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You Can't Do That On Television reboot canceled

posted 5 years ago by TMC-4 (19392)

Apparently it all came down to rights issues.

https://twitter.com/IamJimmyFox/status/1172991613854871552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1172991613854871552&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs9e.github.io%2Fiframe%2F2%2Ftwitter.min.html%231172991613854871552

Sadly it is not. Nickelodeon was ready to develop a new version with us, but once it came time to make a deal between the rights holder and Nick it fell apart. Apparently, much of the original ownership contracts/files were lost in an Ottawa fire decades ago... no joke.