In a brand-new can't miss The Loud House special "Kings of the Con", to win big at the Ace Savvy convention, Lincoln and Clyde (as Ace Savvy and One-Eyed Jack, respectively) pull a wild card! 'Toon into the all-new The Loud House special "Kings of the Con", premiering Monday, October 14, 2019 at 1:00 p.m., leading into The Casagrandes at 1:30 p.m., on Nickelodeon USA, Nicktoons and TeenNick!



In the brand-new The Loud House special "Kings of the Con", Eager to be named Kings of the Con at the Ace Savvy convention, Lincoln and Clyde convince the sisters to go with them as the Full Deck; when the girls get more attention, the boys do whatever it takes to gain focus. (#413)

Following the special, Nick will continue to premiere all-new episodes of The Loud House Saturdays at 11:00 a.m. as a lead-in to brand-new episodes of The Casagrandes at 11:30 a.m.!:

Saturday, October 19, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. - Tails of Woe; Last Loud on Earth: When Stella's music box disappears at school, the gang immediately suspects a student urban legend known as the Rat Beast; after a night of zombie movies, Clyde and Lincoln find an empty Loud house and assume it's a zombie apocalypse. (#411)

Saturday, October 26, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. - Can't Hardly Wait; A Mutt Above: (#408)





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Originally published: Friday, September 20, 2019 at 18:08 BST.

Additional source: The Loud House Encyclopedia.

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Get ready to sink your teeth into a fang-tastic brand-new All That Halloween special, premiering Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 8:30 p.m. (ET/PT) following an all-new Henry Danger Halloween special at 8, as part of Nickelodeon Hallowscream, only on Nickelodeon USA! Check out the spooktacular trailer below!:



In the brand-new All That episode #1110, Marie Kiddo helps declutter a treehouse; Dracula reviews new technology with the Invisible Man; Nathan cancels trick or treating; and Girl Scouts go camping to earn coveted badges!

Dracula's Tech Review & Spookiest Selfies ⚰️ #AllThatTuesday



Dracula (Ryan Alessi) always reviews the latest tech gadgets. But when he gets a surprise visit from the Invisible Man (Nathan Janak), things go off the rails quickly! Turns out being invisible or a vampire isn’t great when it comes to selfies! Do you know who you are going for Halloween yet? Let me know in the comments below! Catch more All That on Nick!

Subscribe to the official All That YouTube channel!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6UzskfVDPkJ5aSe755ZGgQ

Check out Nick's Halloween 2019 highlights here!: http://nickalive.blogspot.com/2019/09/nickelodeon-usas-october-2019-premiere.html

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Originally published: Monday, October 07, 2019.

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15 Times SpongeBob Was Actually Scary! 😲 | SpongeBob



These unforgettably scary SpongeBob moments are a real treat!

What is YOUR #1 scary SpongeBob moment? 👻

Catch the brand-new SpongeBob SquarePants Halloween special "The Ghost of Plankton", premiering Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. ET/PT on Nickelodeon!: http://nickalive.blogspot.com/2019/09/nickelodeon-to-premiere-new-spongebob.html

CALLING ALL GOOFY GOOBERS! (ROCK!) Are ya ready for a deep dive into the world of SpongeBob SquarePants? The SpongeBob YouTube channel is THE PLACE for all fan-favorite SpongeBob moments! We’re serving up everything from legendary scenes to remixes of classic songs to deep dives into Bikini Bottom lore. Be sure to check back every week for Music Mondays, Wumbo Wednesdays, and Flashback Fridays! Subscribe now at https://www.youtube.com/SpongeBobOfficial!

Join the OFFICIAL SpongeBob SquarePants Facebook Group here!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SpongeBobSquareFans

For more Halloween Nick vids, click the following link!: http://nickalive.blogspot.com/search/label/Halloween%20On%20Nickelodeon

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Lucy Loud’s Family Fortunes 🥠 The Loud House | Nick



It’s a rainy night at the Loud House, the perfect weather for fortune telling. Gather 'round as the spooky Loud takes out her cards and provides eerily perfect predictions for each of her siblings. Comment below with your favorite fortune! And remember... the cards don’t lie.

What kind of cards would YOU turn up?

Have you watched the brand-new The Loud House Original Halloween Short 'No End In Bite' + Stitches? Watch it here!: http://nickalive.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-loud-house-original-halloween-short.html

Don’t miss the premiere of the brand-new series, The Casagrandes, on Monday, October 14th, only on Nickelodeon! Click the following link for more details!: http://nickalive.blogspot.com/2019/09/nickelodeon-reveals-casagrandes-theme.html

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When it was first announced that a new Star Trek animated series would be heading to Nickelodeon, a certain subsection of Star Trek fans began wringing their hands that this might be the point the franchise “dumbs itself down” to attract kids. Well, good news: that’s not going to be the case.


Speaking to Trek Core at New York Comic Con this past weekend, producer and Star Trek franchise head Heather Kadin briefly touched on the upcoming 3D animated Nick series, being helmed by Trollhunters and Lego Ninjago’s Kevin and Dan Hageman. The series sees a bunch of “lawless” teens coming across a derelict Starfleet vessel, taking it as their own and charting a course for adventure across the galaxy.

Although it’s a long way away yet—in the same interview, Kadin suggested to not expect to see the show air until even after 2021—it’s going to be the first Star Trek series explicitly aimed at a younger audience since, well...the original Star Trek animated series. Some fans came out of the announcement concerned that kids these days should just get into Trek the way they did—by watching a mainline show like Discovery as it airs, or watching one of the classic series through repeats, streaming, or home releases—instead of getting a new series aimed at them and them alone that could dilute the “maturity” of the franchise. But Kadin took the time to stress not just how the new series won’t look down on the younger audience it’s chasing, but why it’s important to give that audience their own way into Star Trek as a franchise.

“The reason we went to the Hagemans is because if you’ve seen their work, you know that they’re not writing Muppet Babies. It’s not ‘Little Spock and Little Kirk. It’s not playing down [to viewers] that way,” she said. “Even [with] their characters in Ninjago—they are teenagers—I was able to watch that with my kids and they write with a very epic quality. They tell stories the way we tell stories in live action: serialized, turning over cards...I think it will be a great way for fans to introduce the franchise to their kids, and for new fans to be formed, because it’s such a big franchise, [it can be hard] to get into as a kid.”

In an age where kid’s animation is more varied and way more mature than adults will often give it credit for—look at everything from The Loud House, The Legend of Korra to Clone Wars and She-Ra, and especially to, as Kadin notes, shows like Ninjago and Trollhunters that the Hagemans worked on before starting this new series—the thought that a Star Trek show would have to be “lowered” in some capacity to cater to kids was already ridiculous gatekeeping in the first place.

But Kadin is right in that, as Star Trek enters this new phase of expansion and revival on the TV side of things, it needs to reach out beyond audiences that are already fans. It needs to create new fanbases, young fanbases, that can then grow into shows like Picard or Discovery or whatever else is being cooked up.

You can’t really do that by expecting a pre-teen to sit down in front of a TV or PC, load up CBS All Access, and get stuck into an episode of Discovery—a show that is decidedly aimed at a mature audience more so than any other prior Trek series in the first place, with f-bombs and violence (and the occasional Klingon sexual assault). And sitting them in front of Netflix or a DVD box set and punching up an episode of Deep Space 9 or The New Generation might work, but it’s not exactly giving them their own in-road in the series, but instead expecting them to bend to the same in-road old fans already took.

Star Trek can’t grow the audience it reaches with an attitude like that. It needs the variety of perspectives on the series, the variety of viewpoints, if it’s to survive in this age of rapid expansion—and it’ll get that by bringing new audiences in beyond the diehards who are already invested.

Star Trek will be alright. So will the kids. Let them have their show.

Below are the parts of Trek Core's exclusive interview with Star Trek franchise heads Alex Kurtzman and Heather Kadin at NYCC 2019 in which they talk about Nickelodeon's upcoming animated Star Trek series. The full interview can be read at TrekCore.com.

TREKCORE: How about the Nickelodeon animated series that was announced back in April? The writers room was revealed on social media a while back… is that something to look for, maybe, in 2021?

KADIN: Looooonger. I was surprised! As someone who makes big, live-action shows, I heard how long it was going to take and I was like, “What?!” Because it’s 3D animation, so just takes that much longer…

TREKCORE: Oh, so it will be more of a digital look, compared to the “cartoon” animation in Lower Decks?

KADIN: Exactly.

KURTZMAN: (Nods) Very different animation style.

KADIN: But the Hageman brothers [come from] Ninjago and TrollHunters, they’re doing it, so it’s definitely going to be more in that visual look.

TREKCORE: Lower Decks was picked up to series with a two-season order, due to the animation work, I believe.

KURTZMAN: Yes.

TREKCORE: Is that the same for the Nickelodeon show?

KADIN: Yes.

TREKCORE: When do think there might be a title for that series?

KURTZMAN: We have a title. We’re just not going to tell you what it is! (Laughs)

TREKCORE: The other Star Trek shows are accessible, mostly, to younger viewers, but some fans have expressed a bit of apprehension about a Trek show that’s aimed to be specifically for a younger audience.

What are your thoughts on that reaction, for those who think it might not be the right move for Star Trek?

KADIN: The reason we went to the Hagemans is because if you’ve seen their work, you know that they’re not writing “Muppet Babies.” It’s not “Little Spock and Little Kirk.” It’s not playing down [to viewers] that way.

Even [with] their characters in Ninjago — they are teenagers — I was able to watch that with my kids and they write with a very epic quality. They tell stories the way we tell stories in live action: serialized, turning over cards…

I think it will be a great way for fans to introduce the franchise to their kids, and for new fans to be formed, because it’s such a big franchise, [it can be hard] to get into as a kid.

TREKCORE: So you expect it to have some ongoing storylines, and not just be an ‘episode of the week’ kids show?

KADIN: (Nods) A hundred percent, yeah.

TREKCORE: Speaking of the “big franchise,” I’m sure you’ve seen the speculation from fans — and in the trades — about the CBS / Viacom merger and how it might impact Trek. Has that affected your plans, or have you been thinking about what opportunities the merger might make available to you?

KURTZMAN: (Shakes head) No, it’s very business-as-usual for us. It has not impacted our plans at all. We have a slate of shows that’s going to take us easily through the next five years. So that’s the plan looking forward, and if movies come into play then we’ll be ready.

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Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) is strengthening its portfolio in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region with the launch of a localised Nicktoons channel in the Czech Republic! Launching in October 2019, Nicktoons Czech Republic (Česká republika) will broadcast 24/7 and is a sub-feed Nicktoons Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), which launched in April 2019, with a localised Czech language track. The channel brings viewers the most popular animated series and exclusive new animated shows produced by Nickelodeon, one of the most popular children's channels in the Czech Republic.

Update (8/10) - Nicktoons Czech Republic will be available on UPC Česká republika.


NickToons Česká republika will join VIMN's three other dedicated children's channels in the Czech Republic: Nickelodeon Česká republika (a localised version of Nickelodeon Central and Eastern Europe with a Czech soundtrack) for kids aged 4-12 years old, which airs hit live-action and animated series; Nick Jr. Česká republika (a version of Nick Jr. CEE with a Czech soundtrack), Nickelodeon's top-rated preschool channel for children aged 2-6 years; and the non-localised Nickelodeon HD. Nicktoons is aimed towards boys and girls aged 6-to-14 years. With this combination, Viacom offers the most engaging, fun and varied content for kids and adolescents - all day long, every day.

Nicktoons Česká republika will air a wide range of programming from Nickelodeon's vast library of hit animated series, including Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, SpongeBob SquarePants, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Avatar: The Legend of Aang, Penguins of Madagascar and more. Viewers will also be able to watch series exclusive to the channel, including Sanjay and Craig, Welcome to the Wayne, The Adventures of Kid Danger, Breadwinners and more.

Axocom will represent the Nicktoons channel in the Czech Republic.

Nicktoons can be viewed in more than 90 million homes in 27 countries worldwide, including in the USA, UK, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, Japan, Turkey, Hungary, Russia, Poland and Bulgaria.

Nickelodeon has been testing the high-definition Czech version of Nicktoons on the HOTBIRD satellite at 13° East, however, it is currently airing programming with Romanian audio.

From Digitální rádio:

Exkluzivně: Placený dětský kanál Nicktoons míří na český trh

Ve vysílání se objeví mimo jiné seriály Spongebob v kalhotách, Želvy ninja, Tučňáci z Madagaskaru, ToonMarty, Chlebáci nebo Alvin a Chimpunkové. Tematická televize, která již vysílá například v Polsku, Turecku nebo Bulharsku, je určeno primárně divákům ve věku od šesti do čtrnácti let.

Na českém trhu začne vysílat pravděpodobně již v průběhu října nová dětská placená televize Nicktoons. Vyplývá to z informací redakce portálu Digitální rádio. Nicktoons bude na našem trhu k dispozici v češtině a nabídne výhradně animované seriály, jako jsou například Spongebob v kalhotách, Želvy ninja, Tučňáci z Madagaskaru, ToonMarty, Chlebáci nebo Alvin a Chimpunkové. Vysílání tematické televize, která již vysílá například v Polsku, Turecku nebo Bulharsku, je určeno primárně divákům ve věku od šesti do čtrnácti let.

Stanici Nicktoons bude na českém trhu zastupovat společnost Axocom. Její zakladatelka Erika Luzsicza však plánovaný krok odmítla oficiálně komentovat. Jak upozornil portál Digitální rádio dlouholetý spolupracovník Lukáš Jaro, Nicktoons již testuje českou verzi s vysokým rozlišením obrazu na satelitní pozici 13 stupně východně, družice Hotbird. Na stopě označené jako Czech je v tuto chvíli prozatím šířena rumunština. Stanice Nicktoons na českém trhu doplní kanály Nickelodeon a Nick Junior a nelokalizovaný Nickelodeon HD.

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Originally published: Tuesday, September 24, 2019.

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Animation Magazine has announced the sponge-tastic news that actor and voice actor Bill Fagerbakke, who voices superstar sea star saviour Patrick Star on SpongeBob SquarePants, will be awarded an Animation Hall of Fame Game-Changers award for his work on Nickelodeon's hit animated series at the 2019 World Animation & VFX Summit!


Joining Fagerbakke being honored with Animation Hall of Fame Game-Changers awards at the 7th Annual World Animation & VFX Summit will be Adina Pitt, who previously served as Vice President (VP) of acquisitions for Nickelodeon and MTVN Kids and Family Group, and has, throughout her career, worked on Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, TV Land, Nicktoons Network, Noggin, The N, Nick Jr., TNN and Spike TV, and Mike Young (Rob Dyrdek’s Wild Grinders)!

The honorees will receive their awards at the World Animation & VFX Summit Opening Night Party on Sunday, Nov. 3. Congrats Bill, Adina and Mike!

In addition to being honored, Fagerbakke, Pitt and Young will also be participating as panelists and speakers during the high-profile event, which will feature panels, discussions and networking with a global array of high-level animation and visual effects professionals, who are changing the animation, VFX, distribution and financing landscape all over the world. The 2019 edition will also showcase panels on the making of some of the year’s top animated features, such as Abominable, Frozen 2, How to Train Your Dragon 3, I Lost My Body, Klaus, The Missing Link, Toy Story 4 and other award season contenders. It will also offer informative sessions on some of this year’s animated shorts awards contenders, recent developments in virtual reality technologies, the changing face of the VFX industry, regional spotlights on European and Chinese co-producers and innovators, as well as new developments and opportunities for animation professionals in the booming streaming and media landscape.

Bill Fagerbakke [Representing Nickelodeons’ SpongeBob SquarePants team] voices Patrick Star, SpongeBob’s best friend, in Nickelodeon’s iconic hit series SpongeBob SquarePants. Fagerbakke is best known for his portrayal of Dauber in long-running comedy series Coach and can currently be seen in on Netflix’s acclaimed mini-series, Unbelievable. Other recent credits include Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here and How I Met Your Mother. Additionally, Fagerbakke had recurring roles on Heroes and Oz. In 2011, he appeared in the Oscar-winning film The Artist. Other credits include Funny Farm, Loose Cannons, The Secret of My Success, The Baby Makers and Halloween 2. His distinctive voice has also been heard in Disney’s animated feature film The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and as a regular on animated series Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, as well as All Hail King Julien, Transformers, Handy Manny, Dumb and Dumber, Gargoyles, and many others. He currently resides in Topanga, Calif., with his two daughters.

Adina Pitt is VP of content acquisitions and co-productions for Cartoon Network and Boomerang. She is responsible for identifying, negotiating and acquiring pre-produced series, specials, movies and short-form product that fit the network brands for exposure on all platforms. She is also the liaison with international Cartoon Network and Boomerang channels to coordinate global acquisition contracts, and she represents the U.S. networks at all major programming markets. Previously, Pitt was VP of acquisitions for Nickelodeon and MTVN Kids and Family Group. Throughout her career, Pitt has worked on Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, TV Land, Nicktoons Network, Noggin, The N, Nick Jr., TNN and Spike TV. She also worked in film programming acquisitions at HBO.

Mike Young is the co-founder and partner of Splash Entertainment (originally Mike Young Productions) and Kabillion. His first venture into animation came in 1980 when his children’s books based on a crime fighting Teddy bear, SuperTed, became a hit TV series worldwide. Young has produced hundreds of hours of animated movies and TV series including the recent films All I Want for Christmas Is You and Lionsgate’s Norm of the North. Young has won numerous accolades for his shows including multiple BAFTA and Emmy Awards. Among his numerous TV and movie credits are: Jakers: The Adventures of Piggley Winks, Pet Alien, ToddWorld, Clifford’s Really Big Movie, Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch, Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot, Dive Olly Dive!, Rob Dyrdek’s Wild Grinders, Cosmic Quantum Ray, Chloe’s Closet, Growing Up Creepie, Bratz and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: The Beginning.

“We are witnessing a huge growth period in all the different sectors of animation and visual effects all over the world, and we are delighted to celebrate the seventh edition of our World Animation & VFX Summit with such a supremely talented group of visionaries and artists,” says Jean Thoren, Animation Magazine’s publisher and founder of the event. “Our six distinguished Hall of Fame Game Changer Honorees this year — Jill Culton, Sergio Pablos, Adina Pitt, Marlon West, Mike Young and the team behind Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants— have brought so much artistry and creative vision to our world. This year’s honorees have worked hard and led teams of artists in their quest to share unique and inspiring stories. We are thrilled to acknowledge their achievements at the Summit this year and thank them for raising our industry to such great heights.”

For more information about World Animation & VFX Summit, including a full list of Animation Hall of Fame Game-Changers award recipients, visit https://animationmagazine.net/summit.

SpongeBob SquarePants, which was recently greenlit for a 13th season, has reigned as the number-one kids’ animated series on TV for the last 17 years, while generating a universe of beloved characters, pop culture catchphrases and memes, theatrical releases, consumer products, a Tony award-winning Broadway musical which is now touring North America and a global fan base. SpongeBob SquarePants is seen in more than 208 countries and territories, translated in 55+ languages, and averages more than 100 million total viewers every quarter. SpongeBob SquarePants is created by Stephen Hillenburg and produced by Nickelodeon in Burbank, Calif.

Nickelodeon's is currently in the midst of the network's "Best Year Ever", a year-long global celebration of one of the most iconic TV series and characters ever created. The “Best Year Ever” launched with the premiere of “SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout,” an original mixed live-action and animated special earlier this summer, and leads up to the Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies theatrical, The SpongeBob Movie: It's a Wonderful Sponge, coming May 2020.

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2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and Nickelodeon Germany (Deutschland), Nickelodeon Switzerland (Schweiz) and Nickelodeon Austria (Österreich) will be celebrating children of the '90s with the launch of Nick Retro, the network's official digital destination for the most loved Nick content from the 1990s and beyond!


Online at nick.de, fans can watch full-length episodes of their favourite Nickelodeon shows from the last three decades, such as Rocko's Modern Life (Rockos Modernes Leben), Zoey 101 (Zoey), Clarissa Explains It All (Clarissa), Rugrats, Victorious, Sanjay & Craig, Sam & Cat, Penguins of Madagascar (Pinguine aus Madagaskar), Invader Zim, iCarly, Hey Arnold and Make It Pop dubbed in German (Deutsche).

Fans can also take the Classic Nickelodeon quiz to find out how much of a NickHead they are, and enter the exclusive NickRetro competition for the chance to win some Nick-tastic '90s Nickelodeon prizes, including apparel and figures inspired by Rocko´s modernes Leben, Hey Arnold!, Die Ren & Stimpy Show and Rugrats.

For the moment, it appears NickRetro is confined to the Nickelodeon website in Germany, however, fans in Austria and Switzerland can catch episodes of Angry Beavers (Biber Brüder), True Jackson, VP, Big Time Rush, Max & Shred and SpongeBob SquarePants each night.

NickRetro uses the same presentation of NickRewind, the home of retro Nickelodeon programming in the U.S. (formally NickSplat).


Fans can also Like Nickelodeon on Facebook and follow Nickelodeon on Instagram for more NickRetro video clips featuring their favourite Nick shows.

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Wo sind die 90's Kids? 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️ Diesen Herbst wird's bei uns Retro! 📼 Schau bei Facebook und & auf Nick.de vorbei um nichts zu verpassen.

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Nick feiert die Kinder der 90er!

Diesen Herbst gibt es für alle Kinder der 90er gleich mehrere Gründe zu feiern: 30 Jahre Mauerfall trifft das Beste aus eurer NICKELODEON-Kindheit!

Gewinnt jede Woche tolle Preise eurer NICKELODEON-Lieblingsserien wie „Rocko´s modernes Leben“, „Hey Arnold!“, „Ren & Stimpy“ oder „Rugrats“.

o Rockos Modernes Leben

o Zoey

o Clarissa

o Rugrats

o Victorious

o Sanjay & Craig

o Sam & Cat

o Pinguine aus Madagaskar

o Invader Zim

o iCarly

o Hey Arnold

o Make it pop

Wie das geht? Gewinnspielfragen richtig beantworten und mit etwas Glück gewinnt ihr ein tolles Teil aus eurer Lieblingsserie!

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A three-year-old girl from Aylesbury is to be crowned a national award winner for her incredible courage in the face of adversity!


Parents across the country were asked to nominate their real-life little heroes in the Paw Patrol Little Heroes Awards, the annual awards ceremony, now in its second year, inspired by the heroic pups from the much-loved CG-animated preschool series Paw Patrol, produced by Spin Master Entertainment and airing on Nick Jr.

The consumer awards campaign driven by Spin Master aims to honour little heroes across the country who have overcome adversity, shown outstanding bravery or gone above and beyond for a friend in need.

Kaysey’s mum, Kelly-Marie, nominated her for the Skye Award for Courage (Skye is a fearless and smart Cockapoo who loves to fly in her helicopter or with the wings in her pup pack. She tries everything with a backflip, grace, and a smile.), telling the Bucks Herald:

“Kaysey has Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2 and uses a power wheelchair. It’s incredibly difficult for me as a mum to watch her struggle with many basic tasks and lots of hospital appointments. However, Kaysey never complains about pain and refuses to let her condition bring her down. I am amazed every day that a three year old can be so wise beyond her years and take everything in her stride. She is funny, confident, articulate and everyone who meets her falls in love with her straight away! She is truly the most courageous person I have ever met and I am bursting with pride to hear she has won this award.”


Kaysey and her family will attend an exclusive awards ceremony on Friday 11th October with her seven fellow winners (The Rubble Award for Strength, The Marshall Award for Loyalty, The Rocky Award for Making a Difference, The Chase Award for Leadership, The Everest Award for Kindness and Friendship, The Zuma Award for Being Helpful, and The Ryder Award for Kindness to Animals) at The Park Plaza Hotel Westminster Bridge, where the winners will enjoy a two-night luxury stay.

The weekend will include the chance to meet some of their favourite PAW Patrol characters and all the winners are also being treated to an exclusive VIP shopping event at Hamleys toy store on the Sunday morning, including vouchers so they can pick out their favourite goodies before the store opens!

Finally the winners will receive tickets to Nickelodeon Land at Blackpool Pleasure Beach or Nickelodeon Adventure at intu Lakeside and Gloworm Festival next summer!

Daniel Thompson, Senior Marketing Manager, Consumer Products at Nickelodeon added: “We want to thank everyone for taking the time to write about all their little Heroes because every single one of the entries was special – we would have loved for everyone to win.”

Congrats Kaysey! :)

For more information about Paw Patrol Little Heroes Awards, visit http://pawawards.co.uk.

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Full casting has been announced for the upcoming North American Tour of Nickelodeon's The SpongeBob Musical.

This explosively imaginative production will launch at Proctors in Schenectady, New York this September before bringing Bikini Bottom and its beloved residents to previously announced engagements in Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto and more.

The production will feature will star Lorenzo Pugliese as SpongeBob SquarePants, Daria Pilar Redus as Sandy Cheeks, Beau Bradshaw as Patrick Star, Christopher Cody Cooley as Squidward Q. Tentacles, Zach Kononov as Mr. Krabs, and Tristan McIntyre as Plankton.

The ensemble includes Morgan Blanchard, John Cardenas, Natalie L. Chapman, Richie Dupkin, Stephen C. Kallas, Helen Regula, Méami Maszewski, Stefan Miller, Joshua Bess, mary nickson, Dorian O'Brien, Caitlin Ort, Elle-May Patterson, Sydney Simone, Ayana Strutz, Teddy Gales, Miles Davis Tillman, and Rico Velazquez.

SPONGEBOB MUSICAL 2019-2020 Tour Cities:

SCHENECTADY, NY
09/22/19-09/28/19
PROCTORS

HARTFORD, CT
10/01/19-10/06/19
The Bushnell

MADISON, WI
10/08/19-10/13/19
Overture Center

BOSTON, MA
10/15/19-10/27/19
Boch Center

PEORIA, IL
10/29/19-10/30/19
Peoria Civic Center

HUNTSVILLE, AL
11/01/19-11/03/19
Von Braun Center Concert Hall

NASHVILLE, TN
11/05/19-11/10/19
Andrew Jackson Hall

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK
11/12/19-11/17/19
Civic Center Music Hall

DAYTON, OH
11/19/19-11/24/19
Schuster Center

BROOKVILLE, NY
11/26/19-11/27/19
Tilles Center

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ
11/29/19-12/01/19
State Theatre

PHILADELPHIA, PA
12/03/19-12/15/19
Forrest Theatre

TORONTO, ON
12/17/19-12/22/19
Meridian Hall

WILMINGTON, NC
01/13/20-01/14/20
Wilson Center

PADUCAH, KY
01/20/20-01/20/20
Carson Center

CONWAY, AR
01/21/20-01/21/20
Reynolds Performance Hall

LONGVIEW, TX
01/23/20-01/23/20
Belcher Performance Center

SAN ANTONIO, TX
01/24/20-01/26/20
Majestic Theatre

MIDLAND, TX
01/27/20-01/27/20
Wagner Noel PAC

PHOENIX, AZ
01/31/20-02/02/20
Orpheum Theatre

LAS VEGAS, NV
02/04/20-02/09/20
The Smith Center Reynolds Hall

SAN FRANCISCO, CA
02/12/20-02/16/20
Golden Gate Theatre

TACOMA, WA
03/05/20-03/05/20
Pantages Theatre

EUGENE, OR
03/06/20-03/07/20
Hult Center

DENVER, CO
03/10/20-03/22/20
Buell Theatre

LOS ANGELES, CA
03/24/20-04/12/20
Dolby Theatre

WICHITA, KS
04/28/20-04/30/20
Century II Concert Hall

CLEVELAND, MS
05/04/20-05/04/20
Bologna Performing Arts Center

COLUMBUS, GA
05/06/20-05/07/20
River Center For The Performing Arts

ORANGE PARK, FL
05/09/20-05/10/20
Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts

PROVIDENCE, RI
05/12/20-05/17/20
Providence PAC

CHARLOTTE, NC
06/16/20-06/21/20
Belk Theatre

HOUSTON, TX
06/23/20-06/28/20
Jones Hall

DALLAS, TX
07/07/20 - 07/12/20
Winspear Opera House

TAMPA, FL
07/21/20-07/26/20
Straz Center for the PA

For ticket information and additional dates, visit www.TheSpongeBobMusical.com.

Broadway's best creative minds reimagine and bring to life the beloved Nickelodeon series with humor, heart and pure theatricality in a neon-sparkly "party for the eyes and ears" (Daily Beast). Be there when SpongeBob and all of Bikini Bottom face catastrophe-until a most unexpected hero rises to take center stage. This "creative explosion" (Broadway.com) is "nothing short of genius" says TheaterMania, so bring the entire family to celebrate friendship and cooperation, and learn the power of unity and inclusion.

The SpongeBob Musical explodes with energy and features an original pop and rock-infused score by a legendary roster of Grammy Award®-winning songwriters. Led and conceived by visionary director Tina Landau (2018 Tony Award nominee) and a Tony Award®-winning design team, the production brings the spirit of SpongeBob to life with humanity, heart, and pure theatricality. The SpongeBob Musical features a book by Kyle Jarrow, orchestrations and arrangements by Tom Kitt, musical supervision by Julie McBride & Tim Hanson, and choreography by Christopher Gattelli. The design team includes scenic and costume design by David Zinn, lighting design by Kevin Adams, projection design by Peter Nigrini, sound design by Walter Trarbach, hair and wig design by Charles G. LaPointe, make-up design by Joe Dulude II, foley design by Mike Dobson, and casting by Stewart/Whitley.

The SpongeBob Musical is a one-of-a-kind musical event with original songs by Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Sara Bareilles, Jonathan Coulton, Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, The Flaming Lips, Lady Antebellum, Cyndi Lauper & Rob Hyman, John Legend, Panic! At the Disco, Plain White T's, They Might Be Giants, T.I., Domani & Lil'C and songs by David Bowie & Brian Eno, and by Tom Kenny & Andy Paley. Additional lyrics by Jonathan Coulton. Additional music by Tom Kitt.

The Original Cast Recording is available now from Masterworks Broadway wherever music is sold and streamed.

Explore the depths of theatrical innovation in The SpongeBob Musical, 2018 Best Musical winner of the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, where the power of optimism really can save the world.

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The complete cast is set for the upcoming national tour of Nickelodeon's Tony Award-winning The SpongeBob Musical, which will launch in September in Schenectady, New York!

The non-Equity touring production will star Lorenzo Pugliese as SpongeBob SquarePants, Beau Bradshaw as Patrick Star, and Daria Pilar Redus as Sandy Cheeks, with Christopher Cody Cooley as Squidward Q. Tentacles, Zach Kononov as Mr. Krabs, and Tristan McIntyre as Sheldon Plankton.

Rounding out the company are Joshua Bess, Morgan Blanchard, John Cardenas, Natalie L. Chapman, Richie Dupkin, Teddy Gales, Stephen C. Kallas, Méami Maszewski, Stefan Miller, Mary Nickson, Dorian O'Brien, Caitlin Ort, Elle-May Patterson, Helen Regula, Sydney Simone, Ayana Strutz, Miles Davis Tillman, and Rico Velazquez.

Additional tour stops include engagements in Boston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Toronto, Houston, Nashville, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, and San Antonio.

Inspired by Nickelodeon's hit animated series of the same name, SpongeBob SquarePantsis a one-of-a-kind musical event that explodes with energy and features an original pop and rock-infused score by a legendary roster of Grammy® Award-winning songwriters. Led and conceived by visionary director Tina Landau (2018 Tony Award nominee) and a Tony Award®-winning design team, the production brings the spirit of SpongeBob to life with humanity, heart, and pure theatricality.

The stakes are higher than ever as SpongeBob and all of Bikini Bottom face the total annihilation of their undersea world. Chaos erupts. Lives hang in the balance. And just when all hope seems lost, a most unexpected hero rises up and takes center stage.

The musical features a book by Kyle Jarrow and a score from orchestrator Tom Kitt and a variety of pop artists: Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Sara Bareilles, Jonathan Coulton, Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, The Flaming Lips, Lady Antebellum, Cyndi Lauper and Rob Hyman, John Legend, Panic! At the Disco, Plain White T’s, They Might Be Giants, T.I., Domani and Lil’C, and songs by David Bowie and Brian Eno, and by Tom Kenny and Andy Paley. Additional lyrics by Jonathan Coulton. Additional music by Tom Kitt.

Get ready to dive to all-new depths of theatrical innovation at SpongeBob SquarePants, where the power of optimism really can save the world!

Following a Chicago tryout during summer 2016, the musical opened on Broadway in December 2017 (under the title SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical) at the Palace Theatre, where it ran through September 16, 2018.

The Broadway cast for SpongeBob SquarePants included Tony Award Nominee Ethan Slater as SpongeBob SquarePants, Tony Award Nominee Gavin Lee as Squidward Q. Tentacles, Lilli Cooper and Christina Sajous as Sandy Cheeks, Brian Ray Norris as Eugene Krabs, Danny Skinner as Patrick Star and Wesley Taylor as Sheldon Plankton.

The ensemble included Brandon Espinoza, Alex Gibson, Gaelen Gilliland, Juliane Godfrey, Jordan Grubb, Kyle Matthew Hamilton, Curtis Holbrook, Jesse JP Johnson, L'ogan J'ones, Jai'len Christine Li Josey, Kelvin Moon Loh, Lauralyn Mcclelland, Vasthy Mompoint, Oneika Phillips, Catherine Ricafort, JC Schuster, Allysa Shorte, Abby C. Smith, Robert Taylor Jr., Allan K. Washington, Brynn Williams, Matt Wood and Tom Kenny as the French Narrator.

The critically acclaimed SpongeBob SquarePants musical was named Best Musical by the Drama Desk Awards and Outer Critics Circle and earned 12 Tony Award nominations - the most nominated musical of the 2017-2018 theatre season - including nods for Best Musical, director Tina Landau, book writer Kyle Jarrow, title player Ethan Slater (in his Broadway debut), and the all-star roster of songwriters (including Sara Bareilles, Cyndi Lauper, and John Legend) who contributed to the score. The production earned 12 Tony Award nominations including best musical, equaling Mean Girls for the most of any show this season, and while The Band's Visit swept the honors, SpongeBob did score a deserved win for Best Scenic Design of a Musical for David Zinn's scenic design. The show’s director, Tina Landau, earned a Tony Award nomination for her inventive and unconventional approach to the material that humanized the characters than creating literal representations of the familiar Nickelodeon cartoon.

Visit TheSpongeBobMusical.com for the full tour itinerary.

SpongeBob SquarePants - The New Musical Original Cast Recording is available to purchase today at https://spongebobmusical.lnk.to/SpongebobMusicalRecording.

SpongeBob SquarePants is produced by Nickelodeon with The Araca Group, Sony Music Masterworks and Kelp on the Road.

From The Boston Globe:

This touring musical promises to reel in Boston’s ‘SpongeBob’ superfans


Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? SpongeBob SquarePants. Except right now, he’s away from Bikini Bottom on tour with “The SpongeBob Musical,” the Tony-nominated adaptation of Nickelodeon’s beloved animated series. After a Broadway run, the zany production will play the Boch Center Wang Theatre from Oct. 15 to Oct. 27 as part of its North American tour.

Most people know SpongeBob from his animated misadventures, packaged into two 11-minute segments per episode. Often, the burger-flipping sponge finds himself in simple situations that escalate to the absurd. For instance: An episode from 2002 finds SpongeBob and his best friend, starfish Patrick Star, going door-to-door selling candy bars. SpongeBob tries to pick a tantalizing loose thread off the shirt of his snobby co-worker and neighbor, Squidward. Things unravel from there.

Instead of ramping things up one step at a time, “The SpongeBob Musical” begins with an explosive revelation. Residents of Bikini Bottom learn that a nearby volcano, Mount Humongous, is set to destroy the entire town in 24 hours. As Squidward (Christopher Cody Cooley), Patrick (Beau Bradshaw), Sandy the squirrel (Daria Pilar Redus), money-grubbing Mr. Krabs (Zach Kononov), and his rival Plankton (Tristan McIntyre) reckon with impending doom, it’s up to one optimistic sponge to save the ecosystem he calls home.

Translating 11-minute-long, action-packed episodes into more than two hours of musical theater proved challenging, director Tina Landau said in a phone interview. The New York City theater artist started developing the show in 2007 and has been working with it ever since.

“The show was not conceived as a musical,” Landau said. “It’s more like a performance art event, and a party, and a carnival, and a rock concert.” A star-studded lineup of musicians contributed to the show’s soundtrack, which includes songs by David Bowie and Brian Eno, Panic! at the Disco, They Might Be Giants, Sara Bareilles, and John Legend, to name a few.

Characters wear clothing that suggests their animated counterparts’ but doesn’t try to replicate it. Squidward wears pants with extra-green legs. SpongeBob wears his iconic suspenders. “But the intention was never to put him in a large, square, foam kind of theme-park costume,” Landau said.

In the animated series, SpongeBob plays his nose like a flute and contorts his malleable body into improbable shapes. In the musical, SpongeBob’s human actor jumps around excitedly and pulls his pet snail Gary behind him on wheels. “We have not shied away from the fact that SpongeBob stretches and contorts,” Landau said. “We have just found really theatrical ways to express that.”

SpongeBob’s first episode ran in 1999, inspiring legions of millennial superfans who grew up watching the show. SpongeBob memes continue to circulate on social media. Fans even petitioned to get the iconic SpongeBob rock song “Sweet Victory” (from the 2001 episode “Band Geeks”) performed at the 2019 Super Bowl. They wanted to honor show creator Stephen Hillenburg, who died last fall.

This production taps into that deep vein of SpongeBob fandom. “We have found that our biggest group of fans are definitely in their 20s and 30s,” Landau said.

Like so many of his peers, Lorenzo Pugliese grew up watching SpongeBob’s antics. The actor, who plays SpongeBob in the touring production, graduated from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia this spring.

“Actually, I don’t even know if I told Tina this,” Pugliese said over the phone, laughing. “But when I was a kid, in the morning, I would wake up, open up the windows and yell, ‘Good morning world, and all who inhabit it!’ ” It’s a quote from a classic SpongeBob scene. And now, Pugliese gets to yell it at the top of every performance.

Bonus: Boston theatergoers can celebrate SpongeBob with an extra treat. J.P. Licks, the ice cream chain founded in Jamaica Plain, will offer a sea salted pineapple ice cream flavor for a limited time as a joint promotional effort. Sounds like it would pair nicely with a Krabby Patty.

The SpongeBob Musical

At Boch Center Wang Theatre, Oct. 15-27. Tickets from $25, www.bochcenter.org.

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From Beloit Daily News:

OVERTURE CENTER WELCOMES 'SPONGEBOB'

MADISON - He may live in a pineapple under the sea, but SpongeBob will soon be visiting a Stateline Area stage.

The beloved children's cartoon character is being brought to life in "The SpongeBob Musical" Oct. 8-13 at the Overture Center.

"The show has all the things that we know and love from the cartoon, but it has a much more realistic storyline," said actor Cody Cooley.

Cooley, a native of Sykesville, Maryland, is portraying the disgruntled Squidward Q. Tentacles in the brand new traveling Broadway production.

"Squidward is the everyman, just going about his day job and trying to get through it," Cooley said. "He really just wants to be at home playing his clarinet."

Although SpongeBob Squarepants has had many memorable episodes from its years on Nickelodeon, those who attend the show will see something completely new.

The storyline, not based on any previous plots, is that beautiful Bikini Bottom is about to be destroyed by a natural disaster. All the characters must come together to save the day.

"All the characters in the show look at the problem in their own unique way, and the story is all about how a community can be brought together and work together," Cooley said.

Viewers can expect to see the story played out with a fun and colorful set, Broadway numbers and lots of dancing, including a 7-to-8 minute tap routine by Cooley.

There won't be any foam-costumed actors on stage, Cooley added. The show's directors have worked very hard to embrace the human connection the story makes.

"When I saw this show on Broadway, I thought it was so refreshing that you expected it to be like what you'd see in a theme park, but it's not at all," Cooley said.

Families are sure to enjoy the show's production quality, songs, and seeing a brand new cast that is excited to perform for a live audience. Madison will be the third stop on the tour.

"This show has such great heart and such a good message," Cooley said. "The kids will really love seeing SpongeBob on stage and the adults will love the humor...it's all really fun."

Tickets for "The SpongeBob Musical" start at $31 and go up to $141. Shows will take place at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 8-10; 8 p.m. Oct. 11; 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Oct. 12; 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Oct. 13.

A special "Meet the Artist" event will happen after the show on Thursday, Oct. 10, where a brief Q&A session will take place. There also will be a "Best Day Ever" event at noon on Sunday, Oct. 13, featuring art projects and more.

The show is rated as appropriate for children ages 5 and up. For additional information and to purchase tickets, visit www.overture.org or follow the Overture Center on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Instagram.

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From Mass Live:

Broadway’s ‘SpongeBob Musical’ coming to Hartford, Boston

When Stephen C. Kallas was growing up in Monroe, Conn., he enjoyed sitting on the couch watching the animated series “SpongeBob SquarePants” on Nickelodeon.

Soon he’ll be on the stage at The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford performing as Old Man Jenkins in the “The SpongeBob Musical,” which runs Oct. 1-6. The musical will later travel to Boston for an Oct. 15-27 run at the Boch Center-Wang Theater.

It’s the 20th anniversary of SpongeBob, an incurable optimist and earnest sea sponge, so it’s especially “cool to jump into the (stage) show when there is such a big anniversary for the brand,” said Kallas, 24, speaking from Schenectady, New York, before the production began a national tour there.

Kallas enjoyed SpongeBob as a child because “it was so whacky and so out there,” but he could connect with the characters.

“SpongeBob SquarePants” launched in 1999. The series chronicles the adventures and endeavors of the title character and his friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. It has been the top children’s animated series on television for the last 17 years, generating a universe of beloved characters, pop-culture catchphrases and memes, theatrical releases, consumer products, a Tony award-winning Broadway musical and a global fan base.

Created by Stephen Hillenburg and produced by Nickelodeon in Burbank, California, the character-driven cartoon chronicles the nautical and sometimes nonsensical adventures of the eponymous yellow sponge, shaped like a kitchen sponge.

Moving from cartoon viewer to stage actor in the SpongeBob world is “just as amazing as I thought it would be,” said Kallas, who graduated in 2017 from Wagner College in Staten Island, New York, with a bachelor’s degree in theater with concentrations in performance and design tech management.

He began acting in fifth grade when a friend asked him to get involved with the production of The Music Man. “I said, ‘Sure, why not?’ and was bit by the theater bug,” he said.

He acted during college and after graduation landed roles in regional productions like The Wizard of Oz and Newsies throughout the country.

Kallas is excited to return to Connecticut to act at The Bushnell for the first time; he saw many shows there while growing up in the Constitution State.

He praised the comedy and the music in SpongeBob, saying fans will understand the “Easter eggs” (references to the original cartoon) while newcomers will enjoy it too.

The SpongeBob Musical features an original pop and rock-infused score by a roster of Grammy Award-winning songwriters. Led and conceived by director Tina Landau, a 2018 Tony Award nominee, and a Tony-winning design team, the production brings the spirit of SpongeBob to life with humanity, heart and theatricality.

The musical has original songs by Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Sara Bareilles, Jonathan Coulton, Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, The Flaming Lips, Lady Antebellum, Cyndi Lauper and Rob Hyman, John Legend, Panic! At the Disco, Plain White T’s, They Might Be Giants, T.I., Domani and Lil’C and songs by David Bowie and Brian Eno and by Tom Kenny and Andy Paley.

“SpongeBob SquarePants” was adapted as a stage musical in 2016 by Landau. SpongeBob SquarePants, The Broadway Musical premiered in Chicago in 2016 and opened on Broadway at the Palace Theatre on in 2017. The musical opened to critical acclaim and tied for most-nominated production at the 2018 72nd Tony Awards with 12 Tony nominations.

Kallas said the production is for audiences of all ages. “It’s definitely an uplifting show” about community, inclusion and “being a positive person and what it means to be a good neighbor.”

“Everybody could use a little positivity in their life,” he added.

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From Broadway World:

First Look At The National Tour Of THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL!
by BWW News Desk Sep. 25, 2019
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The North American Tour of Nickelodeon's THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL launched at PROCTORS in Schenectady, NY this week before bringing Bikini Bottom and its beloved residents to previously announced engagements in Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto and more.

Check out a first look at the tour's three leads in action!

The 👏 tour 👏 has 👏 begun!

First stop: Schenectady, NY pic.twitter.com/uGFksptOaB

— SpongeBob Musical (@SpongeBobBway) September 25, 2019

Check out the full list of dates and tour stops [above]!

For ticket information and additional dates, visit www.TheSpongeBobMusical.com.

Broadway's best creative minds reimagine and bring to life the beloved Nickelodeon series with humor, heart and pure theatricality in a neon-sparkly "party for the eyes and ears" (Daily Beast). Be there when SpongeBob and all of Bikini Bottom face catastrophe-until a most unexpected hero rises to take center stage. This "creative explosion" (Broadway.com) is "nothing short of genius" says TheaterMania, so bring the entire family to celebrate friendship and cooperation, and learn the power of unity and inclusion.

THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL explodes with energy and features an original pop and rock-infused score by a legendary roster of Grammy Award®-winning songwriters. Led and conceived by visionary director Tina Landau (2018 Tony Award nominee) and a Tony Award®-winning design team, the production brings the spirit of SpongeBob to life with humanity, heart, and pure theatricality. THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL features a book byKyle Jarrow, orchestrations and arrangements by Tom Kitt, musical supervision by Julie McBride & Tim Hanson, and choreography by Christopher Gattelli. The design team includes scenic and costume design by David Zinn, lighting design by Kevin Adams, projection design by Peter Nigrini, sound design by Walter Trarbach, hair and wig design byCharles G. LaPointe, make-up design by Joe Dulude II, foley design by Mike Dobson, and casting by Stewart/Whitley.

THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL is a one-of-a-kind musical event with original songs by Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Sara Bareilles, Jonathan Coulton, Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, The Flaming Lips, Lady Antebellum, Cyndi Lauper & Rob Hyman, John Legend, Panic! At the Disco, Plain White T's, They Might Be Giants, T.I., Domani & Lil'C and songs by David Bowie & Brian Eno, and by Tom Kenny & Andy Paley. Additional lyrics by Jonathan Coulton. Additional music by Tom Kitt.

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From The Boston Globe:

The VIP Lounge with Morgan Blanchard

Blanchard, from Portsmouth, N.H., plays Patchy the Pirate in “The SpongeBob Musical,” coming to the Boch Center Wang Theatre Oct. 15-Oct. 27.

While Morgan Blanchard was growing up in Portsmouth, N.H., he and his family would drive to Boston to attend theater productions in Boston. “The first musical I ever saw was at the Wang. It was ‘Cats,’ ” recalled Blanchard (who plays Patchy the Pirate in “The SpongeBob Musical,” coming to the Boch Center Wang Theatre Oct. 15-27) in a recent phone interview. “It was so magical to be this young kid seeing these shows, and now I get to be the person I was looking up to at that time. It’s nice to hopefully be [performing at] someone’s first musical -- and I’m assuming with ‘SpongeBob’ that there will be a lot of new audiences.” Blanchard was quick to point out that the Tony-nominated show, based on the beloved animated series on Nickelodeon, is not just for kids. “The show has an incredibly relevant and important message that I think a lot of people need to hear -- especially now -- about community and coming together and celebrating each other and all of our differences,” he said. In addition to seeing family and friends when the national tour lands in Boston, Blanchard said he is most excited about “sleeping in my own bed” at his parents’ home in Portsmouth. “I live out of a suitcase, so it will be nice to be home,” said Blanchard, who graduated from Ithaca College last year and immediately joined the national tour of “The Sound of Music” before joining the cast of “The SpongeBob Musical.“ We caught up with the 23-year-old actor to talk about all things travel.

Favorite vacation destination?

London – no question. While in college, I studied abroad in London for four months and it was a pivotal moment for my personal growth. The city’s history, parks, and commitment to the arts offer a myriad of activities to explore.

Favorite food or drink while vacationing?

Wine. Always wine. And of course any sort of delicacy from the place I’m visiting. I love trying new things.

Where would you like to travel to but haven’t?

Italy. It’s where my family is from, and who doesn’t love Italian food?

One item you can’t leave home without when traveling?

A journal. I always make sure to travel with a journal so I can keep track of my entire trip and look back on the memories.

Aisle or window?

Window – so I can look out and see my destination from above.

Favorite childhood travel memory?

My mother works for a travel agency so we would travel constantly as a kid. But my favorite memory has to be my trip to Japan with a student ambassador group when I was in middle school. It was a complete culture shock . . . and such a beautiful country.

Guilty pleasure when traveling?

Farmers’ markets. I always make sure to find the local farmers’ markets in each destination. Local markets can tell you so much about a city and those who inhabit it. And the food is cheap.

Best travel tip?

Try traveling alone. You’ll get to do exactly what you want and hopefully make some friends along the way. And always strike up conversations with strangers.

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More Nick:Nickelodeon Marks 20 Years of "SpongeBob SquarePants" with the "Best Year Ever"!

Originally published: Wednesday, August 21, 2019.

Original sources: Playbill, Broadway World.

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Below is Viacom Nickelodeon Consumer Products' (VNCP) "Nickelodeon. Every Age. Every Aisle. Everywhere." September 2019 Licensing Source supplement, featuring Viacom's highlights from the past year and upcoming highlights for the year ahead!:



At Viacom we are incredibly proud of our diverse range of brands and properties that resonate with all from pre-school through to adults. Our strength in the market is unsurprising, as humour, innovation and authenticity pulse across our diverse portfolio.

We continue to expand with a multitude of amazing brands such as YouTube sensation Ryan's World, the iconic Garfield and the return of Blue's Clues. PAW Patrol, now in its sixth year, maintains its number one preschool position for the fourth year in a row, dominating on channel, digital and retail aisles. Aside from channel we continue to stay abreast with the changing media landscape; recognising the importance of influencers and increasing the footprint of our attractions. As we look to 2020, we're excited to invest and simultaneously extend our offering across our brands to remain the number one entertainment partner of choice.

Here's a few highlights from our portfolio...

RYAN'S WORLD


• Ryan is the #2 UK influencer.

• New preschool show on Nick Jr. – Ryan's Mystery Playdate.

• Ryan's Mystery Playdate is the #1 show for preschoolers on ALL of television in the US

• Ryan's World toys due to deliver over +$150M worth of retail sales globally in 2019.

• Additional CP categories for Ryan's Mystery Playdate rolling out in SS20.

PAW PATROL


• #1 preschool property since 2016.

• 91% global brand awareness.

• $1B in retail sales globally per year.

• Second theatrical, Ready Race Rescue will be coming to UK cinemas February 2020.

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS


• SpongeBob SquarePants is back on Channel 5 at weekends.

• SpongeBob SquarePants is mentioned on social media every four seconds.

• Feature-length film coming May 2020, starring Snoop Dogg!

• New master toy partner, Alpha Group has reinvigorated the CP programme.

• New animated spin-off, Kamp Koral launches on NickToons in the UK August 2020.

BLAZE AND THE MONSTER MACHINES


• #3 property on Nick Jr.

• Globally, Blaze receives 70M average quarterly views.

• Season five launches on Nick Jr. in the UK in January 2020.

• Key categories include toys, publishing, apparel and DVD.

PARAMOUNT


• Top Gun Maverick lands in UK cinemas on 17 July 2020. Watch the Top Gun Maverick trailer here

• Rumble, a wrestling-inspired film from Paramount Animation, comes to cinemas August 2020.

• Look out for CP from Paramount's back catalogue including: Clueless, Mean Girls and Grease.

SOUTH PARK


• Episodes available on Comedy Central, Netflix, Amazon and YouTube.

• New consumer products across apparel, gifting and collectables target the ever-growing loyal fan base.

• Over the years toy partner, Funko has produced many different Pop! vinyl figures from the South Park series.

MTV


• Number 1 music network in the UK.

• MTV UK performance is up 17% YOY.

• Recent fashion collabs include H&M and Puma.

• Engagement on social streams increased 76% in 2018.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS


PAW Patrol characters come to life in brick-form with Brick Live. The first stop this summer was Blackburn with 1,000 families a day visiting the interactive exhibit. The exhibit will continue to travel the UK this year and into 2020.

This October SLIMEFEST returns for its fourth year at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, with 12,000 people set to attend the six sold out shows.

Mighty Pups - the latest PAW theatrical - released in cinemas this past May, surpassed the box office sales target reaching over £1.5M.

For licensing and retail opportunities contact viacomnickelodeoncp@viacom.com.

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From the September/October 2019 issue of Progressive Preschool:

With the Brand

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Success also continues apace for PAW Patrol - now in its sixth year it remains the number one preschool licensed property. "The pups have truly cemented themselves as a evergreen franchise," enthuses Marianne James, vp of Viacom Nickelodeon Consumer Products UK, Northern & Eastern Europe. "We continue to partner with Spin Master to introduce fresh new content themes and product ranges for fans. For spring 2020, a feature-length special episode - PAW Patrol: Ready, Race, Rescue - will be released in cinemas nationwide to bring further product opportunities. Partners including Sambro, Crayola, Aykroyds, Fashion UK and Bioworld will create new products reflective of the theme."

Meanwhile, products - led by toys - for Nickelodeon's newest preschool property, Top Wing, launched this year through master toy partner, Hasbro. This was swiftly followed by publishing in April and apparel in September. Top Wing also flew into VUE cinemas with special screenings of episodes across 89 UK sites. Series [season] two launches on Nick Jr. in September with the cadets getting fresh new character outfits and vehicles.

Nickelodeon has also confirmed a partnership with Pocket.watch for preschool series, Ryan's Mystery Playdate (launching in the UK in September with series two due in Autumn 2020), while it will also manage licensing in select international markets across all product categories for both Ryan's Mystery Playdate and Ryan's World.

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From the October 2019 issue of Toy World Magazine:

Nick be nimble

Toy World spoke to Marianne James, VP, Consumer Products, Commercial Partnerships & Experiences, UK, Northern & Eastern Europe about what the current Nickelodeon portfolio has to offer licensee and retailer partners.

How has 2019 been for Nickelodeon?

This year has seen continued change and newness for the brand, as we launched new TV series with Butterbean’s Café and Abby Hatcher, as well as new consumer products with Top Wing and Sunny Day. Paw Patrol has seen a broader expansion of its franchise into multiple touchpoints, including its first UK cinema outing with the hugely successful Paw Patrol: Mighty Pups. The showing beat its target of £1.5m, which we're now looking to build on with the next theatrical release, Paw Patrol: Ready Race Rescue, in February 2020. Looking forward, we're very excited about representing Ryan's World and Ryan's Mystery Playdate, as we head towards the New Year.

What have been your standout successes so far this year?

This year, we celebrated six years of Paw Patrol. We're delighted that the property remains the No.1 pre-school license, driven in part by our refreshed themes and content. We also launched Top Wing across our free to air Channel 5 network, with an incredible monthly average reach of over 600,000 kids. Top Wing has also seen an extremely successful launch by our master toy partner Hasbro, along with apparel and publishing.

How have you found the retail landscape for licensed products over the past nine months?

It would be remiss to say it's challenging. However, with challenge comes opportunity. Remaining nimble and offering a variety of promotional and marketing solutions with multiple touchpoints is a key contributor to success.

With latest NPD figures showing a decline in licensed toy sales for the fourth consecutive year (YoY), what can Nickelodeon and its partners do to ensure demand for product remains high?

For the right brands, there is still a great opportunity to grow great sales value. We believe that Ryan's World is a great example of this; a content creator who is achieving fantastic viewership online, and is now expanding in to the consumer products arena, with initial results proving very successful. We are excited about the opportunity to grow into new categories in the near future, epitomising our current strategy of establishing multiple consumer product pipelines to ensure that the Nickelodeon brand thrives across 'Every Age, Every Aisle, Everywhere.'

What big properties are you most excited about for 2020?

We expect movies to explode again in 2020. The return of the Top Gun franchise with Top Gun: Maverick by Paramount Pictures will likely prove to be one of the biggest hits of 2020, while we have a number of other new movies to energise the market, including the return of SpongeBob in this 3rd feature length film. We're also excited to introduce Rumble - a new animated monster wrestling movie from Paramount - set to be released in 2020.

What makes Nickelodeon a great partner for licensees?

We have a hugely passionate licensing team who is flexible, approachable and creative - there's always a way to achieve creativity and success. Our flexibility and experience are critical components to our success. It's what sets us apart and ensures we sustain long term partnerships in the industry, with a solutions-focused approach.

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Viacom Nickelodeon Consumer Products (VNCP) will showcase its animation, pre-school, youth and adult licences at this year's Brand Licensing Europe, reinforcing its 'Every Age, Every Aisle, Everywhere' strategy. Iconic franchises like SpongeBob SquarePants, Paw Patrol and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be display alongside new IP acquisitions including Garfield and Ryan's Mystery Playdate.

Nickelodeon's mission is to be the home for the biggest franchises kids love. Consumer favourite SpongeBob SquarePants - celebrating its 20th Anniversary this year - continues to be a leading license, and recently announced spin-off Kamp Koral will grow the franchise further new new stories and characters introduced to the SpongeBob universe.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise has continued to expand and entertain audiences of all ages, old and new, with a mix of new content, consumer products and on-the-ground experiences to drive fan excitement as the crime-fighting turtles celebrate their 35th anniversary.

Continued investment in pre-school properties is led by Paw Patrol, with new content themes and storylines, characters and product categories being added every year, growing the franchise and its properties and building it into one of the company's biggest brands.

Nickelodeon has welcomed Blue's Clues & You! and Ryan's World/Ryan's Mystery Playdate to its pre-school portfolio, while the acquisition of Garfield has helped maintain Nickelodeon's position of the place to go for the most popular franchises in family entertainment.

The company expects movies to come to the forefront. The return of the Top Gun franchise with Top Gun: Maverick by Paramount Pictures will undoubtedly prove to be one of the biggest hits of 2020, while other new movies to energise the market include the return of SpongeBob in his third feature-length film - The SpongeBob Movie: It's a Wonderful Sponge. Exciting new movie Rumble, Nickelodeon's new animated monster wrestling movie, is set to be released in 2020.

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From Licensing Source:

“BLE is hugely important and a fantastic platform”

As the show opens its doors at ExCeL, Source asks some key licensors what BLE means to them.

Brand Licensing Europe 2019 officially opens its doors today, with the industry set to head over to the new venue of ExCeL London in their droves to check out the latest brands, trends and developments.

The event – which is marking its 21st anniversary this year and runs from October 1 to October 3 – is a key platform for licensors and agents, as a number exclusively told Source.

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Meanwhile, Marianne James, vp of Viacom Nickelodeon Consumer Products UK, Northern and Eastern Europe, simply described the show as “the perfect forum”.

“BLE is a key time of the year for us, as it is attended by the European key players in the industry across licensing and retail,” commented Marianne. “Here, we have the perfect forum to present and provide greater insight into our key franchises and initiatives, as well as inform and update the market on the exciting plans we have for our many properties across Nickelodeon, Paramount, MTV and Comedy Central.”

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From License Global:

WHAT’S #TRENDING AT BLE 2019?

While walking the BLE showfloor, attending seminars and talking to exhibitors, License Global picked up on key trends that are defining the way the licensing community does business.

Brand Licensing Europe took place this week (Oct. 1-3) at London’s ExCeL. While walking the show, attending seminars and talking to exhibitors, License Global picked up on key trends that are defining the way the licensing community does business.

Fashion has a Sustainable Future

Fashion, the core theme of BLE 2020, was teased everywhere at this year’s ExCeL debut. Mannequins featuring some of the most progressive collaborations – from retail appeal to haute-couture design – lined the show, and the discussion of fashion’s place in licensing is just as apparent.

“Fashion licensing is at an interesting place right now,” says Anna Knight, vice president, licensing, Informa Markets, the organizer of BLE. “There’s so much going on, from sustainability discussions to haute couture collaborations. It’s providing a new way to open up brands and we want to shine a light on that, show how experiential it has been and how it links back to brands, lifestyle and art. Fashion and licensing is Zeitgeist-led, it’s visual, on-trend, inclusive and ticks all of our boxes for BLE 2020.”

With carefully considered collaborations showing no sign of slowing down, this also comes with the conversation of how these pieces are created in the future. Sustainably sourced materials and ethical collaborations are making noise (such as Tiger Tim’s partnership launch with Cotton Made in Africa, announced at BLE), and as fast fashion retail experiences stressors (think the recent Chapter 11 filing for Forever 21), this new balance could signal from consumers a sea change in how they allocate their spending.

Heritage Licensing Becomes an Export

U.K. heritage licensing has gone from small, niche gifting products to carefully curated consumer products in demand across the globe. These brands are now known for licensing artistic and educational archives with genuine authenticity, and the latest revolutions on display at the Heritage x Interiors activation stands are a testament to the work underway in new verticals.

U.K. heritage licensing has become an export, making its way to new markets such as China. The V&A is one such brand leading the way in new territories.

“It’s been a year of success and growth in China for V&A brand licensing who have been working with their exclusive agent in the country, Alfilo Brands, to push forward ambitious plans for licensing, retail collaborations and pop-up stores,” says Lauren Sizeland, head, business and licensing development, V&A. “In the last year, the V&A has grown the number of licensees within East Asia by 15 percent. Recent collaborations include a range of luxury luggage from ITO, inspired by 1920s art deco travel posters; three collections from lifestyle retail store The Beast, including The Modern Times range featuring mugs, candles, diffusers and prints, and the Beauty in Bloom range with silk pajamas and scarves; arts-and-crafts-themed tea giftsets with Twinings; and a shoe collection with Basto, who reworked the V&A archive of travel posters and Japanese Ukiyo-e prints into an exceptional footwear collection.”

This push into China with intricately designed projects is also leading the V&A to learn more about the consumer tastes of the region to increase their focus and develop new products.

Big Brands are Getting Better with Age

Major milestone anniversaries are being celebrated across the show floor, with Hasbro bringing the long-lasting brand of Monopoly to the people in special editions for its 85th, Batman marking his 80th across the year with global projects and gaming icons Activision and “Pac-Man” continuing to grow at 40.

“Thomas & Friends” is also marking its 75th, and as brands mark more milestones, the consumer products are starting to reflect not only decades of growth, but a future of creativity in terms of product design.

Rovio’s 10th anniversary brought forward a new collaboration with K-Swiss, for example, that takes the color and the mischief of the mobile game and brings it straight back to the personality-driven consumer market.

Publishing is having a moment too as classic continues to stay in style. Peter Rabbit continues to display innovative licensing programs, while Horrible Histories matures into a retro property as author Terry Deary gave us his insight into the property at BLE’s publishing activation, Beyond the Book.

The Players have Spoken

Gaming continues to grow as esports, multiplayer and narrative-driven content experiences keep us coming back to our consoles. The list of exhibitors on display at BLE 2019, from Playstation and Nintendo to Ubisoft, Activision Blizzard, Sybo Games and Rovio, means the gaming industry investment in licensing is real, and as the gaming culture continues to grow, so will the business opportunities.

A central highlight of BLE was The Arcade, a gaming and esports activation that celebrated gaming history and allowed visitors to interact and engage with properties and product from participating brands such Rovio, Sega, Difuzed, Bandai Namco, Disguise, Activision, Bioworld and Sybo.

Long Live the Movie Franchise

If there’s one trend to re-appear year-on-year, it’s the long-lasting appeal of sequels, reboots and title returns. With “Trolls: World Tour” and “Minions 2” being presented with pride by Universal, or “Wonder Woman: 1984” by Warner Bros., “Top Gun: Maverick” by Viacom Nickelodeon and “Ghostbusters” by Sony Pictures, the consumers are driving huge demand to see the characters they love again and again and that there is guaranteed pick-up at retail for such properties.

“We no longer license movies, we actively build licensed franchises and sequels as an integral part of our content strategy,” says Hannah Mungo, country director, U.K. and Eire, Universal Brand Development. “They allow us to introduce new characters, themes and music and they provide an event moment for retailers and licensees to build new and refreshed programs around. In a world of disruption and fragmentation, consumers are looking for strong and stable brands that they know and trust, sequels answer this brief by affording fans the opportunity to build deeper and more meaningful connections with our properties.”

“Franchises such as ‘Ghostbusters’ have a built-in audience that grow from generation to generation,” explains Jamie Stevens, executive vice president, worldwide consumer products, Sony Pictures Entertainment. “For licensing, it gives us the opportunity to provide products that feed the super fans as well as new consumers who are entering the franchise for the first time.”

“Retailers are placing big bets on movie franchises, and Paramount Pictures’ ‘Top Gun Maverick’ and ‘The SpongeBob Movie’ are two great examples,” says Mark Kingston, senior vice president, Viacom Nickelodeon Consumer Products. “These franchises have strong emotional connections with generations of fans, and retailers know that the appetite for special-edition product will be strong. Movie releases also give a nice boost for our everyday ‘Spongebob’ and ‘Top Gun’ business.”

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From C21 Media:

Viacom adventures

Viacom is undergoing rapid change with the arrival of ITV Studios exec Maria Kyriacou, a merger with CBS on the cards and a distribution slate that continues to diversify. Nico Franks reports.

Trevor McDonald’s Indian Train Adventure features the iconic UK newsreader

Think of brands associated with Viacom and you’re likely to picture bright animated shows and children’s sitcoms thanks to its links with Nickelodeon, or scantily clad reality show contestants due to its ties with MTV.

What you’re unlikely to imagine is one of the UK’s most revered newsreader and journalists travelling from Mumbai to Delhi on board the Maharajas’ Express, as seen in Trevor McDonald’s Indian Train Adventure (2×60′).

“That is one of the great things about our catalogue,” says Lauren Marriott, VP of international programme sales at Viacom International Studios (VIS). “It’s so diverse, you can have Ex on the Beach and young preschool content on the one hand and Trevor McDonald on a train in India on the other.”

Due to various developments, both domestically and internationally, that are seeing it work with non-Viacom-owned buyers, VIS will arguably be bringing its most wide-ranging catalogue of content ever to Mipcom this year.

Nickelodeon famously aims to reach kids from diapers all the way up to skinny jeans. Now, partly thanks to the many deals US media giant Viacom has been doing to diversify its business over the past few years, as well as a strategy to work with third-parties, VIS has a library that feasibly goes from skinny jeans all the way up to comfortable, elastic waist-banded slacks.

Testament to this is its Mipcom slate, which features Corn & Peg, a Nick Jr show about a seven-year-old unicorn and a pegasus; Gen Z thriller The Unsettling; MTV reality show The Hills: New Beginnings; and Trevor McDonald’s Indian Train Adventure.

The latter marked the first third-party commission for Viacom in the UK when it was ordered by commercial broadcaster ITV earlier this year, a development that means its catalogue is set to grow beyond shows for Viacom brands such as Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV and BET.

This comes as the Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) business in the UK and Europe undergoes significant change, with ITV Studios exec Maria Kyriacou coming in as president following the departure of James Currell earlier this year.

Kyriacou, who is currently president of international for ITV Studios, reports to David Lynn, president and CEO of VIMN. VIMN is seeking to bolster its activities in the UK and elsewhere in Europe, with VIS in the process of opening new production centres in Madrid and Manchester as part of its ongoing expansion. These join Viacom’s London-based production outfit Elephant House Studios, which has been rebranded as VIS UK.

This is part of VIMN’s wider strategy to leverage assets such as MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount, Telefe, Awesomeness and Pluto TV to build out a three-tier strategy spanning basic cable, SVoD and advertising-supported VoD (AVoD).

Jill Offman is leading the expansion of VIS in the UK and Laura Abril is heading the roll-out across Europe, building on the studio’s Latin American launch last year.

VIS’s diverse slate includes Nick Jr toon Corn & Peg

Marriott says the intention is for VIS to represent as much of the product made by VIS UK as possible, beginning with the aforementioned Trevor McDonald’s Indian Train Adventure.

The sales operation has also seen change, with long-time VIMN exec Caroline Beaton exiting as her career as a stand-up comedian takes off.

VIMN has a hefty reach, operating 120 TV networks, reaching 90 million households in 33 territories across the UK, Northern and Eastern Europe. It has launched a variety of streaming products across the region, including Paramount+ in the Nordic countries, Hungary and Poland as well as My5, Pluto TV and MTV Play in the UK.

VIS is the umbrella brand for all of Viacom’s content production and distribution activities outside of the US. The group also oversees the strategic acquisition of original content in VIMN’s core areas of kids, youth and adults, for sale to third parties around the world.

Free-to-air (FTA) broadcasters remain VIS’s key clients as a result of the way the company windows its content across its own channels and platforms, with originals airing first across VIMN’s operations, meaning premium SVoDs don’t tend to come calling for its finished product.

But Marriott says the company has still benefitted from the SVoD boom, which she believes has resulted in two major changes in the behaviour of buyers at broadcasters around the world.

Traditional buyers are looking to both compete and counter the streamers with some shows that play in the same territory they do – such as youth-skewing dramas – and the kind of factual series they tend not to be after.

“The traditional FTAs are trying to compete with SVoDs by acquiring solely for their AVoD or free VoD [FVoD] services,” says Marriott, who joined Viacom in 2008 as a sales director.

One recent example is the deal with the BBC in the UK, which has picked up seasons one and two of Emmy-winning series Zac & Mia in order to target what Viacom would call Generation Z, roughly those born between 1995 and 2015. Having bought youth-skewing US company Awesomeness last year and bringing its library into the fold six months ago, it’s a target demo VIS is now particularly geared towards.

Bought to support the public broadcaster’s strategy to diversifying its offering for older children, the show will be available exclusively via its FVoD service, BBC iPlayer.

Whereas previously they may have viewed 12-18s as something of a lost cause, broadcasters deciding to invest more in their VoD services have decided to try to claw them back from the likes of Netflix.

“VoD services of broadcasters targeting younger audiences is a definite trend, because obviously they’re not watching as much on linear,” says Marriott, who cites another Awesomeness show, Light As a Feather, as being popular with local VoD platforms. “They see it as really strong content to rival what Netflix is doing in that space,” adds the exec.

But then there’s the other strategy, where FTA networks zig where the likes Netflix are zagging.

“The emergence of the SVoDs has also meant shopping lists have become open to programming to counter them. Several years ago, you would have had the FTA channels buying up US dramas. Now that happens less and less, so there’s much more demand for self-contained factual entertainment content. That plays really well for our slate that we have from the UK,” says Marriott.

Essentially, this is programming people can watch while they’re doing other things, like cooking or ironing, which doesn’t require the same level of concentration that a foreign-language import or premium US drama does.

The latter is not something VIS deals in, with Viacom’s work in the genre coming via its rebranded cablenet Paramount, which commissioned originals such as Yellowstone, 68 Whiskey and Sexy Beast, and its studio arm, Paramount Pictures. Paramount Television has been behind high-end dramas such as Jack Ryan (Amazon), 13 Reasons Why (Netflix), Berlin Station (Epix), Catch-22 (Hulu), First Wives Club (Paramount Network), Shantaram (Apple) and Dream Team (BET).

Marriott also observes the AVoD platforms are stepping up to the plate in unscripted, following Netflix and Amazon’s lead into format acquisition, again with the aim of reeling in younger viewers.

VIS’s deal with German giant RTL Media Group’s TV Now platform is a case in point. It’s currently in production on the first remake of VIS reality dating format Finding Prince Charming and Marriott says deals for other youth-skewing reality formats in the VIS library are on the table.

VIS is also mining its back catalogue of IP to reimagine classic formats on both its networks and for new buyers, with Facebook Watch ordering a reboot of The Real World, for example. Also coming down the pipeline are new versions of Punk’d and Singled Out for Quibi, as Viacom’s fledgling units, such as MTV Studios, work with third-parties.

“It’s a really interesting new platform and definitely one to watch. We’ve always been trailblazers in coming up with new and exciting shows. And they’re still seen as new and exciting, even 25 years on,” says Marriott.

Meanwhile, the international TV industry’s consolidation continues, with the merger to form ViacomCBS ongoing, but Marriott is unable to comment on how it may impact VIS or VIMN in the short or long term.

What’s clear is that many of the changes currently underway at Viacom and VIMN are about trying to put VIS in a position to benefit from the many ways the global content business is evolving.

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More Nick:Nickelodeon Embarks on New Direction with its Biggest, Most Wide-Ranging Content Slate Ever!

Originally published: Wednesday, September 25, 2019.

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Nickelodeon will premiere a brand-new half-hour SpongeBob SquarePants special titled "SpongeBob Appreciation Day: Patchy’s Beach Bash!" in 2020! The network announced the sponge-tastic news today during its "SpongeBob Appreciation Day" panel at New York Comic Con 2019.


In "SpongeBob Appreciation Day: Patchy’s Beach Bash!", SpongeBob’s biggest fans wash up on the island above Bikini Bottom to celebrate SpongeBob Appreciation Day! Hosted by Patchy with appearances by Meghan Trainor, Jon Heder, and Rob Riggle. It'll also count down fan-voted SpongeBob moments.

During the "SpongeBob Appreciation Day" panel at NYCC, the cast and crew celebrated the legacy of the show's late creator Stephen Hillenburg, who passed away last November, and talked about SpongeBob memes. Check out some highlights from Nick's "SpongeBob Appreciation Day" NYCC 2019 panel below!:

We're READY. SpongeBob @NY_Comic_Con panel TODAY at 10:30AM at the Hammerstein Ballroom #NYCC

— SpongeBob (@SpongeBob) October 4, 2019

Happy Birthday to the voice of Patrick, Bill Fagerbakke! pic.twitter.com/sCl6H3wHSn

— SpongeBob (@SpongeBob) October 4, 2019

We’re READY. SpongeBob #NYCC panel starts NOW pic.twitter.com/QzPjTqj84L

— SpongeBob (@SpongeBob) October 4, 2019

Yes, the voice of Sandy Cheeks is fist pumping #NYCCpic.twitter.com/qt1naQhWXc

— SpongeBob (@SpongeBob) October 4, 2019

“That made me HOWL.”

Bill Fagerbakke, the voice of Patrick, talks the first time he read the script for “the inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.” #NYCCpic.twitter.com/XqvUCgbcHt

— SpongeBob (@SpongeBob) October 4, 2019

So @RealClancyBrown has a question for all of you...

“Am I a pretty girl?” #NYCC

— SpongeBob (@SpongeBob) October 4, 2019

“He cared about being creative, he cared about the world.” Tom Kenny, voice of SpongeBob, reflects on the legendary Steve Hillenburg #NYCCpic.twitter.com/7fx3DFFyP8

— SpongeBob (@SpongeBob) October 4, 2019

wHo eLSe loVes SpONgeBoB mEMes?#NYCCpic.twitter.com/zE98HKHhi7

— SpongeBob (@SpongeBob) October 4, 2019

when you give Patrick a Patrick cake on his birthday...

Happy Birthday Bill Fagerbakke! pic.twitter.com/nAPBlKsydf

— SpongeBob (@SpongeBob) October 4, 2019

SpongeBob SquarePants, which was recently greenlit for a 13th season, has reigned as the number-one kids’ animated series on TV for the last 17 years, while generating a universe of beloved characters, pop culture catchphrases and memes, theatrical releases, consumer products, a Tony award-winning Broadway musical which is now touring North America and a global fan base. SpongeBob SquarePants is seen in more than 208 countries and territories, translated in 55+ languages, and averages more than 100 million total viewers every quarter. SpongeBob SquarePants is created by Stephen Hillenburg and produced by Nickelodeon in Burbank, Calif.

Nickelodeon's is currently in the midst of the network's "Best Year Ever", a year-long global celebration of one of the most iconic TV series and characters ever created. The “Best Year Ever” launched with the premiere of “SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout,” an original mixed live-action and animated special earlier this summer, and leads up to the Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies theatrical, The SpongeBob Movie: It's a Wonderful Sponge, coming May 2020.

From The Beat:

NYCC ’19: SpongeBob SquarePants panel teases Patchy the Pirate special

Plus, a birthday celebration!


As “The Best Year Ever” for SpongeBob SquarePants nears it end, the cast and crew of the Nickelodeon show including Tom Kenny (SpongeBob), Bill Fagerbakke (Patrick), Clancy Brown (Mr. Krabs) and Carolyn Lawrence (Sandy), along with co-executive producers Vincent Waller and Marc Ceccarelli assembled in the Hammerstein Ballroom during NYCC at a panel moderated by Tara Bennett of SyFy Wire.

L-R: Vincent Waller, Marc Ceccarelli, Clancy Brown, Carolyn Lawrence, Bill Fagerbakke, Tom Kenny, Tara Bennett
The SpongeBob panel began with the panelists answering 20 questions in honor of 20 years of the show that involved testing their knowledge of obscure show trivia such as the names of Sandy’s monkey bosses or how many times Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy have appeared (19 in case you were wondering).

Additionally, questions pertained to highlights of working on the cartoon. When asked about favorite gags, Waller is fond of a moment in the episode “Texas” episode when Sandy lassos Patrick and a mushroom cloud bursts in the background. Fagerbakke remembered delivering the line, “The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma,” and we see a carton of milk spilling.

When it comes to other actors in SpongeBob, Kenny praised Mary Jo Catlett, the voice of SpongeBob’s driving teacher Mrs. Puff, who just turned 81 and still an amazing performer at her age. Though younger fans are probably not well acquainted with the classic ’60s sitcom McHale’s Navy, they are probably more familiar with the show’s two leads Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway who voiced superhero parody characters Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy in the world of SpongeBob. Sadly, both comedic actors have passed away but Kenny fondly recalled how Conway and Borgnine remained friends since the end of McHale’s Navy and their camaraderie was present in every recording session.

SpongeBob’s “Best Year Ever” has been somewhat bittersweet with the passing of the cartoon’s creator Stephen Hillenburg. Ceccarelli actually attended CalArts with him and admitted that Hillenburg’s student short was without a doubt the best one in the class. Lawrence noted his quiet confidence and missed seeing his sweet smile whenever she saw him at Nickelodeon. A humble man, Hillenburg didn’t care about money both when he did and didn’t have it.

Asked about celebrities they wish could sing any SpongeBob song, Kenny envisioned Johnny Cash singing “Best Day Ever.” As for what episodes they would put in a time capsule for future generations to discover, Waller would choose “Mimic Madness.” If it was possible, Kenny would put the entire panel.

After a live reading of the episode “Suds” an upcoming half-hour special, SpongeBob Appreciation Day: Patchy’s Beach Bash!, was announced. Debuting next year, the special will see SpongeBob’s biggest fans wash up on the island above Bikini Bottom to celebrate SpongeBob Appreciation Day! Hosted by Patchy the Pirate (Tom Kenny), this beach bash features appearances by pop star Meghan Trainor, cult movie star Jon Heder and actor Rob Riggle, and counts down some of the greatest fan-voted SpongeBob moments ever.

During the fan Q&A, someone inquired if SpongeBob would ever get his boating license to which the panelists answered if that ever happened, the show would have officially jumped the shark.

Ask about their involvement in the SpongeBob Musical, Ceccarelli and Waller were the only ones on the panel who had any involvement and admitted up until dress rehearsal even Hillenburg had doubts. Tom Kenny however did co-write the song “Best Day Ever” with Andy Paley that was included in the musical and felt a tremendous honor. Waller and Fagerbakke said they actually cried during the musical with Kenny describing the SpongeBob Musical as a harmonic convergence of the human experience encapsulating laughter, tears, and the human endeavor.

The SpongeBob panel came to a close with a giant Patrick Star brought out in honor of Bill Fagerbakke’s birthday and everyone in the audience singing a rousing rendition of “Happy Birthday” to the voice of everyone’s favorite starfish.


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More Nick:Brian Robbins Reveals More Details About 'SpongeBob' Spin-Off 'Kamp Koral'!

Originally published: Friday, October 4, 2019 at 22:26 BST.

Source: Nickandmore! (II); H/T: Anime Superhero Forum /@Action!.

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This Halloween, Nickelodeon Universe at the Mall of America is treating visitors to a wide range of frighteningly fun activities for the whole family! Check out the spooktacular details below, and make sure to visit nickelodeonuniverse.com for the latest Nickelodeon Boo-niverse® news and updates!




Dates: Friday, September 13 - Thursday, October 31, 2019
Location: Park-wide

You’re invited to come out to Nickelodeon Boo-niverse for a Spooktacular time at Mall of America®. Ride the haunted Fog Chute, take part in Nickelodeon Universe's Treat Trail, watch the super sloopy Double Dare Challenge Double Scare Edition, boogie down to your favorite spooky Halloween hits at Shock and Ride, plus so much more! Check all the Spooktacular events coming up all month long.

Fright Lights Halloween Spectacular
South Entrance of Nickelodeon Universe®
Nightly at Park Close plus Friday + Saturday at 8 p.m.
Sept. 13 – Oct. 31

Nickelodeon Universe® has come under the spell of a funky witch! She can make the lights + music goove + people move all in the name of spooky Halloween fun. Plus, starting October 11, every Friday + Saturday night Halloween dancers will be performing during the show at 8 + 9:30 p.m.

Near East Entrance of Nickelodeon Universe
Friday + Saturday Nights | Sept. 27 – Oct. 31


For a limited time, the Log Chute will be transformed into the haunted Fog Chute. Jack-o’-lanterns will light the way as you journey through the mill.

Shock + Ride
South Entrance of Nickelodeon Universe
Friday + Saturday Nights | Oct. 11 – Oct. 26


Join Team Nick on Friday + Saturday Nights to boogie down to your favorite spooky hits.

Double Dare Challenge: Double Scare Edition
West Market Square
Friday + Saturdays at 4 + 7 p.m.
Sundays at 1 + 4 p.m.
Oct. 11 – Oct. 27


On your mark, get set, BOO! It’s time for the Double Dare Challenge: Double Scare Edition at Nickelodeon Universe. Answer trivia questions, tackle physical challenges, navigate the super sloppy + spooktacular Double Dare obstacle course + get Slimed! Get in the game…if you dare!

Slime Making with Mad Science
Blue Spot in Nickelodeon Universe
Saturday + Sunday | Oct. 12 + 13 | 2 – 4 p.m.

Stop by the Blue Spot with your all-day Nickelodeon Universe wristband for Slime Making with Mad Science. While supplies last.

Amateur Pumpkin Carving Contest
Rotunda
Saturday, Oct. 19 | 1 – 3 p.m.

Cheer on local pumpkin carvers as they compete for the title of Nickelodeon Universe Amateur Pumpkin Carving Champions.

Professional Pumpkin Carvers
Blue Spot in Nickelodeon Universe
Saturday + Sunday | Oct. 26 + 27 | 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.


Watch + ask questions as local sculptors carve your favorite Nickelodeon characters out of real pumpkins.

Treat Trail
Begins at the Blue Spot inside Nickelodeon Universe
Friday + Saturday | Oct. 25 + 26 | 6 – 8 p.m.

Calling all ghouls + goblins, monsters + witches, come out to Nickelodeon Universe October 25 + 26 to show off your ghostly attire. Purchase an all-day Nickelodeon Universe wristband + head to Blue Spot to get your treat bag before visiting locations around the park to get some sweet treats! Must purchase a Nickelodeon Universe all-day wristband to participate. Limited to the first 200 participants.

Howl-O-Ween Mall-wide Trick or Treating
Rotunda
Oct. 31, 5 – 8 p.m.

Come dressed in your all Hallow’s Eve best as you scour Mall of America® for sweet treats at participating retailers! Pick up you treat bag in the MOA® Rotunda.


Visit nickelodeonuniverse.com and make sure to follow Nickelodeon Universe at the Mall of America on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for the most up-to-date news and information for Halloween at Nickelodeon Universe!


More Nick:Nickelodeon Universe at American Dream to Open Friday, October 25, 2019!

Originally published: Monday, September 23, 2019.

Additional source: Attractions Magazine.

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Viacom Launches Noggin and Paramount Plus on Amazon Prime Video in Mexico


Continuing Paramount’s immersion in the world of subscription video-on-demand (SVOD), Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) has confirmed a agreement to add two SVOD services – Nickelodeon's Noggin and Paramount Plus – to Amazon Prime Video’s lineup in Mexico!

The move comes as, in a separate announcement, Paramount Channel Latin America (Latinoamerica) confirmed on Tuesday that its first original series commission, teen sci-fi thriller Dani Who? will bow its pilot episode on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, November 8, 2019.

The VIMN-Amazon deal will see Viacom finding a powerful Over-the-Top (OTT) outlet in Mexico, currently the most vibrant of SVOD markets in Latin America. VIMN originally launched Noggin, Nick Jr.'s video-subscription service for preschoolers, in Mexico on Claro Video in September 2017.

“We are thrilled to be able to offer Paramount Plus and Noggin through Prime Video Channels in Mexico,” said Rita Herring, Senior Vice President (SVP) of content distribution for Viacom International Media Networks Americas. “Both of these premium services offer extensive, curated content for the whole family and are a perfect complement to the Prime Video Channels service.”

Launching in 2016 in Latin America, and now with 1.5 million household subscribers in the region, Noggin, priced at Pesos49 ($2.5) a month, Noggin features some of the most popular pre-school programming in international such as PAW Patrol, Nella the Princess Knight (Nella, Una Princesa Valiente), Blaze and the Monster Machines (Blaze y los Monster Machines), Dora the Explorer (Dora la Exploradora), Rainbow Rangers, Kids' Planet (Planeta de niños) and Canticos.



For a monthly fee of Pesos 79 ($4), Paramount Plus subscribers will receive international flagship series such as The Handmaids’ Tale and Killing Eve, and 2,000 episodes of multiple titles and genres across Viacom’s Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and Paramount Channel brands including Acapulco Shore, De Ferias Com O Ex Brasil, Jersey Shore, Catfish, dozens of Latin American stand-up comedy episodes, Latin America, Brazil and UK versions of Are You The One? and Just Tattoo Of Us.

Paramount Plus features hundreds of episodes of iconic Nickelodeon programs such as SpongeBob SquarePants (Bob Esponja), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Tartarugas Ninja), Hey Arnold! (Oye Arnold!), and The Fairly OddParents (Los Padrinos Mágicos).

Produced by Viacom International Studios and Mexican powerhouse Argos Comunicación, 10-part Dani Who? is set in a ‘90s Mexican village as one girl disappears. Her disparate classmates react, and bond together to discover they have special abilities and are being watched over by a mysterious corporation.

“We’ve worked on the development of this story for a long time, on every detail to recreate ‘90s Mexico. The series begins with a fascinating premise and builds in suspense and mystery which we’re sure will have everybody trapped from the first episode,” said Tiago Worcman, VIMN SVP and music and entertainment brand head.

“Prime Video is the perfect streaming place for this sci-fi thriller,” added Pablo Iacovello, head of content, Latin America, Amazon Prime Video. Dani Who? has an astonishing script, and on-the-rise Mexican cast, a fascinating story and performances which will keep viewers on the edge of their seats.”

More Nick:Viacom International Studios Americas to Produce 'Planeta Marcia', a New Out-Of-This World Scripted Series for Nickelodeon!

Original source: Variety.

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OCTOBER 05, 2019


COWABUNGA! Kiwi boys clothing brand Band of Boys has curated a sweet collaboration with Nickelodeon and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, marking Nickelodeon's first-ever collaboration in New Zealand! Think 90’s retro meets Band of Boys fashion cool. From tees, shorts, hats and a backpack to Band of Boys' very first range of socks and underwear, get ready to meet the super-statement pieces guaranteed to crank up the volume on summer wardrobes.


This is not your average licensing deal; this is a true collaboration between Band of Boys and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Obviously, the label chose their go-to artist from New York, Matthew Langille, like totally rad dude because the Turtles are from New York too! Matthew custom drew our radical custom illustrations of the franchise logos and characters exclusive to the apparel and what you see in this collection is Band of Boys' unique take on the Turtles and their fave memories of spending a good part of the 90’s watching TMNT.


"We are stoked to be representing Nickelodeon's first collaboration in New Zealand," said Band of Boys in a statement.

Nickelodeon’s Australian licensing agent Haven Global closed the deal.

“‘TMNT’ and Band of Boys make a perfect combination for collaboration,” says Yvonne King, director, Haven Licensing. “Both brands encourage kids to embrace their individuality while recognizing the importance of being part of a team. We’re so pleased with the creativity Band of Boys brought to the ‘TMNT’ brand, further elevating the range to something truly unique and special.”

To celebrate the debut of the collection, Band of Boys held a exclusive launch party. The collection went on sale on Saturday 5th October 2019 at 9:00am NZST.


The Band of Boys X Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Collab Collection is available in a wide variety of sizes with price points between $20-$80 NZD.


Stocked exclusively at these rad retailers, make sure you check out the range asap before it sells out!

NEW ZEALAND

Bambini www.bambini.nz

Kid Republic www.kidrepublic.co.nz

The Kids Store www.thekidsstore.co.nz

Hatch www.hatch.co.nz

AUSTRALIA

Princess For a Knight www.pfak.com.au

Baby Bootique www.babybootique.com.au

Rasberry Soda www.facebook.com/rasberrysoda


To shop the collection, click here!

Considered one of the most popular kids’ television programs of the 1980s, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a classic, global property created in 1984 by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It first debuted as a successful comic book series and then became a hit animated TV show, a live-action television series and later spawned numerous blockbuster theatrical releases. The property is a global consumer products powerhouse, winning in every category that has hit shelves to date—with toys, apparel, video games, DVDs and more—and generating billions of dollars at retail. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has been the number-one action figure for the past three years and the franchise is a previous recipient of the Toy Industry Association’s top honor for Property of the Year at the TOTY Awards. The franchise's current series, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, currently airs on Nickelodeon channels globally.

Take a closer look at the BOB x TMNT collection below!:

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As my son would say this is “EPIC” ! My Collab with @bandofboys_ and @nickelodeon_au x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 🐢 out tomorrow ! 📸@cool_dudes_nz

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You heard it here first! We have curated New Zealand’s first collaboration with Nickelodeon & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Think 90s retro meets Band of Boys fashion cool. Get ready to meet the super-statement pieces guaranteed to crank up the volume on summer wardrobes. Tap the image to see who the exclusive stockists of this totally rad exclusive collab collection are! Custom illustrations by @matthewlangille @TMNT @nickelodeon_au #collab #bobxtmnt #nickelodeon #exclusive #bandofboys

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GIVEAWAY! CLOSED - winners have been DMed // We’ve got 10x tickets to give away to our event to celebrate the launch of the Band of Boys X TMNT collab collection! To enter, tag a friend below, follow us and share to your stories for an extra entry! One ticket will get one family into the event / winners will be drawn on 30 September / winners must get themselves to the event in Auckland at their own cost on Saturday 5 October / enter as many times as you like. Good luck! #win #giveaway #collab #bobxtmnt #nickelodeon #exclusive #bandofboys #tmnt

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Have you heard? We have curated New Zealand’s first collaboration with Nickelodeon & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Think 90s retro meets Band of Boys fashion cool. Get ready to meet the super-statement pieces guaranteed to crank up the volume on summer wardrobes. Tap the image to see the exclusive stockists of this totally rad collab collection! Custom illustrations by @matthewlangille @TMNT @nickelodeon_au #collab #bobxtmnt #nickelodeon #exclusive #bandofboys #tmnt

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Are you ready for the coolest collab to hit New Zealand? Band of Boys have curated New Zealand’s first collaboration with Nickelodeon & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Think 90s retro meets Band of Boys fashion cool. Get ready to meet the super-statement pieces guaranteed to crank up the volume on summer wardrobes. Tap the image to see who the exclusive stockists of this totally rad exclusive collab collection are! Custom illustrations by @matthewlangille @tmnt @nickelodeon_au #collab #bobxtmnt #nickelodeon #exclusive #bandofboys

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FIVE DAYS until the coolest collab to hit New Zealand drops! The Band of Boys X TMNT collab collection launches this Saturday at 9am instore and online. Get ready for some serious Turtle power! Tap the image to see who the exclusive stockists of this totally rad exclusive collab collection are! Custom illustrations by @matthewlangille @TMNT @nickelodeon_au #collab #bobxtmnt #nickelodeon #exclusive #bandofboys #tmnt

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FOUR DAYS until the coolest collab to hit New Zealand drops! The Band of Boys X TMNT collab collection launches this Saturday at 9am instore and online. Think 90s retro meets Band of Boys fashion cool. From tees, shorts, hats and a backpack to the coolest range of socks and underwear, get ready for some seriously radical threads! Tap the image to see who the exclusive stockists of this totally rad exclusive collab collection are! Custom illustrations by @matthewlangille @TMNT @nickelodeon_au #collab #bobxtmnt #nickelodeon #exclusive #bandofboys #tmnt

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ARE YOU READY? THREE DAYS to go! The Band of Boys X TMNT collab collection launches this Saturday at 9am instore and online! Get ready to meet the super-statement pieces guaranteed to crank up the volume on summer wardrobes. Tap the image to see who the exclusive stockists of this totally rad exclusive collab collection are! Custom illustrations by @matthewlangille @TMNT @nickelodeon_au #collab #bobxtmnt #nickelodeon #exclusive #bandofboys #tmnt

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TWO DAYS TO GO! The Band of Boys X TMNT collab collection launches this Saturday at 9am instore and online! This is not your average licensing deal, this is a true collaboration between Band of Boys and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Who doesn’t have memories of spending a good part of the 90s watching TMNT! Tap the image to see who the exclusive stockists of this totally rad exclusive collab collection are! Custom illustrations by @matthewlangille @TMNT @nickelodeon_au #collab #bobxtmnt #nickelodeon #exclusive #bandofboys #tmnt

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LAUNCHING TOMORROW! HOLEY SMOKES! The Band of Boys X TMNT collab collection launches tomorrow morning at 9am instore and online! Think 90s retro meets Band of Boys fashion cool. From tees, shorts, hats and a backpack to the coolest range of socks and underwear, get ready to meet these super-statement pieces. Tap the image to see who the exclusive stockists of this totally rad exclusive collab collection are! Custom illustrations by @matthewlangille @TMNT @nickelodeon_au #collab #bobxtmnt #nickelodeon #exclusive #bandofboys #tmnt

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What the shell! 🐢 Band of Boys X TMNT IS LAUNCHING TOMORROW! 9am (NZST) in-stores and online. Tap the image to see who the exclusive stockists of this totally rad exclusive collab collection are! Custom illustrations by @matthewlangille @tmnt @nickelodeon_au #collab #bobxtmnt #nickelodeon #exclusive #bandofboys

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COWABUNGA! The Band of Boys X TMNT collab collection is in-store and ONLINE NOW! Get ready to meet the super-statement pieces guaranteed to crank up the volume on summer wardrobes. Tap the image to see who the exclusive stockists of this totally rad exclusive collab collection are and make sure you pay them a visit - each store has the whole range! Custom illustrations by @matthewlangille @TMNT @nickelodeon_au #collab #bobxtmnt #nickelodeon #exclusive #bandofboys #tmnt

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More Nick:Geocaching HQ and Nickelodeon Partner on Limited-Edition 'Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Trackable Game Pieces!

Originally published: Saturday, October 05, 2019.

Additional sources: License Global, Kidscreen.

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Nickelodeon Latin America (Latinoamérica) will be taking the live stage adaptation of the network's hit live-action series Club 57 to the Gran Rex in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Saturday 30th November 2019!


From Clarin.com:

El boom de Club 57 llega al Gran Rex

La serie juvenil de Nickelodeon desembarca por primera vez en Buenos Aires, con Evaluna Montaner y elenco. El encanto de los viajes en el tiempo.

Es una serie que captó la atención de millones de niños y adolescentes. Y su versión teatral musical tendrá en breve un paso por la Argentina.

Club 57, la ficción de Nickelodeon, desembarca por primera vez en Buenos Aires. Será el 30 de noviembre, en el Gran Rex.

Fenómeno ​juvenil, sus hits se cantan en colegios y clubes, y los videos de las canciones explotan en YouTube.

La exitosa historia televisiva cuenta la historia de Eva, protagonizada por Evaluna Montaner y su hermano Rubén (Sebastián Silva), quienes descubren una máquina del tiempo creada por su abuelo que accidentalmente los lleva a 1957. Como un Volver al futuro de los Centennial...

En este inesperado viaje en el tiempo, Eva se enamora de JJ (Ricardo Frascari) y decide quedarse, pero su decisión desencadena un "efecto mariposa" que podría cambiar sus vidas. Eva sabe que debe encontrar la forma de regresar al presente, sin renunciar a su gran amor.

Con una puesta en escena ambiciosa, Club 57 presentará un espectáculo musical con decenas de bailarines. Los chicos podrán escuchar éxitos de la tira como El tiempo corre al revés.

La banda sonora original fue compuesta por Ricardo Montaner (papá de Evaluna), en conjunto con sus hijos Mau y Ricky, el actor y cantante Camilo Echeverry (novio de Evaluna).

¿Cómo comprar las entradas? A partir del 9 de octubre, por sistema Ticketek o en las boleterías del teatro (Avenida Corrientes 857).

La serie consta de 60 episodios de 45 minutos (filmados en Italia y Miami).

La venezolana Evaluna nació el 7 de agosto de 1997. A los 22 se convirtió en una de las preferidas de los niños, una suerte de heredera de Violetta (Tini Stoessel). Tiene casi 4 millones de seguidores en Instagram y sus videos en YouTube junto a su novio Camilo reciben a diario millones de visitas.

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From Ticketek Argentina:

CLUB 57
¡POR PRIMERA VEZ EN ARGENTINA!

CLUB 57
EL TIEMPO AVANZA AL REVÉS
¡EN VIVO!

¡SENSACIONAL ESTRENO!

30 DE NOVIEMBRE
TEATRO GRAN REX

El impresionante éxito de la serie juvenil Club 57 desembarca por primera vez en Buenos Aires. La exitosa serie televisiva, cuenta la historia de Eva, protagonizada por Evaluna Montaner y su hermano Rubén (Sebastián Silva), quienes descubren una máquina del tiempo creada por su abuelo que accidentalmente los lleva a 1957.
En este inesperado viaje en el tiempo, Eva se enamora de JJ (Ricardo Frascari) y decide quedarse, pero su decisión desencadena un efecto mariposa que podría cambiar sus vidas para siempre.
Eva sabe que debe encontrar la forma de regresar al presente, sin renunciar a su gran amor.

¡Preparate para viajar en el tiempo, cantar y bailar con tus personajes preferidos! No te lo pierdas, el tiempo corre al revés.

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From Grupo la Provincia:

LA SERIE JUVENIL CLUB 57 LLEGA EN NOVIEMBRE AL TEATRO GRAN REX

"Club 57", la serie juvenil de la señal Nickelodeon, desembarcará con un espectáculo musical el sábado 30 de noviembre en el teatro Gran Rex.

En el espectáculo musical, los artistas y bailarines interpretarán los éxitos de la tira que incluyen "Club 57" y "El tiempo corre al revés", entre otros.

La banda sonora original de la puesta fue compuesta por el cantautor Ricardo Montaner, en conjunto con sus hijos Mau y Ricky, el actor y cantante Camilo Echeverry y Evaluna Montaner, protagonista de la serie.

Martín Barba, Carolina Mestrovic, Sebastián Silva, Riccardo Frascari y Fefi Oliverias completan el elenco de la entrega.

La serie televisiva cuenta la historia de Eva y de su hermano Rubén, quienes descubren una máquina del tiempo creada por su abuelo que accidentalmente los lleva a 1957.

En ese inesperado viaje en el tiempo, Eva se enamora y decide quedarse, pero a partir de esa elección sus vidas podrán cambiar para siempre. (Télam)

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Más Nick:Viacom International Studios Americas to Produce 'Planeta Marcia', a New Out-Of-This World Scripted Series for Nickelodeon!

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Update (2/10) - Below is Nickelodeon's official Press Release announcing the exciting news!:





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BURBANK, Calif.—Oct. 2, 2019—Nickelodeon has set the premiere date for its brand-new music competition series, America’s Most Musical Family: Friday, Nov. 1, at 7:00 p.m. (ET/PT). 30 talented family bands performing in all genres take center stage in front of celebrity judges Grammy Award-winning global superstar Ciara, digital media sensation David Dobrik, pop icon and Broadway star Debbie Gibson and show host, singer and television personality Nick Lachey to compete for a recording contract with Republic Records and the chance to win a $250,000 cash prize in partnership with Capri Sun 100% Juice.

The premiere of America’s Most Musical Family will simulcast across BET, MTV, MTV2, Nicktoons, Paramount Network, TeenNick, TV Land and VH1 at 7:00 p.m. (ET/PT), with new episodes airing every Friday night on Nickelodeon.


America’s Most Musical Family kicks off with the following five family bands ready to battle it out with their very own take on hit songs: Nashville, Tennessee’s eight-member group The Rees Family (“Walking on Sunshine”); New Jersey’s band of brothers, Wanmor, whose father is Wanye from Boyz II Men (“It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday”); From Rancho Santa Margarita, California, harmonizing sisters and human beat box brother Juat Sibs (“Honeymoon Avenue”); Brother and sister duo Juna N Joey from West Palm Beach, Florida (“Beautiful Crazy”); and San Jacinto, California’s sibling quartet The Mitchells (“We Got the Beat”).


America’s Most Musical Family is produced by Industrial Media’s Emmy Award-winning The Intellectual Property Corporation, with IPC’s Eli Holzman and Aaron Saidman (Undercover Boss, So You Think You Can Dance), Claire Kosloff and showrunner Jeff Boggs (Nashville Star, Who Will Rock You?) as Executive Producers. Ciara also serves as Executive Producer, alongside Republic Records and Nickelodeon’s Rob Bagshaw and Paul J Medford. The series is directed by Julia Knowles (The X Factor, MTV Europe Music Awards), with stage design by Emmy Award-winning set designer Anton Goss (The Voice, Shark Tank). Production of America’s Most Musical Family is overseen for Nickelodeon by Rob Bagshaw, Executive Vice President, Unscripted Content.

About The Intellectual Property Corporation

The Intellectual Property Corporation (IPC) is an Emmy-winning IP creation and production studio based in Van Nuys, California. Founded in 2016, IPC develops and produces a wide range of television, film, documentary, and interactive mobile content. The company currently has series in production or development with a wide range of US broadcast, cable networks, and streamers including “Free Meek” for Amazon and the company’s first scripted project, “Dirty Thirty”, for HBO. In 2017, the company was awarded an Emmy and in 2018 a Producers Guild Award for its series “Leah Remini: Scientology & the Aftermath” which was nominated for another Emmy this year. IPC was acquired by Industrial Media in 2018.

About Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon, now in its 40^th year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The company includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, digital, recreation, books and feature films. Nickelodeon’s U.S. television network is seen in more than 90 million households and has been the number-one-rated kids’ basic cable network for 22 consecutive years. For more information or artwork, visit http://www.nickpress.com. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB).

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“I am looking for the family that’s going to bring it,” Ciara tells Lachey in the preview clip, above — and bring it they do, from siblings a capella to parents playing back-up instruments for their talented kids.



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Nick Lachey, the host of America’s Most Musical Family, has revealed that Nickelodeon USA will premiere the network's brand-new musical competition series on Friday, November 1, 2019!

In an interview with FoodSided about his new partnership with Subway to encourage families to 'adopt' ugly vegetables, Lachey, the front-man of 98 Degrees, dished: "I’m excited about a new show, called America’s Most Musical Family that I’m hosting for Nickelodeon, which premiers November 1st, and I’m still preforming with 98 Degrees. We have a handful of shows still between now and the end of the year and other shows already lined up for next year. So I’m excited to be hopefully in a city near you soon."

Nickelodeon sets the stage with an all-star celebrity lineup for the network’s new music competition show, America’s Most Musical Family. Grammy Award-winning global superstar Ciara, who is an executive producer, digital media sensation David Dobrik and singer-songwriter, record producer and actress Debbie Gibson will serve as series judges alongside host Nick Lachey, as 30 talented families compete for a recording contract with Republic Records and a $250,000 cash prize.

America’s Most Musical Family was first announced in February as part of Nickelodeon’s biggest, most wide-ranging content slate ever. The 12-episode series filmed in Los Angeles during summer 2019 and is scheduled to premiere later this fall on Nickelodeon in the U.S. and YTV in Canada.


“We are thrilled to welcome Nick Lachey and our incredibly talented judges—Ciara, David Dobrik and Debbie Gibson—to Nickelodeon. Nick continues to wow crowds performing alongside his brother Drew in 98°; Debbie remains the record-holder as the youngest female artist to write, produce and perform a number-one hit; David’s razor-sharp wit and expertise in the digital world will help families build their brand; and Ciara leads her own family in the spotlight as she continues her chart-topping career as a true triple threat. But ultimately, this competition for all ages is about celebrating exceptionally talented families. We’re in for a spectacular show,” said Rob Bagshaw, Executive Vice President of Unscripted Content.

America’s Most Musical Family is a one-of-a-kind music competition series that features a wide variety of talented and diverse families of two or more relatives who perform together, ranging from a father/daughter duo, sibling groups and a 12-member multigenerational brass ensemble. Over the course of 12 hour-long episodes and one half-hour special, 30 of America’s most musical families will battle it out on stage for the chance to win a $250,000 cash prize and a recording contract with Republic Records.



America’s Most Musical Family is produced by Industrial Media’s Emmy Award-winning The Intellectual Property Corporation, with IPC’s Eli Holzman and Aaron Saidman (Undercover Boss, So You Think You Can Dance), Claire Kosloff and showrunner Jeff Boggs (Nashville Star, Who Will Rock You?) as Executive Producers. Ciara also serves as Executive Producer, alongside Republic Records and Nickelodeon’s Rob Bagshaw and Paul J Medford. The series is directed by Julia Knowles (The X Factor, MTV Europe Music Awards), with stage design by Emmy Award-winning set designer Anton Goss (The Voice, Shark Tank). Production of America’s Most Musical Family is overseen for Nickelodeon by Rob Bagshaw, Executive Vice President, Unscripted Content.

Update (1/10) -America’s Most Musical Familywill feature rising country-pop duo, Juna N Joey!

Follow the series online:

Web - https://www.nickammf.com/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/AmericasMostMusicalFamily/
Hashtag: #AMMF

From Kidscreen:

Nick & Disney’s non-fiction growth strategies

Looking to tap into co-viewing opportunities on traditional TV and streaming, the kidcos are stacking their slates with family-friendly unscripted content.

Let’s get real. It’s no secret that SVOD services, especially Netflix, continue to lure young audiences away from the big three kids cable broadcasters. In 2018, Disney XD, Nickelodeon and CN’s average combined ratings dropped 29%, according to analyst Nielsen.

Nick and Disney, in particular, remain invested in what they do best—animated comedies and live-action sitcoms and movies. But as of late, both kidsnets are also diversifying into original unscripted content.

The genre, which includes reality TV, competition, game show and documentary formats, has been a bright spot for television over the last decade, while other categories have diminished. According to Nielsen, between 2011 and 2018 the combined viewing share of syndicated TV series, movies and kids programming fell to 36%, from 52%, among viewers ages two and up. Unscripted content, however, rose to 32% last year (from 24% in 2011).

Kids have played a big role in the success of the genre because they latch onto the same primetime shows their parents watch. Now, nearly every successful reality competition TV format for the coveted 18-to-49 demographic has a pint-sized version for children. Shows like Fox’s MasterChef Junior, Food Network’s Kids Baking Championship and ITV’s The Voice Kids have all spawned multiple seasons since launching and are bolstering the overall presence of the brands.

While Nickelodeon had success with unscripted content in the past with ’80s and ’90s competition game shows like Double Dare and Legends of the Hidden Temple (both of which have been revived), its strategy shifted away from non-fiction as animation became more popular worldwide, says Rob Bagshaw, EVP of unscripted content.

But when Brian Robbins took over as president at the end of 2018, he saw the wave of young viewers tuning in to popular unscripted formats for wide audiences and wanted to renew Nick’s investment in the genre, Bagshaw says.

To fully optimize its non-fiction ambitions with cost-efficient reboots that can be made quickly—as well as original content featuring more tweens and diverse families—Nick launched its first official unscripted division in January under the leadership of Bagshaw. A former Bunim/Murray Productions exec, Bagshaw heads up the development and production of unscripted content across all Nick formats and platforms—including reality competition shows and marquee live events like the Kids’ Choice and Sports Awards. He previously worked on unscripted hits including RuPaul’s Drag Race, Top Chef Masters and Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge.

In June, the burgeoning division hired another Bunim/Murray alum, Paul Medford. As VP of current series, Medford is in charge of Nick’s current slate of live-action unscripted shows, including America’s Most Musical Family, The Substitute and Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader. Rounding out the development team is VP of live-action development Mandel Ilagan, and senior director of development Stacey Carr, who recently joined from Endemol Shine. Bagshaw says additional staff will be hired as more shows are greenlit. The unit’s slate consists of about a dozen greenlit, pre-production or production projects.

For its adaptation of Fox hit Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, Bagshaw says it was important to appeal to the widest audience possible, which led to the casting of WWE star John Cena as the show’s host.

“John Cena has huge co-viewing potential,” says Bagshaw. “But to make the show appropriate for Nick, we show him in a new light as a comedian, and pivoted the format to focus on the fifth graders, rather than the adult contestants.”

So far, the strategy is paying off. The revival’s June 10 premiere delivered double-digit increases in viewership with kids (21%) and adults (34%) over the prior four-week time slot averages, according to Nielsen.

As new shows roll out, the division is taking internal and external pitches for concepts that could live on any platform, and is seeking new production partners to collaborate with.

“In researching what our audience is watching and what they want to see, there are three key areas that resonate with our demo: comedy, music and competition,” says Bagshaw.

Nick is also looking for opportunities to develop more factual-driven, long-form stories—including, potentially, hour-long content for YouTube or other digital platforms—but Bagshaw says more development time is required to find the right projects. It also plans to develop factual linear content for 2020 similar to one of the kidsnet’s longest-running series, Nick News, which aired from 1992 to 2015—though no timeline for delivery has been set yet.

“Nick News allowed for serious conversations about pop culture or newsworthy moments. Our audience today is smarter and more aware than ever—we would be doing them a disservice if we didn’t provide opportunities to have those conversations,” says Bagshaw.

Disney, meanwhile, recently named former Marvel, ABC and ESPN Films exec Dan Silver as VP of original unscripted content for Disney+ in the lead up to the SVOD’s November 12 launch.

Unscripted shows headed to the service include Disneynature feature film Dolphin Reef; six x half-hour guide dog show Pick of the Litter; student competition series Shop Class; aspirational program Marvel’s Hero Project; global scavenger hunt series The Maze; and the high school musical-themed Encore.

For its real-world stories, the House of Mouse is looking for inspirational, aspirational, heroic, grounded and feel-good narratives that embody not only Disney, but also its sub-brands, including Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Nat Geo.

As for Disney’s take on formatted competition series, Silver says there is value in them and the sub-genre is healthy, but the company is mindful about how they are produced.

“Sometimes competition can be leveraged for what I would call ‘fabricated drama,’” says Silver. “In non-fiction programming, there’s a tendency to have the issue lead [the plot], and then the narrative and the characters inform the issue. For us, the people we follow lead [the story], and if there are issues that are contained within the narratives, they inform the character. If you know the people, you’re going to care about whatever they’re going through.”

Some Disney+ unscripted shows are also taking a slightly more niche-driven approach to how they target their audiences.

For example, Encore is made for adults because it brings together former castmates of a high school musical and tasks them with recreating their original performance during a reunion. The series will be available for the November 12 launch and is executive produced by Frozen actress Kristen Bell.

“Encore is a proper adult show. But it’s about adults going back to high school. If you’re nine, 15 or 18 and love theater, you’re going to watch the show, too,” says Silver.

According to children’s media consultant Rick Clodfelter, kids want genuine, heartfelt, diverse and relatable content that entertains, which is why many unscripted series and formats for all ages are resonating across platforms. In short, they want to see real people.

“There is unfortunately a lot of turmoil in the world, so inclusive unscripted content is more important than ever,” he says.
The co-viewing opportunity is also going to be a big driver for the genre. According to media and consumer analyst GfK MRI, co-viewing is on the rise, and opportunities exist for both streaming and linear platforms. Its latest research found that 49% of US adults say they are co-viewing more now than they did three years ago, and parents are more likely to be watching with their kids.

As for the type of content adults watch with their children, kids television was the number-one response for co-viewing ahead of movies.

And as more young parents shift to streaming services (the report found that 72% of 18- to 34-year-olds used SVODs as their co-viewing medium of choice), streamers are rushing to fill their video consumption needs at a much quicker pace.

Clodfelter notes that family-friendly, live-action unscripted shows are quicker to make compared to animation. “The turnaround is faster, and they tend to be a little more cost-efficient, so there’s a big financial benefit as well,” he says.

Looking forward, Clodfelter sees bigger unscripted opportunities in the preschool space, pointing to the success of Nickelodeon series Ryan’s Mystery Playdate.

Created and produced by digital media company Pocket.watch, the live-action/animated preschool show stars seven-year-old YouTube star Ryan and his family as they attempt physical challenges and unboxing puzzles to reveal celebrity playdates.

The April premiere drew 5.5 million viewers and was tops among kids ages two to 11 in its 12:30 p.m. time slot across all TV, according to Nickelodeon.

“YouTube caters to what kids want to see in the moment, but how do you take what’s precious about that short-form content and flip it into an 11-minute show?” asks Clodfelter.

“Ryan’s Mystery Playdate manages to honor the original, and extend it to a very different long-form series.”

But even with the demand for more content and influencer opportunities in the unscripted and scripted space, challenges remain—especially for traditional TV channels that target the whole family.

For example, Nielsen reported Universal Kids and Discovery Family saw respective ratings declines of 73% and 46% in 2018. In June, NBCU-owned Universal Kids halted production on originals altogether. It’s not known if any of the net’s previously commissioned unscripted shows, including Top Chef Junior and American Ninja Warrior Junior, will have the option of new seasons after they air as scheduled.

These concerns aren’t enough to deter the growing non-fiction movement, however.

At Nickelodeon, Bagshaw sees the expansion into unscripted shows that kids and families can enjoy together as a big plus for the long-term sustainability of the network.

“One of the reasons we’re focused on co-viewing is so we can keep our audience,” he says. “If our unscripted division has the same success that Nickelodeon has had with its big animation titles, then our audience will stay with us for a long time.”

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For everyone who watched Rugrats and wondered “do babies really talk?”

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TORONTO, September 4, 2019 – This fall, YTV, TELETOON, and Treehouse are delivering unparalleled programming line-ups guaranteed to please both kids and parents alike, with a mix of brand new series and revivals of popular classics including All That and Blue’s Clues & You.

YTV Premieres


Pop-culture phenomenon All That is returning for a new generation of kids. The sketch-comedy series premieres Friday, September 6 at 6:30 p.m. and showcases an all-new cast of young comedians, with original cast members such as Kel Mitchell, Josh Server and Lori Beth Denberg making special appearances. Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell serve as executive producers.

• New episodes of All Thatresume Saturdays at 8:30 p.m. (ET/PT) from Saturday, September 21, 2019 on Nickelodeon USA.

Then, the kids of Hunter Street return for Season 3 on Monday, October 7 at 6:30 p.m. as they embark on mysterious journeys around Amsterdam and encounter puzzling clues, secret rooms and unexpected revelations.

• Hunter Street Season 3 resumes Monday, September 9, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. (ET/PT) on TeenNick USA.

After garnering numerous accolades in the international film festival circuit, Nelvana’s first-ever animated short film, The Most Magnificent Thing, makes its broadcast premiere on Friday, October 11 at 6 p.m., as part of YTV’s International Day of the Girl special programming. Adapted from Ashley Spires’ bestselling book published by Kids Can Press, The Most Magnificent Thing, the film features the voices of Alison Pill, Lilly Bartlam, Tony Daniels, and Whoopi Goldberg.

A new family has found a home on YTV. Moving in on Monday, October 14 at 5 p.m., The Casagrandes is a spinoff of the Emmy Award-winning The Loud House, and follows Lincoln Loud’s friend Ronnie Anne and her big, loving, multi-generational family. The new 2D-animated series highlights the culture, humour, and affection of growing up in a multi-generational Mexican-American family living together in the city. The voice cast includes Eugenio Derbez (Overboard), Ken Jeong (Dr. Ken) and Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina the Teenage Witch).

• The Casagrandes will make its global debut on Monday, Oct. 14, at 1:30 p.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon USA.

YTV gets into the Halloween spirit with Best Scarepants Ever from October 21 to October 25 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Each day, tricksters will be in for a treat with two back-to-back spooky SpongeBob SquarePants episodes leading up to a new Halloween-themed episode on Friday, October 25 at 4 p.m.

YTV is available on a National Free Preview from October 1 to November 17. Please check local listings for additional details.

For side-splitting, kid-friendly fun all day, every day, all Nickelodeon fan-favourite shows are available through the Nickelodeon Channel with Amazon Prime Video Channels.

TELETOON Premieres

A brand new adventure begins with the animals of Pure Heart Valley on Friday, September 6 at 7:30 p.m. with the premiere of Mao Mao, Heroes of Pure Heart. The series follows the explosive loner and famous hero, Sheriff Mao Mao, the lovable oaf, Badgerclops, and the adorable sidekick, Adorabat, who work together to bring justice and peace to the people of the valley.

All aboard! Arriving on Monday, September 23 at 8 p.m., Infinity Train centres on Tulip (voiced by Ashley Johnson, Teen Titans Go!), a headstrong 12-year-old girl, who must use her wits to uncover the train’s many secrets – and hopefully return home. Tulip’s mind-bending journey will find her forging friendships with One-One, a robot with dueling personalities, and Atticus, the canine king of Corginia. With new surprises awaiting in every car, will Tulip ever find a way off the train? Created by Owen Dennis, Infinity Train is a wild adventure filled with puzzles and peril at every twisty turn of events.

Jinkies! The Mystery Inc. gang welcomes new members in the new series, Scooby-Doo! And Guess Who? premiering on Friday, October 4 at 8:30 p.m.. Faced with some of their toughest mysteries yet, Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo will join forces with some of the biggest names in celebrity and pop culture including NBA superstar Chris Paul, recording artist Sia, Ricky Gervais, Kenan Thompson, Bill Nye, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Mark Hamill, Steve Urkel (voiced by Jaleel White reprising his iconic role) Batman, Sherlock Holmes, The Flash, Wonder Woman and many more. Jump into the Mystery Mobile for all-new comedic mystery-solving adventures where the biggest mystery will be who’s teaming up with those “meddling kids!”

It’s time to check in to Hotel Transylvania again with Mavis and her pals Wendy, Pedro and Hank who are back at the hotel causing mayhem and mischief under the watchful eye of her Aunt Lydia. Produced by Nelvana in association with Sony Pictures Animation, Season 2 of Hotel Transylvania: The Series premieres Saturday, October 12 at 4 p.m.

Then, the hilarious animated series Apple & Onion returns this fall with an all-star voice cast featuring YouTube star Timothy DeLaGhetto, The Great British Bake Off‘s Sue Perkins, and more as best friends Apple and Onion experience big city living with their menagerie of anthropomorphic food friends.

TREEHOUSE Premieres

Agent Binky: Pets of the Universe blasts off on Saturday, September 7 at 12:40 p.m. Based on the Kids Can Press graphic novel series, and presented by redknot, a joint venture between Nelvana and Discovery, Inc., the series follows Binky and his fellow P.U.R.S.T. agents (Pets of the Universe Ready for Space Travel) as they protect their human families from aliens, robots, and interstellar threats. It’s a pretty big job for these small pets, but this paw-some team is certified and ready for action.

Also from Nelvana, The Remarkable Mr. King, based on the Kids Can Press picture book series by Montreal author-illustrator Geneviève Côté, premieres Saturday, October 5 at 10:10 a.m. Mr. King is a well-meaning, short sighted little lion who thinks he should know everything, but sometimes his ‘big think’ causes big snags and tangles. If Mr. King tries and fails, he tries again to make things right. Mr. King shows us how to turn mistakes into wins for everyone to share.

More family favourites round out the fall schedule including Season 23 of Thomas & Friends pulling into Treehouse on Sunday, September 8 at 11:50 a.m., and Sesame Street celebrates 50 years and counting. The iconic series’ 50th season, premiering this fall, focuses on the power of possibilities, empowering kids to take safe risks and learn from their mistakes.

Blue and her crew are back in Blue’s Clues & You!. Premiering in November, beloved puppy Blue invites viewers to join her and the new live-action host, Broadway star Josh Dela Cruz, on a clue-led adventure to solve a daily puzzle. With each signature paw print, Blue identifies clues in her animated world that propel the story and inspires viewers to interact with the action. Blue’s Clues & You! is also available through the Nickelodeon Channel with Amazon Prime Video Channels.

• Blue's Clues & You!premieres Monday, Nov. 11, at 9 a.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon USA.

Updates:

-- Treehouse will start to air 44 Cats weekdays at 12:40pm ET/PT starting Monday, September 30th 2019!



-- Treehouse will premiere Ricky Zoom on Saturday 5th October 2019 at 12:15pm ET/PT!

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On Friday, September 13, Nickelodeon held its first ever Summer Day of Service to benefit LA Family Housing’s Pacoima Place residence. Pacoima Place houses 18 families and was most recently a pay by the hour motel before the folks at LA Family Housing put a master lease on the property.

In August, Nickelodeon's Summer Nick Animation Studio Interns (NICKterns) partnered with local org Muralism.org to paint a Nickelodeon themed around the concept of unity and family. A month later for the Summer Day of Service, about 35 volunteers braved 100 degree temperatures to transform the courtyard into a relaxation place for parents and a play space for kids. The Nickelodeon volunteers were busy turning soil, building planter beds, planting drought-tolerant plants, shoveling and wheelbarrowing gravel and mulch into the courtyard, placing weed cloth, and building a pergola, benches, and a play set. The families living at Pacoima Place now have a safe place for their children to play, and for the families to spend time together.

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For this year's Summer Day of Service, our team of employees and NICKterns partnered with LA Family housing, a non-profit that helps families transition out of homelessness and poverty. Together, we headed to their Pacoima Place family site and gave their backyard a major upgrade featuring a new playground and Nicktoons mural!

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Nickelodeon Helps Create Pacoima Place Playground For Homeless Kids


PACOIMA, Calif. – Nancy Gomez is desperately trying to get her son out of a tree. One of the many challenges for her and the 18 other families who currently reside here at Pacoima Place, is keeping their children entertained.

But the only area where the kids can play here is in the parking lot.

Gomez has been homeless with her three children on and off for almost five years.

“It's been really hard. It's really hard. But LA Family Housing has helped me a lot. My kids have a roof over their head and we're not spending the night in a car, or on the streets or in a tent. And I really appreciate that,” said Gomez.

LA Family Housing teamed up with Nickelodeon’s Community Outreach Program, “Nick Helps,” and an organization called Muralism. They’re transforming the dirt-filled front yard of Pacoima Place into a fun and safe place for these kids to play.

“Homelessness is really hard, especially for children," said Andrea Johnson of LA Family Housing. "So when we have partners like Nickelodeon who understand that building a playground can really bring joy to a child's life, that means so much to us. So we're incredibly grateful for this partnership. And we're so grateful to have a place where children can play -- that's not in a parking lot.”

Gomez and other parents are happy their kids have a place where they can laugh and just be kids.

“My kids are my strength. They're the reason why I keep on doing what I'm trying to do,” said Gomez.

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