Shattered fans of US boy band Big Time Rush can take heart, the boys will be around for a little longer.

Although it appears their popular Nickelodeon TV show is set to finish up soon, the band are not breaking up, lead singer Kendall Schmidt told AAP.
In Sydney for kids music festival SlimeFest, Schmidt said the band is simply undergoing a transformation because, "people have to spread their wings a little bit".
The pop group received plenty of reaction from upset fans after a recent interview in which they hinted at their future careers.
"There's definitely Big Time Rush in the future, it's just a matter of deciding what we want to do," Schmidt told AAP.
Carlos, Kendall, James and Logan rose to fame in 2009 on the hit kid's show, about high school hockey players who form a pop band.
Now, four years later, they're looking at what's next on the horizon.
"The episodic 23-minute Big Time Rush episodes are done, but I think ... it's really about scheduling for the boys," Schmidt said.
"There's four individual artists in this band and it's been four or five years (after the show started), everybody wants to exercise creativity in other places, as any other artist would want to."
Schmidt, the lead singer of the band, has plenty of other interests outside of Big Time Rush to keep him busy, including his own band, Heffron Drive.
The 23-year-old singer and actor has breaking into electronic dance music (EDM) on his radar.
"I'm a huge EDM fan and that's a huge market right now.
"I would love to do a song where older kids are like `hmm, he's got a pretty cool voice and he likes the same music we do'."
For now, Schmidt is spending time writing tunes for Heffron Drive and other acts, most recently New Zealand boy band Titanium's latest tune, Unarmed.
The song is "older" in lyrical content, something that's much easier to do outside of Nickelodeon standards and practices, Schmidt says.
While the freedom to write songs for older audiences is luring, Schmidt says he will always keep to his roots in some way.
"It's not like I'm going to do a crazy lyrical song that people are going to be like `that's awfully rude of him to do, after Big Time Rush'.
"It's not going to be that crazy, but will be a bit more aged up."
He won't be taking any tips from former child star Miley Cyrus when it comes to making the transformation from kid's TV.
"I definitely wouldn't want to be known for anything other than being a good role model.
"I guess (Miley) just wanted to separate herself, but I think it's also possible to make music that people like and can relate to.
"I just hope that you can get there by being cool and people like to talk to you and hear your music. That will be nice."