Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Australian Animator Tobias Krebs Joins 'SpongeBob SquarePants' as Storyboard Artist

Nick News Brief: Australian animator Tobias Krebs has joined the SpongeBob SquarePants production crew as a Storyboard Artist. "I am happy to announce I am officially a Storyboard Artist on Spongebob Squarepants," Tobias said on Twitter with the following image, adding "A Childhood dream come true!!! #SpongeBob". Congrats Tobias!


Tobias' previous credits include: Shopkins Wild, Pencilmation, The Greatest Battle Lies Within, Nurry Brothers Adventure World, Spongo, Fuzz & JalapeƱa, and Mushroom Park.

More Nick: 'Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years' and 'The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run' to Debut on Paramount+ on Thursday, March 4!

H/T: Anime Superhero Forum /@SweetShop209.

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Nickelodeon Set to Premiere 'Big Nate' During Summer 2021

Nickelodeon is planning to premiere Big Nate, the network's brand new CG-animated series based on on the best-selling children’s books written and drawn by Lincoln Peirce, during summer 2021! The acclaimed author and cartoonist revealed the news during a fantastic interview with Brightly in November 2020!

Big Nate (Center)

"Big Nate continues to appear in newspapers as a daily comic strip; it will celebrate its 30th birthday in January. New comic collections are published twice a year – the next one is called Big Nate: In Your Face. Perhaps the biggest news is that, after many years of false starts and dead ends, a Big Nate animated TV show is coming to Nickelodeon in the summer of 2021. This will help Nate reach a new generation of readers/viewers and might even inspire me to write and illustrate more Big Nate novels. So, there’s a lot to look forward to!"

Peirce also revealed in the same interview that Nickelodeon has also optioned his Max & the Midknights book series, with development underway for a potential TV series and/or movie based on the novels!

Announced in February 2020, Nickelodeon is taking the misadventures of Big Nate from page to screen with an all-new 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 being produced by Nickelodeon in Burbank, Calif.

Big Nate is a book title I've wanted to translate into a series for a long time, and I am so happy this awesome, super-funny character is coming to Nickelodeon," said Ramsey Naito, Executive Vice President, Animation Production and Development, Nickelodeon. “All of creator Lincoln Peirce's slightly unruly, but entirely relatable characters share Nick’s same creative DNA, and we can't wait for them to join our amazing family!"

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.

Barbara M. Rubin, Partner, Co-Chair of the Entertainment Department, helped with the IP transfer of Big Nate from Scripps Network’s to Nickelodeon.

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

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Nickelodeon Options Lincoln Peirce's 'Max & the Midknights' Book Series for TV Series and/or Movie

Following acquiring the rights to Lincoln Peirce's beloved Big Nate comic strip and best-selling children’s book series, the acclaimed author and cartoonist has revealed that Nickelodeon has optioned the rights to his follow up book series, Max & the Midknights for a TV show and/or movie!


Speaking to Brightly in November 2020, Peirce said: "I wrote Max & the Midknights as a one-off, but I ended up enjoying the experience so much that I decided to turn it into a series. Book 2, Max & the Midknights: Battle of the Bodkins, will be published on December 1. And I’m already well into writing Book 3, Max & the Midknights: The Tower of Time, which will conclude the series. The story has been optioned by Nickelodeon, and development is underway for an eventual animated TV show and/or movie. I think Max would make a great show. There are countless stories waiting to be told about the residents of the kingdom of Byjovia!"

Set in the Middle Ages, Max & the Midknights is a hilarious illustrated novel centers on Max, who is often mistaken for a boy because of her short hair and assertive personality. Max wants to be a knight, not an entertainer like her uncle. She finally gets her chance when her uncle is kidnapped by the evil and aptly named King Gastley. She and several and other courageous children dub themselves the Midknights and come to the rescue. Aided by the retired wizard Mumblin, Max and her team try to restore peace to the Kingdom of Byjovia. This is a story of magic and adventure. In the book series, comic panels with Peirce's signature black-and-white art are expertly placed amid small paragraphs of text, allowing readers to be drawn into this fun setting. Max & the Midknights was published in 2019, followed by Max and the Midknights: Battle of the Bodkins in December 2020. The third and final book in the series, Max & the Midknights: The Tower of Time, will be published in the near future. Both book series are available to purchase on Amazon.

While the novels stands alone from the Big Nate books, the opening page of the debut book references the series, as Nate's teacher chastises him for submitting Max and the Midknights as his nonfiction book report.


Brightly also got the chance to chat to Peirce about Max, Nate, and the roles gender and identity play in tween novels:

In the first book in the Max & the Midknights series, Max remained gender neutral until people read the book. Can you tell us why it was important to you to create a heroine and to not tease her gender with the cover art and book description?

That came about as a result of a conversation I’d had a few years earlier with three friends – Jeff Kinney, Dav Pilkey, and Stephan Pastis. We were speaking about the fact that in the children’s book market, all of us had become known for creating stories featuring pre-adolescent boys as protagonists. When we did bookstore events, the kids in attendance were overwhelmingly male. And of course, all four of us are middle-aged men. At a certain point in the conversation, someone posed the question: What if one of us wrote a book with a female protagonist? I thought to myself, “I’d like to try that” – not because I’m particularly interested in the notion that there are “girl books” and “boy books.” I reject that premise. I just thought it would be fun – and a challenge – to subvert readers’ expectations. I knew, based on the fact that I’d written the boy-centric Big Nate books, that just about everyone who picked up a copy of Max & the Midknights would assume Max was a boy. I didn’t want them to focus on Max’s gender, but on her dilemma – she’s living the life of an apprentice troubadour while dreaming of becoming a knight. That’s why I made her name and appearance gender neutral, and why I waited nearly 50 pages to reveal the fact that Max is a girl. I didn’t want to write a book in which her gender is the main issue; I wanted to write a book in which her gender is ultimately irrelevant.

The second book, Max & the Midknights: Battle of the Bodkins, deals a bit more explicitly with questions of identity: Max’s identity as an aspiring knight, first and foremost, but also the idea that people might withhold or disguise their identities for any number of reasons. Max is a kid who’s accustomed to people jumping to conclusions about her identity. That made her the perfect character to drive the story in Battle of the Bodkins. Everyone knows by now that Max is a girl, but that hasn’t necessarily made her path any smoother. And it doesn’t mean that the identities of other characters are always what they appear to be.

What is it about Max that makes her relatable to both tween boys and girls?

It’s fun to read stories about characters whose lives are more eventful than our own, and Max certainly has a pretty interesting life. But a story becomes even more compelling when the characters we’re spending time with are everyday people with identifiable strengths and vulnerabilities. Max has no extraordinary powers – she’s not a superhero or an alien or a kid with magical abilities. In fact, she’s filled with many of the same insecurities as a typical 10-year-old. I’d like to think that, in that sense, she seems authentic to readers. Kids enjoy finding themselves in stories, and even though parts of Max’s life are exotic, it’s easy for young readers to see themselves in her.

At the beginning of Battle of the Bodkins, Max is suffering a crisis of confidence. She wonders if she has what it takes to become a knight, and she compares herself to Sedgewick, one of her Knight School classmates. We’ve all been there! I’m pretty sure that most tweens, whether boys or girls, know what it’s like to feel resentful of a more accomplished peer. Max certainly does, and during Battle of the Bodkins she can be peevish, vain, short-tempered, and snarky. She also has many moments of courage, loyalty, valor, and selflessness. She’s a mixed bag, which I think makes her much more relatable than a character who either succeeds at everything or fails relentlessly.

How do you use illustrations to support the text of a middle grade novel?

I don’t think of illustrations as supporting the text; I see them as part of the text. I use the term hybrid to describe books like mine, because it suggests an equal partnership between words and pictures. Instead of marching alongside one another, the illustrations and text are weaving in and around each other. It’s almost like two musicians working on a duet until it sounds just right. That’s why I would describe myself as a rhythm writer. There’s a definite rhythm that I strive for on each page, but it’s hard to pin down exactly why one piece of dialogue works as part of the text, while another line simply has to be featured in a speech bubble.

Some pieces of editorial insight are cliches, but that doesn’t make them any less true – like “show, not tell.” I think about that one all the time. In Battle of the Bodkins, there’s a lot of action. I could try to write a vivid description of what it’s like for Max to fall into a crater in the Pits of Doom or, earlier in the book, to be swallowed by a giant swamp worm. But it’s far more impactful – and fun for the reader – if I present those events visually. Similarly, moments of humor can become far more memorable if a joke is reinforced by the facial expressions and body language of the characters involved.

I also think it’s important for the style of the illustrations to match the tenor and tone of the text. I consider myself only a fair to middling visual artist, but the clean, simple cartooning style I’ve developed over the years is a good fit for the comedic nature of a book like Battle of the Bodkins. A more realistic or atmospheric approach wouldn’t be as effective.

You’re well-known for the Big Nate series, how are Nate and Max similar? How are they different?

Let’s start with the similarities. They’re about the same age – Max is 10 and Nate is 11.  Both are bold and decisive, and both are leaders. They are optimists. Each has a bumbling but lovable father figure; for Nate, it’s his actual dad, and for Max, it’s Uncle Budrick. And they both have certain qualities that make them unique among their peers.  In Max’s case, she is skilled in the knightly arts. Nate’s skills apply to a different kind of art – he is an aspiring cartoonist and storyteller. And finally, both characters are clearly good people whose hearts are in the right place. Any difficulties they find themselves in are never the result of their acting out of malice or spite.

But they diverge in many ways. Nate has a much bigger ego than Max and is convinced of his own exceptionality. He’s older than Max is, but not as emotionally mature. He’s impulsive and impatient – character traits that do not serve him well in middle school.  Max, on the other hand, has a level of self-awareness that eludes Nate. She is far more responsible; in Battle of the Bodkins, she must make decisions that will impact the safety and security of an entire kingdom. She’s also independent and uncommonly self-reliant for a child of her age – one gets the feeling that Uncle Budrick might fall apart without her. And above all, Max is a protector. She understands that the job of a knight is to shield others from harm, and she embraces this role. Nate is the star of his own life, but his adventures are inevitably low-stakes events. Max, on the other hand, frequently deals with high-stakes, life-or-death conflicts. She is truly heroic.

About Lincoln Peirce:

Lincoln Peirce is a New York Times-bestselling author and cartoonist. His comic strip Big Nate, featuring the adventures of an irrepressible sixth grader, appears in over 400 newspapers worldwide and online at gocomics.com/bignate. In 2010, he began a series of illustrated novels based on the strip, introducing Nate and his cast of classmates and teachers to a new generation of young readers. In the past seven years, twenty million Big Nate books have been sold.

Max and the Midknights, Lincoln’s instant New York Times bestselling novel for Crown Books for Young Readers, originated as a spoof of sword and sorcery tales. He later rewrote the story with a new and memorable protagonist: Max, a ten-year-old apprentice troubadour who dreams of becoming a knight. Max & the Midknights: Battle of the Bodkins returns readers to the kingdom of Byjovia for more high-spirited medieval adventures, supported by hundreds of dynamic illustrations employing the language of comics. Of the lively visual format that has become his trademark, Lincoln says, “I try to write the sorts of books I would have loved reading when I was a kid.”

When he is not writing or drawing, Lincoln enjoys playing ice hockey, doing crossword puzzles, and hosting a weekly radio show devoted to vintage country music. He and his wife, Jessica, have two children and live in Portland, Maine.


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Monday, February 15, 2021

Nickelodeon UK Ratings for Week of Monday 1st - Sunday 7th February 2021

Nickelodeon UK Network Ratings for week of Monday 1st - Sunday 7th February 2021.


Ratings across the Nickelodeon UK Network were a bit of a mixed bag again this week compared to the previous week (Jan. 25-31), according to BARB data, with Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. Too reporting slight decreases in viewership, whilst Nicktoons and Nick Jr.'s ratings increased, the latter buoyed by The Adventures of Paddington.

Nickelodeon Total:

1. HORRID HENRY (MON 15:43) - 78,800
2. HORRID HENRY (MON 15:59) - 67,900
3. HORRID HENRY (TUE 16:14) - 56,800
4. HORRID HENRY (WED 15:44) - 53,900
5. HORRID HENRY (SAT 09:15) - 50,100
6. SPYDERS (THU 18:31) - 47,600
7. HORRID HENRY (SUN 06:59) - 47,200
8. HORRID HENRY (TUE 06:00) - 44,500
9. SAM & CAT (THU 11:30) - 43,800
10. HORRID HENRY (MON 06:43) - 42,200
11. SAM & CAT (MON 12:00) - 41,400
12. HORRID HENRY (SUN 07:15) - 39,300
13. SAM & CAT (MON 11:31) - 39,100
14. FIND ME IN PARIS (THU 19:00) - 34,400
15. HORRID HENRY (MON 16:15) - 34,100

NickToons Total:

1. THE LOUD HOUSE (WED 21:29) - 105,800
2. HORRID HENRY (SUN 10:15) - 70,600
3. HORRID HENRY (SUN 10:29) - 67,100
4. HORRID HENRY (SUN 09:44) - 67,100
5. HORRID HENRY (SUN 09:59) - 64,700
6. LEGO CITY ADVENTURES (SUN 08:15) - 62,700
7. LEGO CITY ADVENTURES (SUN 08:00) - 62,600
8. HORRID HENRY (MON 18:14) - 59,000
9. SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS (MON 15:30) - 59,000
10. HORRID HENRY (SUN 10:44) - 57,700
11. HORRID HENRY (SAT 13:44) - 51,100
12. SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS (MON 15:15) - 49,700
13. THE LOUD HOUSE (FRI 09:59) - 47,700
14. SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS (MON 20:45) - 45,800
15. HORRID HENRY (TUE 11:45) - 42,400

Nick Jr. Total:

1. THE ADVENTURES OF PADDINGTON (FRI 16:59) - 208,200
2. PEPPA PIG (SUN 26:49) - 195,900
3. PEPPA PIG (SUN 26:44) - 165,400
4. PEPPA PIG (FRI 13:20) - 161,500
5. PEPPA PIG (THU 11:05) - 156,700
6. PEPPA PIG (THU 11:15) - 148,600
7. PEPPA PIG (FRI 13:00) - 137,600
8. PEPPA PIG (THU 11:00) - 134,600
9. PEPPA PIG (FRI 13:30) - 132,000
10. THE ADVENTURES OF PADDINGTON (THU 11:30) - 126,200
11. PEPPA PIG (FRI 14:14) - 125,900
12. PEPPA PIG (WED 14:30) - 123,400
13. PEPPA PIG (FRI 13:59) - 118,200
14. PEPPA PIG (THU 14:29) - 117,600
15. PEPPA PIG (WED 10:44) - 117,500

Nick Jr. Too:

1. PEPPA PIG (WED 19:00) - 108,600
2. PEPPA PIG (WED 17:45) - 106,300
3. PEPPA PIG (MON 10:15) - 104,000
4. PEPPA PIG (TUE 17:40) - 103,200
5. BEN AND HOLLY'S LITTLE KINGDOM (SUN 26:15) - 100,900
6. PEPPA PIG (TUE 17:29) - 100,200
7. BEN AND HOLLY'S LITTLE KINGDOM (WED 27:00) - 95,700
8. PAW PATROL (WED 12:30) - 94,800
9. PEPPA PIG (WED 19:20) - 93,500
10. PEPPA PIG (TUE 17:45) - 92,600
11. PAW PATROL (MON 11:30) - 90,200
12. PEPPA PIG (SAT 19:20) - 89,700
13. PAW PATROL (SUN 14:44) - 86,500
14. PAW PATROL (SUN 14:29) - 85,400
15. PAW PATROL (WED 16:45) - 84,400

Note: Nick Jr. Too is listed as Nick Jr 2 on BARB.

Nickelodeon Network:

1. THE ADVENTURES OF PADDINGTON (FRI 16:59) - Nick Jr Total - 208,200
2. PEPPA PIG (SUN 26:49) - Nick Jr Total - 195,900
3. PEPPA PIG (SUN 26:44) - Nick Jr Total - 165,400
4. PEPPA PIG (FRI 13:20) - Nick Jr Total - 161,500
5. PEPPA PIG (THU 11:05) - Nick Jr Total - 156,700
6. PEPPA PIG (THU 11:15) - Nick Jr Total - 148,600
7. PEPPA PIG (FRI 13:00) - Nick Jr Total - 137,600
8. PEPPA PIG (THU 11:00) - Nick Jr Total - 134,600
9. PEPPA PIG (FRI 13:30) - Nick Jr Total - 132,000
10. THE ADVENTURES OF PADDINGTON (THU 11:30) - Nick Jr Total - 126,200
11. PEPPA PIG (FRI 14:14) - Nick Jr Total - 125,900
12. PEPPA PIG (WED 14:30) - Nick Jr Total - 123,400
13. PEPPA PIG (FRI 13:59) - Nick Jr Total - 118,200
14. PEPPA PIG (THU 14:29) - Nick Jr Total - 117,600
15. PEPPA PIG (WED 10:44) - Nick Jr Total - 117,500

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, February 15, 2021
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Mark Mothersbaugh Teases New 'Rugrats' Theme Song: 'I Updated it a Little Bit'

One of the most recognizable aspects from Nickelodeon's beloved '90s animated series Rugrats is it's iconic theme song. As soon as you hear the crash followed by gentle tones, you know that more adventures with the lovable babies are on the way.


The Rugrats theme tune was written by Devo co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh, who also wrote the show's music throughout it's original 13-year-run, and fans will be delighted to hear that the acclaimed film and TV composer has also been working on the theme song for Nickelodeon's upcoming CG-animated Rugrats revival series!

When asked by Billboard about which Rugrat he thinks would be most deserving of a Rock Hall induction, Mothersbaugh, 70, revealed: "I think Tommy would get it, but Chuckie would be my vote. We're working on the new Rugrats. They're bringing it back. I worked on the theme song again, updated it a little bit."

The character design for Chuckie Finster on Rugrats was actually based on the musician.


The "Whip It" singer also revealed that one of his brothers is also working on producing music and new songs for the series!:

"[M]y brother is doing the episodes and new songs for that right now."

The news comes as Mothersbaugh nearly died last year after contracting COVID-19 (coronavirus). Diagnosed with the illness in May, he was placed on a ventilator twice at Cedars-Sinai hospital to help him breathe as COVID began to attack his lungs.

When Billboard asked Mothersbaugh was now, the musician said: "I got a vaccine shot, because I'm old enough for it, a couple days ago. I got the response people usually get from their second vaccine shot, so I must've had antibodies in my body already. I've had a fever the last couple days, so I'm just now standing up again. That was a lot of fun."

Mothersbaugh followed up the success of Rugrats by writing the Rocket Power theme song, as well as Rugrats' three related theatrical films, and it's spin-off, All Grown Up!. His music could also be heard on Santo Bugito and Clifford the Big Red Dog. He also wrote a new theme song for the original Felix the Cat show, provided some music for Pee-wee's Playhouse, and wrote the theme song for the Super Mario World TV series for DIC Entertainment in 1991.

Mothersbaugh's theme song for Rugrats was eventually sampled for The Rugrats Movie soundtrack for “Take Me There” by Blackstreet, Mya, Mase, and Blinky Blink.


On the film side, Mothersbaugh credits are as extensive as anyone else's in the game. A frequent collaborator with the likes of Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Wes Anderson, the Devo lead has scored hits like The Rugrats Movie, Rugrats In Paris, Rugrats Go Wild, Happy Gilmore, Halloweentown, Mama's Boy, both Jump Streets, the Transylvania trilogy, three of the films in Warner Brothers' Lego franchise, and Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok.

Mothersbaugh also revealed in the same interview with Billboard that he's currently working on a new stage musical with his wife Anita Greenspan and legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk:

"I'm doing a musical with my wife and Tony Hawk, we're producing. Tony and I have been friends a long time. Our intention is to incorporate a lot of Devo music into it. Devo is in the Skateboarding Hall of Fame. It's true," said Mothersbaugh, adding "I have pictures of myself after my last skateboard ride where I'm being confirmed at 12 or 13, and all the kids were dressed in choir robes and I have two black eyes and stitches across my face. I took a big fall and realized my myopia was so extreme that it wasn't my calling."

Titled Slam, it's a coming of age story about a group of kids who are skaters, and is based on the Nick Hornby book of the same name.

"We're working with the La Jolla Playhouse right now. It's a weird time to be doing a musical, that's for sure. It'll be a combination of Devo that you know, a little bit of modified Devo, and I'll have some original songs in the project also. Tony will probably choreograph the skaters, so it could look really good.

"He was taking me to see things like comedians, and I was like, 'eh… okay.' Then I said, 'Well, come and see some musicals, my wife is a big musical fan.' So we took him to see some things, and I was going, 'well, this is too small of a stage to skate on' and he was like, 'No, no… in this place, we'd get a running start behind the curtain, so by the time you came out you could be flying through the air. Or else you could drop out of the balcony.' I go, 'They're not gonna let you drop out of the balcony!' I mean, he could do it. But anyhow, his involvement will be in that part of the process."

You can read Mark Mothersbaugh's fantastic interview with Billboard in full on Billboard.com.


Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures announced in July 2018 that they were relaunching Nickelodeon's beloved '90s animated series Rugrats with a 26-episode new season from Nickelodeon and a live-action film featuring CGI characters from Paramount Players. However, although the TV series is still planned, the new Rugrats movie has reportedly been shelved for the time being.

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 Nicktoon series launched in August of 1991 and instantly became a groundbreaking phenomenon, spawning consumer products, three hit theatrical releases, various video games 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, and also spawned three spin-off series, All Grown Up!Angelica and Susie's School Daze and Rugrats: Tales from the Crib. The series earned four Daytime Emmy Awards, six Kids' Choice Awards and its own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Nickelodeon is slated to premiere their Rugrats revival during 2021, with most of the surviving original voice actors expected to reprise their respective roles, including Nancy Cartwright as Chuckie Finster, Melanie Chartoff as Didi Pickles and Cheryl Chase as Angelica Pickles.

However, Dil Pickles, Tommy's younger brother who was introduced in The Rugrats Movie, is not expected to feature in the series until season two.

More Nick: Nickelodeon Unveils First Look at CG-Animated 'Rugrats' and 'Big Nate'!

Original source: The Source.

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