Tiny Chef isn't hanging up his apron just yet

Nickelodeon's cancellation of the popular children's show came as a shock. But the creators have cooked up a new way forward

- by Avery Fox

T INY CHEF NEEDS YOUR help." That was the title of a YouTube clip shared by the creators of the small, green, nicknamed 7-inch animated favorite "Cheffie," which showed the miniature culinary whiz crying as he announced the cancellation of his Nickelodeon series "The Tiny Chef Show." The stop-motion series, created by Rachel Larsen and Ozlem Akturk, appears to have been axed in the process of the $8-billion merger between Nickelodeon's parent company, Paramount Global, and Skydance Media.

(Representatives for Nickelodeon did not respond to multiple requests for comment on this story.) "It was a phone call and zero explanation," Larsen says. "In a way, we didn't expect that because the show was doing really well.