Max & Shred is a Nickelodeon/YTV television series that premiered on October 6, 2014. The series is about a Jr. World Championship snowboarder named Max Asher (Jonny Gray) who moves to Colorado to train for the Winter Cup. He is set to stay with a host family and forms an unlikely friendship with his new uptight science prodigy of a roommate Alvin “Shred” Ackerman (Jake Goodman). The audience will follow these two boys as they navigate through teenage life with completely opposite point of views. On February 25, 2015, the show was renewed for a second season.