Big Nate

Big Nate is an American CG-animated television series that premiered on Paramount+ on February 17, 2022https://www.animationmagazine.net/streaming/trailer-big-nate-brings-big-surprises-to-paramount/ and began airing on Nickelodeon on September 5, 2022.https://www.nickalive.net/2022/08/nickelodeon-to-premiere-big-nate-soon.html It follows the adventures of a boy and his friends in sixth grade. It is based on the comic strip and book series of the same name by Lincoln Peirce. The series is executive produced by Mitch Watson and John Cohen. Peirce is collaborating with the producers for the show.
A sneak peek of the series was shown during halftime in Nickelodeon's broadcast of the 2022 NFL Wild Card Game on January 16, 2022.
On March 24, 2022, it was renewed for a 10-episode second season.https://deadline.com/2022/03/nickelodeon-orders-preschool-series-faces-music-party-renews-big-nate-blaze-the-monster-machines-1234985263/ On August 3, 2022, it was announced for an additional 10 episodes to the second season.https://www.awn.com/news/exclusive-paramount-shares-big-nate-new-episode-teaser
A theatrical short titled "Bad Hamster", in which Nate, Teddy, Francis, and Chad teach their audience how to make homemade ice cream, but an ice cream-induced food coma may set loose a giant terror in the Wright household, was shown in theaters before Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank.https://www.animationmagazine.net/shorts/brand-new-big-nate-short-to-screen-with-paws-of-fury/
==Cast==
*Ben Giroux as Nate Wright
*Dove Cameron as Ellen Wright
*Arnie Pantoja as Teddy Oritz
*Bryce Charles as Dee Dee Holloway
*Rob Delaney as Martin Wright
*Charlie Schlatter as Chad Applewhite
*Daniel MK Cohen as Francis Pope
*Carolyn Hennesy as Mrs. Godfrey
*Kevin Michael Richardson as Principal Nichols
Recurring Cast:
*Lisa Kay Jennings as Gina Hemphill-Toms
*Chandni Parekh as Jenny Jenkins
*Todd Haberkorn as Artur Pashkov
*Nik Dodani as Randy Betancourt
*Mitch Watson as Spitsy
*Betsy Sodaro as Kim Cressly
*Ryan W. Garcia as Mr. Rosa
*Michael Rivkin as Mr. Galvin
New Characters:
*Chester Rushing as Zeff
*Danny Jacobs as Bentley Carter
*Jack Black as Brad Gunter
==Episodes==
# 	Title 	Air date 	Air date 	Prod.code
# 	Title 	Paramount+ 	Nickelodeon 	Prod.code
1 	"The Legend of the Gunting" 	February 17, 2022	September 5, 2022 	101
2 	"Go Nate, It's Your Birthday" 	February 17, 2022	September 9, 2022 	102
3 	"Valentine's Day of Horror" 	February 17, 2022	October 21, 2022 	103
4 	"CATastrophe" 	February 17, 2022	September 15, 2022	105
5 	"The Pimple" 	February 17, 2022	September 15, 2022	106
6 	"Belles A Ringin'" 	February 17, 2022	September 23, 2022	107
7 	"Time Disruptors" 	February 17, 2022	September 30, 2022	108
8 	"Wilderness Warriors" 	February 17, 2022	January 13, 2023 	109
9 	"Best Laid Cell Plans" 	August 19, 2022 	April 12, 2023 	115
10	"Game Over" 	August 19, 2022 	April 18, 2023 	116
11	"'Til Death Do We Rock" 	August 19, 2022 	March 4, 2023 	112
12	"Randy's Mom Has Got it Going On"	August 19, 2022 	April 17, 2023 	113
13	"Ghostly Coven of Man Witches" 	August 19, 2022 	October 14, 2022 	104
14	"The Future is Fuzzy" 	August 19, 2022 	April 19, 2023 	117
15	"Big Freeze" 	August 19, 2022 	TBA 	110
16	"The Curse of the Applewhites" 	August 19, 2022 	TBA 	111
17	"The Thing What Wouldn't Leave" 	August 19, 2022 	TBA 	114
18	"Kindness Wars" 	December 26, 2022	TBA 	118
19	"Wait Until Dark" 	December 26, 2022	TBA 	119
20	"'The Square Root of Teddy" 	December 26, 2022	TBA 	120
21	"Six-Tween Candles" 	December 26, 2022	TBA 	121
22	"It's Lonely at the Top" 	December 26, 2022	TBA 	123
23	"Nate in Shining Armor" 	December 26, 2022	TBA 	125
24	"Bro-king Up Is Hard to Do" 	December 26, 2022	TBA 	TBA
25	"Nate On a Hot Tin Roof" 	December 26, 2022	TBA 	122
26	"The April Fool" 	December 26, 2022	TBA 	TBA
==Development==
In 1991, when the Big Nate comic strip was first published, Peanuts executive producer Lee Mendelson purchased the option from Lincoln Peirce to make a 2D-animated Big Nate Saturday morning cartoons for NBC, who “was paid $5,000 to write a quote-on-quote bible describing the characters and outlining a few story ideas”. However, NBC canceled their Saturday morning cartoons block the day after the deal was finalized, which caused the series to go into development hell.
An animated Big Nate series was eventually announced by Nickelodeon on February 19, 2020. In a news release, Nickelodeon's executive vice president of animation production and development, Ramsey Naito, stated that she had wanted to adapt the Big Nate book series into an animated series for a long time. The series was initially going to release around September 2021 but was postponed to February 2022. Despite this, clips from the series have already appeared on Tooned In.
==References==
==External links==
*
Category:American children's animated comedy television series
Category:American computer-animated television series
Category:2020s American animated television series
Category:Nickelodeon original programming
Category:Nicktoons
Category:2022 American television series debuts
Category:Television shows based on comic strips
Category:Animated television series about children
Category:American television series about families
Category:English-language television shows
Category:Big Nate