Production
A daughter to an employee at Nickelodeon was a fan of Making Fiends. She showed the website to other Nickelodeon employees. They contacted Winfrey to see if she was interested in televising the series.
In early 2004, Nick started negotiations with Winfrey to develop the series into a half-hour television program. During the long negotiation and development period, Winfrey continued to create new web episodes independently, and sell related merchandise in her own online "souvenir shop". In 2006, Nickelodeon began distributing many of the web cartoons as streaming video on their own TurboNick platform, and later as podcasts available on iTunes.
The series was picked up for a first season of television episodes in late 2006. Production began in January 2007 and the show started airing in 2008. The show was set to premiere on Nickelodeon, but Nickelodeon decided to cancel its plans for a broadcast on their parent channel, and instead gave this new series to its sister channel Nicktoons (along with fellow Nicktoon, "Random! Cartoons").
The series premiered on October 4, 2008. The show aired on Saturdays and Sundays at 11:30am ET/8:30am PT and 9:30pm ET/6:30pm PT. It received generally favorable reviews by critics. Making Fiends carries a rating of TV-Y7 (FV (fantasy violence for some episodes.). The series aired in the US, Australia, New Zealand, and in the Netherlands.
The writing team of Making Fiends consist of only four people; Winfrey, Peter Merryman, Madellaine Paxson, and Matt Negrete. In the show's studio, there is a special "thinking couch" to come up with new ideas.
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