Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide follows the lives of Ned (Devon Werkheiser), Cookie (Daniel Curtis Lee) and Moze (Lindsey Shaw) and their adventures in James K. Polk Middle School. The show deals with handling academic subjects, as well as social problems such as friends, lockers, projects, and tests. Each episode focuses on one main issue students normally encounter in school while providing tips on how to handle these situations, both comical and serious. The series originally ran for 54 episodes across three seasons between September 12, 2004 – June 8, 2007, becoming a firm fan favorite.
Over the last several years, Devon, along with the show's original creator, Scott Fellows, have been trying to get adult-focused Ned's Declassified reboot off the ground.
The pilot for the reboot would of seen Ned, Cookie and Moze struggling to adjust to their lives as adults, just out of college and needing to reboot their lives. Cookie would have been very tech successful working at a company, but miserable; Moze would have been just coming out of a major relationship in which she got engaged, and would be just finishing her anger management course; and Ned would have just quit his latest endeavor and is now sleeping on Cookie's couch. Between the ending of Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide and the beginning of the reboot, Ned and Moze would have dated each other for a while, with Moze leaving the guys in the pilot.
At the beginning of the pilot, Ned is despondent and is unable to give his pals any new tips, however, in an effort to reboot and rebuild their lives, Ned decides it's time to start the Ned's Declassified Adult Survival Guide.
Things were going well, however, Nickelodeon eventually decided to pass on the project.
Then, in 2023, Devon, Daniel and Lindsey partnered with PodCo to launch a nostalgia-based Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide rewatch podcast titled Ned's Declassified Podcast Survival Guide, which quickly became a hit with fans thanks to the cast sharing behind-the-scenes stories - which often went viral - and guest interviews.
In the first episode of the latest season of Ned's Pod, Devon revealed that he saw this as a way to getting a reboot greenlit, and it worked - Nickelodeon and Paramount saw the popularity of the podcast and were once again interested in reviving the property.
Then, in the middle of last year, Paramount announced that it was planning to merge with another company - with Skydance Media eventually winning the bidding - and were to make significant cutbacks, including with its workforce. Unfortunately, this resulted in most of the Paramount team working on the reboot with Devon, Daniel and Lindsey being "fired", effectively putting an end of the planned reboot once again.
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Originally published: March 27, 2025.
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