Sorry to revive an old thread, but I was thinking about the most likely date we'll get more information about this series using another Nickelodeon comic strip adaptation, Big Nate, as a reference.
Big Nate was first announced in January 2020. The cast was revealed in December 2021, then a trailer was released a month later, and the series will be premiering a month after that.
The P&HU series was announced in June 2020. That makes me think we'll get a cast reveal in April of this year, then a trailer in May, and the series premiere in June. (I really hope Jane Krakowski plays Marigold, since that's the voice Dana Simpson pictures according to an interview she did a few years ago.)
My biggest concern right now is the animation style. Big Nate is CGI, which works due to the simplistic style, but I'm worried that it'll be difficult to render Phoebe and Marigold in CGI and still make them look appealing, especially on a television budget.
Found an interview Dana did for the tenth anniversary
, and apparently the Nickelodeon project is going to be a movie first and then a show after, and it's still in the script phase.
Apparently she doesn't completely know everything they're planning, and doesn't even know if it'll be 2D or 3D (but she wants it to be 2D).
Bad news everyone. The show has been cancelled
due to Nick believing the show can't be marketed to boys.
Yup, the Girl-Show Ghetto is still in effect.
Edited by MrMediaGuy2 on Dec 30th 2022 at 12:09:48 PM
X2: That hasn't stopped Nickelodeon from trying to gain a young girl audience, both in their live action projects and animation. The recent Monster High reboot animated series is produced by Nick Animation, making it a Nicktoon at that.
Edited by XMenMutant22 on Dec 29th 2022 at 6:14:20 AM
When this was first announced, I knew Nickelodeon would screw it over, knowing their track record. I just didn't think it would happen before the show was even made.
The more I think about it, the more I think Nick dropping this show was a blessing in disguise. Who knows how Nick would've bastardized it? They could've shifted it to CGI, dumbed it down for preschoolers, filled it with Toilet Humor, etc.
There's a reason Bill Watterson went out of his way to avoid adapting Calvin and Hobbes into a series.
Edited by MrMediaGuy2 on Dec 30th 2022 at 3:14:08 AM
Or Rise of the TMNT, all shows dismissed by the new regime.
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Partially true. Watterson turned down letting Calvin and Hobbes be adapted because he has no interest in managing an intellectual property. His philosophy now is to just turn down everything that isn't publishing the strip itself, even projects he'd otherwise be okay with. A team of animators famously sent him a clip they'd made of Calvin and Hobbes dancing together, and he told them that, while they'd done a great job, he still wasn't going to let them adapt Calvin and Hobbes.
So much stuff got made with Charles Schulz's Peanuts characters not because Schulz was greedy, but because he had trouble saying "no" to people (he grew up during the Depression and couldn't justify to himself preventing people from making money). Watterson has no such problem. To merchandise Calvin and Hobbes Watterson would have to oversee it himself or let other people take a measure of control over the property, and he doesn't want to do either of those things.
George Lucas and Jim Henson are other object lessons in this. They both ended up spending most of their time managing their best known creations as intellectual properties before selling to Disney.
Edited by Robbery on Dec 30th 2022 at 12:14:37 PM

As a fan of the comic strip, I should be excited for this, since I've wanted a P&HU animated adaptation for a while. But I was hoping it'd be picked up by a streaming service like Netflix, because Nickelodeon has a habit of mistreating its creators and screwing over any series that isn't as popular as SpongeBob SquarePants.