At a press event today, previewing what’s to come for their upcoming animation slate, Nickelodeon revealed their scheduling plans for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 2 and showed off a scene from the much-anticipated return of The Legend of Korra

As it turns out, fans of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles won’t have to wait long at all for Season 2. A big hit for Nick, TMNT already has the distinction of having already been renewed twice -- through Season 3 -- before Season 1 has even finished airing.It was revealed that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 1 finale will air this August… and Season 2 will then begin airing just a month later, in September! While there are plenty of breaks between new episodes of TMNT, that's still an impressive turnaround between full seasons.The wait for new episodes of The Legend of Korra has been more difficult for fans, since that show aired its 12 episodes with nearly no breaks last year, but has been gone for quite some time. Fans have the comfort of knowing there are still three more “Books” to go in the series, but so far, we haven’t been given a debut date for Book 2. That didn’t change today, as Nick could only say Korra would be back “later this year.” However, we were shown a cool new scene from the upcoming episodes.We’ve known since last summer that Book 2 is subtitled “Spirits,” and Nickelodeon's Rich Magallanes noted that in Book 2, the divide between the human world and the spirit world was collapsing and Korra finds, “the dark spirits are seeping into her world.”

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The sequence we saw found Korra battling one of these spirits, initially just seen as dark tentacles, surrounded by a purple energy, coming out of the ground on a hillside. Korra asks, “Spirit, why are you so angry? What have we done to offend you?”, only for the tentacles to violently knock her aside, as they do to anyone else who attempts to help her, including Tenzin and an adult, male Water Tribe member I didn't recognize at a glance.Then, the full octopus-like creature rises out of the ground, and begins moving down the hill, utlimately crashing through a fence into a carnival being held, as Korra pursues it. On the offense, Korra shoots the creature with fireballs and begins to get the upper hand, but she is suddenly grabbed by one of its tentacles, and smashed down into the ground. And... we cut to black, for now.And sorry, my fellow Korra fans, Nickelodeon is not releasing this scene to the public for the time being. As the scene was introduced, they noted that there is still a lot of work to be completed on the animation side for Korra: Book 2 - though the scene in question still looked terrific, even if it wasn’t in its final form. Suffice to say, it hinted at some very exciting things to come.As for what’s to come on Nickelodeon, there will be a lot of focus on comedy, which was said to be particularly popular with their young viewers. Nick has begun a new program focused on animation shorts, and is in the process of debuting the initial 12 offerings, either on Nickelodeon itself, on Nick.com or via the new Nickelodeon app. These shorts are done in all manner of animation, from traditional 2D, to CG, to Flash to Stop-Motion – the latter used for Zombie Brothers, which is about… well, you can guess. In the clips we were shown, it was pretty amusing to see a Nickelodeon animated short where a gag involves the arm falling off one of the main characters.Nickelodeon also has two new ongoing animated series launching soon. Still several months away is Breadwinners, a buddy comedy from Gary “Doodles” DiRaffaele and writer Steve Borst, about two best friends (and ducks!) who have a bread delivery company. Borst and DiRaffaele noted their intention to focus on a brotherly relationship and the influence the Nickelodeon series of the 1990s, both animated and live-action, had on them. There’s also a heavy old school Nintendo influence on the show, with the creators saying they thought of their characters as a Super Mario Bros- like duo and revealing you’ll see them “leveling up” in comedic ways.Launching in just a couple of weeks, on May 25th, Sanjay and Craig is about a teenage boy and his talking snake. It stars the voices of Maulik Pancholy (30 Rock, Weeds) and the man who will eventually have a show on every single channel, Chris Hardwick (The Nerdist).We were shown a sequence from Sanjay and Craig which hinted at a funny, offbeat show as Sanjay hid underneath a large coat, with Craig as his (snake!) head, challenging a rival to face off on an arcade fighting game. As it turns out, The Adventures of Pete & Pete’s creators, Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi, are involved in Sanjay and Craig, which certainly had this Pete & Pete fan instantly intrigued. I asked Sanjay and Craig’s creators, Jim Dirschberger, Jay Howell and Andreas Trolf, about McRobb and Viscardi’s participation and they revealed they were not only the showrunners, but a huge influence on the series – encouraging them to have the same kind of humorous, surreal and even sad moments Pete & Pete was known for – plus being a bit “weird-ass,” as they put it.Nickelodeon’s Jenna Boyd said McRobb and Viscardi had the same philosophy with Sanjay and Craig they had on Pete & Pete, which was to make it, “funny, sad, strange and beautiful.”The Sanjay and Craig creators also discussed their love of old Nickelodeon programming, revealing one upcoming episode will be a big tribute to Double Dare. Arrested Development’s Tony Hale will also have a role on the series.