Garfield

Garfield is a multimedia franchise created by Jim Davis, originating as a comic strip that debuted on June 19, 1978. It stars a lazy orange cat named Garfield, his oddball owner Jon Arbuckle, Jon's dopey dog Odie, and their various friends along the way.

On August 6, 2019, Nickelodeon's parent company, ViacomCBS, announced that it had acquired the rights to the franchise through a buyout of Paws, Inc. Nickelodeon will produce a new animated series starring the character.

Garfield media produced under Nickelodeon

Television series

• Garfield (series)

Video games

• Garfield: Lasagna Party
• Zen Pinball Party Garfield
• Garfield Kart 2: All You Can Drift

Crossovers

• Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
• Nickelodeon Extreme Tennis
• Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway
• Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2
• Nickverse

Pre-2019 Garfield media owned by Nickelodeon

Television series

• Garfield and Friends
• The Garfield Show
• Garfield Originals

Television specials

• Here Comes Garfield
• Garfield on the Town
• Garfield in the Rough
• Garfield's Halloween Adventure
• Garfield in Paradise
• Garfield Goes Hollywood
• A Garfield Christmas
• Happy Birthday, Garfield
• Garfield: His 9 Lives
• Garfield's Babes and Bullets
• Garfield's Thanksgiving
• Garfield's Feline Fantasies
• Garfield Gets a Life

Films

• Garfield Gets Real
• Garfield's Fun Fest
• Garfield's Pet Force

Notes

• Despite Nick owning the primetime specials and Garfield and Friends, 9 Story Media Group owns distribution rights to the series (as confirmed by Kevin Campbell).
  • This is likely why Garfield and Friends received its own channel on the Pluto TV service on September 7, 2021.
• Despite owning the franchise and comic strips, certain past Garfield adaptations are not owned by Paramount Global. These include:
  • The live-action/CGI hybrid films Garfield: The Movie and Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (which are owned by the Walt Disney Company following their acquisition of 20th Century Fox, now known as 20th Century Studios, along with the rest of Fox)
  • The CGI animated film The Garfield Movie, as well as its upcoming sequel (which are owned by Sony Pictures despite the fact the movie was released 5 years after the acquisition).
    • However, the first live-action movie was also added to Paramount+ at the time.
• Long prior to the acquisition, syndicated reruns of Garfield and Friends aired on Nickelodeon from 1997 to 2000. Also, Nickelodeon aired the two live-action movies in 2015 and 2016.

External links

• Garfield Wiki
• Official Nick Page
• Official website for the comic strip
• Official Garfield Twitter account