Nickelodeon Greenlights Third Fred Movie, Accumulates 20-Episode Fred Series

EXCLUSIVE: Nickelodeon is growing its Fred franchise, which began using the 2010 smash Fred: The Film, seen by 8.7 million audiences in the premiere. The children cable network has greenlighted another film in addition to a 20-episode number of 11-minute self-contained episodes. The move occurs the heels of recently’s debut of Fred 2: Evening from the Living Fred, which shipped 5.7 million total audiences. The series is slated to begin production in the finish of the season for any premiere at the begining of 2012. It will likely be then Fred 3‘s debut later around. Such as the first 2 movies, the 3rd one and also the series star Lucas Cruikshank and derive from the Fred character the teenager comic produced in a number of YouTube videos. The series marks Fred‘s go back to the short-form it came from in online. “It is a mash-from the initial Fred and what we should did using the movies,” John Robbins stated. Robbins’ College Pictures and also the Collective, which together funded the very first movie, have returned as producers from the new film and series. Cruikshank, College’s Robbins and Sharla Sumpter-Bridgett and also the Collective’s Evan Weiss and Gary Binkow are executive creating. Cruikshank first introduced Fred Figglehorn, a imaginary 6-year-old that has a dysfunctional home existence and anger management issues, on the Fred YouTube funnel, which released in April 2008. Annually later, the funnel had a lot more than a million customers and also got the interest of Robbins and management-production company The Collective. “It’s amazing,” Robbins stated. “Two years back, Lucas would be a kid making videos from his house in Nebraska. Now he’s got 3 movies along with a series.”