Nickelodeon Premiering 'Fairly OddParents' Sequel Series 'A New Wish' This Spring

This is just your average milk that no one understands. You’ll flip your lid when they’ve no longer hid the fairly oddparents!

It’s official, Cosmo and Wanda are coming back. Again. Nickelodeon has officially announced that The Fairly OddParents is getting another sequel series, called The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish. It is fully animated and like the previous series, brings back fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda, voiced once again by Daran Norris and Susanne Blakeslee. A 20-episode first season will premiere this spring.

Like Fairly Odder, Timmy Turner will not be the godkid, however the circumstances will be very different. Instead of them being given to Timmy’s cousins, the official synopsis describes “Ten-year-old Hazel Wells has just moved to the big city of Dimmadelphia because of her dad’s new job. On top of being in an unfamiliar environment, it’s the first time she’s been without her brother, Antony, who’s just left for college, leaving her lonely and unsure of herself. All that changes when the pink-and-green-haired neighbors next door reveal that they are no ordinary neighbors…they’re Cosmo and Wanda, fairy godparents! And they’re coming out of retirement to make all of Hazel’s wishes come true.” Hazel will be voiced by Ashleigh Crystal Hairston, currently voice of Babs Bunny on Tiny Toons Looniversity.

While the announcement came Friday, it’s been known to the animation community for quite a while. The title was found registered by Paramount Global at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) under several NICE classes, including NICE class "41 - Education, entertainment, sporting and cultural services", which is for Goods & Services pertaining to "entertainment services in the nature of continuing program series, featuring live-action, comedy and drama provided through cable television, broadcast television, internet, video-on-demand, and through other forms of transmission media; providing online information in the field of entertainment concerning television programs", as well as NICE classes 28 for "Games; toys; sports equipment" and 25 for "Clothing; footwear; headgear". A month later, Norris was a guest on Ned’s Declassified Podcast Survival Guide, a Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide rewatch podcast hosted by series stars Devon Werkheiser, Daniel Curtis Lee, and Lindsey Shaw. Norris had played Gordy, the school’s janitor, and in the episode revealed "we're in the process of doing something new" in reference to A New Wish. Based on the fact that they’d already been recording as of seven months ago, it makes sense that they’re ready to premiere the series in the next three months. The closest Nickelodeon came to publicly acknowledging the series before this announcement is their Happy New Year 2024 graphic, which put Cosmo and Wanda front and center without Roy and Viv, the stepsibling main characters of Fairly Odder, whom they were present with on the 2023 photo. It should be noted that the series leaked, to some extent the specifics of which I’m not quite sure of, later in January.

From Nickelodeon Animation Studios, Fairly OddParents: A New Wish is co-executive produced by Hairston, Teen Titans Go! alum David Stone, Infinity Train’s Lindsay Katai, and Daniel Abramovici (The Peanuts Movie). Original series producer Fred Seibert and creator Butch Hartman also serve as executive producers. Trevor Young is an animation director, and Mighty Magiswords director Kyle Carrozza is a storyboarder. Production is overseen by Claudia Spinelli, who is Senior Vice President of Animation for Big Kids at Nickelodeon, and Kelley Gardner, Vice President of Current Series, Animation. The show will also be available on Netflix internationally later this year.

The original The Fairly OddParents ran on Nickelodeon for 10 seasons between 2001-2017 for 172 episodes, and a trilogy of live-action TV movies with Drake Bell as a 23-year-old Timmy from 2011-2014. Approximately the back half of the final season aired on Nicktoons. In March 2022, Paramount+ released The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder, a 13-episode live-action sequel series, with Cosmo, Wanda and Jorgen are still animated. Crocker (played once again by Carlos Alazraqui in both mediums) went halvesies. In the series, Timmy handed over Cosmo and Wanda before he leaves for college to his cousin Viv (Audrey Grace Marshall), who would soon find herself sharing them with stepbrother Roy (Tyler Wladis). The show wouldn’t even last a year on the service, being removed in the January 2023 culling that predated the higher-profile June one. Even still, the series won the Kids Choice Award for Favorite Kids TV Show in March.

Podco, the Podcast Survival Guide’s production company, posted the excerpt of Norris’s teasing back when his episode was released.

Sources: Variety, NickAlive, Nickelodeon