Nickelodeon January 2016 Live-Action Premiere Highlights

Nickelodeon is kicking off the year with a ton of changes this January! It is unknown if the entire schedule has been released as no episodes of Henry Danger, Thundermans, and Bella & The Bulldogs. However, Game Shakers and 100 Things are returning on January 9, 2015 with Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, and Dawn moving to Saturday night possibly at 8/7c. However, not much is know about all the premieres.

Additionally, Make It Pop season 2 will premiere as a one-month event with the finale, "Really? It's Over?" airing on Friday, January 29 at 7/6c.

*All programming subject to change*

Note: There are very little premieres released so far, so there may be more premieres that have been yet to be announced.

Saturday, January 9
Original Series – Episode Premiere
Game Shakers "Poison Pie"
(8:00 PM - 8:30 PM ET/PT)
After getting noise complaints from their neighbor, Babe and Kenzie decide to bake him a 
pie to make amends.

Saturday, January 9
Original Series – Episode Premiere
Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, and Dawn "Rock `n' Rules"
(8:30 PM - 9:00 PM ET/PT)
Phoebe's relationship with her superhero boyfriend is put to the test when he is offered an assignment overseas.

Saturday, January 9
Original Series – Episode Premiere
100 Things To Do Before High School "Run For Office Thing!"
(9:00 PM - 9:30 PM ET/PT)
CJ and the boys decide to make their voices heard during the 7th grade elections; a friendly competition turns negative.

Saturday, January 16
Original Series – Episode Premiere
Game Shakers "Party Crashers"
(8:00 PM - 8:30 PM ET/PT)
TBA

Saturday, January 16
Original Series – Episode Premiere
Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, and Dawn "Ballet and the Beast"

(8:30 PM - 9:00 PM ET/PT)
TBA

Saturday, January 16
Original Series – Episode Premiere
100 Things To Do Before High School "Always Tell the Truth (But Not Always) Thing!"
(9:00 PM - 9:30 PM ET/PT)
TBA

Monday, January 18
Original Movie - Movie Premiere
Rufus
(7:00 PM - 8:30 PM ET/PT)

What if your dog became a dude? Manny is about to live the tail! When his loyal dog Rufus is magically transformed into a real boy, Manny learns that having a dog-turned-dude by your side is pretty awesome, but it’s no walk in the park, either. Rufus’ silly dog antics, like chasing squirrels and catching flying discs in his mouth, quickly earn him school-wide pup-ularity. Will this make Manny have a new bone to pick with his best friend?

Saturday, January 23
Original Series – Episode Premiere
Game Shakers "The Girl Power Awards"
(8:00 PM - 8:30 PM ET/PT)
TBA

Saturday, January 23
Original Series – Episode Premiere
Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, and Dawn "She Blinded Him With Science (Bob)"

(8:30 PM - 9:00 PM ET/PT)
Nicky, Dicky and Dawn challenge Ricky's firm disbelief in superstitions, but they go too far in proving him wrong.

Saturday, January 23
Original Series – Episode Premiere
100 Things To Do Before High School "Become a Millionaire and Give It All Away Thing!"
(9:00 PM - 9:30 PM ET/PT)
TBA

Saturday, January 30
Original Series – Episode Premiere
Game Shakers "A Job For Jimbo"
(8:00 PM - 8:30 PM ET/PT)
TBA

Saturday, January 30
Original Series – Episode Premiere
Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, and Dawn "Harpers For President"
(8:30 PM - 9:00 PM ET/PT)
Ricky is confident in his ability to get elected as class president until Dawn enters the race; Nicky and Dicky go from being Ricky and Dawn's running mates to their rivals.

Saturday, January 30
Original Series – Episode Premiere
100 Things To Do Before High School "Leave Your Mark Thing!"
(9:00 PM - 9:30 PM ET/PT)
TBA

Disney's 'Liv And Maddie' Renewed For Season 4

The news broke this morning that Disney Channel's "Liv and Maddie" is being renewed for a fourth season.

Although Disney hasn't sent out a press release for the renewal, lead of the hit series, Dove Cameron, confirmed it on her Twitter page.

It is currently unknown when production will start, but is highly likely that it will start sometime next spring with a fall 2016 premiere.

Currently, "Liv And Maddie" serves as Disney Channel's #1 Sunday night show and #2 show on the network with its demographic ratings. 9 out the 20 episodes in Season 3 have aired thus far with the season set to conclude this summer.

The sitcom also stars Joey Bragg, Tenzing Norgay Trainor, Kalia Rocha, and Benjamin King. It was created by John D Beck ("According To Jim", "Shake It Up!") and Ron Hart ("The Hughleys", "Shake It Up!". Joey Bragg, Tenzing Norgay Trainor, Kali Rocha, and Benjamin King co-star with Cameron. Other guest stars this season include Kristen Bell, Patty Duke, and Piper Curda.

Nickelodeon Year-Long Top 5 2015 Ratings Rankings

These are the rankings based on the ratings and reception of the live-action Nickelodeon shows throughout the amazing year of 2015. Nickelodeon's ratings have began to drop this year. Some shows stayed on top and stayed with the ratings Nickelodeon had in 2014 while some shows sank and have delivered lackluster ratings. Currently, the network has 6 shows airing. Here are the rankings for the top 5 shows:

Note: Keep in mind, these are purely based on the RATINGS, but it also depends on the TIME SLOT and the PREMIERE DAY. Weekend days are better for ratings than weekdays. That will be taken into consideration. This is also barely based on my personal opinion rather than taking everything above into account.

1. The Thundermans

The cast of Nickelodeon's #1 show at the 2015 Kids Choice Awards.

This show has proven to be Nickelodeon's most successful show right now with ratings and the fan base. Kira and Jack have both built their own fan bases as well which have been especially favorable for the show. The popularity of this show continues to grow. During this year's Kids Choice Awards, it beat Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, and Dawn and Bella and the Bulldogs to the slime car wash.

Mostly, the show's ratings have been great. Nickelodeon unfortunately has put the show on various premiere nights and times confusing the younger audience. In 2015, the show began at 9:30PM. It changed to 7:00PM when Nick wasted its episodes during the weekdays along with the canceled Haunted Hathaways. It then was set at 8:00PM on Saturday to premiere 4 episodes of its third season during summer. Currently it is at the 7:30PM time slot on Wednesdays as a lead-in to Bella & The Bulldogs. 

This show has won every premiere night this year, but three (January, March, October). The series average throughout the year has been 1.69 million viewers with the season 3 premiere, "Phoebe vs. Max: The Sequel" garnering the highest ratings of 2015 for a live-action show with a Disney-beating 2.42 million viewers. Renewal for Season 4, if it chooses to be renewed, will be expected to arrive at the Nickelodeon Upfront in February or sometime in spring.

2. Henry Danger

Promo picture for the hit show's second season which premiered on September 12.

Henry Danger has been one of Nick's most successful shows with a huge fan base. The ratings have been steady throughout 2015. The show averaged with 1.69 million viewers, just 0.002 behind The Thundermans.

Nickelodeon has gave massive priority to this show, however, along with Dan's other show, Game Shakers. Both shows remained on Nickelodeon's weekend Saturday premiere night with Henry staying at it's season 1 time slot. The most recent episode of the show (which was Christmas-themed) garnered 1.62 million viewers. 

This season so far has seen Henry choosing between three girls in his love life, defeating an evil time jerker, and fighting crime without Captain Man. Renewal for the show should come sometime next spring.

3. Every Witch Way

The promotional poster for the final season of the show which concluded the series on July 30, 2015.

This magical scripted telenova-type series has been one of Nickelodeon's most successful franchises, especially in a WEEKDAY STRIP (a show that airs one season every weekday for a month and takes a hiatus until its second season follows the pattern). The show which led for 2 years from January 2014 to July 2015 was very popular within the fan base.

It was nominated for a Kids Choice Awards and came second to Austin & Ally, if you looked at the Twitter voting statistics. However, this show's average was 1.44 million viewers with its third and fourth season which both aired this year. The show did amazing for weekday strips which usually get the lowest viewers in terms of comedic live-action shows due to the bad scheduling for premieres.

The finale garnered 1.64 million viewers and the show also came out with the spinoff, WITS Academy, which premiered in October 2015 and was less successful. The spinoff is yet to be renewed for a second season, but a renewal may come soon if Nickelodeon decides to renew it as it did deliver some low ratings.

4. Game Shakers

The show has been receiving great ratings with it's great lead-in, Henry Danger. The hour long series premeire, "Sky wHALE" even managed to beat Disney's "Best Friends Whenever" with its hour long special garnering about 1.9 million viewers with Nickelodeon itself.

The series has averaged in 1.66 million viewers throughout the year of 2015.

It's current season has 26 episodes with 16 yet to air. It will begin airing again in January 2016 with season 2 set to conclude in summer 2016.

5. Make It Pop

A still from the Season 2 premiere, "The Gift", following the girls on Christmas Eve.

Make It Pop has done fairly well as a daily strip averaging with 1.36 million viewers this year. It has beaten Talia In The Kitchen with ratings despite Talia having the hit show, Every Witch Way, as a lead-in. 

The K-pop influenced music show's most recent special garnered 1.27 million viewers with it's last episode, the Season 2 Christmas premiere.

Season 2 of the show promises to be more about boys and the arrival of a new boy band at Mackendrick Prep high school.

'Make It Pop' To Return With New Season on January 4!

via Futon Critic:

via Nickelodeon press release:

NICKELODEON'S MUSICAL COMEDY SERIES "MAKE IT POP" RETURNS FOR SEASON TWO, MONDAY, JAN. 4, AT 7 P.M. (ET/PT)

Santa Monica, Calif. - Dec. 2, 2015 - Nickelodeon's music-infused daily scripted series, Make It Pop, returns for a 20-episode second season starting Monday, Jan. 4, at 7 p.m. (ET/PT). With all new songs and performances, heightened drama and lots of laughs, season two will continue to follow the coming-of-age journey of social-media maven Sun Hi (Megan Lee), bookish Corki (Erika Tham), fashion-forward Jodi (Louriza Tronco) and DJ Caleb (Dale Whibley) at Mackendrick Prep, who, out of their love of music, formed the band XO-IQ.

Faced with bigger challenges and higher stakes in season two, XO-IQ has yet to reunite after a number of setbacks. Corki is in danger of being removed from Mackendrick Prep by her father, Jodi is deciding if she should pursue her love of fashion, and now that Sun Hi is clashing with hotshot guitarist Linc, it looks like XO-IQ might be over, until a new band competition and rival boy band emerge and change everything.

Fans can watch full episodes of Make It Pop and access additional content such as music videos, how to dance videos, musical games and activities at Nick.com/MakeItPop.
Make It Pop is co-created by Thomas W. Lynch and entertainment magnate Nick Cannon and produced by DHX Media. Lynch and Cannon will serve as executive producers together with DHX Media's Steven DeNure and Anne Loi. The musical direction of the series is being led by Bill Silva Entertainment, with music supervision by Peter Coquillard and Pilar McCurry for Silva Music Publishing. XO-IQ is managed by Bill Silva Management.

About DHX Media Ltd.:
DHX Media Ltd. (www.dhxmedia.com) is a key player internationally in the production, distribution, broadcast and licensing of entertainment content for children and families. Owner of the world's largest independent library of kids' and family content, at more than 11,000 half-hours, DHX Media is recognized globally for such brands as Teletubbies, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Caillou, In the Night Garden, Inspector Gadget, Make It Pop, Slugterra and the multiple award-winning Degrassi franchise. DHX Media is comprised of four main business units: DHX Studios creates high-quality original entertainment at its Vancouver and Halifax animation studios, its Toronto live-action studio, and in working with top international producers; DHX Distribution is a major provider of content to the global market; DHX Television, home to the Family suite of channels, is dedicated to delivering best-in-class programming to Canadian families; and DHX Brands specializes in creating, building and managing high-profile global entertainment brands within the children's and young-adult markets. DHX Media also owns the full-service international licensing agency, Copyright Promotions Licensing Group Ltd. (CPLG), which represents numerous entertainment, sport and design brands. DHX Media has offices in 15 cities worldwide, including Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Munich, Amsterdam and Beijing. The Company is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol DHXM, and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbols DHX.A and DHX.B.

About Nickelodeon:
Nickelodeon, now in its 36th year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The company includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, online, recreation, books and feature films. Nickelodeon's U.S. television network is seen in more than 100 million households and has been the number-one-rated basic cable network for 20 consecutive years. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB).