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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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SpongeBob SquarePants universe with a CG spinoff:
SpongeBob s Under Years, the prequel show shines a light on the denizens of Bikini Bottom when they first met at summer camp as children. Longtime fans were naturally wary of the new project (created by late series creator Stephen Hillenburg), a sentiment that was also felt by the actors who have lent their voices to the franchise since the very beginning. If you ve been doing it for 20 years, every new thing that they wanna do, you always go, ‘Geez, I don t know, Carolyn Lawrence, the voice of Sandy Cheeks, tells SYFY WIRE during a Zoom conversation with the entire cast. And every single time, it just takes your breath away how awesome it turns out.