Nickelodeon Continues Format Innovations by Expanding Slate of Daily Scripted Series, with Greenlights for Three New Shows
Daily Serialized Shows Make It Pop, Talia's Kitchen and The W.I.T.s Academy are Picked Up for 2015-16 Season
Nick also Renews Daily Scripted Hits
Pictured: (L-R) Jodi (Louriza Tronco), Sun Hi (
"Between the enormous amount of shows we have in production, and the
strong foundation of our recent launches, we are giving our audience
some of the most fresh and innovative content we've ever produced," said
Details of Nick's new daily scripted series are:
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Make It Pop (20 episodes) is a comedic, music-infused
daily strip about three unique girls who come together to start their
own K-Pop-inspired band. Randomly selected to room together at
boarding school, bookish Corki, fashion-forward Jodi and social media
maven Sun Hi meet and bond over music. With the help of fellow
boarding school classmate and DJ hopeful, Caleb, the girls grow from
roommates to bandmates as they become a school-wide sensation and
compete for a place in the upcoming school musical. The series, which
will feature original songs and performances in every episode, is
co-created by
Thomas W. Lynch andNick Cannon and produced by DHX Media. Make It Pop is executive produced by Lynch and Cannon, together withSteven DeNure andAnne Loi for DHX Media. -
Talia's Kitchen (working title; 40 episodes) is
a live-action series, inspired by the daily telenovela format that
follows 14-year-old Talia who moves in with her grandmother and starts
spending time in the kitchen of their family-owned restaurant. There,
she discovers her true calling: cooking. With the help of her special
"salt and pepper sense"--and her late father's magical spices--Talia
is able to infuse emotion into her food and cook just what each
customer needs. Talia's Kitchen is created by
Catharina Ledeboer and produced byViacom International .Tatiana Rodriguez will serve as Executive Producer. -
The W.I.T.s Academy (working title; 20 episodes)
is a daily strip spun off from the hit
Every Witch Way . In this new series, teenage Guardians will oversee young witches- and wizards-in-training at a magical academy. There, the Guardians will have to decide who is friend, and who is foe. The series is created byCatharina Ledeboer and is produced byViacom International . The W.I.T.s Academy is executive produced byTatiana Rodriguez .
Also announced today was the season four renewal of
Max & Shred chronicles the hilarious and unlikely friendship
between
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