Streams of nostalgia

A few posts ago I was whining for a Legends of the Hidden Temple reboot.

If we can't have a reboot, there's always the original. Streaming service VRV has added Legends and a bunch of other Nick oldies in a channel called - wait for it - Nick Splat. The channel costs $5.99 a month as a stand-alone, or you can buy it as part of the service's premium bundle at $9.95 a month.

The linked article zeroes in on the target demo...

With NickSplat, it’s now going after a slightly different demographic – kids who grew up watching Nickelodeon on linear TV and are nostalgic for those old shows. Maybe they even want to stream them for their own kids these days.

A lot of those nostalgic folks write for pop culture web sites, where they pine endlessly for the Nick shows of olden times. Hey, I'm part of that demo myself, at least when it comes to Legends. By the way, I like that phrase "linear TV." I think it's a polite way of saying "old-fashioned TV in the brave new world of over-the-top streaming."

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