That’s a whole lotta stuff! Not all of it has fully “disappeared” from the digital sphere; some shows, like
Doug, are available elsewhere (in
Doug’s case, it’s apparently been
licensed over at Disney+). But other shows, including
Big Time Rush, are now unavailable to stream unless you’re paying to buy or rent somewhere like Apple TV.
Paramount+ purged a bunch of other kids’ content in March, including the briefly rebooted
Rugrats, which was a Paramount+ original based on a classic Nickelodeon cartoon. Yet lest some prime IP lay fallow for even a moment, the studio announced a
“live action” Rugrats movie in development in October. And
all of this comes shortly before Paramount is set to solidify its merger with Skydance in 2025. When that happens, it’s expected that the company will spin off, sell, or otherwise shed some or even
most of its cable assets, which could very well include Nickelodeon. So who knows what will become of that beloved archive of kids’ television. For now, we know that
these shows are lost in the ether. Hopefully somebody out there has some
Big Time Rush DVDs.