Watch all your '90s Nickelodeon favorites on NickSplat, your late-night destination for your favorite childhood Nickelodeon cartoons and live-action shows! NickSplat doesn't question football-shaped heads, but embrace them - along with Reptar bars, a Big Ear of Corn, orange soda, and even slime for Pete (and Pete's) sake. Make your slime-covered Nickelodeon childhood dreams come true every night at 11 PM ET/PT, only on TeenNick USA! #NickSplat!
Mr. Turner demonstrates how a parent can respect their child's privacy by knocking on their bedroom door before entering, but also asserting their authority by coming in anyway!
A small-town girl… three Hollywood kids… one epic plan! Check out an exclusive sneak peek of Nickelodeon's brand New series Star Falls! Don’t miss the series premiere on Saturday 31st March 2018 at 9:00pm ET/PT, only on Nick USA! Visit Nick.com and the Nick App for more Star Falls!
Star Falls centers on Sophia, a strong-willed teen who persuades a Hollywood movie star and his family to live in her house while he shoots a movie in town, all with the hopes of setting him up with her mom. But the star’s three kids find their new rural life is a drastic change from the L.A. lifestyle they’re accustomed to. Everyone’s lives are hilariously turned upside down as the kids struggle to help their parents find love and adjust to what could be their new life. Created by George Doty IV (iCarly, Victorious, Drake & Josh, Max & Shred, Scooby Doo and the Loch Ness Monster), Nickelodeon has ordered 20 episodes for the show's first season. Star Falls season one was filmed in Canada by Breakthrough Entertainment during summer 2017, and will also air on YTV in Canada.
Below is Nickelodeon's official show description for Star Falls:
"Sophia lives in a quiet small town with her mom, Beth. That is until she convinces Hollywood’s biggest movie star –Craig Brooks- and his family to live in her house while he shoots his next blockbuster movie! Everyone’s lives are turned upside down under one giant roof, especially Craig's kids - Phoenix, Diamond and Bo who are used to a more glamorous life style. Diamond and Sophia are very different, but they can see there are definitely some sparks between their parents and will do anything (with the help of friends and family) to make them fall in love."
To celebrate the launch of Star Falls on 3/31, nick.com has launched the networks official Star Falls website, nick.com/starfalls which features information about the series, and a super sneak-peek from the series premiere episode, "Celeb Setup". In Nick's super sneak-peek, "Lost Dog", the lost dog in town might belong to a very famous somebody!
In the series premiere, "The Celebrity Setup" (#101), when Sophia rescues the dog of Hollywood star Craig Brooks, she seizes the opportunity to set her mom up with him. When that doesn't work, she takes things a step further and has the star and his three kids move in with them!
In episode two, "The Everything Wash", when Sophia sees that Diamond gets whatever she wants whenever she wants, she hopes for the same treatment from Beth. Instead, Craig sees the error in his ways and tells Diamond she has to earn her own money.
Siena Agudong (Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn) stars as Sophia Miller, along with Kamaia Fairburn (Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B) as Diamond Brooks, Tomaso Sanelli (The Passenger) as Nate Rex, Jadiel Dowlin (Annedroids) as Phoenix Brooks and Marcus Cornwall as Bo Brooks.
Originally published: Tuesday, March 27, 2018.Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, via RSS, on Instagram, and/or Facebook for the latest Nickelodeon and Star Falls News and Highlights!
Don't touch that ring! Oh, guess it's too late... See if Arc can transform back into a knight in the brand-new Knight Squad episode "Knight's Tail", premiering Saturday 31st March 2018 at 8:30pm ET/PT, following the epic conclusion of the all-new Henry Danger special "Back to the Danger" at 8:00pm ET/PT, only on Nickelodeon USA!
In the brand-new Knight Squad episode "Knight's Tail" (#108), Ciara (Daniella Perkins) entrusts Arc (Owen Joyner) with her Pixie Ring, which turns him into a hideous beast when he tests the ring's powers on himself; desperate to undo the curse, Ciara and Arc seek the help of the Pixie Queen, who reveals she has beef with Arc!
Plus, stay tuned to Nick for the debut of Nickelodeon's brand-new series, Star Falls at 9:00pm ET/PT!
Nickelodeon will simulcast this new episode across Nick, Nicktoons and TeenNick.
NEW DIGITAL SERIES! 'Bug Salad' Official Trailer Coming April 6th to the Nickelodeon YouTube Channel!
Once upon a time, two friends lived in a boot and things got weird. Watch ALL episodes of Bug Salad Next Friday April 6th on the official Nickelodeon USA YouTube channel!
Bug Salad follows Scott, a Worm who tries to be a good influence on his bug buddy Winston in the garden neighborhood...even when Winston makes some dangerous choices. Created by animator Carl Faruolo (Sanjay and Craig, Pig Goat Banana Cricket), the series is based on the animated short of the same name by Faruolo that was selected as a finalist in 2013 Nickelodeon Animated Comedy Shorts Program. Following the original short, Nickelodeon greenlitBug Salad as a digital series in May 2016.
Nick Made A Funny Mini-Series. Then They Sat On It For Years: Whatever Happened To ‘Bug Salad’?
Back in January of 2014, Cartoon Brew debuted Bug Salad, a promising and funny short created by Carl Faruolo, then a director on Nickelodeon’s Sanjay and Craig.
The quirky concept was part of Nickelodeon’s Animated Shorts program, the same initiative that spurred series like The Loud House and Breadwinners, but unlike those other projects, Bug Salad took a unwieldy, winding path through the world of television development that included the production of five additional shorts.
Finally, more than five years after Faruolo’s initial pitch, Nickelodeon recently premiered those shorts on its Facebook and Youtube. The timing seems somewhat odd, as Faruolo left Nickelodeon earlier this year to join the Animaniacs reboot at Warner Bros. as supervising director. We caught up with Faruolo to learn more about the project’s long gestation period.
Faruolo first pitched Bug Salad when he heard about Nickelodeon’s Animated Shorts Program a few months after he was brought on board as a director for Sanjay and Craig in 2012. The short he created for the program received a positive response right off the bat.
“They wanted to put it into development as a series potential, so we did an 11-minute [animatic] pilot,” he says. “The pilots went up for consideration, and they didn’t choose it. So the project was killed.”
Despite this disappointment, Faruolo was excited to have had the chance to develop his own content. He particularly appreciated the level of support and wiggle room the program afforded him.
“They supported my style of humor. It didn’t feel watered down,” he explains. “So when it got killed, I thought, ‘Well, I did my best and exactly the way I wanted to do it, so it’s okay.’”
Russell Hicks, who was president of content development and production for Nickelodeon at the time, wasn’t satisfied with the fate of Bug Salad. A couple months after the pilot, Hicks turned around and greenlit the stillborn project for five more shorts. By this time, Faruolo had moved on from Sanjay and Craig to become supervising producer on Pig Goat Banana Cricket, and began working on Bug Salad production simultaneously.
For a time, things seemed to be running along smoothly. A May 2016 Variety article announced that the episodes would debut as a “short-form digital series,” but listed no specifics about the release platform or timeline.
Eventually, it became clear that Bug Salad had been lost to the wind once again.
Faruolo believes that part of the problem, at least initially, was Viacom’s ongoing $1 billion lawsuit with Google and Youtube. In 2007, the media giant claimed that Youtube was benefiting from ad revenue generated by traffic to hundreds of thousands of copyrighted Viacom clips that were being illegally posted by Youtube users. Faruolo indicates that during this time, Nickelodeon was loath to post digital content on Youtube, but lacked an appropriate platform of its own. But in 2014, after seven years of legal battle and just a few months after Bug Salad’s Cartoon Brew debut, the two parties reached a non-monetary settlement. So what was the hold-up two years later?
An extremely high turnover rate at the executive level within Nickelodeon, according to Faruolo. He says he faced a new set of execs at every checkpoint, from pitching Bug Salad to finishing production on the five additional shorts. And then, in June 2016, Hicks, who had been Bug Salad’s staunch advocate, left the company, slowing the process once again.
Another champion of the shorts was Nick veteran Mary Harrington, who was in charge of the shorts program when Faruolo first pitched his idea, and served as executive producer on the first short. Harrington, however, also eventually moved to another department within the company. Despite his misfortune, Faruolo remains grateful of the support he received over the long and winding course of development.
“I really lucked out that, even with all the change from the executives and the studio at Nickelodeon, I did get support from each one,” he emphasizes. “It was set up where, since there was so much change within the company, if one person didn’t support me, I would have failed, which always freaked me out. Because every time it happened, I would be like, okay, here we go again. Let’s re-sell [Bug Salad].”
In fact, Faruolo is optimistic about Nickelodeon’s future potential, and approves of Chris Viscardi’s appointment to senior vice president of animation production and development.
“The good thing is they have Chris Viscardi in charge now, and he was one of the creators of [The Adventures of] Pete & Pete, and he was executive producer on Sanjay and Craig, so he’s from a creative background for sure. I honestly think things are going in the right direction now.”
Overall, the Bug Salad creator refuses to be bitter about his experiences with development hell. Rather, Faruolo seems to accept that this sort of process is part and parcel of development at any major studio.
“In general, with all these companies, what I’m hearing is that development just takes too long,” explains the 35-year-old Faruolo. “I have this joke where I tell people now, ‘What kind of show do I want to be a creator of when I’m 40?’ Because if I pitch something now, I’ve got to wait five years to hopefully get a green light.”
“Once you make your pilot, it’s completely out of your hands,” he continues. “It’s not like, ‘Oh, this is done really well, let’s make it.’ They’re going to test it with kids; [they’re] going to time it with the [rest of the] slate; there’s going to be inter-studio politics. It’s totally out of your hands as a creative person.”
What’s most important to Faruolo is that last fall’s launch of the Nickelodeon Animated Shorts Facebook page provided an accessible platform for Bug Salad to be shared with the world.
“There’s a lot of people who want me to be p***ed,” says Faruolo. “‘Why now, why now?’ But I’m like, what do you mean? Wouldn’t it be worse if it never happened? I’m just glad they’re out there. It would be a total awesome bonus if we got to do more, but at the same time, it sure beats them just dying on a shelf somewhere.”
