Talk:Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/@comment-6005022-20191106222659/@comment-995426-20191107165809

I think the reason people are nervous that it's getting first runs on NickToons is that it looks very much like a practice they call "," which is when a TV series airing on a major network has one or more of the following happen to it: NickToons is very definitely a lower-rated sister network to Nickelodeon. Or it could be what happened to The Legend of Korra, which was yanked from TV airings altogether and streamed only from Nickelodeon's online service.
 * It is moved to a less favorable time slot.
 * It is moved to a lower-rated sister network.
 * It suffers long hiatuses between new episodes.

None of this is conclusive proof that Rise is facing cancellation, and it could very well keep on going for more seasons. There could be a variety of reasons why it's being treated this way, including Nickelodeon simply being operated crappily.

But I admit even I have my suspicions at times. For one thing, the websites http://www.tmnt.com/ and http://www.ninjaturtles.com/ redirect to the Nickelodeon website sub-page for the now-ended 2012 TV series. Not the website for Rise, not a website dealing with the entire three-and-a-half-decade franchise, but 2K12. And that page doesn't even mention any other continuity, including Rise.  There are times when I get the distinct impression that Nick doesn't take TMNT very seriously anymore, if they ever really did. I think the production team of Rise occasionally really goes the extra mile, but as a direct production of Nickelodeon, they're still more directly subject to Nick's whims. The only ongoing TMNT series that still seems to take their creative work seriously from top to bottom, barring Nickelodeon's creative vetoes, is IDW.