Nickelodeon Pluto TV (also called Nickelodeon Pluto or Nickelodeon on Pluto TV) is a collection of free, internet-based feeds of Nickelodeon programming. It is part of the Pluto TV app, which is owned by Nickelodeon's parent company, Paramount Global. The channels feature reruns of older programs from Nickelodeon and Nick Jr.
History[]
The screenbug for the channel, as seen during an airing of SpongeBob SquarePants.
Two Nickelodeon-based networks, Nick on Pluto TV and Nick Jr. on Pluto TV, were launched on May 1, 2019. This took place shortly after Paramount Global acquired the free, internet-based streaming service Pluto TV from its original owners. Two Spanish-language channels were launched in October of 2019, and international feeds have also been launched since then.
Both networks feature older Nickelodeon programs in which have not been broadcast on Nickelodeon in at least a year. The two and twelve other Viacom networks were launched at about 3:30 AM. The first program to air was Legends of the Hidden Temple.
On November 19, 2019, Paramount launched two more new subnetworks; NickMovies (which showed a variety of Nickelodeon's live action movies,) and NickGames, (a Nickelodeon GAS type of channel, which showcased Nickelodeon game shows, new and old). On August 18, 2020, Pluto TV discontinued these channels, moving select NickGames shows to their formerly named Pluto TV Tween channel, and some other Nick related content being moved to their formerly named Pluto TV Kids channel. On September 7, 2021, Pluto TV Kids was split into 3 channels, being Team Spirit, Find Out Why, and Little Stars Universe. The Nick game shows were moved to the Find Out Why channel. On October 5, 2021, Pluto TV Tween was renamed to No Parents Allowed. With this change, NickGames shows now air on the channel again, after being gone from there for a month.
As Pluto TV expanded into Latin American regions in April of 2020, Paramount launched two Nickelodeon-themed channels: Nick Clásicos, and Nick Jr. Club, which air older Nickelodeon programs and Nick Jr. shows, respectively. Shows not aired on the American feeds like Back at the Barnyard, All Grown Up!, Ni Hao, Kai-Lan, and Blue's Room are shown on these channels. [1][2]
In May 2020, Pluto TV launched international feeds in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, including the first TeenNick based channel on Pluto TV.[3]
On April 29, 2021, both Nick and Nick Jr. Pluto TV received a major facelift, adding network logos, on-screen credits, and newer Nickelodeon shows.
On December 7, 2021 at 12 PM, both Nick Pluto TV and Nick Jr. Pluto TV started showing a "technical difficulties" message consisting of just the standard Pluto TV standby screen, with no programs being aired until 7 PM that evening (in spite of what their schedules suggested). While this could have simply been a result of the channels' servers going down, there was second possibility that both channels would be going through another rebrand with a new schedule, with those schedules not being coded in yet. Both channels' overnight timeslots suffered a similar issue in the week leading up to their April 2021 rebrand. No rebrand ended up occurring, however.
On July 18, 2023, Nick Jr. Pluto TV's En Español feed shut down, and Nickelodeon En Español En Pluto TV received a refresh to match the way the English feed has operated for the past two years, while also beginning to carry some Nick Jr. programming.
On October 1, 2023, both Nickelodeon Pluto TV and Nick Jr. Pluto TV finally adopted their own takes on the 2023 Nickelodeon logo, which place the "Pluto TV" logo right below the current screenbugs for the two channels' respective cable counterparts. Most channels except for Nickelodeon Pluto TV and Nick Jr. Pluto TV even introduced the 2023 ratings bug. On April 30, 2024, the standby screen was updated to include the 2024 Pluto TV logo introduced 3 months earlier. Later in May, all Nickelodeon Pluto TV channels were rebranded. This 2024 rebrand introduces the 2024 Pluto TV logo across every commercial, ident and standby screen, but not the screenbugs.
Programming[]
Original ad featuring a promotional image of Rugrats.
Nick Pluto TV Commercial
A commercial for the Nick Pluto TV network from late May of 2019.
The networks air ad-supported reruns of older Nickelodeon series. Additionally, keeping in mind the free aspect of the channel, select programs, usually either those that have high ratings or came out too recently do not air (though there have been some exceptions); however, promos that match those broadcast on the main channels are shown during commercial breaks.
From May 1, 2019 to June 6, 2019, Nick Pluto TV programs aired in 90-minute blocks, with SpongeBob SquarePants episodes to divide the blocks. This was changed on June 7, 2019, when programs started airing in hour long blocks. This format remained in place until sometime around September 2019, when it was changed to half hour. In November 2020, the hour-long format returned, and remained until April 29, 2021.
When the channel rebranded on April 29, 2021, the schedule received a major makeover: the long-runners (SpongeBob SquarePants, The Fairly OddParents, iCarly, and newcomers Henry Danger and The Thundermans) aired from Mondays to Thursdays, the classic Nicktoons (including the new additions of CatDog, The Wild Thornberrys, Rocket Power, and As Told by Ginger) aired on Fridays, modern Nicktoons (such as Bunsen is a Beast, It's Pony, and Lego City Adventures) aired on Saturdays, and Schneider’s Bakery sitcoms from TeenNick (including Victorious and newcomers Game Shakers and Sam & Cat, in addition to the aforementioned iCarly) aired on Sundays.
On June 14, 2021, this format was discontinued, as Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays were instead taken over by all-day marathons of Rugrats, The Fairly OddParents, and iCarly, respectively, causing the line-up to get severely reduced to just six shows.
On August 6, 2021, the format for "Flashback Fridays" changed again, now airing Friday marathons of a new classic show every month, with Rugrats usually airing on the first Friday of the month. Hey Arnold! aired for the month of August 2021, and The Wild Thornberrys aired for the month of September 2021. As Told by Ginger was originally scheduled to air for the month of October 2021. However, mere hours prior to the new schedule change, Nick Pluto TV decided to instead air a marathon of Are You Afraid of the Dark? on October 15, 2021 and October 22, 2021 in honor of Halloween, making it the first live-action Nickelodeon series to air on Nick Pluto TV as part of Flashback Fridays (and the first live-action Nickelodeon series from the 1990s to have aired on the channel at all since the rebrand occurred).
Eventually, though, the line-up was extended to eight shows, with two currently-running Nickelodeon series being added: The Smurfs and That Girl Lay Lay began airing on the channel as dividers in between five-episode blocks of The Fairly OddParents and iCarly during their all-day weekend marathons on September 4, 2021 and September 26, 2021, respectively. The shows aired for the final time on October 3, 2021, due to the upcoming schedule changes.
Many of the programs dropped from the schedule in June 2021 (as well as Kenan & Kel, which was dropped by Nick Pluto TV the day the rebrand occurred) were supposed to return to the line-up on September 10, 2021, only this time, they were to air together on the three aforementioned days of the week, rather than split into “themed” days. This idea was sadly dropped at the last minute, but if it gets implemented into a future schedule, this page will be updated.
An advertisement for the English feed's debut of The Casagrandes, as seen during an episode of Rugrats.
The Casagrandes, which first aired exclusively on Nick Pluto TV's En Español feed on October 1, 2021, made its debut on the channel’s English feed for a special all-day marathon on October 9, 2021. Originally only on the schedule for just the marathon, it would pop up on the English feed again later on.
On October 10, 2021, Victorious began airing in the places of both iCarly and That Girl Lay Lay on Sundays.
The Loud House made its Nick Pluto TV debut on October 23, 2021, airing back-to-back with The Fairly OddParents on Saturdays until November 20, 2021.
Nick Pluto TV aired a 10-day marathon of Henry Danger throughout October 2021, spread through various days of the week: October 11-14, 18-21, 25, and 26, 2021, thus causing the schedule from Mondays-Thursdays to get preempted on those days for said marathon.
On October 29, 2021, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius made its debut on Nick Pluto TV, as part of that week's installment of Flashback Fridays, to promote the show's Complete Series DVD set from Shout! Factory, which was released three days earlier.
As part of the “HallowScream” event on all of Nickelodeon’s channels, Nick Pluto TV aired a special marathon for the weekend of Halloween 2021. On October 30, 2021, the channel aired Halloween and "spooky" episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants ("Scaredy Pants", "Graveyard Shift", and "Ghoul Fouls"), The Fairly OddParents ("Scary Godparents", "Kung Timmy", and "Beach Blanket Bozos"), The Loud House ("Tricked!"), The Casagrandes ("New Haunts/Croaked"), and The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius ("Nightmare in Retroville"). This was the last time The Casagrandes aired on the channel in 2021. On October 31, 2021, the channel aired Halloween episodes of The Thundermans ("Happy Heroween" and "The Haunted Thundermans") and Henry Danger ("Japser Danger" and "Danger Things"), plus the movie Liar Liar, Vampire.
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius aired on Wednesday, November 10, 2021 in addition to the Friday afterwards, marking the first time that Flashback Fridays aired for more than once a week.
On November 26, 2021, the Flashback Fridays format changed again, this time, back to the original format used in May 2021, with time slots for returning shows Hey Arnold!, Rocko’s Modern Life, The Wild Thornberrys, Doug, Rocket Power and CatDog, and a time slot for the current Flashback Fridays show, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, in the place of As Told by Ginger, which did not return. Despite Nick Pluto TV's frequency to reject changes to its schedule format, especially when those changes involve an increase in variety, this new change to the format was accepted, and managed to stick up until December 17, 2021.
A special Christmas-themed edition of the channel's usual Fairly OddParents/Loud House Saturday marathon was shown on November 27, 2021, consisting of "Christmas Every Day!", "Merry Wish-mas!", and the live-action Fairly Odd Christmas movie. Immediately afterwards, Nick Pluto TV aired "Frozen Face-Off" from SpongeBob SquarePants and began airing the mini-series Top Elf, while also unexpectedly excluding the Loud House episode "11 Louds a Leapin'", despite The Loud House being part of the original Saturday marathon. The marathon aired again on December 4, 2021, but this time replacing the SpongeBob episode and "Merry Wish-mas!" with the special Albert. It aired once more on December 13, 2021, with SpongeBob SquarePants and "Merry Wish-mas!" returning.
On Sunday, November 28, 2021, Nick Pluto TV aired the Rugrats episode "Chanukah" on a 24-hour loop (with said episode airing a total of 58 times from 6 AM that morning until 6 AM the following morning) in honor of the titular holiday, marking the second time "Flashback Fridays" aired for more than once a week.
The following Sunday, December 5, 2021, Nick Pluto TV aired a special live-action Christmas block consisting of iCarly's "iChristmas", the movie Santa Hunters (with "Snow Bound" from The Fairly OddParents airing in between so that the movie didn't run off-the-clock), and Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh, marking the first (and so far, only) time Drake & Josh ever aired on the channel. The block aired again on December 12, 2021, but with the Fairly OddParents episode replaced by "Snowball Effect" from SpongeBob SquarePants. Drake & Josh did not end up get a permanent timeslot on Nick Pluto TV as anticipated during the holidays.
Two additional modern Nickelodeon programs joined Nick Pluto TV's line-up in December 2021: on Thursday, December 23, Star Trek: Prodigy was shown for a one-shot broadcast, thus causing The Fairly OddParents to lose a half-hour from what is usually an hour-long broadcast. On Sunday, December 26, Danger Force aired on Nick Pluto TV for a special marathon in which it aired back-to-back with another new addition to the channel, The Adventures of Kid Danger.
On December 24, 2021, The Fairly OddParents aired as part of the Flashback Fridays line-up for the first time, with "Christmas Every Day!", "Snow Bound", and "Merry Wish-mas!" being shown alongside "The Santa Experience", "Babies in Toyland", and "Kwanza" from Rugrats.
December 25, 2021 was the first Saturday in eight months on which The Fairly OddParents was not shown on Nick Pluto TV at all. Instead, the channel aired Santa Hunters, the series finale of Top Elf, and "Frozen Face-Off" and "Snowball Effect" from SpongeBob SquarePants in honor of Christmas Day. This was also the very last time Top Elf aired on the channel, due to the 2021 holiday season being over.
On December 27, 2021, Game Shakers returned to Nick Pluto TV, replacing The Thundermans on the Monday-Thursday schedule. On the same day, iCarly also gained a second slot, leaving Henry Danger with only one slot.
For New Year's Eve 2021/New Year's Day 2022, Nick Pluto TV aired special Double Feature movie blocks in the places of the usual Friday and Saturday line-ups. On December 31, 2021, the channel aired Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie and Splitting Adam, with the Hey Arnold! episode “Mud Bowl” being shown in between so that neither film ran off-the-clock. On January 1, 2022, Rufus and Rufus 2 aired on Nick Pluto TV back-to-back, making it the first Saturday on which no animation was shown on the channel at all.
On January 2, 2022, the Sunday line-up on Nick Pluto TV received another makeover, with Henry Danger now airing back-to-back with Danger Force and The Adventures of Kid Danger, replacing Victorious.
On January 7, 2022, Flashback Fridays reverted back to its format of marathoning a different classic series every month, with Hey Arnold! being the first show to air as part of the old format's return. Rugrats aired for the month of February 2022, only for it to continue airing in March 2022, as a form of promotion for its reboot receiving regular broadcasts on the main Nickelodeon channel.
On January 16, 2022, Nick Pluto TV aired a marathon of Bella and the Bulldogs, possibly to tie in with the NFL Wild Card Game happening that same night.
On January 17, 2022, Nick Pluto TV aired another Double Feature movie block in honor of Martin Luther King Day. This time around, the films shown were Best Player and the Legends of the Hidden Temple movie, with the iCarly episode “iPie“ and the SpongeBob SquarePants episode “Patrick’s Coupon” being broadcast in between.
On January 18, 2022, Sam & Cat returned to Nick Pluto TV, replacing The Fairly OddParents on the Monday-Thursday schedule.
On January 22, 2022, the format for Saturdays and Sundays was changed again, now having two different NickToons being shown all day every weekend, with Danger Force and The Adventures of Kid Danger getting kicked off the channel as a result. The first series to air as part of the new format was It’s Pony, back on Nick Pluto TV for the first time since June 2021, followed by The Fairly OddParents on January 23, 2022. This was the final time that the latter series had a regular timeslot on Nick Pluto TV. The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius and ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks aired on January 29 and 30, 2022, and were shown again on February 5 and 6, 2022. On February 12 and 13, 2022, The Fairly OddParents returned to Nick Pluto TV, while ALVINNN!!! got a third marathon, and the two shows were shown again on February 19 and 20, 2022.
Game Shakers left Nick Pluto TV again on February 3, 2022. Therefore, on February 7, 2022, the Monday-Thursday schedule received yet another update: Henry Danger regained its second timeslot, and iCarly got a third timeslot, thus giving the latter series 90 minutes of airtime.
On February 5, 2022, Big Nate made its debut on Nick Pluto TV, with two of its shorts airing as filler at the tail end of that day's Jimmy Neutron marathon.
On February 14, 2022, a love-themed marathon was shown on Nick Pluto TV in honor of Valentine's Day, consisting of the following episodes: "Valentine's Day/The Paper" from SpongeBob SquarePants, "Love Struck!" and "Love Triangle" from The Fairly OddParents, "My Phony Valentine" and "Elevator Kiss" from Henry Danger, and "iLike Jake", "iWill Date Freddie", and "iWin A Date" from iCarly. This was the first time in a month that The Fairly OddParents has been featured on the Monday-Thursday schedule, though its timeslots on that line-up were taken over again by Sam & Cat the day afterwards.
The Loud House and The Casagrandes returned to Nick Pluto TV on February 21 and 22, 2022. The two shows shared a timeslot right after SpongeBob SquarePants on the new Monday-Thursday schedule, which is now a 6-hour loop as opposed to a 4-hour loop. The Loud House aired in that timeslot on Mondays and Wednesdays, while The Casagrandes was shown there on Tuesdays and Thursdays. With this extension of the channel's hours, Sam & Cat, Henry Danger, and iCarly also gained an additional timeslot each.
In March 2022, The Fairly OddParents and ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks became a permanent fixture of the weekend schedule, resulting in the rotating block of NickToons being quietly discontinued after only two months. Big Nate also left the schedule, after two months of airing as filler during the aforementioned block.
On March 17, 2022, Nick Pluto TV aired the special Lucky on a 24-hour loop (resulting in the 1-hour special being shown 24 times throughout the day) in honor of St. Patrick’s Day.
On March 21, 2022, the schedules for Nick Pluto TV were changed once again, this time, removing Henry Danger, The Casagrandes, Rugrats, and ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks from the lineup, while also upgrading SpongeBob SquarePants and The Loud House to 2 slots per day, and Sam & Cat to 4 slots per day, every Monday-Friday. iCarly still had 4 slots, but now also aired on Fridays alongside the other three shows, and also started receiving all-day marathons on Sundays again. With this schedule change, Nick Pluto TV officially retired Flashback Fridays, only eleven months following the rebrand, leaving The Fairly OddParents and iCarly as the only non-SpongeBob classic Nickelodeon shows still airing on the channel.
On Friday, April 1, 2022, Nick Pluto TV aired a marathon of The Substitute in honor of April Fool's Day, which was the first time the series has aired on the channel since the rebrand occurred.
On April 4, 2022, the weekday schedule was changed once more, this time bringing back Danger Force and introducing another modern incarnation of an older Nickelodeon property to the channel: the 2019 reboot of Are You Afraid of the Dark?. The former series aired exclusively on Mondays and Wednesdays, taking over one of Sam & Cat's four timeslots, and the latter series aired exclusively on Tuesdays and Thursdays, taking over two of iCarly's four timeslots. Sadly, both shows were dropped by the end of that week.
On April 9, 2022, Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan was added to the lineup, airing as part of a new Saturday block that paired the series up with SpongeBob SquarePants and The Loud House. Each series got two hours of airtime that Saturday, thus putting another end to the channel’s Fairly OddParents marathons, though those marathons returned to Saturday beginning on April 16, 2022.
On April 15, 2022, Nick Pluto TV aired the Rugrats episode "Passover" on a 24-hour loop in honor of the titular holiday, thus bringing back Flashback Fridays for one day only.
On April 23, 2022, The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder was added to the line-up, sandwiched into the end of the channel’s usual marathons of the original Fairly OddParents.
On May 1, 2022, Avatar: The Last Airbender began airing on Nick Pluto TV, replacing iCarly on Sundays. It left the schedule on June 12, 2022, with iCarly regaining its Sunday timeslots afterwards.
On May 5, 2022, Nick Pluto TV aired a marathon of The Casagrandes in honor of Cinco De Mayo. The series also returned to Nick Pluto TV En Español four days prior, after five months of being absent from its schedule.
On May 30, 2022, Nick Pluto TV aired a marathon of Sam & Cat for Memorial Day.
On June 19, 2022, Nick Pluto TV aired "iGoodbye" from iCarly (the only episode of the series to feature Carly's dad) on a 24-hour loop in honor of Father's Day.
On July 3, 2022, Are You Afraid of the Dark? (2019) returned to Nick Pluto TV, now airing on Sundays in the place of iCarly to promote the premiere of its new season (Ghost Island) on the main Nickelodeon channel.
On July 11, 2022, Tyler Perry's Young Dylan also returned to Nick Pluto TV, now airing for a half-hour every weekday, thus reducing The Loud House back to only one timeslot. It also got an all-day marathon on Saturday, July 16, 2022, airing in the place of The Fairly OddParents for that week only.
On July 22, 2022, Nick Pluto TV began airing marathons of classic SpongeBob SquarePants episodes on Fridays, thus changing the weekday schedule back to a Monday-Thursday line-up.
On August 1, 2022, Nick Pluto TV also started dedicating Sundays to marathons of The Loud House, which are a three-hour loop instead of the usual six-hour loop, replacing Are You Afraid of the Dark? (2019). The Casagrandes also returned to Nick Pluto TV's English feed that same day, now airing for one half-hour at the tail end of the aforementioned Loud House marathons. This marathon block got discontinued on August 28, 2022, with iCarly taking over Sundays yet again the following week.
On August 15, 2022, The Fairly OddParents returned to Nick Pluto TV's Monday-Thursday schedule, airing for a full hour on each of those days, thus reducing Sam & Cat to only two timeslots. Seasons 9 and 10 air on the Monday-Thursday line-up, while the classic episodes continue airing all day on Nick Pluto TV on Saturdays.
On August 18, 2022, Big Nate returned to Nick Pluto TV, replacing one of SpongeBob SquarePants's two Monday-Thursday timeslots, for one day only to promote the premiere of the show's latest episodes on Paramount+.
On September 8, 2022, Nick Pluto TV aired a marathon of Star Trek: Prodigy in honor of Star Trek Day.
On October 3, 2022, the Monday-Thursday schedule was changed yet again, this time removing Sam & Cat and Young Dylan from the channel, while also bringing back Henry Danger and The Casagrandes, giving The Loud House its second timeslot back, and upgrading The Fairly OddParents to three timeslots. Henry Danger airs in the place of iCarly on Mondays and Tuesdays, while iCarly continues to air in its old weekday timeslots on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
On Sunday, October 30, 2022, Nick Pluto TV's usual Fairly OddParents Saturday marathons got extended to an extra day of airtime, preempting iCarly, to promote the official cable television premiere of Fairly Odder.
From October 31, 2022 to November 6, 2022, Nick Pluto TV aired a marathon of every episode from the first three seasons of The Loud House to promote the premiere of The Really Loud House on the main Nickelodeon channel.
From November 21-27, 2022, Nick Pluto TV aired a similar marathon for SpongeBob SquarePants, featuring all the episodes in the network's standard rotation (all of seasons 1, 9, 10, and 11, plus "Your Shoes Untied/Squid's Day Off" and "Christmas Who?" from season 2 and "Frozen Face-Off" from season 8) on a loop, to promote the worldwide television premiere of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run on the main Nickelodeon channel. Nick Pluto TV En Español also aired a SpongeBob marathon on those same days, only theirs consisted of every single episode from the first 11 seasons of the series.
On December 19, 2022, Nick Pluto TV brought back Rugrats to their schedule for one day only, airing the same 24-hour loop of the episode "Chanukah" that was shown almost exactly one year prior.
On December 25, 2022, Nick Pluto TV aired the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!" on a 24-hour loop in honor of Christmas Day.
From January 2-8, 2023, Nick Pluto TV broadcasted a special marathon of The Loud House and The Fairly OddParents, with each show taking up three hours of the network's 6-hour loop on each of those days, as form of special promotion for the then-upcoming returns of the two shows' respective live-action adaptations to the main Nickelodeon channel. It marked the first time seasons 1-5 aired regularly on any day other than Saturday since the April 2021 rebrand occurred. Also, with this event, seasons 6-8 of The Fairly OddParents entered the show's Pluto syndication package, now airing alongside seasons 1-5 for the show's Saturday marathons.
From January 14-16, 2023, Nick Pluto TV expanded their Saturday marathons of The Fairly OddParents to Sunday and Monday for one week only in observance of Martin Luther King Day.
On February 12, 2023, Nick Pluto TV aired a sports-themed marathon of The Loud House, an unusual 2-hour loop instead of a 4-hour or 6-hour loop, as counterprogramming for that year's Super Bowl. The episodes featured in the marathon were "Hand-Me-Downer", "Health Kicked", "The Loudest Yard", "Net Gains", "On Thin Ice", "Good Sports", "Cow Pie Kid", and "Friday Night Fights".
From February 18-20, 2023, Nick Pluto TV aired another three-day extended edition of their classic Fairly OddParents marathons, this time in observance of President's Day Weekend.
On March 4, 2023, Nick Pluto TV aired a special one-shot Saturday line-up consisting of all of Nickelodeon's animated shows that got nominated for the 2023 Kids' Choice Awards in honor of the occasion occurring no Nickelodeon's other networks, thus bringing back The Smurfs and introducing Rugrats (2021) to the schedule. Those two shows were paired up with SpongeBob SquarePants and The Loud House, with each show getting an hour of airtime, thus bringing back the old 4-hour loop format for that week only.
On April 1, 2023, Nick Pluto TV aired a block of prank-themed episodes of The Loud House, another 2-hour loop, for April Fool's Day instead of their usual Fairly OddParents Saturday marathons. The episodes featured in this block were "Making the Case", "Cereal Offender", "Undie Pressure", "Come Sale Away", "April Fool's Rules", "Funny Business", "Fool's Paradise", and "No Laughing Matter".
On April 5, 2023, Nick Pluto TV aired "Passover" from the original Rugrats on a 24-hour loop again.
From April 17-20, 2023, the Monday-Thursday schedule received another makeover, this time bringing back Danger Force and having Henry Danger take over iCarly's Wednesday and Thursday timeslots, as a form of promotion for the return of new episodes of the former series to the main Nickelodeon channel. During those days, the final two hours in the 6-hour loop for those four days consisted of three back-to-back episodes of Henry Danger followed by an episode of Danger Force. iCarly still had Sundays all to itself, allowing both that series and Henry Danger to have 12 unique broadcasts each on Nick Pluto TV per week. The schedule went back to the way it was previously the following week.
From June 19-25, 2023, Nick Pluto TV aired another week-long marathon of SpongeBob SquarePants; once again consisting of every episode from seasons 1, 9, 10, and 11; to promote the show returning with new episodes to the main Nickelodeon channel. Notably, season 1 was shown on a Wednesday (June 21, 2023) and Thursday (June 22, 2023), marking the first time any of SpongeBob's classic episodes aired on a day other than Friday since Nick Pluto TV's Valentine's Day 2022 showcase.
On June 26, 2023, the schedule was adjusted as iCarly moved to another Pluto TV channel (see Themed Channels below for more info), with Henry Danger now airing in the place of iCarly on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and SpongeBob SquarePants now airing in the place of iCarly on Sundays (while still receiving all-day marathons on Fridays). As a result of this schedule change, Nick Pluto TV finally began airing the entirety of season 2 of SpongeBob again in addition to season 1 and the only two season 2 episodes that previously aired alongside it, with both seasons being shown together on Fridays and Sundays.
On July 3, 2023, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) surprisingly began on the airing primary Nick Pluto TV channel again for the first time since the launch of Totally Turtles, now airing there for all-day marathons on Mondays, to promote the upcoming release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, while still remaining on Totally Turtles' schedule.
From July 11-15, 2023, Nick Pluto TV aired a marathon of The Loud House, consisting of the entirety of season 4, to promote the show's latest batch of premieres on the main Nickelodeon channel.
On September 4, 2023, the Tuesday-Thursday schedule was readjusted back to a Monday-Friday schedule, with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) leaving the channel altogether, and the classic SpongeBob marathons now only airing on Sundays. With this change, Tyler Perry's Young Dylan returned to Nick Pluto TV again, now airing for a single half-hour every weekday, thus reducing Henry Danger back to only three timeslots.
From September 25-October 1, 2023, Nick Pluto TV aired another week-long marathon of The Loud House, this time featuring every episode from the first four seasons, to promote the premiere of A Really Haunted Loud House on the main Nickelodeon channel.
On October 2, 2023, the weekday schedule changed once again, with SpongeBob SquarePants leaving that portion of the channel's line-up completely, thus causing seasons 9-11 to retired from the show's rotation as the only airings of the show became just the marathons of seasons 1 and 2 on Sundays. As a result of SpongeBob's axing from the weekday schedule, The Loud House and Young Dylan both gained an extra timeslot each. Additionally, beginning on October 4, 2023, Young Dylan started regularly receiving the all-day marathon treatment, with said marathons being aired every Wednesday to promote its new episodes premiering on the main Nickelodeon channel those nights.
On December 25, 2023, Nick Pluto TV aired a Christmas-themed showcase of their regular weekday line-up, consiting of the following episodes " 11 Louds A Leapin'", "Snow Way Out/Snow Way Down" from The Loud House, "A Very Casagrande Christmas" from The Casagrandes, "Merry Wishmas!" and "Christmas Every Day!" from The Fairly OddParents (marking the first time since Martin Luther King Day 2023 that episodes from seasons 1-8 of this series aired on a day other than Saturday), and "Christmas Danger" from Henry Danger.
On January 2, 2024, SpongeBob SquarePants and Danger Force both returned to Nick Pluto TV on weekdays, the latter to promote the show returning with new episodes once again to the main Nickelodeon channel. The same mix of HD-era episodes from SpongeBob featured during that portion of the week before began airing once again at the same times they had aired previously, thus causing The Loud House and Young Dylan to lose the extra timeslots they gained by SpongeBob's removal from the weekday schedule four months prior, with the latter series also losing its Wednesday marathons as the regular weekday line-up began being utilized that day again. As for Danger Force, the series is now airing for a full hour in between Henry Danger and Young Dylan, thus reducing both The Fairly OddParents and Henry Danger to just two timeslots each on weekdays.
On January 15, 2024, Nick Pluto TV aired a marathon of Danger Force to promote season 2's release onto Paramount+.
From February 13-18, 2024, Nick Pluto TV had a special presentation of Rock, Paper, Scissors, making its debut on the channel, with the episode "Scissors Gets a Job" airing on random timeslots, taking a half-hour away from the usual line-ups on each of those days.
On February 26, 2024, Nick Pluto TV added The Thundermans to its weekday line-up for two timeslots, airing after Henry Danger, so said line-up was adjusted. SpongeBob SquarePants was reduced to one timeslot and both The Fairly OddParents and Henry Danger were increased to three timeslots, thus removing both Danger Force and Young Dylan from its weekday line-up, bringing said line-up back down to six shows.
On March 8, 2024, a marathon of The Thundermans was aired. Three days later, on March 11, the last timeslot for Henry Danger is removed, only for the timeslot to be moved to The Thundermans.
On March 21, 2024, Nick Pluto TV introduces 2 weekly marathons, being a marathon of The Thundermans every Thursday, and a marathon of The Loud House every Friday, bringing the weekday schedule to a Monday-Wednesday schedule.
On April 1, 2024, The Casagrandes was removed, only for its timeslot to be moved to The Loud House. This causes the Monday-Wednesday lineup to have 5 shows. On April 7, 2024, the SpongeBob marathon that airs every Sunday is replaced by another Fairly OddParents marathon. This causes seasons 1 and 2 of SpongeBob to stop airing on Nick Pluto TV. It also caused the usual Saturday Fairly OddParents marathons to be extended to a weekend.
On April 30, 2024, The Loud House and The Fairly OddParents were upgraded to 4 timeslots and some commercial breaks were removed, causing the Monday-Wednesday schedule to be out of sync. On May 1, with the schedule reverting to the one used since April 1, the April 30 schedule ends with a SpongeBob episode instead of a Thundermans episode. This causes SpongeBob to have 2 timeslots for the first time since February 26. This would happen again on June 17, with the regular schedule, but the only change is that SpongeBob was upgraded to 2 timeslots. From May 6-12, 2024, a third week-long marathon of The Loud House was broadcast, with the same mix of episodes from the previous week-long marathon according to the 8 year anniversary of the show.
On May 13, Henry Danger got back their 3rd timeslot. On May 16, ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks returned to Nickelodeon Pluto TV for marathons on Thursdays, replacing the Thursday marathons of The Thundermans. So far this week, the Transformers: EarthSpark episode "Aftermath" is currently airing on random timeslots, taking a half-hour away from the usual line-ups on each of those days. This marks the first time any series in the Transformers franchise ever aired on Nick Pluto TV since the launch of Transformers TV.
On July 15, the Monday-Wednesday schedule was adjusted with PAW Patrol airing on the schedule for the first time on a non-Nick Jr. Pluto TV channel, thus moving SpongeBob SquarePants and The Loud House to 7:00 and 7:30 respectively. The Loud House was reduced back down to two timeslots on weekdays and Tyler Perry's Young Dylan and Victorious were both brought back with seasons 9 and 10 of The Fairly OddParents being removed from rotation for the first time since April 2022.
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters and Pig Goat Banana Cricket are examples of shows airing exclusively on Nick Pluto TV's En Español feed (which continues to air a few of the shows no longer seen on the English feed, alongside shows that have never been on the English feed); they began airing there on September 14, 2021 and October 5, 2022, respectively. Whether or not they will debut on the English feed has yet to be known. The Amanda Show, Every Witch Way, and The Haunted Hathaways also used to air exclusively on Nick Pluto TV En Español, but have since been removed from its schedule, though Every Witch Way would return at the same time it finally made its English debut on the channel on Totally Teen.
Nickelodeon's game shows, which were originally aired on their now-defunct NickGames channel, are currently outsourced to two of Pluto TV’s other kids channels, Find Out Why and No Parents Allowed.
Currently Airing[]
- Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? (Nickelodeon version, No Parents Allowed only)
- Avatar: The Last Airbender (Totally Turtles only)
- CatDog (90s Kids only)
- Doug (90s Kids only)
- Figure It Out (2012 version, No Parents Allowed only)
- GUTS (No Parents Allowed only)
- Henry Danger
- Hey Arnold! (90s Kids only)
- iCarly (Totally Teen only)
- Legends of the Hidden Temple (No Parents Allowed only)
- Paradise Run (No Parents Allowed only)
- Rocko’s Modern Life (90s Kids only)
- Rugrats (1991 series) (90s Kids only)
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 series, Totally Turtles only)
- The Fairly OddParents
- The Legend of Korra (Totally Turtles only)
- The Loud House
- The Smurfs
Formerly Aired[]
- All in With Cam Newton
- All That (1994 version)
- ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks
- Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990 version)
- Are You Afraid of the Dark? (2019 version)
- AAAHH!!! Real Monsters
- As Told by Ginger
- Bella and the Bulldogs
- Big Nate (shorts)
- Big Time Rush
- Breadwinners
- Bunsen Is a Beast
- Clarissa Explains It All
- Crashletes
- Danger Force
- Danny Phantom
- Double Dare (2018 version)
- Double Dare 2000
- Drake & Josh
- Every Witch Way
- Game Shakers
- It’s Pony
- Keep It Spotless
- Kenan & Kel
- Lego City Adventures
- Make It Pop
- Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
- Nick News
- PAW Patrol
- Pig Goat Banana Cricket
- Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Rock, Paper, Scissors
- Rocket Power
- Rugrats (2021 series)
- Sam & Cat
- Sanjay and Craig
- School of Rock
- Side Hustle
- Star Trek: Prodigy
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 series)
- That Girl Lay Lay
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius
- The Adventures of Kid Danger
- The Amanda Show
- The Casagrandes
- The Dude Perfect Show
- The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder
- The Haunted Hathaways
- The Substitute
- The Thundermans
- The Transformers
- The Wild Thornberrys
- Top Elf
- Transformers: Animated
- Transformers: Beast Wars
- Transformers: EarthSpark
- Transformers: Prime
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise
- Transformers: EarthSpark
- True Jackson, VP
- Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan
- Unfabulous
- Victorious
- Zoey 101
Nick Jr. Pluto TV[]
The screenbug for the channel, as seen during an airing of Wallykazam.
Nick Jr. Pluto TV is a sister channel to Nickelodeon Pluto TV, featuring (as the name implies,) Nick Jr. programs. The original English channel was launched on May 1, 2019. Some programs on the network have not been seen on Nickelodeon for at least a decade (though most of those shows continue airing on the Nick Jr. TV channel). In October of 2019, a now discontinued Spanish version of the channel was launched.
Originally, the channel was dedicated to airing reruns of older Nick Jr. programs, including Dora the Explorer and Blue's Clues, and did not usually air shows that are still in production. However, practically all of Nick Jr.'s ongoing shows have made their way to the schedule after the channel rebranded in 2021, consequently causing all of the older shows to get booted off: Blaze and the Monster Machines was added to the channel on August 30, 2021, followed by Santiago of the Seas on November 27, 2021, Peppa Pig on January 22, 2022, and Baby Shark’s Big Show! on April 5, 2022. On September 21, 2021, Paramount had announced that Pluto TV was being brought over to Italy, with a Nick Jr. channel which, according to the promotional image, appeared to air a fifth ongoing Nick Jr. show, PAW Patrol. That series joined the Nick Jr. Pluto TV America lineup about a year later on September 5, 2022. On October 3, 2022, two further ongoing Nick Jr. shows, Blue's Clues & You! and The Adventures of Paddington, were also added to Nick Jr. Pluto TV's schedule, with the former replacing the original Blue's Clues, the only remaining classic Nick Jr. series still airing on Nick Jr. Pluto TV when PAW Patrol was added. Thus, Nick Jr. Pluto TV essentially turned into a scaled-back version of the Nick Jr. cable channel, perhaps to compensate for PAW Patrol becoming the only Nick Jr. series still receiving regular broadcasts on the main Nickelodeon channel around the same time. Another modern series, Kiri & Lou, was added to the channel on October 17, 2022.
Just like its sibling channel, Nick Jr. Pluto TV airs a six-hour loop of programming four times throughout the day.
In April 2020, a Latin American feed of Nick Jr. Pluto TV was launched. Known as Nick Jr. Club, the network's logo is in the shape of a cloud with "Nick Jr." in it on a light blue background.
Current Programs on the network[]
- Baby Shark’s Big Show!
- Blaze and the Monster Machines (Zoom Zoom only)
- Bubble Guppies (Both Nick Jr. Pluto and Dora TV)
- Dora the Explorer (Dora TV only)
- Nella the Princess Knight (Dora TV only)
- PAW Patrol (Both Nick Jr. Pluto and Zoom Zoom)
- Peppa Pig
- Team Umizoomi (Zoom Zoom only)
- Top Wing (Zoom Zoom only)
Formerly aired[]
- Abby Hatcher
- Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom
- Blue's Clues
- Blue's Clues & You!
- Butterbean's Café
- Corn & Peg
- Dora (2024 series)
- Dora and Friends: Into the City!
- Franklin and Friends
- Fresh Beat Band of Spies
- Go, Diego, Go!
- Hey Duggee
- JoJo & Gran Gran
- Kiri & Lou
- Kuu Kuu Harajuku
- Max & Ruby
- Peter Rabbit
- Rainbow Rangers
- Ricky Zoom
- Robot and Monster
- Rusty Rivets
- Ryan’s Mystery Playdate
- Santiago of the Seas
- Shimmer & Shine
- Sunny Day
- Teletubbies (original BBC episodes)
- The Adventures of Paddington
- The Fresh Beat Band
- Wallykazam!
- Wonder Pets!
- Yo Gabba Gabba!
- Zoofari
Themed channels[]
In order to anticipate the premiere of the then-upcoming theatrical film Dora and the Lost City of Gold, Pluto TV launched on July 17, 2019, Dora TV. As its name implies, it is a 24/7 Dora-themed channel that continuously airs episodes of the main Dora the Explorer show in circulation, with the ones airing on its sister channel, Nick Jr. Pluto TV. From the network's launch on July 17, 2019 until April 29, 2021, Dora TV used to showcase many of the main show's double-length episodes and many of their standard-length episodes. From April 29, 2021 until January 18, 2022, the two spin-off shows Go, Diego Go! and Dora and Friends: Into the City also aired, after being removed from the main Nick Jr. Pluto TV channel. When both spin-off shows left Dora TV, the two shows became exclusive to Nick Jr. Pluto TV's En Español feed, and lasted on Nick Jr. Pluto TV En Español until it shut down and merged with Nick Pluto TV En Español.
A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles channel titled Totally Turtles was also launched on July 23, 2019, showcasing episodes of both the 2003 and 2012 series, in celebration of the titular franchise's 35th anniversary.
On April 29, 2021, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was added. It was removed on October 11, 2021, but was later re-added on June 19, 2022, only to be removed again soon after. The 2003 series was also removed on April 2, 2023 due to the change made to the channel described below.
As a result of Nickelodeon's 2019 acquisition of the Garfield franchise, a channel dedicated exclusively to airing Garfield and Friends was launched for Pluto TV on September 7, 2021.
Pluto TV also launched a pop-up SpongeBob channel to celebrate the series' 20th anniversary in Germany and Austria on July 12, 2019, showing episodes from the series' first five seasons. The channel has been brought to other countries in 2020, and was brought to Spain on July 14, 2021. The channel made its American debut on Paramount+ on December 9, 2021, as SpongeBob Universe. Whether or not it will also be added to American Pluto TV is currently unknown.
On June 6, 2022, Paramount launched a Winx Club channel for Pluto TV's Spanish feed.[4]
A Transformers channel named Transformers TV launched on June 13, 2022 to promote Nickelodeon's new incarnation of the franchise, Transformers: EarthSpark. It features every animated incarnation of the entire Transformers franchise preceding EarthSpark. [5] Transformers: EarthSpark itself would join Transformers TV's schedule on November 11, 2022. The channel was stripped of its Nickelodeon branding and downgraded to a normal Pluto TV channel sometime in February 2023.
On April 3, 2023, both Dora TV and Totally Turtles received major overhauls. Though the branding has remained the same, the two networks have been retooled to respectively focus on both Nick Jr. programming featuring female leads and action-oriented Nicktoons. With this change, Shimmer & Shine and Nella the Princess Knight joined Dora TV, airing sandwiched in between hour-long blocks of Dora, while Avatar: The Last Airbender joined Totally Turtles on April 8, 2023, now airing all day on weekends while Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) airs all day on weekdays, thus causing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) to leave the schedule. Danny Phantom and The Legend of Korra were also scheduled to join Totally Turtles at first, but were dropped from the retooled schedule right before it got properly introduced. On July 3, 2023, Butterbean's Cafe replaced Nella the Princess Knight on Dora TV's weekday line-up, two years after leaving the primary Nick Jr. Pluto TV channel, while Nella continues to air on the channel on weekends. The new format for Totally Turtles was dropped towards the end of July 2023 due to the schedule changes mentioned below.
On June 27, 2023, Nickelodeon launched Totally Teen, a TeenNick-like channel on Pluto TV that carries iCarly, Victorious, Sam & Cat, and Zoey 101, marking the first time the last one of those four shows was ever made available on Pluto TV in the United States. iCarly left the primary Nick Pluto TV channel, after four years of being aired continuously there, as a result. [6] On July 1, 2023, True Jackson, VP and Every Witch Way were added to the schedule, airing back-to-back on Saturdays, marking the first time the latter series has ever been seen on Pluto TV's U.S. version in English, after having only aired on Nick Pluto TV's En Español feed in the past. Sundays on the channel are devoted to all-day marathons of iCarly, just like on Nick Pluto TV prior to the series switching channels when Totally Teen launched. On September 5, 2023, Side Hustle was added to Totally Teen's schedule, now airing for a half-hour every weekday, thus reducing Victorious to only one timeslot. On January 15, 2024, Henry Danger was featured on Totally Teen for the first time, exclusively as part of a one-time marathon intended to promote the release of season 2 of its spin-off Danger Force on Paramount+, at the expense of the primary Nick Pluto TV channel (the show's usual home on the Pluto TV service) not airing the series at all that day. On March 4, 2024, The Thundermans made its debut (and return to Pluto TV) to promote The Thundermans Return movie. On March 31, 2024, some live action NickRewind shows (a different one every week) started playing on Sundays, giving iCarly one less day to run for 24 hours.
Following Nickelodeon's acquisition of that specific incarnation of the TMNT franchise a week prior, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) was added to Totally Turtles on July 31, 2023, alternating back-and-forth every single day with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) as the series that takes up the whole line-up, thus causing Avatar: The Last Airbender to leave the channel, and by extension, Pluto TV as a whole once again. On the same day, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles returned to Totally Turtles once again, now airing for a single half-hour as a transition series between the 1987 and 2012 incarnations.
On September 9, 2023, The Legend of Korra finally made its debut on Totally Turtles, now airing on the channel all day on Saturdays, with Avatar: The Last Airbender returning to Sundays and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) now airing all day from Mondays-Fridays, thus causing both Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to leave the schedule. On October 6, 2023, Danny Phantom was also finally added to Totally Turtles to celebrate Halloween, now airing on the channel all day on Fridays. On October 10, 2023, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) returned to Totally Turtles yet again, now alternating back-and-forth with the 1987 series as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles incarnation featured Mondays-Thursdays.
On September 26, 2023, Nickelodeon launched Zoom Zoom, a new channel on Pluto TV dedicated to Nick Jr. programming featuring action and/or adventure elements, specifically Blaze and the Monster Machines, PAW Patrol, Top Wing, and Ricky Zoom[7], with Blaze leaving the primary Nick Jr. Pluto TV channel as a result of this new network's launch (though PAW Patrol continues to air on Nick Jr. Pluto TV in addition to Zoom Zoom). This channel's launch marks the first time the latter two shows have been featured on Pluto TV since leaving the primary Nick Jr. Pluto TV channel right before the April 2021 rebrand. The four shows air back-to-back from Mondays-Fridays, with Saturdays and Sundays dedicated to all-day marathons of Blaze and The Monster Machines and PAW Patrol, respectively.
On October 17, 2023, Nickelodeon launched 90s Kids, a 24-hour channel in the vein of NickRewind on Pluto TV featuring Rugrats (1991), Hey Arnold!, Kenan & Kel, Rocko's Modern Life, and the original Doug. [8] This marked the first time any non-SpongeBob 1990s Nickelodeon shows have been featured regularly on Pluto TV since the main Nick Pluto TV channel discontinued its Flashback Fridays block. On December 20/21, 2023, All That, CatDog, Rocket Power, The Fairly OddParents, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, and Danny Phantom all temporarily joined 90s Kids' line-up in honor of the holiday season, with the channel now sharing The Fairly OddParents and Danny Phantom with the primary Nick Pluto TV channel and Totally Turtles, respectively. Despite the channel's name, 3 of these shows (The Fairly OddParents, Jimmy Neutron and Danny Phantom) actually premiered in the 2000s. From February 5-14, 2024, 90s Kids aired a “Hey Arnold! Football Head Marathon” in honor of Super Bowl LVIII: Live from Bikini Bottom on the main Nickelodeon channel. On March 21, 2024 onwards, possibly due to allegations from the documentary miniseries Quiet on Set on Nickelodeon, CatDog rejoined 90’s Kids lineup, replacing Kenan and Kel on Thursdays.
In December of 2023, Nicktoons launched in the Canadian version of Pluto TV. Currently, it's unknown when the USA will get the channel.
Multiple times in March, including 2023 and 2024, SpongeBob TV channels were listed on Canada's Pluto TV.
References[]
- ↑ https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2020/04/29/pluto-tv-latin-america-adds-single-series-binge-channels/
- ↑ http://nickalive.blogspot.com/2020/02/pluto-tv-set-to-launch-in-latin-america.html
- ↑ https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/viacomcbs-pluto-tv-germany-austria-switzerland-mtv-1234605566/
- ↑ https://satcesc.com/2022/05/31/plutotv-lanza-horror-winxclub-cortos/
- ↑ https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/transformers-now-has-a-24-hour-free-livestreaming-channel-for-fans-of-the-alien-robot-franchise/ar-AAYpHU9?ocid=uxbndlbing&cvid=3aa24e3b1e3d444498b20aa5d7e7eb43
- ↑ https://cordcuttersnews.com/pluto-tv-adds-the-price-is-right-with-drew-carey-more-to-its-lineup/
- ↑ https://cordcuttersnews.com/everything-new-coming-to-pluto-tv-for-free-in-september-2023/
- ↑ https://cordcuttersnews.com/here-is-everything-new-on-pluto-tv-redbox-tubi-in-october-2023/