nick Jr. channel, with its slots being replaced by PAW Patrol and Max and Ruby.
• Despite its reruns being handled decently, Tickety Toc had poor ratings and was pulled from both networks after 2 seasons.
• Top Wing was touted as the next PAW Patrol, but when it failed to meet network rating expectations it was dumped on the Nick Jr. subchannel in May 2019 and quietly ended after two seasons in July 2020.
• After being treated very nicely for a few years, Wallykazam was kicked off the Nickelodeon block, banished to the 24/7 Nick Jr. channel to air its remaining episodes, and was shown at extremely awkward time slots. It was later quietly canceled in 2017.
• Whoopi's Littleburg, a series of three specials, was never picked up for a full series - despite the involvement of Whoopi Goldberg and legendary blues musician Dr. John.
• After airing its Wubb Idol episodes, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! went on a long hiatus for the rest of 2009 before returning to the Nick Jr. block in December of that year to air its remaining episodes (except for its final episode, which aired in February of 2010). Also, while reruns would still continue to air on the block until 2011, the Nick Jr. channel only aired it at midnight when the target audience would be asleep, until finally being ceased to air in April 2014.
• Despite critical praise and much love from musicians, Yo Gabba Gabba! wasn't treated as nicely by Nick; premiers were moved to the Nick Jr. channel after February 2011. But if that wasn't bad enough, by the time the final episode aired, the show was only airing very early in the morning, at 3:00 AM. It was also the first show that got pulled from Nick's PlayDate block.
• Zoofari was pulled from the main Nickelodeon channel after ten days in February 2018 due to poor ratings. The remaining episodes premiered on the Nick Jr. channel during the next eight months; Reruns did not last for long on the channel.
• After a few years of being adored, Blue's Clues & You! wound up getting this treatment by the end of its third season. The Paramount+ film Blue's Big City Adventure suffered from Invisible Advertising, reruns were removed on the main channel in in favor of more PAW Patrol reruns, and the show has had several long hiatuses.
  • As of late March 2024, the show has been removed from Paramount+ for unknown reasons.
• Bossy Bear was adored before it premiered, with multiple ads and was even previewed during the 2023 Kids' Choice Awards, but four episodes that were scheduled to air in May 2023 were pulled and replaced with PAW Patrol reruns, likely due to low ratings, and the show went on a 5-month hiatus before returning on the Nick Jr. Channel in October, where it aired the remainder of Season 1. The show's first season ended in February 2024 without any word on renewal or cancellation.

Imports and acquired programming

• ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks was hit rather harshly: Midway through the second season in November 2016, Nick pulled the series from its regular time slot and replaced it with reruns of The Loud House, with the only reruns being at 7 and 7:30 AM on weekends. Nick was getting rid of several other imports at the same time. The series now only airs on Nickelodeon for new episodes, while all reruns were relegated to Nicktoons. To make matters worse, the final three episodes for Season 5 only aired on Nicktoons, instead of the main Nickelodeon channel, indicating a negative future for the series.
• Nickelodeon never finished airing all 99 episodes of Animaniacs. The show was also heavily edited, with the intro being shortened and altered (and the Couch Gag changing to simply having Dot say "Nickel-aney" in every episode), random scenes removed for time, and references to other networks excised. After only three months on the air, it was moved from its 5:30 PM timeslot to a 6:00 AM weekend timeslot to make room for reruns of CatDog. It was later moved to Nicktoons Network a year after it launched, airing until August 2005.
• The Brothers Flub was shown on mostly Sunday afternoons for a season, and hardly got any reruns. It was canceled in the blink of an eye and quickly forgotten.
• Corn & Peg was heavily hyped up for the month leading into its premiere, with a marathon and new episode of PAW Patrol being used as a lead-in. Despite this, the show had horrific ratings and was pulled at the end of May to make room for more PAW Patrol, causing all premieres after "Let's Go Fly a Corn / Cattle Drive'', as well as reruns, which aired in the 6:30AM to 7:30AM time slot, to be moved to the Nick Jr. channel. The reruns then got pulled in April 2020 because they also got poor ratings. The show only aired on the channel for new episodes afterwards. The finale aired on October 8, 2020 and the show was pulled from reruns one day later.
• Deer Squad. Oh boy. Once the show premiered on the Nick Jr. block, the show was quietly moved to the channel. To make things worse, only 17 episodes of the show aired on the channel. By August 2021, the show was completely removed from the channel... only for reruns to be added back in late October at 3:20am. By January 2022, the show was pulled again, and hasn't appeared on the channel since. Season two, which was dubbed in English (as evident by UK airings) is probably unlikely to air in America.
• Degrassi: The Next Generation was canceled by TeenNick in 2015, and while it did get a great send-off, it was canceled very abruptly (as executive producer Stephen Stohn detailed in his book), leaving Epitome scrambling to find a home, which ended up being Netflix, where Degrassi: Next Class would debut.
• The American premiere of Get Blake! was delayed for a full year after it premiered in Australia and was dumped to Nicktoons, which not a lot of people have. Nicktoons itself screwed it over by shoving the series on a block of "daily Nicktoons premieres" of other series and giving it little promotion. Nicktoons did give the show another chance in September of that year, but this only lasted until December. After 2016, the show disappeared from the network entirely, with no reason given for its removal.
• Kuu Kuu Harajuku was aired an hour before The Loud House and ALVINNN!!!, meaning that nobody would even see it. After one week, Nick announced that the show would air on Saturdays, joining Miraculous and Regal Academy, but then after that the show moved to Nick Jr., airing new episodes Fridays at 7:30 PM beginning in April 2017. It got removed in February 2018.
• Miraculous Ladybug became the new darling when it premiered in 2015 to good ratings. In late February of 2016, the show was moved to 7 PM with Invisible Advertising. Nick tried again that summer, by adding new import Regal Academy and creating a block around both shows. It had some advertising at first, but when Power Rangers came back later that August, Nick gave all of the Saturday morning promotions to Rangers leaving the Miraculous / Regal Academy block with very little adverts left, only for them to disappear later in September. Once Nick finished Miraculous, it was booted to Nicktoons and had rare airings before Nick lost the rights. According to tweets by series creator Thomas Astruc, Netflix's newly acquired U.S streaming rights for three seasons of Miraculous means new episodes would now premiere on the streaming giant instead; in mid-2018, reruns also began airing on Disney Channel, who also became the new home for premieres of the series once Zag's contract with Netflix to release new episodes there expired in 2021.
  • Regal Academy did get some reruns after it finished its first season, but was pulled that summer. It did get a second season, which was aired on Nick Jr. Nick Jr. themselves removed it after they finished the second season.
• The Muppet Show had its weeknight airing removed in October 1994 and was limited to being shown in the Nick Jr. block until March 1996, when the show last aired.
• Mysticons was doomed from the beginning, since the series was originally going to be aimed at boys, but the demographic was changed to girls because of executives' interest in the female market. From the start, it was announced that the main channel would air new episodes on Sundays, and only have reruns on Nicktoons. In January of 2018, Mysticons aired new episodes on Saturday mornings at 8 am on Nicktoons before going on hiatus from late February to late April. From that point, Nicktoons burned off the remaining episodes (with no reruns) until the series ended in September.
• Oggy and the Cockroaches is an unfortunate case. Despite getting little promotion on Nickelodeon, it did well on the 3:30 PM slot on weekdays before most kids got home from school, and was primed to push from the original "airing only because we have to" status^note Viacom picked up the worldwide broadcast rights but had to air the season at least once in the US despite the show not doing well on Fox Family in 1999 to "airing because it's getting good ratings" and into a post-afterschool spot. However, that all came to an end with the broadcast of the episode "(Un)Happy Camper," which featured a particular scene containing a background picture of a topless, large-breasted woman at the beach (complete with cartoonishly oversized nipples). Once TMZ caught it creeping through the censors, parents^note about 99% who hadn't even watched the only airing and mainly sent a copy-and-paste boilerplate complaint letter from a parent's group; remember, this all happened after it aired and TMZ posted about it barraged the network with complaints and angry letters, and the episode wouldn't air again and was removed from the website. Nick quickly capitulated, and the show was pulled from Nick the moment the season's last episode was aired, being quickly forgotten in favor of other shows (often the usual afternoon wallpaper that was SpongeBob SquarePants reruns). After only one month, Nicktoons pulled reruns of Oggy to wash their hands of it completely. Xilam faced no backlash in France at all for the scene, but they quickly replaced the image in future airings worldwide with a beach scene, which would have likely been a more appropriate way for Nickelodeon to react.
  • In Asia, the case was different. See, thanks to meddling from Malaysian satellite provider Astro, Oggy was already airing on Cartoon Network years before. Astro then somehow meddled with Disney Channel to air the show as well, resulting in two different networks carrying the show and backlash forming among the channels' older demographics, who see the show as lowbrow entertainment for simpletons (for some reason, Astro's meddling not only applied to the Malaysian feed but Southeast Asia-wide). When it was announced that Nick will become the third network to air the show (alongside CN and Disney to boot), backlash reached critical mass. Many Asian viewers, especially the aforementioned fans who don't like Oggy, would rather prefer Nick not airing the show. Nick wisely stopped promoting it and started promoting ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks instead.
• While Ollie's Pack got a decent start with new episodes airing on weekday afternoons at 4:00pm for a few months, reruns were sparse, only airing when there was a week of new episodes. After airing most of the series in a bomb format throughout the summer months, Nick eventually started to give up on it. The show had a Halloween episode air on a Saturday afternoon in October and a planned week of premieres in December was pulled halfway through due to abysmal ratings. In May 2021, the show eventually got shifted to Nicktoons to air its final episodes, all of which aired at 3:30am, when no kids were watching, and were placed in the middle of the channel's all-night SpongeBob SquarePants marathons.
• Nickelodeon has been erasing Pelswick and his show out of their history and doesn’t even want to talk about the show anymore. This could be due to the show getting Screwed by the Lawyers: as soon as Nickelodeon lost the syndication rights to the show, everything went back to Nelvana and Nick couldn't do anything with the show anymore.
• Peppa Pig was initially treated like this by the Southeast Asian feed. After being pelted by Malaysian parents and educators over the channel not airing it, Nick complied. Except that they chose to purposely screw the show over by putting it on at a time where the target demographics were in kindergarten and preschool, and only on weekdays with absolutely zero repeats. Adding further insult, the show only aired on Nickelodeon instead of the Nick Jr. channel. The show was swiftly canceled over the "low ratings" excuse once it ended its initial run.
• Rabbids Invasion: Nick rarely aired reruns after premiering new episodes of the show and only advertised a few episodes of the first season. After the Season 1 finale aired in December 2014, no new episodes aired until six months later. They didn't bother to stick with this acquisition for its entire run, eventually moving it to Nicktoons and shipping the fourth season to Netflix.
• Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty, a third-party show from Funrise Toys, was doomed to fail. After the sneak peek premiere aired on Nickelodeon, the show would automatically be passed down to Nicktoons, with new episodes premiering at 9 PM, causing its ratings to plummet hard. Nick gave it another chance as it was actually added back to the main channel and was somewhat adored for a couple of months. This didn't last long; it was shafted to Nicktoons once again after the 17th episode (giving RBUK the honor of being one of the few shows to be shafted to Nicktoons twice). Back there, it was only mentioned by its initials, the show's theme song was cut from airings and its segments now aired separately (excluding the last two episodes). By the time the season finale had aired, it disappeared from the network completely a week or two later; its time slots were preempted with reruns of Sanjay and Craig (and later It's Pony), with no announcement of a second season. However, Nick still airs it internationally (except in the UK, Spain, and Portugal).
  • This may have to to do with the supposed behind-the-scenes legal threats from both Warner Bros. and LEGO, the creators of Unikitty!, a spin-off of The LEGO Movie, feeling that the show's premise and main character are rip-offs of theirs. Ironically enough, the concept of a rainbow butterfly unicorn kitty predates both shows and the show it was supposedly ripping off eventually also got screwed over. But this remains unconfirmed.
• Rocket Monkeys was aired weekdays at 1:30 PM. Nick Jr. would usually still be on for another 30 minutes and the big kids would still be at school at that time. Nick did nothing else with the show and quickly pulled it. The first season's last few episodes, as well as the entire second and third seasons, weren't aired in the US until KidsClick got the rights to show them.
• In the summer of 2023, The Smurfs not only moved to the Nick Jr. block on Nickelodeon, but aired very early in the lineup at 9:00AM EST.
• After realizing there were unaired episodes of Teletubbies (2015) in their library, the Nick Jr. channel re-added the show back to their schedule in September 2018 at 8:00 AM... before pulling it for Team Umizoomi re-runs after two weeks and dumping those episodes of the series to the Teletubbies YouTube channel.
• Thomas & Friends
  • It was advertised a lot when it officially came to the network in March 2018 and got ratings on par with PAW Patrol, but after a few weeks, it was pulled from reruns on Nickelodeon. Unfortunately, during July 23-27, the premieres of Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure, "A Most Singular Engine", "Philip's Number", "Very Important Sheep", and "Mucking About" were all moved to the Nick Jr. channel. In December 2019, all traces of it were scrubbed from the Nick Jr. site and the series was removed the following month. Mattel then announced in February that the series would be moving exclusively to Netflix US in March.
  • In the Netherlands, Thomas used to be a network favorite, but Nickelodeon stopped buying new episodes of the series after 2009. Instead of airing the CGI series, the channel would end up repeating series 8 to 11, the same 106 episodes, over and over again for six years until 2015, when Nickelodeon lost the rights to air the series and the dub was resumed at last by RTL. Interestingly, the new specials did still air every year, with the last to air on Nickelodeon being Tale of the Brave.
  • It also aired on Nickelodeon in Spain (for some reason it was not on the Nick Jr. block and only on the regular Nick schedule) but it was cancelled in 2005, with no home media releases!
• The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss:
  • According to Defunctland, the show was pitched to The Jim Henson Company by Dr. Seuss' widow Audrey Geisel, who then pitched it to Nickelodeon. Herb Scannell (then president and CEO of Nickelodeon) liked the concept so much that Nick picked up the show and began airing it in October 1996.
  • However, the show was barely acknowledged after its first season. Due to focus group testing, it was ultimately moved to Nick Jr. and Retooled along the lines of a traditional Preschool Show; this also resulted in changes like the Cat in the Hat going from a trickster like his book counterpart was to a kind and excited host and other Dr. Seuss characters being Demoted to Extra. The show's time slots on Nick Jr. were shuffled from time to time (with the show sometimes airing at 10:30 AM or 1:00 PM instead of 11:00 AM like it usually did), promotion was quietly pulled after the second season finished airing, reruns moved to an early weekend morning time slot in early 1999, and the show never came back for a third season.
• When Kidnernet began airing reruns of Fireman Sam in 2000, it looked like it would finally become popular in the Netherlands, only for it to be screwed over once again after Nickelodeon replaced the channel two years later on September 1, 2002, with them yanking Fireman Sam off the schedule 3 months later on December 13.
• At first, Nicktoons aired 2 episodes of the second Yu-Gi-Oh! anime every night at 8:00 pm from Monday to Friday. Then it was moved to 3 episodes on Sunday afternoons from 3:30 to 5:00, while the reruns were in the middle of a filler arc. Finally, the reruns got moved AGAIN to 2 episodes every Saturday night at 6:00 PM, until it disappeared from that time slot and hasn't been seen since.
• It took Nicktoons two years to finish the run of Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, with premieres often being delayed or outright pulled from the schedule with little-to-no advance warning and the entire second season being skipped.

Noggin and The N

• Jack's Big Music Show, while wasn't as mistreated as its fellow puppet shows that came before and after it, had very few DVD releases (in total, 7 of its episodes were released on DVD), didn't air as much as other shows, would air once a month during Nick Jr.’s 2012 rebrand if you were lucky, was pulled from the Noggin channel after 2 seasons, and finally had its very last rerun buried under an early morning timeslot. The Noggin app did have several episodes in HD, but eventually removed them.
• Noggin's nighttime teen block, The N, became the teenager's equivalent to Fox when it comes to screwing shows over. A lot of their original shows (i.e. the ones that were actually produced by Noggin LLC for the block) were given poor scheduling, including O'Grady and South of Nowhere. Meanwhile, Canadian import Degrassi: The Next Generation got a ton of love and airtime.
  • Even Degrassi doesn't get off all that easy. The N's broadcasts were heavily edited for content, the most notorious example being when they refused to air a two-part episode about abortion out of fear of viewer backlash. Once the show became really popular in America, The N was forced into a position of pushing for creative changes on the Canadian writers.
  • A Walk in Your Shoes and Sponk! were two Noggin originals from when the channel was mainly aimed at tweens. When Noggin moved them to air during The N block, both shows ended up getting way less promotion than they did when they were broadcast in the daytime. Sponk! wasn't even renewed for new episodes after it moved its time slot, meaning that every airing on The N had the host tell viewers to go to Noggin.com instead of The-N.com.
• After the third season of Noggin's original series Oobi wrapped in February 2005, most parents expected new episodes to return in the fall—just like what happened after the second season finished in 2004. The show's ratings during late 2004 were actually some of the highest in Noggin's history - they even published a press release with the subtitle "Noggin's Oobi Delivers Highest Rated Original Premiere In Network's History." Despite the record-breaking ratings, Noggin seemed to totally drop the show. Promotion was quietly pulled, reruns moved to an early-morning time slot, and it never came back for another season.
• Nickelodeon barely advertised The Upside Down Show and rushed to air all of its episodes on Noggin within a month. Only one episode ("Farm") ever aired on the main Nickelodeon channel. In 2007, the Umbilical Brothers announced on their website that the show had been canceled after just one season.
  • The Umbilical Brothers' announcement said that Nick didn't even offer a reason for the cancellation, since the show was received very well by audiences:
    “We have received word from Nickelodeon/Noggin USA that they don't want to do a second season. After all of the positive feedback we've received from around the world, and the show's critical success, this decision is somewhat mystifying. Our executive producer Michael Bourchier has looked into other avenues to get another season off the ground and keep the show alive, but unfortunately he has run out of options.”

Nick Pluto TV

• Nickelodeon’s channel on the free Pluto TV service received a makeover on April 29, 2021, adding in a screenbug, a voice announcer during bumpers, and reruns of modern Nickelodeon shows, which caused Clarissa Explains It All, Kenan & Kel, and the original incarnations of All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark? to get kicked off the network to make room for the newer live-action programs. Are You Afraid of the Dark? eventually started airing again on October 15, 2021 as part of the "Hallow Scream" event on all the Nickelodeon networks, while the others haven't been seen on Pluto TV since.
• Pretty much every series that wasn't SpongeBob SquarePants, The Fairly OddParents!, iCarly, Henry Danger, The Thundermans, or Rugrats got screwed by Nick Pluto TV only two months after the channel's April 2021 rebrand. After June 13, 2021, shows such as Hey Arnold!, Victorious, The Wild Thornberrys, As Told by Ginger, and It's Pony were abruptly pulled from the channel's schedule in favor of dedicating the days of the week they were broadcast on (Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays) to all-day marathons of Rugrats, The Fairly OddParents, and iCarly, respectively. Eventually, Rugrats's spot on the schedule was taken over by Hey Arnold! on August 6, 2021, but the schedule had otherwise remained exactly the same. The shows that were removed from Nick Pluto TV's line-up in June 2021 (as well as Kenan & Kel, which as mentioned earlier was dropped by the network right before the rebrand) were scheduled to return to the channel on August 10, 2021, but at the very last minute, their new timeslots were instead taken over by a marathon of The Wild Thornberrys.
• Nick Jr. Pluto TV, upon launch, used to rerun older shows no longer in production. However, since the channel’s rebrand in 2021, the older shows had been slowly getting replaced with newer and/or in-production programs. After PAW Patrol joined the channel's lineup in September 2022, Blue's Clues remained the only ''classic'' show on the channel; That show got replaced by its reboot one month later, leaving the channel completely void of ''classic'' Nick Jr. shows.
• Nick Pluto TV only ever aired the first episode of It's Pony (“Plants!/Heston’s Coat”) during the show’s first run on the channel. That’s right: just that same episode, EVERY single Saturday, four times a week from May 1-June 12, 2021.
• Said rebrand has also caused SpongeBob SquarePants to go on auto-pilot. While Nick Pluto TV previously aired a variety of episodes from the first five seasons, they then usually only aired the same few episodes, all of which are from season 9, over and over again. The first exception to this rule has been on July 9, 2021, when Nick Pluto TV aired a "Patrick Takeover" marathon of episodes from seasons 1, 10, and 11 (in addition to 9) to promote the premiere of The Patrick Star Show on the main Nickelodeon channel. Eventually, Nick Pluto TV’s standard rotation of the show consisted of seasons 1, 9, 10, & 11.

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