Goodbye, Spongebob Squarepants in Canada (for now!)

Even in my own crazy dreams, I was sure that it's never going to happening -- YTV will plugged off every of the Nickelodeon-owned properties of their airings by September 1th, by two unlikely sources: The Amazing World of Gumball (And by its follow-up from Hulu) and... TEEN TITANS GO!

On a drastic rate to struggling with advertising revenues, few weeks ago, Corus has announced that five of their youths Digital specialties are going to be cut by this date: The names are, ABC Spark (Specialized to the youth adult stuff), Disney Jr., Disney XD, the French-Canadian La Chaîne Disney and even so, their Nickelodeon channel. All of them will be nowhere to be found by Sept. 1th, and for the first time ever, the aquatic work of Stephen Hillenburg will be gone to YTV since its eventual inclusion... in 1999!

To the way Corus has hit very hard when they took the Family's ownership of the Disney catalog for themselves meant that in the real world, it don't work like that. The only remaining Disney network that will be keeping by this fall are old vanilla Disney Channel in english. And from a time when even in France, the Disney stuffs have vanished of their own TV airwaves.

But for Spongebob fans? After years of rehash, countless spin-offs, movies and anything from the yellow sea sponge, the cartoon needed a deserved rest for over a decade. Newer seasons appear to be more inconsistent, as if Nick has never left what make the brand at popular and iconic. Since Hillenburg has passed away of an AVC in 2018, the crew has handling more of his works than from his living, even by his own wishes that Spongebob and company NEVER getting any kinds of spin-offs. Unfortunately, it does happening not one, BUT TWICE!

The show's was the part why YTV has survived so long, and also because for Corus, its an inheritance for youth Canadian Television. With many of them who left basic Cable and Dish for the foreign streaming outlets, Corus now treat YTV like another bland Digi-channel with fewer outings in. Just reruns of past Canadian cartoons, some family movies and the inclusion of CBC's 2012-2018 Mr. D, that I am sure that it never gotten any exposure since it was originally cancelled. That makes the whole structure of the youth network all the more awkward to watch.

For the many times The Loud House and Spongebob were the only thing that YTV regularly played, the inclusion of Gumball and Teen Titans Go! since the past June was more than a breath of fresh air in this time when media columnists grew sick of any newer attempts with the crazy sea sponge. Who cares if the Netflix movies about Sandy Cheeks (Spongebob's girlfriend?) or the one with Plankton looks great? Give them a break, folks!