r/television • u/Ok_Scientist_8147 • Feb 06 '25
‘Victorious’ Trina Vega Spinoff ‘Hollywood Arts’ Starring Daniella Monet In Works At Nickelodeon
https://deadline.com/2025/02/victorious-trina-vega-spinoff-hollywood-arts-daniella-monet-nickelodeon-1236279328/66
u/franlcie Feb 06 '25
Danielle Monet is a really good physical comedian, I just hope she doesn’t become the “straight” character. Trina was her best when she was unhinged and egotistical
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u/AimeeM46 Feb 06 '25
franlcie, i agree w/ you 100%!
Danielle was really funny on Victorious and i hope they keep her just as funny in this new series!
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u/njb021 Feb 06 '25
Just basically doing what Wizards of Waverly Place is doing now. Taking the main character’s sibling and having them to be the parent to reintroduce the original show’s plot. I’d assume Tori shows up here and there, Sikowitz is in this and would think one of Tori’s friends is another teacher, either Robbie, Jade, or Sinjin
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u/DoubleDizzzy Feb 06 '25
Hopefully more like the Icarly reboot, aimed at the now mature audiences that watched as kids with more adult situations and jokes.
The Disney shows (at least Ravens home and Wizards) are basically just new shows with older cast members as support. Still aimed at the younger demographic.
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u/njb021 Feb 06 '25
Seems like this is being made for Nick, the iCarly reboot and Zoey 102 which were more mature were made for Paramount Plus
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Feb 07 '25
Now that's it almost four years since its premiere, the icarly revival was really mid. It just basically felt like Paramount told CBS writers to very moderately "age up" a Nickelodeon OG. They somehow made Spencer (the 2nd funniest character after Sam in the OG) boring as hell.
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u/miowmix Feb 06 '25
Probably jade. Robbie or sinjin would be too weird especially if sikowitz is there
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u/DemolitionGirI Feb 06 '25
So that's why Danielle Monet has been posting about Trina in the past months.
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u/Zorkel567 Feb 06 '25
I rewatched the show a few years ago (during COVID), and Trina was hands down one of the best parts of the show, so I'm intrigued to see what they do with this
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u/Besnix Feb 06 '25
At this point is hilarious how every Nick show from that age is getting a reboot except Ned's Declassified; the one where the crew arguably wants it the most.
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Feb 06 '25
Right? I lost interest in their podcast when it stopped being about the show and more about random guests I'd never heard of, but their chemistry is great and it is pretty ironic that the show with the least problematic showrunner and cast from that era haven't had a chance to do a sequel.
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u/Applesburg14 Feb 06 '25
This could be good news for iCarly revival's finale movie that got stuck in development hell.
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u/Requiem45 Feb 06 '25
I guess that's one way to do a victorious reboot when a good chunk of the cast is doing well enough that they wouldn't come back lol
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u/chewytime Feb 06 '25
I was about to say. I wasn’t really a fan but I remember seeing a couple episodes back in the day and from what I remember of the cast, a lot of them actually managed to transition into grown up actors/singers pretty successfully.
Ariana of course would be too big (though I’m sure they’ll make some references or winks to her character doing the same like how Fuller House alluded to Michelle’s absence being that she was too successful), Gillies might make a cameo as a favor since she doesn’t seem to be ashamed of her past. Victoria may or may not since it seemed like she was distancing herself from those days before. Avan probably wouldn’t either.
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u/geek_of_nature Feb 06 '25
They're probably hoping to convince Ariana to make an appearance at some point. I've got no idea if that's something she'll be open to or not, whether she's expressed any fondness for her time on the show, but there would definitely be conversations about it going on amongst the executives. Them saying they need to get her in for the ratings.
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u/TobiasMasonPark Feb 06 '25
Really? They’re still making shows based off Dan Schneider characters?
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u/shadow0wolf0 Feb 06 '25
Those characters and shows were insanely popular. It makes sense they want to milk it for all it's worth.
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u/TobiasMasonPark Feb 06 '25
Even in light of what Dan Schneider was like as a boss?
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u/shadow0wolf0 Feb 06 '25
A TV show has dozens sometimes hundreds of people who work on it. Who gives it their all and puts their love and craft into the show. We shouldn't punish and disregard a bunch of innocent people just because of one bad person.
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u/vanityinlines Feb 06 '25
That seems like a bad idea.
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u/UniqueDatabase4819 Feb 06 '25
Wasn't trina the most hated character too? I didn't watch it much myself but my cousin did and I always remembered no one liking her
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u/AimeeM46 Feb 06 '25 edited Feb 08 '25
i very much liked the "Victorious" show. Daniella was really funny as Trina Vega. i'll check out this new show!
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u/galaxystars1 Feb 06 '25
I could see them going the bunk’d route with different students each season
Could be fun I guess
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u/JFeth Feb 06 '25
I can see that. The problem is that Dan Schneider would probably get paid for it since it is his character and setting.
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u/Sunshine145 Feb 06 '25
Why are these sequels to kid sitcoms made? Kids dont know who df they are and I cant imagine adults actually choosing to watch them.
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u/Jolly_Echo_3814 Feb 06 '25
actually people appearantly liked the first season of the icarly sequel. people like stuff they liked as a kid. preferably aged up for adults with most of the same cast.
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u/Sunshine145 Feb 06 '25
That's the exception, it didn't stay a kids sitcom airing on a kids channel like all these other ones.
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Feb 06 '25
What baffles me is they make them geared towards children (with the exception of the iCarly reboot) even though the people who watched them as kids aren’t old enough to have kids of their own yet. And most of the time the characters aren’t old enough in universe to have kids either, even if the actors might be. They’re giving people in their 30’s middle school aged children and it makes no sense.
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u/AimeeM46 Feb 06 '25
i'm an adult and i will definitely at least check out this new Trina spin-off series. Daniella was hilarious on "Victorious" (i loved that show!).
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u/BJ22CS Seinfeld Feb 07 '25
I cant imagine adults actually choosing to watch them.
There's no way the kids who were watching the show when it first aired are adults now; wait a min...(me doing the math on how old someone who was a kid during that time would be now) well shit, the show ended almost exactly 12 years ago(Feb 2013), has it really been that long ago already? Someone who was 8yo(doubt anyone younger than that was watching it back then) at that time would be 20 now, which is most definitely an adult.
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u/Applesburg14 Feb 06 '25
Honestly, my knowledge of Victorious only goes as far as Quinton Reviews, which is very bloated - you can ignore the parts you don't want to watch. His intermissions within intermissions were just his way of pushing other content he wanted to do but was stuck in some weird quest to finish the 9 videos he did, only mentioning Schneider in one video.
Schneider being a creep just shows he shouldn't be working with kids, teenagers, and many consenting adults in general. The people around him were weirdos.
Here's my theory: the sexual innuendos, while funny occasionally, were supposed to be aimed at the parents. The sexual content (them wearing bikinis, the foot stuff), in addition to themselves, were aimed at boys and girls who were going through their sexual awakening. It's pretty disgusting looking back on Schneider's content which got more brazen as time went on. I watched iCarly as a kid, if I still watched Nickelodeon I would have been the prime demographic for that. In the interest of ratings... why this needed grown-ass adults to hit on Beck, Tori and Jade so often is beyond me.
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u/sebastian404 Feb 06 '25
why this needed grown-ass adults to hit on Beck, Tori and Jade so often is beyond me.
Having recently ended up with my wife's 15 year old cousin living with us, it is very sadly accurate. Even when we are out with her, guys of all ages try and hit on her, she just accepts it as 'normal'.. and that's even sadder.
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u/Precarious314159 Feb 06 '25
The Quinton series really was a great look at the whole franchise, even if you could remove 5hr+ from the intermissions where he talks about the toys, video games, etc.
The rumors about Schneider being a creep were around even before Victorious with rumors of his pool parties were constantly dismissed as fake and any victim was accused of attention seeking. It's great that people are FINALLY taking it seriously but the Quinton series was the first time I've watched iCarly since the finale so it was a weird look at just how bold he got. Back when he was doing All That and Amanda Show, it was all pretty normal but iCarly really started to showcase his kinks and interests.
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u/AlexTorres96 Feb 07 '25
I'm just curious to see if Victoria Justice will toss them a bone and show up for a cameo. People here said that she felt above doing the Zoey 101 movie and the All That cameo too.
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u/HotGirlWave298 Feb 07 '25
Paramount truly can’t come up with anything original. Nearly every single thing they’ve put out in the past 3-4 years is some kind of reboot or spin-off.
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Feb 06 '25
Who out there was a fan of the original show, and as a grown adult a decade later perking their ears in interest for this premise?
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u/AimeeM46 Feb 07 '25
i'm a grown adult (as far as i know!) and while i wasn't pining for a Trina spin-off (or any spin-off from "Victorious"...a show i loved) i will definitely check this new show out since i thought Danielle was hilarious as Trina.
i'm not saying it's going to be a great/funny show but i'll give it a chance.
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Feb 06 '25
Of all the characters in Victorious to do this to, they choose the most annoying one? That's nothing against Daniella Monet, she played her brilliantly and she has wondeful comic timing, but Trina was an awful person. Justice should be in it given Tori's Trina's sister, but somehow I can't see many old characters showing up.
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u/Draxtonsmitz Feb 06 '25 edited Feb 06 '25
Probably the only one who said yes.
Ariana Grande is definitely not doing a spinoff.
Victoria Justice is actively making movies and has a recurring role on the new Suits spinoff.
Elizabeth Gillies already did a spin off with Ariana.
I don’t think any of the guys were memorable enough or they wanted a comedic female lead.
Daniella was the only choice.
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u/The_Swarm22 Feb 06 '25
They just doing anything now