Wayside (also known as Wayside School) is a Canadian and American co-produced animated television series airing on Teletoon in Canada and Nickelodeon in the United States and European countries such as Netherlands and Germany, based on the Sideways Stories From Wayside School book series by Louis Sachar.
Originally a one-hour television movie on Teletoon in November 2005, 26 episodes of the series have been commissioned for 2007. Each episode is composed of two 15-minute shorts. As a production of both Teletoon and Nickelodeon, Wayside holds the distinction of being the only series to be both a Teletoon Original and Nicktoon.
In the US, Wayside aired on Nickelodeon weekdays at 12:30pm ET in the United States from June-July 2007, but it has been moved to 3:30pm ET weekdays (as of now, though, the show has been replaced by The Penguins of Madagascar). As of September 1, 2007, it also airs on the Nicktoons Network, where it currently airs at 3:00am ET. The show has received mostly negative reviews, having only 634 views in its first day. In Canada, it airs on Teletoon every Saturday at 8am ET and 4:30pm ET.
The opening theme is performed by Skye Sweetnam. The series is directed by Riccardo Durante and the head writer/story editor was John Derevlany, who wrote the pilot and developed the series. The pilot was released to DVD under the title Wayside: The Movie, on September 25, 2007. The DVD of the 1st season was released on August 19, 2008.
