Nickelodeon renews TMNT for 3rd season

[HerpDerp]

http://www.deadline.com/2013/02/nickelodeon-orders-new-animated-series-breadwinners-renews-ninja-turtles

[Chris]

Awesome news!

As Mikey would say Booyakasha! :trazz:

[CyberCubed]

Awesome, 3 down...only 7 more to go.

I think this could very well be the first TMNT cartoon to hit the milestone 200 episode barrier. Hopefully it'll get renewed for another 7 seasons.

[plastroncafe]

YAY! Well done, Team Nick Turtles!

[Cure]

I think anyone who's not crazy would rather have a 3 or 4 season long show that's awesome than one that's 10 seasons and overstayed its welcome.

[CyberCubed]

I think anyone who's not crazy would rather have a 3 or 4 season long show that's awesome than one that's 10 seasons and overstayed its welcome.

What if its consistently awesome for 10 seasons though? If they can keep up the current writing and improve the CG and add more characters and more complex stories, it can go on for as long as they like.

[ToTheNines]

Awesome news. Can't say I'm surprised though :)

[TheSkeletonMan939]

That is... stupid. There's barely halfway through season 1. What if kids lose interest in TMNT during season 2?

I'm not saying the show will be an absolute failure - I'm sure it'll continue to be super popular. I just think it's dumb to obligate yourself to chuck out two more seasons of a TV show without even being done with the first.

[ToTheNines]

They'll want an animated companion for the upcoming movie anyways.

Verdict: not stupid.

[CyberCubed]

That is... stupid. There's barely halfway through season 1. What if kids lose interest in TMNT during season 2?

I'm not saying the show will be an absolute failure - I'm sure it'll continue to be super popular. I just think it's dumb to obligate yourself to chuck out two more seasons of a TV show without even being done with the first.

You do realize the 4kids series was constantly renewed 2 seasons ahead of whatever was airing, right?

This is why when Season 3 was written they knew it wasn't the end, because they knew they were getting a Season 5. When Season 4 was airing they were already working on Fast Forward, hence it being ready to air a year before it was supposed to.

The 4kids series was constantly renewed 2 seasons ahead of whatever was airing, same with Nick.

[BAXTER STOCKMAN 19]

I dont think that anyone is suprised with this news. 1987 show had 10 seasons and 2003 had 7 seasons. It is normal for the nick show to have at least 7 seasons if not ten. And it is already a lot more popular than the 2003 show was when first season 1 ended .

[tlg80]

Happy to hear this news.

[Gyt Kaliba]

It does seem a little overboard to greenlight a third season this early in when we haven't even finished airing all of season one yet - but that's just the nature of the business, so far as I can tell. And it also tells us that the whole shebang must be doing pretty well for Nick if they already want to have more ready to go, wouldn't you think? So I'm ecstatic at this news.

[Powder]

That is crazy & awesome.

[TheCanadiandrome]

awesome news!

[chrisdude]

They'll want an animated companion for the upcoming movie anyways.

Verdict: not stupid.A third season takes them to 2015. Surely they want TMNT that long. And hopefully, the movie show will give the show a ratings boost. The IDW series, too.

EDIT:
What you all need to do, is go back to the beginning of that thread, and see how friggin' thrilled Michael Bay fans are about Megan Fox.

EDIT 2:
Hahaha. What? I have too many tabs open...

[NinjaMan]

Sweet news!

[TurtleTitan97]

This is great!:tgrin:

[NinjaPug]

Awesome. Not a shock but it's great to get the official word.

[Oculus Orbus]

Great! I hope the show remains consistent!

[oldmanwinters]

Take that, Marvel & DC animated programming!:kgrin::kgrin::kgrin:

[Lethal Lullaby]

This is great news! :tsmile:

[Teddy]

Wow, really? Awesome! ^-^

[CyberCubed]

Take that, Marvel & DC animated programming!:kgrin::kgrin::kgrin:

I bet all the Bruce Timm and Greg Weisman fans are bitter. (For the record, I am a huge DC and Marvel cartoon fan, and I know how they feel).

As I said, each TMNT cartoon makes a bare minimum of 150 episodes and I expect the Nick show to be the same. We are NOT DC and Marvel with their short lived 26-65 episode series.

[Donatello19]

Great news, but as others have said, I'm not surprised at all. Let's hope the show sticks around for a while, at least 6-7 seasons I say.

[Forneus]

BOOYAKASHA! Ahhh yeah, all's well within the world of Turtles. This is the best news I've had all month!

[Martin]

Awesome! I wonder why they are renewing so soon though. It seems only yesterday that they were announcing season 2. Anyway, great news :tgrin:

[CyberCubed]

Awesome! I wonder why they are renewing so soon though. It seems only yesterday that they were announcing season 2. Anyway, great news :tgrin:

The 3 seasons minimum was planned from the start. One of the old events back in 2012 said, "new episodes committed through 2015" which is 3 seasons.

They'll probably look at ratings and toy sales from the rest of Season 1 and 2 before deciding a Season 4 and above though.

[NinjaMan]

The 3 seasons minimum was planned from the start. One of the old events back in 2012 said, "new episodes committed through 2015" which is 3 seasons.

They'll probably look at ratings and toy sales from the rest of Season 1 and 2 before deciding a Season 4 and above though.

Like how you said that the episode after Chong has Newtralizer? And then lied about Nines posting it and there was nothing? Unless you provide a link I'm not believing anything you post.

[Machias Banshee]

This is great news.. :) Can't wait to see what Ciro comes up with.

[CyberCubed]

Like how you said that the episode after Chong has Newtralizer? And then lied about Nines posting it and there was nothing? Unless you provide a link I'm not believing anything you post.

And...here it is:

http://www.ninjapizza.net/2012/02/new-photos-info-from-toy-fair.html

This was from one of the early promotions in 2012. One of the lines on the screen says, "new episodes committed through 2015."

[Ryanator008]

Don't you guys get it? This show's success was planned by Nick. They want this to replace Spongebob as the show they are known for.

[Raph's Girl]

I bet all the Bruce Timm and Greg Weisman fans are bitter.

Im not bitter. Greg Weisman has a Gargoyles related novel series coming out (first book comes out in December) so I at least have that to look forward to.

[NinjaMan]

And...here it is:

http://www.ninjapizza.net/2012/02/new-photos-info-from-toy-fair.html

This was from one of the early promotions in 2012. One of the lines on the screen says, "new episodes committed through 2015."

Thank you, this is the first time you haven't pulled something out of thin air.

[snake]

WOOOOOOOOO:tgrin::tgrin::tgrin: AWSOME!!!!!!

[Luigiperps]

I hope this show will last forever! :trazz:

[BabyTurtles]

kinda figured it would!! :D

booyakasha TMNT!!

[Zany Orange Dude]

Take that, Marvel & DC animated programming!:kgrin::kgrin::kgrin:

:tlol:
YES!:tgrin: This is awesome news! Glad to hear it!:tparty:

[pannoni1]

I suspect the decision for a Season 4 renewal were weigh on the impact of the Bay movie, since this will likely be this generation's biggest media moment in terms of drawing in the general audience along with promoting toy sales. I don't know of a cartoon which got cancelled because of a box office bomb in associated with the franchise with the possible exception of Transformers G1 even though that was in the same continuity as the series, so let's enjoy this news. The only question is if it will be a 13 or 26 episode season, since 13 gives it the standard 65 episodes and typically Nick likes to air lots of reruns by the third season of a show (if they already are doing so far). But most importantly, this wouldn't be possible without the support of us fans for enjoying the show. :trazz:

[NinjaPug]

Third season....please get Usagi.

[NinjaMan]

I wonder if any ideas from the movie will be carried over to the show.

[shihe]

That is crazy & awesome.

Then... it's Crawezome!

[Shark_Blade]

Ah, great news! Season 1 hasn't even finish yet! AMAZING.

They're confident with this series, good, good.

[shihe]

Ah, great news! Season 1 hasn't even finish yet! AMAZING.

They're confident with this series, good, good.

Great news they are indeed! :D

Every single episode has been a joy to watch. I'd love to run a marathon of all the episodes shown so far, because they're really great.

I'm hyped for the news of a Season 3. Dang... can't wait for Season 2, can't wait to see what Casey Jones looks like! (Probably like a juvenile delinquent, lol, but I think they could pull it off well enough)

Karai's introduction turned out MUCH better than I expected. Love that whole anarchy-goth personality they gave her. Works well, for a teen Karai.
A good break from the uptighter 2k3/2k7 version (though I loved every episode with her in it).

[Rise1184]

Nice! Good news indeed.

[TheSmartOne]

I have nothing in particular to add to this thread except for this:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j237/Spidertroll/tmnt/freakout.gif

That is all XD

[TheCollector]

Don't you guys get it? This show's success was planned by Nick. They want this to replace Spongebob as the show they are known for.

And they should want that. Who want's to be known for Spongbob.

It was fine the first few seasons, but after the shows creator left, and now that it's on season 50 practically it's become like that relative who visits and just never leaves no matter how many hints you give their annoying ass.

[TheCollector]

Lets hope they don't redesign April to look like -deleted-

Delete this post! Delete this post now! You can't even put this kind of idea out there, if it's out there it can happen! Don't you know that?!

-shivers in fear-

[CyberCubed]

Yes, because the Nick animators are really going to re-tool 16 year old April to look like Megan Fox. :roll:

[Cure]

I have nothing in particular to add to this thread except for this:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j237/Spidertroll/tmnt/freakout.gif

That is all XD

Season 3 frightens you?

[Venom]

I wonder if the current series will get a reboot after the movie to streamline the franchise like Transformers did after the movies?

Wait, nah, Viacom owns Nick and Paramount, where Hasbro owns Transformers.

[NinjaMan]

I wonder if the current series will get a reboot after the movie to streamline the franchise like Transformers did after the movies?

Wait, nah, Viacom owns Nick and Paramount, where Hasbro owns Transformers.

I don't think will do that. Hasbro is run by monkeys, and I'm a Transformers fan.

[TheSmartOne]

Season 3 frightens you?

Noo, season three excites me and I hope they get better and better as it goes on! Bad choice of Gif XD my bad. PRETEND THOSE ARE SCREAMS OF EXCITEMENT, instead of... You know... Screams of terror

[Avatar Yuffie]

Lets hope they don't redesign April to look like Megan fox

This. :/

I want Megan Fox to stay in the film.

Anyways, I'm glad they gave a third season. I hope this continues in good quality.

[CrazySquirrel]

Great News!!! Now writers can plan for stories to last multiple season. Good to start plans.

[TheBlueTurtle1]

Awesome news, I just hope all the voice actors agree to stay on, and they do not redesign the characters.

[Zulithe]

Awesome to see that they are really on the ball here. This stuff takes a long time to plot, then write the scripts, then design, storyboard, animate, score the music and voice... really encouraging to see they aren't wasting time.

[HerpDerp]

Don't you guys get it? This show's success was planned by Nick. They want this to replace Spongebob as the show they are known for.

I feel like I say this every week ... but no. That is not how networks work. They don't hope that a show is successful so that they can replace another one of their successful shows. They want as many popular shows as they can get, so SpongeBob (which is still their #1 by a huge margin, by the way) is not going anywhere. Sorry.

PS: You can't "plan" success. Nick has certainly tried to do so with TMNT, and have given it a solid foundation, but ultimately it's up to kids to tune in or not.

[Luzmagica]

Awesome news!

As Mikey would say Booyakasha! :trazz:

YAY! Well done, Team Nick Turtles!

Happy to hear this news.

That is crazy & awesome.

awesome news!

Sweet news!

This is great!:tgrin:

This is great news!

BOOYAKASHA! Ahhh yeah, all's well within the world of Turtles. This is the best news I've had all month!

This is great news.. Can't wait to see what Ciro comes up with.

WOOOOOOOOO:tgrin: AWSOME!!!!!!

I hope this show will last forever! :trazz:

kinda figured it would!!

booyakasha TMNT!!

:tlol:
YES!:tgrin: This is awesome news! Glad to hear it!:tparty:

Ah, great news! Season 1 hasn't even finish yet! AMAZING.

They're confident with this series, good, good.

Yahoo!!!!!!!! :thyper: :tparty: Im joining the great news too!!!
Awesome!!!!
Great work Nick Team!!!!! Congrats!!!! :twink:

[Alex]

Great news ofc! I really hope the show will get 10 seasons.

[Ryanator008]

I feel like I say this every week ... but no. That is not how networks work. They don't hope that a show is successful so that they can replace another one of their successful shows. They want as many popular shows as they can get, so SpongeBob (which is still their #1 by a huge margin, by the way) is not going anywhere. Sorry.

PS: You can't "plan" success. Nick has certainly tried to do so with TMNT, and have given it a solid foundation, but ultimately it's up to kids to tune in or not.

Do you even know how much they paid for the license to TMNT?

[HerpDerp]

Do you even know how much they paid for the license to TMNT?

Yes I do. But what does that have to do with what I just said? :tconfuse:

They invested a lot of money and so far it's paying off and the show is doing well (first new Nick show that hasn't flopped in a long time) but that doesn't mean they want to cancel other shows as a result. As long as a show is successful, they will keep it going. This applies to both TMNT and SpongeBob. They are not rivals. The better SpongeBob does the better it is for TMNT since SpongeBob is often TMNT's lead-in.

[BubblyShell22]

That's awesome news! Booyakasha! I can't wait to see what they come up with.

[HerpDerp]

According to Nick's official press release (http://www.nickandmore.com/2013/02/26/nickelodeon-upfront-2013/) of the event, TMNT was 2012's #1 new animated program with boys 2-11. :)

[Zulithe]

cool. we're #1! we're #1 (with boys 2-11)!

[HerpDerp]

cool. we're #1! we're #1 (with boys 2-11)!

It doesn't mean #1 overall, just #1 out of the animated shows that premiered last year. Which is still good.

[The Stryker]

Good news. Hope the show maintains quality.

Are some people STILL on the Spongebob thing? Come on son. Move on.

[Zulithe]

It doesn't mean #1 overall, just #1 out of the animated shows that premiered last year. Which is still good.

Cool. We're #1! We're #1 (with boys 2-11 but only from animated shows that premiered last year!) whew!

[NinjaMan]

According to Nick's official press release (http://www.nickandmore.com/2013/02/26/nickelodeon-upfront-2013/) of the event, TMNT was 2012's #1 new animated program with boys 2-11. :)

Awesome bit of news

[HerpDerp]

Boys 2-11 was exactly the target they were aiming for so it's great that TMNT thriving in that demo.

[Zulithe]

:lol: Man is my attempt at joking around really that hard to see :lol:

[Ryanator008]

:lol: Man is my attempt at joking around really that hard to see :lol:

No. I saw it easily.

[Ryanator008]

Yes I do. But what does that have to do with what I just said? :tconfuse:

They invested a lot of money and so far it's paying off and the show is doing well (first new Nick show that hasn't flopped in a long time) but that doesn't mean they want to cancel other shows as a result. As long as a show is successful, they will keep it going. This applies to both TMNT and SpongeBob. They are not rivals. The better SpongeBob does the better it is for TMNT since SpongeBob is often TMNT's lead-in.

I didn't say that they would cancel Spongebob, I said that they need a new show that would get a lot of ratings. They know TMNT is popular so they try that(and Power Rangers and Digimon). To me it's like a rebirth of the network.

[Redeemer]

good news for the franchise, good job tmnt and crew :tthumbsu:
Im not a particular fan of the show, but it has its moments and I am currently in thrawled with the new IDW comics and I will always have the 2k3 cartoon to fall back on.

[marcelangelo]

thanks herpderp!great news!!!!BOOYAKASHAAAA!!!!;)
cant wait to see and collect all those episodes;)

and I thought the joke was quite funny, zulithe;)
I also think herpderp understood it and just wanted to shed a lil spotlight on some nice notions next to the entertainment that was your joke;)

[snake]

Anyone think the Kraang will still be around by season 3?

[jmfoxfire]

Booyakasha!
awesome very awesome news :tcool:

[miru]

Anyone think the Kraang will still be around by season 3?

Probably not. Maybe we get Krang himself.

[Jester]

miru's sudden psychic powers both confuse and infuriate me.

[ZariusTwo]

Good news for the franchise and the shows' fans.

Let's hope the next season is a marked improvment over this one (ducks tomatoes being thrown)

[BabyTurtles]

Good news for the franchise and the shows' fans.

Let's hope the next season is a marked improvment over this one (ducks tomatoes being thrown)

you mean being even more awesome than it already it! :D

[Zulithe]

Well hey, improving on greatness only makes for greater things. So sure, why not!

[Jephael]

Good to hear. I'm really looking forward to what the future holds for this series.

[Andrew NDB]

Nickelodeon didn't pay 65 million dollars to go and shoot themselves in the foot... anyone remotely surprised by this should remove his or herself from the food chain.

[Jephael]

Nickelodeon didn't pay 65 million dollars to go and shoot themselves in the foot... anyone remotely surprised by this should remove his or herself from the food chain.

First of all, we're merely expressing our excitement over this news. Secondly, not everyone is aware of how much Viacom spent on the franchise.

[ToTheNines]

Secondly, not everyone is aware of how much Viacom spent on the franchise.

That's not true.

[Jephael]

Come on, what're the odds every single person here knows every single detail of the franchise?

[zkarlette]

I'm so glad about this, I really love this show so far.:)

[Zulithe]

I slept extra well last night knowing that we'd get a third season. The Donatello pillow probably helped.

[CyberCubed]

Come on, what're the odds every single person here knows every single detail of the franchise?

I reminded people non stop about it.

[Sleepingseeker]

http://www.deadline.com/2013/02/nickelodeon-orders-new-animated-series-breadwinners-renews-ninja-turtles

Doin' the happy dance right now! ...you don't wanna see it :P

[CyberCubed]

I wonder if they renew the show on 2 seasons ahead similar to Simpsons which has the voice actors sign a 2 year contract.

That means when we get halfway into Season 2 we might hear if we're getting a Season 4 and 5.

I don't doubt we will but I think it will happen this way.

[LH]

I'm extremely happy with this news! Long live the Nick Turtles! :tgrin:

[Kidatheart]

This is great news, means my little guys will grow up with Turtles, lol. I wasn't surprised at this, but my only concern is if the voice actors have signed on for the duration of the series. Usually when the voices change is when the series starts to loose interest. I'm hoping for a long series with Original Voice Actors.

Just want to add my two cents about Nick... I think they planned the success of TMNT. To say that any company doesn't plan for success just doesn't make sense to me. Nick obviously would like TMNT to out due Sponge Bob, as what company wouldn't want to ADD more prime time hit shows to their line up. With the success of TMNT, it doesn't mean SB will be cancelled once TMNT receives more viewers, as who in their right mind cancels something that is still successful. SB will be around, just like TMNT, until viewers tune out. It looks like both will be around for a while yet.