How is Nick Doing?

[Dr. Insomniac]

Recently got curious again about unsold Nick pilots and which ones people are the most "Why didn't this get made?!" toward. Like Constant Payne, the Nick version of Adventure Time, Big Beast Quintet, etc. Half because of the ennui of thinking what could have been, the other half because I saw a clip of a new Nicktoon called Rock Paper Scissors, and it's so low in ambition that it felt like the creators just said one sentence during the pitch meeting and got the job right there.

The Nick pitching process is also something I wish we knew more of, because I remember Greg Weisman saying he pitched a ton of things to Nick that never got made, and Hartman saying he threw a bunch of ideas at them and only a few made the cut. And that's Hartman, their long time partner, struggling to get greenlit.

[Dr. Insomniac]

Found an interview with Geraldine Laybourne that came out today, in case you want to hear her talk about the production side of 90s Nickelodeon.

[Avaitor]

So podcasts are able to get a hold of her. Do you think Greg ever will, or is he going to be blackballed for any varying reason?

Considering his current situation as shared on Twitter, I don't think he's in a place to do an interview this intensive, though.

[Dr. Insomniac]

Yeah, I was also surprised they can't get an interview but this channel can. Maybe the latter have better contacts?