Ryan’s Mystery Playdate Gets New Season at Nick

Nickelodeon has greenlit a third season of the preschool series Ryan’s Mystery Playdate, starring 8-year-old YouTube star Ryan of the Ryan’s World channel.

Created and produced by pocket.watch, the live-action series follows Ryan as he tackles a series of imaginative physical challenges and solves mystery box puzzles to reveal the identity of his playdate. New episodes from season three will begin airing this spring.

Ryan’s Mystery Playdate airs regularly weekdays at 12:30 p.m. on Nickelodeon and 4:30 p.m. on the Nick Jr. channel.

The third season of Ryan’s Mystery Playdate (20 episodes) will feature a new and improved Guess-O-Tron and follow Ryan and his parents as they meet exciting all-new playdates, solve complex mystery box puzzles, tackle epic dunk tank and zip-line challenges, and take super silly selfies with each guest.

Since its inception in 2015, Ryan’s World has grown to become one of the largest YouTube channels in the world. The channel features fun and easy science experiments, educational content, animated adventures, imaginative toy play and videos that document daily life for the family of five, which includes Ryan’s younger twin sisters. The channel, along with other channels featuring Ryan and his family and animated friends, generated over 1.3 billion views in January 2020 and currently has over 34 million subscribers.