Ryan’s Mystery Playdate Picked Up for Season Four, Bowing in Germany

Ryan’s Mystery Playdate, an Emmy-nominated kids’ TV series from pocket.watch, has been picked up for a fourth season by Nickelodeon for the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia, and is set to expand its global reach in Germany.

The ten-episode fourth season of Ryan’s Mystery Playdate will feature a Playdate Command Center that uses video teleconferencing technology to enable Playdate guests to play a game or engage in an activity with Ryan remotely. Additionally, some season four Playdates will be animated, allowing viewers to travel with current and historic characters to unlimited locations and time periods.

The first two seasons of Ryan’s Mystery Playdate will be available for the first time in Germany this summer (in English in July and in German in August) on the Amazon FreeTime Unlimited streaming services. Season three is slated to roll out in the market in October.

Further, pocket.watch’s gaming division, p.w Games, will be launching a new Ryan’s Mystery Playdate-themed mobile game called Blast, which will enable fans to join Ryan in discovering the next mystery playdate by solving puzzles. Players will match colors, earn power-ups and blast through each level to unlock new guests and collect them in a guest book. The game will tie in familiar elements of the show, such as unlocking mystery boxes, spinning the mystery wheel and dropping the “hintamajig.” It will launch this fall through pocket.watch’s gaming division p.w Games.

Thanda Belker, senior VP of distribution at pocket.watch, said: “We’re thrilled to be deepening our partnership with Amazon to bring Ryan’s Mystery Playdate to kids and families on a global level. As we continue to further our mission to be everywhere kids and families are, Ryan’s Mystery Playdate has continued to prove the success of a creator-focused franchise, with unlimited viability across platforms including TV and games.”

Kurt Beidler, general manager of Amazon Kids & Family, added: “We are excited to bring Ryan’s Mystery Playdate to Amazon FreeTime Unlimited, our service that delivers premium, fun and educational content for kids. Kids around the world love following along on Ryan’s adventures, and we’re pleased to offer more of that content to families in Germany.”