{"id":23307,"date":"2022-06-15T10:10:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T14:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/nickelodeon-names-co-heads-live-action-series-films\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T10:10:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T14:10:43","slug":"nickelodeon-names-co-heads-of-live-action-series-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/nickelodeon-names-co-heads-of-live-action-series-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Nickelodeon Names Co-Heads of Live-Action Series & Films"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nickelodeon has promoted Shauna Phelan and Zack Olin to executive VPs and co-heads of Nickelodeon and Awesomeness live-action series and films.<\/p>\n
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<\/em> and My Weird School<\/em>.<\/p>\n Additional titles in the upcoming slate, which is heavily book-based, are Hot British Boyfriend<\/em>, The Babysitters Coven<\/em>, Sloppy Firsts<\/em>, This is What Happy Looks Like<\/em> and Majorettes<\/em> (working title), the latter of which is based on an original BuzzFeed Article titled \u201cThe Rich, Black, South Heritage of Hip-Hop Majorettes.\u201d<\/p>\n Current live-action series and movies under Phelan and Olin\u2019s purview are iCarly<\/em>, That Girl Lay Lay<\/em>, Danger Force<\/em>, Tyler Perry\u2019s Young Dylan<\/em>, Side Hustle<\/em>, Warped!<\/em> and The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder<\/em>. Upcoming series and movies under their purview are Monster High The Movie<\/em>, Snow Day<\/em> (working title), School Spirits<\/em>, the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark?<\/em>, the To All The Boys I\u2019ve Loved Before<\/em> movie franchise spin-off series XO, Kitty<\/em> (Netflix) and a live-action series based on the Emmy Award-winning animated series\u00a0The Loud House<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cShauna and Zack are behind some of Nickelodeon\u2019s biggest hits from iCarly<\/em> to That Girl Lay Lay<\/em> and have been entertaining kids and families across all our demos for years,\u201d said Brian Robbins, Paramount president and CEO of Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon, and chief content officer of movies and kids and family for Paramount+. \u201cAs the demand for content continues to grow for both our audience and for Paramount+, and given the Studios\u2019 success as producers of top YA franchises, Shauna and Zack are poised to elevate Awesomeness and Nick\u2019s overall output in this space and grow our kids and family and YA audience, who are huge consumers of content.\u201d<\/p>\n Phelan and Olin said, \u201cWe are thrilled to be in a position to identify and build long-term IP for a global audience that spans platforms, and we\u2019re inspired by these exciting book titles for our audience that will complement our owned IP and original development.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nickelodeon has promoted Shauna Phelan and Zack Olin to executive VPs and co-heads of Nickelodeon and Awesomeness live-action series and films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":23308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[5485,96,6069],"class_list":["post-23307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-awesomeness","tag-nickelodeon","tag-paramount","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n