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It's not like Viacom is going to own TMNT as a property forever. It's going to hold on to it and milk it as long as it can, but eventually, they will end their license of it and sell it to someone else. Just because Viacom own's Nick doesn't mean that it markets to kids only. Paramount Pictures and is a fairly general audience company and they can produce a Netflix special.
For example a couple of years ago Paramount Animation did an animated film version of the Little Prince. This film was due to be released in theaters but was dropped due to budget cuts (and would have been ignored in theaters due to competing films *Cough* Star Wars *Cough*.) But it was picked and aired on NetFlix which actually turned out to be a better way for that film to gain an audience.
Viacom also owns companies like MTV and Comedy Central under their Global Entertainment Group. So it is still possible for them to sell TMNT as a franchise to someone like Netflix original, or Stars, or HBO.
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