The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story

I grew up watching Nick and this took me right back to those good ol' after school days. Such great nostalgia! I loved it. It's a must see..

If you grew up watching Nickelodeon, you should check this out. Lots of great info on the network I never even knew. Highly recommended!

The Orange years does a perfect job bringing back to my childhood through the stories of the kids (now adults) who built Nickelodeon. If you're a fan of anything Nickelodeon past or present this is without a doubt a must see.

This documentary was fantastic. As someone who grew up watching and loving Golden Era Nickelodeon in the early 90's, and still holds onto that love to this day in my 30s, this was a fun and informative look into Nickelodeon. The Orange Years covered tons of different ground, and was jam packed with stars that made Nickelodeon what it was, such as Kenan Thompson, Danny Tamberelli, and Geraldine Laybourne. Watching this made me want to break out my old orange Nickelodeon VHS tapes and have my own SNICK night. Orange you glad you've got your Nickelodeon?

It was nice seeing some of the old shows I used to watch and how they started, but after watching this documentary about nickelodeon it's easy to see where they lost sight of what they started out as, way before sponge bob and Dora as stated in the show. When your breakout show is about kids being kids and just having fun and making fun of everything (You can't do that on television) in fact most of what the kids did in that show would not be allowed now, which is why they will never release the series. They also a few great shows after that. But once you start to guide kids thinking you will lose them. I think it started with nick news, they kind of mention it in the show that they had this huge audience now what do we do with them? Once you start manipulating kids into seeing what YOU want them to see and care about and inject political correctness into their shows, you start to lose some of them and before they knew it they were just another corporation that lost touch with its customers. Don't get me wrong they had some good shows in the later years, Josh & Drake, I-Carly and a few others but even those were best in the early episodes because they were much rawer and a little less P.C. but I suppose that happens to every show.