Kamp Koral, the first spin-off of the mainstay of cable television Sponge Bob Square Pants, is moving from a planned Nickelodeon debut to broadcast on CBS All Access in 2021.
The new show will premiere early next year on a full access platform that will soon be renamed. It will join a series of Nickelodeon library programs moving to the streaming service, including Avatar: Last Airbender, Rugrats and all previous seasons of the original Sponge Bob Square Pants.
CBS All Access on Thursday officially added nearly 3,500 new episodes and a redesigned interface that showcases Viacom’s former brands like Comedy Central, MTV, BET and Nickelodeon, as well as CBS. The subscription broadcast outlet launched in 2015, almost four years before the merger of CBS and Viacom.
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Kamp KoralAccording to an official description from ViacomCBS, he follows SpongeBob and his 10-year-old friends as they head to the camp to sleep. “They spend their time building underwater bonfires, catching wild jellyfish, and swimming in Lake Yuckymuck in the craziest camp in the kelp forest, Kamp Koral,” the company said.
The prequel was first reported by Deadline in June 2019.
In a related programming item, CBS All Access will also have exclusive subscription broadcast rights in the first window for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run after its premium video-on-demand run. The launch of the Paramount All CGI feature this summer was altered by COVID-19 and related movie theater closings in the United States and around the world.
Sponge Bob Square Pants premiered in 1999, just before CBS and Viacom joined in the first CBS-Viacom merger, until the two divisions split again in 2006. The show became a premier ownership state on Nickelodeon and also on a billionaire licensing giant. He also produced two feature films, released in 2004 and 2015, which grossed $ 465 million combined worldwide.
