Paramount+ Cancels The 'iCarly' Revival After Three Seasons
I know, you see, somehow the world has changed for me.
Well this certainly isn't so wonderful. Paramount+ has canceled the iCarly revival after three seasons. The news was actually first broken by series star Laci Mosley on Twitter, quote tweeting a since-deleted tweet that was anticipating a renewal.
Mosley, who plays Carly's friend and roommate Harper, wrote "It's canceled babes". Obviously not wanting to come off antagonistic or just leave it at dropping a bomb like that, and knowing the levity, she elaborated "Not a joke. The best people I’ve ever worked with in the business. Thank you for tuining in to the reboot. Everyone put their deeply kind talented souls into this. " The trades quickly ran to confirm with the streamer, and they got this from a spokesperson:
"iCarly will not be returning for a fourth season on Paramount+. The series had a great three-season run and delivered on what fans really wanted to see with Carly and Freddie finally getting together. We want to thank the entire cast, the writers, directors and producers along with the whole crew for their dedication, creativity and talent."
Why the spokesperson would put it on fans that they saw exactly as much as they wanted to see in the early stages of said getting together when there was no reason not to order more is a little skeevy. Especially sitting on top of a cliffhanger regarding the return of Carly and Spencer's mother, it seems it's just a lot of load shedding. This leaves the revival with 33 episodes.
iCarly revived the juggernaut Nickelodeon series starring Miranda Cosgrove, Jerry Trainor, Nathan Kress, Jennette McCurdy and Noah Munck as Carly, Spencer, Freddie, Sam Puckett, and Gibby Gibson, the latter two of whom did not return. It ran from 2007-2012 for 97 episodes.
By the time of the new series, Carly is back in the States and has been for a while, and still a content creator but is coming off a period of long-term collaboration with a boyfriend who breaks up with her in the first episode. The revival was a surprise to many when it was announced ordered in December 2020, but quickly became clear it was capitalizing on the collapse of Disney+'s Lizzie McGuire reboot cancelled before it could even air, with an aged-up tone to match the grown-up audience. In addition to Mosley as Harper, Jaidyn Triplett joined as Freddie's stepdaughter Millicent. The revival premiered in June 2021, with the second season premiering in April 2022, and the third season premiering in June and releasing its ten episodes over June and July. The finale saw the wedding of Freddie's mother Marissa (the show's most frequent recurrer, played by the returning Mary Scheer) and the former doorman Lewbert (the also-returning Jeremy Rowley) end up happening offscreen as they eloped, while Carly and Freddie weighed marriage readiness. Oh yeah and Carly and Spencer's deadbeat mom shows up unexpectedly.
The show that Lizzie McGuire star Hilary Duff went onto after the reboot collapsed was Hulu's How I Met Your Mother spinoff How I Met Your Father which probably did something to match the tone she was looking for in the new Lizzie. In unfortunate coincidence, it was canceled in September after two seasons.
It should also be noted that unlike most Nickelodeon-based series, the iCarly revival has only had two episodes air linearly: "iStart Over", which was the premiere, and season 2's "iObject, Lewbert!". The final moments of the series as it stands can be watched below.
