Nickelodeon Is Bringing Back 'Legends of the Hidden Temple' as a TV Movie

Nostalgia claims another victory, following previous good news for 'Hey Arnold!' fans.

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Nickelodeon has decided to further fill the hearts of 90s enthusiasts with glee by bringing back Legends of the Hidden Temple, the adventure-prone game show hosted by Kirk Fogg. However, instead of rebooting with the usual tactics and suspects, Variety reports that Nickelodeon is bringing back the iconic series as a live-action TV movie. At time of publication, a premiere date had not been revealed.

"The company is under a lot of scrutiny, but I don’t think Nickelodeon is under any scrutiny at all," Cyma Zarghami, president of Viacom’s kids-friendly cable branch, tells Variety of the network’s parent company struggles. "We have done a tremendous amount of work to build our ecosystem." Part of that ecosystem, as previously reported, will now include revivals of confirmed classics Hey Arnold!, Rugrats, Rocko's Modern Life, and more.

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In fact, Nickelodeon is set to tease both the new Legends of the Hidden Temple and the two-part Hey Arnold! TV movie during a presentation for prospective advertisers on Wednesday. "There’s a tremendous amount of attention on kids these days," Zarghami says. "What that says is there’s a tremendous amount of opportunity—not unlike what is going on in the grownup space." The network will also unveil the first look at a new docuseries hosted by Cam Newton entitled All In.

The past few years have been pretty kind to fervent nostalgists, including a Jimmy Fallon-spurred mini Good Burger reunion and Drake Bell's publicly stated enthusiasm for reviving Drake & Josh as some sort of sad adult dystopia. Hell, why look ahead when we can just sadly ponder the accomplishments of yesteryear?

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