User blog comment:Checker Fred/Season 2 was never split, iCarly season 6/@comment-3277817-20120116154702/@comment-3123404-20120116184130

Dan knew. He was confused on when the broadcast third season was going to begin when he wrote that we were still "in the second season" on his blog. He wasn't confused on the issue. Plus, Nick didn't order that many episodes for the season. Dan unintentionally shot that many (due to admitting that they had an insane schedule and couldn't stop shooting episodes). Nathan later said in an interview towards the end of production that they were pushing for 45.