Post by pinkhippo on Aug 29, 2024 16:46:28 GMT
Phoebe and Her Unicorn is a currently running graphic novel and comic strip series created by Dana Simpson that began in 2012. Phoebe and Her Unicorn is about a 9-year old girl who befriended a unicorn and go on magical adventures.
In 2020, Nickelodeon ordered a full series adaptation of Phoebe and Her Unicorn as part of a "potential multi-franchise". Little word of the Nicktoon adaptation came over the course of the series' production before Nick suddenly dropped the series. Dana Simpson said the reason why Nickelodeon canned the series was because Nick think that girl-focused cartoons are pretty much dead at this point. Nickelodeon execs even attempted to make Max, who is already a side character in the books, the main character rather than Phoebe and Marigold in order to appeal to the male demographic. Another way of saying Brian Robbins is the David Zaslav of Paramount.
The series was half-completed when Nick scrapped the series, so there might've been some unreleased material for the adaptation.
Part of me thinks there's some sort of curse when it comes to cartoon adaptations of Andrews McMeel-owned properties, and not just Phoebe and Her Unicorn. Big Nate got pulled off of Paramount Plus shortly after the last half of season 2 got added to the service, leaving the planned third season to be unreleased, Baby Blues, even though the animated series premiered when King Features still owned the rights to the comic strip, had it's second season shelved and never released to the public, Jump Start's animated adaptation that was announced by Fox is still in limbo, depending if the series is even in production right now, Dilbert, being the only successful series out of the bunch, still got poorly treated by UPN initially, and I highly doubt the Heart of the City animated series would even continue forward since the initial announcement was the only bit of information on the series, a common dead giveaway that a full series is no longer in production.
In 2020, Nickelodeon ordered a full series adaptation of Phoebe and Her Unicorn as part of a "potential multi-franchise". Little word of the Nicktoon adaptation came over the course of the series' production before Nick suddenly dropped the series. Dana Simpson said the reason why Nickelodeon canned the series was because Nick think that girl-focused cartoons are pretty much dead at this point. Nickelodeon execs even attempted to make Max, who is already a side character in the books, the main character rather than Phoebe and Marigold in order to appeal to the male demographic. Another way of saying Brian Robbins is the David Zaslav of Paramount.
The series was half-completed when Nick scrapped the series, so there might've been some unreleased material for the adaptation.
Part of me thinks there's some sort of curse when it comes to cartoon adaptations of Andrews McMeel-owned properties, and not just Phoebe and Her Unicorn. Big Nate got pulled off of Paramount Plus shortly after the last half of season 2 got added to the service, leaving the planned third season to be unreleased, Baby Blues, even though the animated series premiered when King Features still owned the rights to the comic strip, had it's second season shelved and never released to the public, Jump Start's animated adaptation that was announced by Fox is still in limbo, depending if the series is even in production right now, Dilbert, being the only successful series out of the bunch, still got poorly treated by UPN initially, and I highly doubt the Heart of the City animated series would even continue forward since the initial announcement was the only bit of information on the series, a common dead giveaway that a full series is no longer in production.
