Nickelodeon Names Co-Heads of Live-Action Series & Films

Nickelodeon has promoted Shauna Phelan and Zack Olin to executive VPs and co-heads of Nickelodeon and Awesomeness live-action series and films.

Phelan and Olin will now oversee all scripted live-action series and movie content for Nickelodeon and Paramount+. The upcoming development slate under the duo includes Junie B. Jones and My Weird School.

Additional titles in the upcoming slate, which is heavily book-based, are Hot British Boyfriend, The Babysitters Coven, Sloppy Firsts, This is What Happy Looks Like and Majorettes (working title), the latter of which is based on an original BuzzFeed Article titled “The Rich, Black, South Heritage of Hip-Hop Majorettes.”

Current live-action series and movies under Phelan and Olin’s purview are iCarly, That Girl Lay Lay, Danger Force, Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan, Side Hustle, Warped! and The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder. Upcoming series and movies under their purview are Monster High The Movie, Snow Day (working title), School Spirits, the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark?, the To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before movie franchise spin-off series XO, Kitty (Netflix) and a live-action series based on the Emmy Award-winning animated series The Loud House.

“Shauna and Zack are behind some of Nickelodeon’s biggest hits from iCarly to That Girl Lay Lay and have been entertaining kids and families across all our demos for years,” said Brian Robbins, Paramount president and CEO of Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon, and chief content officer of movies and kids and family for Paramount+. “As the demand for content continues to grow for both our audience and for Paramount+, and given the Studios’ success as producers of top YA franchises, Shauna and Zack are poised to elevate Awesomeness and Nick’s overall output in this space and grow our kids and family and YA audience, who are huge consumers of content.”

Phelan and Olin said, “We are thrilled to be in a position to identify and build long-term IP for a global audience that spans platforms, and we’re inspired by these exciting book titles for our audience that will complement our owned IP and original development.”