Tuesday, July 16, 2019

'SpongeBob SquarePants' Receives Nomination in 2019 Primetime Emmy Awards

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences today announced the sponge-tastic news that Nickelodeon's hit animated series SpongeBob SquarePants has been nominated for a prestigious Emmy Award in the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards! The nominations for the 2019 Primetime Emmy Awards were announced by D'Arcy Carden and Ken Jeong (The Casagrandes, Wonder Park).


SpongeBob SquarePants has been nominated in the "Outstanding Short Form Animated Program" category of the 2019 Primetime Emmy Awards for the episode "Plankton Paranoia". In the episode, Plankton hasn’t tried to steal the secret formula in a while…and that’s making Mr. Krabs nervous. The episode premiered on Nickelodeon USA in September 2018.

In the category, SpongeBob SquarePants will be going head-to-head with Netflix & Blur Studio's Love, Death & Robots ("The Witness"), Adult Swim & Stoopid Buddy Stoodios' Robot Chicken ("Why Is It Wet?"), Cartoon Network Studios' Steven Universe ("Reunited"), and Cartoon Network & Warner Bros. Animation's Teen Titans Go! ("Nostalgia Is Not A Substitute For An Actual Story").

The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards will honor the best in United States prime time television programming from June 1, 2018 until May 31, 2019, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The ceremony will be held on September 22, 2019, at the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California, and will be broadcast in the U.S. by Fox.

SpongeBob SquarePants is in the midst of celebrating its landmark 20th anniversary, which kicked off with the debut of “SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout” on Friday, July 12, 2019, which launched the "Best Year Ever", Nickelodeon's year-long global celebration commemorating 20 years of SpongeBob SquarePants, one of the most iconic TV series and characters ever created, which includes the launch of the official SpongeBob SquarePants YouTube channel, brand-new merchandise and a app, and will lead up to the Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies theatrical, The SpongeBob Movie: It's a Wonderful Sponge, coming 2020.

A full list of Primetime Emmy Awards 2019 nominations can be found at https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners?page=11

Congratulations and good luck to the stars and production team of SpongeBob SquarePants and to Nickelodeon!

More Nick: Nickelodeon Brings SpongeBob SquarePants' Bikini Bottom to Life at Comic-Con International: San Diego 2019!

Original source: Comic Book; Additional sources: Wikipedia, Google.
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