Get ready to meet Bikini Bottom from another perspective. Nickelodeon just announced that their iconic animated show SpongeBob SquarePants will get a spinoff centered on SpongeBob’s best friend Patrick Star.
The Patrick Show received a 13-episode order for the first season and is expected to premiere in the summer of 2021. Bill Fagerbakke reprises his voice role as Patrick in the spinoff, while the creative team behind the original will also take part.
According to the press release, The Patrick Show will follow a young version of Patrick Star, who is “living at home with his family, where he hosts his own show for the neighborhood from his television-turned-bedroom.” The series will introduce a number of new characters, including Patrick’s little sister Squidina and his grandfather GrandPat.
The Patrick Show will be the second SpongeBob SquarePants spinoff to make it to television. Streaming service Paramount+ premiered Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years, a show focusing on 10-year-old SpongeBob, earlier this month, with six episodes being released so far.
More SpongeBob SquarePants spinoffs and related projects are expected to follow. Prequel movie The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run was recently released on video-on-demand, while “music-based” series revolving around Squidward is reportedly in the works since 2019.
