NickelodeonThe football head is back in action. E! News has confirmed Nickelodeon is reviving Hey Arnold! as a TV movie.
UPDATE: Nickelodeon officially announced the two-part movie will debut in 2017. The two-part Hey Arnold! TV movie, will be written and executive produced by the series' original creator Craig Bartlett.
Variety first reported the revival of the classic Nick cartoon that ran from 1996-2004. The new movie will pick up where the original series ended and resolve some lingering plots, including the whereabouts of Arnold's missing parents. No premiere date was given.
This could just be the first show Nickelodeon is bringing back for new audiences. "Kids who grew up on these characters are now of the age that they are having kids and families themselves," Russell Hicks, president of content development and production at Nickelodeon Group, told Variety. "Our library has come to fruition and it's time for it to start coming back to life."
Nickelodeon said it's goal isn't to bring millennials back as viewers, but rather target the current audience and encourage family viewing. The network started The Splat programming block on TeenNick that featured all your favorites from the 1990s, including Clarissa Explains It All and Ren & Stimpy.
Reviving shows is the hot new trend in Hollywood. Twin Peaks, The X-Files and Full House have new series poised to premiere. CBS announced a new Star Trek TV series. Gilmore Girls is rumored to return on Netflix, joining previously canceled and revived Arrested Development on the stream platform. Everything old is new again on the small and big screen these days (not that we're complaining just yet).
Could we see more Clarissa? Creator Mitchell Kriegman wrote a sequel novel set in modern day, but didn't rule out revisiting the character with star Melissa Joan Hart. For her part, Hart told us she's been approached about returning to the character, but it has to be the right pitch.
"I think it would have to be done really right. You can only go back to the well so many times...it's either going to be done really well and people will only know me as this one character for the rest of my life, or it's going to be really embarrassing and I'll never work again," she told us in April. "I think it's a really tricky, fine line to walk as an actor and I had a fantastic time on that show and I just think fondly on every moment I had—all seven years on Sabrina and those four years on Clarissa—but I think you just have to be really careful with that stuff. I know the fans say they want it, but then—then they're really hard on you after. It never turns out as well as the fan-fiction does, you know?"
What other Nickelodeon shows do you want to see return to life? We've got a few ideas of ones that should return and those that should be left alone.