Nickelodeon Set to Expand SpongeBob SquarePants With Patrick Star Series
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Brian Robbins walked into a meeting where executives were deciding whether kids-media giant Nickelodeon should pick up “SpongeBob SquarePants” for a twelfth cycle, and asked what he thought was a simple question: With so many characters populating the underwater city of Bikini Bottom, how come the network had never created any spin-offs?
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Fans will get to see another part of the always optimistic sea sponge’s world soon. The ViacomCBS unit has greenlit 13 episodes of a family-oriented comedy featuring SpongeBob’s pal, Patrick Star. “The Patrick Star Show” is slated to debut this summer, and will focus on a younger version of the character, who hosts a TV program and lives with his family. Bill Fagerbakke, the longtime voice of the animated pink starfish, will play the title role.
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When I wrote the character, I kept having Keanu in my head so I never really had another person that we were thinking about, writer and director Tim Hill Hill explained to TVLine.
Fox Sets Housebroken and Duncanville Season 2 Premiere Dates (TV News Roundup)
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Duncanville” will premiere with two back-to-back episodes on
May 23 at
Housebroken” will premiere on
Adam Scott,
Amy Poehler and
Rashida Jones. “Duncanville” centers on 15-year-old Duncan Harris (Poehler) who survives the trivial nature of teenage-hood through his wild imagination. Its cast also features
Ty Burrell,
Yassir Lester and
Zach Cherry. “Housebroken,” meanwhile, follows a group of neighborhood pets and stray animals as they work through their issues inside and outside their therapy group. The cast includes
Tony Hale,
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