NEW YORK, April 1, 2008 /PRNewswire/ — Nickelodeon’s 2008 Kids’ Choice Awards (KCAs) set a big, slime-induced ratings record on Saturday, March 29 (8-9:30 p.m. ET/PT), by becoming the biggest KCAs to date for kids 2-11 and total viewers (P2+), outranking last year’s record-breaking show. The 2008 KCAs earned the number-one spot on all of television for the week with kids and tweens as well as the top spot on cable with total viewers. Hosted by Jack Black, the 2008 Awards also set a record online by leading Nick.com to its most trafficked day and bringing in an unprecedented 89.3 million votes across various Nick digital platforms.
With kids 2-11, the show earned a 10.9/3.8 million K2-11, a +6% increase over last year’s telecast which was hosted by Justin Timberlake and had previously ranked as the highest-rated Kids’ Choice Awards in the show’s history. The show has steadily increased in ratings and delivery each year since 2003. continue reading...
NEW YORK, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire/ — Nickelodeon, the number-one entertainment brand for kids, announced today that it will develop its hit animated preschool series Dora the Explorer into a live-action, prime-time television movie. The announcement was made by Brown Johnson, President, Animation, Nickelodeon and MTV Networks Kids and Family Group. The TV movie will feature Dora as a ten-year-old live-action Latina heroine in an all-new adventure enhanced by CG special effects.
“We are thrilled for our viewers to see their favorite Latina heroine come to life in a new, vibrant live-action world,” said Johnson. “Dora will be a little older for her high stakes live-action adventure, which we think will be very exciting for our pre-school audience, as well as kids and their families who have grown up watching the show over the last 7 years.” continue reading...
NEW YORK, Feb. 14 /PRNewswire/ — Nickelodeon, the number-one entertainment brand for kids, comes to Toy Fair 2008 with a selection of items that combine the magic of kids’ favorite characters with today’s top toy trends. Leading the playtime news is the launch of the first-ever complete SLIME! product line, which puts Nickelodeon’s coveted green goo directly in kids’ hands.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ — Hot on the heels of its season-two premiere ratings success, Nickelodeon’s hit series, The Naked Brothers Band keeps on rocking! The tween sensations are about to come face-to-face with ultimate rocker Joel Madden of Good Charlotte when he guest appears on an upcoming episode of the popular TEENick series, premiering Saturday, Feb. 16, at 8:30 p.m. (ET/PT). The half-hour episode titled, “Talk Show,” stars rockers, buddies and real-life brothers Nat Wolff and Alex Wolff who do “double duty” as celebrity guest talk show hosts on a television talk show, along with celebrity guest Joel Madden. The episode also includes the debut of the band’s latest song, “Proof of My Love,” which is one of 14 new, original songs rolling-out throughout the second season. The Naked Brothers Band airs regularly on Nickelodeon every Saturday night at 8:30 p.m. (ET/PT).
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NEW YORK, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ — NOGGIN rings in the New Year with a special resolution to preschoolers — the network will now be available 24 hours a day! On Monday, Dec. 31, at 6:00 p.m. (ET), the commercial-free, educational preschool network from Nickelodeon, will super-serve families by expanding from 12 to 24 hours, offering even more of the network’s top- quality, educational preschool programming. To kick off the celebration, NOGGIN’s Moose and Zee will host the network’s first primetime movie marathon, on Dec. 31 from 6:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. (ET), featuring the premiere of a new 90-minute Franklin movie, “Franklin and the Turtle Lake Treasure.” The preschool movie party will also feature the hour-long Dora the Explorer TV movie, “Dora Saves the Mermaids,” and the half-hour specials “Save the Wonder Pets!” and the Go, Diego, Go! “Great Jaguar Rescue.”
NOGGIN is also announcing that it will premiere Toot & Puddle, a new 26- episode animated preschool series, based on the best-selling book series by acclaimed children’s author and illustrator Holly Hobbie, in fall 2008. The network has also greenlit a new 26-episode second season of Pinky Dinky Doo, NOGGIN’s first animated original series dedicated to enhancing early literacy, based on the popular book series by Jim Jinkins (Doug and PB&J Otter). continue reading...
BURBANK, Calif., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ — Nickelodeon is stuffing more than just turkey this Thanksgiving with its non-stop “Superstuffed Nicktoons Weekend” - four jam-packed days featuring 65 hours of Nick’s hit animated series, airing from 6 a.m. (all times ET/PT) Thursday, Nov. 22 through 9 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 25. Throughout the weekend, viewers can vote for and then count down the “100 Greatest Moments in Nicktoons History”; watch day-long marathons of Nicktoon pilots, movies and all-time favorite episodes; and get a special sneak peek at upcoming Nicktoon creations. The weekend kicks off with the three landmark episodes of Nickelodeon’s very first Nicktoons - Ren & Stimpy, Doug and Rugrats - airing together as they originally did on Aug. 11, 1991.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ — Preschoolers will join the world’s most beloved little Latina heroine on a fin-tastic adventure, cleaning up the ocean to save the underwater Mermaid Kingdom on Dora the Explorer’s new hour-long, primetime TV movie “Dora Saves the Mermaids” premiering Monday, November 5, from 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon. After more than seven years on the air, Nick Jr.’s Dora the Explorer continues to reign as one of the top-rated preschool series on commercial television.
An international phenomenon, Dora the Explorer is broadcast all over the world, teaching the majority of her viewers English rather than Spanish. Syndicated to TV broadcasters in 125 markets and translated in 24 languages, Dora the Explorer is among one of the top rated preschool shows in nearly every major television market around the world across broadcast and cable. continue reading...
NEW YORK, July 16 /PRNewswire/ — Heading towards the culmination of Nickelodeon’s Let’s Just Play Go Healthy Challenge, created in partnership with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation — a joint initiative of the William J. Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association — the series continues to motivate kids across the country to join the fight against childhood obesity. Now Jamie Lynn Spears, star of the Nickelodeon hit series Zoey 101 has joined the fight against childhood obesity and along with a growing roster of TEENick talent that have pledged to “Go Healthy” including Miranda Cosgrove star of the upcoming Nickelodeon television series iCarly; Devon Werkheiser star of the Nickelodeon movie, Shredderman Rules!” and Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide; and Nat and Alex Wolff of The Naked Brothers Band. Through the six-month Let’s Just Play Go Healthy Challenge series, the network is empowering kids to change the outcome of their generation and measuring their pledges to adopt healthier lifestyles by offering plans for better diet and exercise.
The fourth installment of the Let’s Just Play Go Healthy Challenge airing Sunday, July 29, 8:30 p.m. ET/PT on Nickelodeon will feature a guest appearance from Kansas City Chiefs’ Tight End Tony Gonzalez, who in this month’s “Work out Like A Pro” segment gives kids tips on the importance of making time for exercise every day and demonstrates a classic exercise with a twist in the form of calf raises done on a staircase. continue reading...
LOS ANGELES, July l3 /PRNewswire/ — Nickelodeon takes the convergent entertainment experience for kids to a new level with the premiere of iCarly - - back-to-back episodes, Saturday, September 8 (8-9 p.m. ET/PT) — a brand-new TEENick comedy for today’s digital generation that makes TV history as the first scripted series to integrate kid-created content. The innovative show starring Miranda Cosgrove (Drake & Josh) as Carly Shay follows her cool character on and off webcam, as she clicks with kids everywhere by hosting her own home-grown web show — and drives viewer participation on icarly.com.
The program comes courtesy of executive producer/creator Dan Schneider’s (Zoey 101, Drake & Josh) Schneider’s Bakery, reuniting breakout actress Cosgrove with Schneider and paving the way for her to follow in her TV brothers’ footsteps as a Nick series headliner. Post-premiere, it will air regularly in TEENick, Sundays at 7:30 p.m. (ET/PT). continue reading...
