Nexo Knights (TV series)

*You may have been looking for the LEGO theme or the in-universe team.*

***Nexo Knights*** (stylized as **NEXO KNIGHTS**) is a CGI comedy-action fantasy sci-fi television series that aired on Cartoon Network from December 13, 2015 to September 1, 2017.

The first two pilot episodes, The Book of Monsters - Part 1 and Part 2, first aired on December 13, 2015. The next few episodes of the first season aired a month later.

It is intended to tie-in with the the LEGO theme of the same name. Viewers are able to scan Nexo Powers from the television series directly into the app.

Though the series ended in 2018 due to production and budgetary issues, despite it exceeding sales expectations, Samuel Johnson, Peter Griffiths, and Tommy Andreasen hope for its return, as do other cast members. Samuel Johnson notes that it is possible it could return, though Tommy Andreasen doubts the story arc would complete.

## Main plot

### Seasons 1-2

The show follows a group of recently graduated knights - Clay Moorington, Princess Macy Halbert, Lance Richmond, Aaron Fox and Axl - as they try to defeat Jestro, the royal jester turned misguided villain, the Book of Monsters, a mysterious evil talking spellbook able to summon monsters, and their army of Lava Monsters.

## Cast and crew

### Cast

* Alan Marriott
* Alessandro Juliani
* Brian Drummond
* Caitlyn Bairstow
* Colin Murdock
* Erin Mathews
* Garry Chalk
* Giles Panton
* Heather Doerksen
* Ian Hanlin
* Jason Simpson
* Jennifer Hayward
* Kathleen Barr
* Kirby Morrow
* Lisa Bunting
* Mark Oliver
* Marÿke Hendrikse
* Michael Adamthwaite
* Michael Daingerfield
* Michael Donovan
* Noel Johansen
* Nicole Oliver
* Paul Dobson
* Sam Vincent
* Vincent Tong

### Crew

#### Producers

* Peter Griffiths
* Torsten Jacobsen
* Ole Holm Christensen
* Lotte Kronborg
* Vicky Kjaer Jensen

#### Story

* Tommy Andreasen
* Mark Hoffmeier
* Thomas Sebastian Fenger

## Theme song

From the second season onwards, Carpark North's song Unbreakable is used as the theme song.

## Trivia

* Like all other LEGO cartoons, the series is rated TV-Y7.
* It was originally titled "The Knights of Avatron" and was later named "Knighton" for a short while.
* The goal for *Nexo Knights* was to create a brand that would be the top for boys in 2016, but also be interesting enough for two years.
* LEGO had toyed with futuristic knights before but had never explored it deeply like in *Nexo Knights*.
* The designers had toyed around with creating a tower defense video game for *Nexo Knights* before deciding that its core theme would be collectibility in the Nexo Powers.
* Around the time of Season 4's airing, the eighth season of *Ninjago* also began to air, causing an issue with the timeslots.
	+ Because *Nexo Knights* was generally not as popular, a television channel moved its timeslot to 4:30AM, causing it to have bad ratings, ending the series.
* Despite the medieval theme, dragons were not added to the series because *Ninjago* already had them.
* According to Tommy Andreasen, it is not possible at the moment to create a *Ninjago*-*Nexo Knights* crossover.
* Tommy Andreasen noted that there is a lot of adult humor in *Nexo Knights*, and that there is a reference to *Monty Python and the Holy Grail* in every episode as of 2016.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/TommyAndreasen/status/1075376684201840640
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/Spider\_Sam\_/status/1014187475412094977
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://twitter.com/Spider\_Sam\_/status/1233130001496788993
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/pdgripper/status/1337119152318844937
5. ↑ https://twitter.com/TommyAndreasen/status/1072958663101480967
6. ↑ https://twitter.com/IanStuartHanlin/status/1379254093198192642
7. ↑ https://twitter.com/G\_Panton/status/1379251640658616323
8. ↑ https://twitter.com/VincentTong007/status/1072925608575852544
9. ↑ https://twitter.com/G\_Panton/status/1072937200797372416
10. ↑ https://twitter.com/TommyAndreasen/status/1426114668637065217
11. ↑ https://twitter.com/Spider\_Sam\_/status/989205345733050368
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nexo-knights-and-the-big-bang-theory/id1542166642?i=1000535388984
13. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqK6VLLqqSk&t=6595s
14. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ac5dZRFaFM
15. ↑ https://twitter.com/TommyAndreasen/status/1426115979642277891
16. ↑ https://twitter.com/TommyAndreasen/status/783278001760956416
17. ↑ https://twitter.com/TommyAndreasen/status/783278204266086400

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