You know how much I have high hopes with Brian Robbins' tenure and the shows and movies greenlit or premiered under him so far? Well, here is the list of all the department in the past year or so:
*Ordered before Robbins took over
Spinoff or revivals/reboots are underlined.
Animation (run by Ramsey Naito)
Middle School Moguls (miniseries) * (Gina and Jenae Heitkamp)
The Casagrandes * (Michael Rubiner)
It's Pony * (Ant Blades, co-productions with Blue Zoo)
Glitch Techs * (Eric Robles and Dan Milano)
Kamp Koral (miniseries) (Marc Ceccarelli and Vincent Waller)
Adventures in Wonder Park * (David Zuckerman and Anne Flett-Giordano)
Rugrats * (Arlene Klasky, Gabor Csupo, and Paul Germain)
Man in House * (Michael Molina)
Meet the Voxels * (Chris Young)
Middlemost Post (John Trabbic III)
Star Trek Prodigy (Dan and Kevin Hageman)
Garfield
Big Nate (Jim Mortensen)
Phoebe and Her Unicorn (Dana Simpson)
Real Pigeons Fight Crime
The Patrick Star Show
The Twisted Timeline of Sammy and Raj (co-productions with Nick India)
Scripted Live-Action (run by Shauna Phelan) + indicates descendants of a DanWarp production
Cousins for Life * (Kevin Kopelow & Heath Seifert, 20 episodes)
All That (revival) (Mike Tollin & Brian Robbins)
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (Revival) (BenDavid Grabinski)
Young Dylan (Tyler Perry)
Danger Force + (Christopher J. Nowak)
The Astronauts
Side Hustle + (Dave Malkoff)
Erin and Aaron (Dicky Murphy)
Unscripted Live-Action (run by Rob Bagshaw)
The Substitute
Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
America's Most Musical Family
Top Elf
The Crystal Maze
Group Chat The Show
Unfiltered
Unleashed
Preschool (run by Eryk Casmiero)
Butterbean's Cafe * (Johnny Belt and Robert Scull)
Ryan's Mystery Playdate (Albie Hecht)
Blue's Clues and You * (Traci Paige Johnson and Angela Santomero)
Santiago of the Seas (Niki Lopez)
Baby Shark's Big Show! (Gary Doodles and Tommy Sica)
The Tiny Chef Show
If not counting the shows that were leftovers from the previous managements, 28 shows has been ordered under Robbins' tenure so far. And I think what suffered during Cyma Zarghami (and to a lesser extent, Herb Scannell) is that they relied too much on the same certain creators, producers, as well as having musical prodigy and annoying and dimwitted for main characters. I think Nick is finally understanding that we can't depend on them forever. So with this new management, we can the following stigma that Nick has suffered:
-That their animation lineup is nothing but SpongeBob clones, which isn't entirely true. We just need more shows that are different from it. And also to prove that the channel is more than SpongeBob. People hate the idea of the show getting spinoffs, so we have protested to Nick that we want more originality. Even if they're relying too much on existing IPs, I would also recommend to check out on shows like Star Trek Prodigy, Big Nate, etc. so we can support more non-Spongebob Nicktoons.
-That their live-action lineup is nothing but Dan Schneider's productions. Yeah, he was the main producer at Nick for a long time, but I felt like Teennick's schedule is the reason why we have this stigma. Most of his shows succeed, while the other sitcoms not created by him barely thrived (except for The Thundermans which still airs on TV regularly). So it has got to stop now, and hopefully the future sitcoms will prove that their live-action shows can still be fun.
It's not a long journal, but I just wanted to point out that Brian Robbins is doing a decent job as president of Nickelodeon right now. He may not make the best decisions, but rest assured, that Nick will be great again.
