On This Day - Nickelodeon Launched

 Although April 1st (April Fools Day) is usually a day that involves going around pranking and bamboozling everyone via in-person and social media, there are a few things in life that ACTUALLY happen on this funny holiday.

The launch of the First Kids Network, Nickelodeon is no exception as the legendary channel has launched to the nation 42 YEARS AGO today.

Among the channel's upcoming projects include reboots of Rugrats, Dora the Explorer, The Fairly OddParents!, iCarly and Avatar: The Final Airbender, a new era of STAR TREK, a new spinoff of SpongeBob; The Patrick Star Show, new animated series Middlemost Post (July), The Big Nata (September), The Smurfs (October) and ZJ Sparkleton (2022), new movie and TV takes on Mattel's Monster High and Hasbro's Transformers (both coming in 2022 respectively), a virtual TV broadcast edition of PAW Patrol Live! (takes center stage on Saturday April 24th), a new The Loud House movie in real life A Very Loud Christmas (November), new preschool series The BeatBuds (Summer), Made by Maddie (Fall), The Tiny Chef Show (Spring 2022) and The Hampster Show (2022), a new CGI theatrical take on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2023), a musical based on JoJo Siwa: The J Show (Summer) and new live-action comedies The Barbarian and the Troll (unveiled tomorrow at 7:30PM) and That Girl Lauv Lauv (coming in the summer)

Thanks to everyone who has been watching the channel over the years and making Nickelodeon the #1 network as it has been for over four decades.

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