<P> The Fairly OddParents is an animated American television series that airs on Nicktoons, and previously Nickelodeon . The series is based on a series of Oh Yeah! Cartoons, beginning with the short The Fairly OddParents! . </P> <P> From 1998 until 2001, the Oh Yeah! Cartoons series aired ten Fairly OddParents shorts with a run time of seven and a half minutes each . After airing as a regular television series since 2001, Nickelodeon has aired a total of ten seasons with currently 161 episodes aired in the United States, including 7 television movies, 3 The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour crossover movies and 3 full - length live - action films . Notable television films include "Abra - Catastrophe!", which aired in 2003, and "Channel Chasers", which aired a year later in 2004 . The latest film A Fairly Odd Summer was released in 2014 . The first 8 seasons, with the help of Amazon, were released on DVD since 2012 . As of July 26, 2017, 161 episodes had aired in the United States . The series returned in 2013, after a year - long hiatus with the ninth - season premiere, which began airing on March 23, 2013, with the half - hour special "Fairly OddPet". </P> <P> On August 17, 2015, a tenth season was officially announced, and it introduced another new character named Chloe Carmichael, Timmy's new neighbor who also has Cosmo and Wanda as her fairy godparents . On December 30, 2015, Nickelodeon's Twitter posted the new character's picture, and the Season 10 premiere date, January 15, 2016 . The series moved to Nicktoons in 2017 to air the remainder of Season 10, which would switch to flash animation beginning with its fourteenth episode . The tenth season ended on July 26, 2017 . </P>

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