Thread by @escapade_94, The N/TeenNick ThreadNoggin was not a channel that I regularly watched until [...]

The N/TeenNick Thread

Noggin was not a channel that I regularly watched until its nighttime block, The N launched on April 1, 2002. Yes, I was watching a teen-oriented block when I was almost 8 years old lol. But The N wouldn't have been possible without Noggin.

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Before The N's debut, Noggin was originally a kids and tweens channel; a joint venture btwn Nick and Sesame Workshop when it launched in 1999. Noggin's 1st original series to be made for the tween audience was the award-winning docu-series called "A Walk in Your Shoes".

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Then on Jan. 2001, a 2-hour nighttime block launched on Noggin under the name The Hubbub. It's what I would call a stepping stone for The N, because this was a tween block.

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"A Walk in Your Shoes" became a part of Noggin's The Hubbub and was joined by 2 new original productions: the very Americanized British comedy "Big Kids" and the documentary show "On The Team".

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Then on Sept. 2001, the improv game show "Sponk!" premiered, and was Sesame Workshop's 1st original production for Noggin. It was hosted by Jonathan McClain, and would move to The Hubbub sometime later.

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The Hubbub ended on Dec. 2001, and was replaced by a teen-friendly block on April 2002. Noggin needed a name for the block to distinguish the tween/teen shows from the pre-K shows, while maintaining the relation to the name Noggin. Enter The N, short for "The Noggin".

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"A Walk In Your Shoes", and reruns of "Big Kids" and "Sponk!" became a part of The N as the first of many original series to come for the block. By the end of 2005, however, they would be off the air one by one. "On the Team" was supposed to join, but never did.

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The N had a handful of original shows since its launch. You know if it's an actual original show if it was produced and owned by Noggin LLC.

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With that in mind, there was no original shows in 2002. Instead they were only acquired; some were International shows that made their American premiere on The N. In 2002, those International shows were.

- "24Seven" (UK)
- "Being Eve" (New Zealand)

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Another International show that premiered on The N became the first acquired show to be branded as an original series for The N, despite Noggin having nothing to do with it: "Degrassi: The Next Generation".

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The N's first actual original shows came in 2003.

- "Out There", an Australian co-production of Sesame Workshop
- "LOL with The N", a stand-up comedy show
- "Real Access in The N", an Access Hollywood for teens
- "Girls v. Boys", a reality game show

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The Chinese/Canadian/British cartoon "Girlstuff/Boystuff" also aired on The N in 2003, along with the Canadian series "Radio Free Roscoe". The latter was another International show that was, for some reason, branded an original series.

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2004 saw the release of 2 more originals for The N: the animated series "O'Grady" and the reality show "Best Friend's Date".

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In 2005 the Canadian show "Instant Star" premiered on The N as another so-called original series. Since the show is from the same people that did "Degrassi: The Next Generation", it was no wonder why.

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2005 was also the year that two of The N's best works premiered: the Spike Lee miniseries "Miracle's Boys" and the GLAAD nominated "South of Nowhere".

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Another original cartoon that would've aired on The N in 2005 was called "Sugarless", a show that never made it past the pilot, but was from Klasky Csupo.

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In 2006 there was no new show, but there was a special hosted by actor and comedian Brandon T. Jackson, called "The Brandon T Jackson Show".

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A original show called "What Goes On" was slated to Premiere in 2007. But for whatever reason, it never aired and was instead leaked on the internet.

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And in 2007, the last shows to Premier while The N was still a block, were from Canada. And because they were from Canada, you know what that means: they were labeled as original shows, just because!

- "Whistler"
- "The Best Years"
- "About a Girl"

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When The N became its own channel on New Year's Eve 2007, only 3 original shows debuted since the change: "Queen Bees" (ugh), "The N's Student Body" and "The Assistants".

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In Sept. 2009, when Noggin & The N became Nick Jr. & TeenNick, Noggin LLC was shut down. The newest original shows for the channel were now created by Nickelodeon Productions. Any returning original show (created by Noggin or not) was now a labeled a TeenNick original.

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The first TeenNick original since the rebrand was the "TeenNick HALO Awards" in 2009. Yes, the same Halo Awards that would move to Nickelodeon in 2014 and become the "Nickelodeon HALO Awards".

HALO stood for "Helping And Learning Others"

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The final original shows to be made for TeenNick were "The Nightlife" and "Gigantic" in 2010, "TeenNick Top 10" in 2013 and "Open Heart" in 2015.

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The last Australian shows to make their American premiere on TeenNick were "Dance Academy", "SLiDE" and "Lightning Point" (aka "Alien Surf Girls"

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And the last Canadian shows to debut on TeenNick were "Life with Boys" and "Mission: 4Count".

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Whenever TeenNick would have original shows these days, the shows are pulled from other Nickelodeon networks (or burned off from the networks) due to low ratings, move to TeenNick (or Nicktoons), and are automatically labeled "original series" according. Sound familiar?

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The most notable Nickelodeon shows that were burned off and moved to TeenNick were "Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures", "House of Anubis", "Hunter Street" and "Star Falls".

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And other Nick shows that were pulled from Nickelodeon and moved to TeenNick were "Alien Dawn" (Nicktoons), "The Bureau of Magical Things" (Nickelodeon), and "Hollywood Heights" (Nick@Nite).

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However, with TeenNick being a simulcast network (the newest episodes of a Nickelodeon show usually premieres on Nick, Nicktoons and TeenNick at the same time), burn-offs are no longer needed. That wraps up all the shows that were on The N and TeenNick between 2002 and 2019.

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