Nickelodeon has announced the exciting Nickelodeon News in a brand new online streaming video clip on their official YouTube channel, Nickelodeon, which features a special preview of the networks brand new live-action original comedy series "Sam & Cat" that Nickelodeon USA, also known as Nick, has moved forward the debut date for the show and will now start to premiere and show the all-new Nick sitcom "Sam & Cat" in June 2013! Click the play button below to watch Nickelodeon's special preview of "Sam & Cat"!
Sam & Cat Coming to Nickelodeon in June!
It's Sam from iCarly and Cat from Victorious in a new show called Sam & Cat!!!! What could be better?!? Not much.
Nickelodeon's brand new live-action original comedy series "Sam & Cat" will be a spin-off from Dan Schneider's hit live-action Nickelodeon comedy shows "iCarly" and "Victorious", and will feature Nickelodeon Stars Jennette McCurdy ("iCarly"'s Sam Puckett) and Ariana Grande ("Victorious"'s Cat Valentine) reprising their roles from their respective hit shows, and will feature the pair as unlikely roommates who become teen entrepreneurs by starting their own after-school babysitting business. Nickelodeon commissioned "Sam & Cat" to become a full series and ordered 20 episodes of the show in November 2012.
Before Nickelodeon announced the news on Thursday 18th April 2013, Jennette McCurdy, Ariana Grande and Dan Schneider teased fans on their official Twitter profile pages with the special hashtag, #SamAndCatSurprise.Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, and/or Facebook for the latest Nickelodeon and "Sam & Cat" News!
The children's entertainment and media news website Kidscreen is reporting the very exciting Nickelodeon UK & Ireland news that the UK and Irish premiere of "iGoodbye," the final episode of Nickelodeon's smash hit live-action series "iCarly", which Nick UK aired on Friday 5th April 2013, was the fourth most watched television broadcast with kids aged 4-to-15 in the UK between the time period Monday 11th March 2013 and Sunday 7th April 2013! The ratings data was supplied to Kidscreen from programming and audience analytics service Eurodata TV:
Ratings Watch Global – UK
This week Eurodata TV has provided us with the ratings for the top-five program broadcasts with kids four to 15 in the UK between March 11 and April 7, 2013.
The children's entertainment and media news website Kidscreen is reporting the news that Turner International, the global arm of Turner Broadcasting System, has appointed former Nickelodeon UK executive Edward Barnieh as their new programming and acquisitions manager for the Asia Pacific region. Based in Hong Kong, Barnieh will be responsible for Turner's acquisition strategies for its kids' networks, including Cartoon Network, Cartoonito, POGO, Toonami and Boomerang. He will have a particular eye out for animated comedies from global studios and distributors. Barnieh spent close to a decade at Nickelodeon UK, where he was involved in traditional broadcasting, as well as multi-platform initiatives in VOD, online, mobile and content licensing. He began his career at Viacom in London:
Turner International grows acquisitions efforts
In expanding its kids content offering, Turner International has appointed former Nickelodeon exec Edward Barnieh as programming and acquisitions manager for the Asia Pacific region.
Based in Hong Kong, Barnieh will be responsible for Turner’s acquisition strategies for its kids’ networks, including Cartoon Network, Cartoonito, POGO, Toonami and Boomerang. He will have a particular eye out for animated comedies from global studios and distributors.
Barnieh spent close to a decade at Nickelodeon UK, where he was involved in traditional broadcasting, as well as multi-platform initiatives in VOD, online, mobile and content licensing. He began his career at Viacom in London.
Tags: comedy, Edward Barnieh, Nickelodeon UK, Turner International
Turner International has brought over a Nickelodeon executive from the UK as programming and acquisitions manager for its children’s channels in Asia Pacific.
Based in Hong Kong, Edward Barnieh will be responsible for Turner’s acquisition strategies for channels including Cartoon Network, Cartoonito, Pogo, Toonami and Boomerang.
Barnieh joins Turner after almost nine years with Nickelodeon UK, where he was a senior acquisitions and digital media exec and, most recently, content manager for multi-platform. He also was “heavily involved” in the roll-out of video-on-demand and mobile TV services for Nick, according to Viacom.
“Edward joins us from an acquisitions background that spans TV, online, mobile, and content licensing, which we expect will help secure our leading position in the kids genre in Asia Pacific,” said Mark Eyers, Turner International’s regional chief content officer.
TAGS: Appointments GENRES: Animation, Children's PEOPLE: Edward Barnieh COMPANIES: Cartoon Network, Cartoonito, Nickelodeon, Pogo, Toonami and Boomerang, Turner International SECTIONS: C21Kids COUNTRIES: Asia Pacific, UK
Turner International has added to its Asia Pacific programming team with the hire of a former Nickelodeon UK executive.
Edward Barnieh has joined as programming and acquisitions manager, Asia Pacific, where he will be responsible for the acquisitions strategies for children’s channels including Cartoon Network, Cartoonito, POGO, Toonami and Boomerang.
In particular, Barnieh will seek to secure “funny and clever animation from international studios and distributors”, according to Turner. He will be based out of Turner’s Hong Kong office.
Barnieh previously spent nine years at Nickelodeon in the UK, where he was involved in content acquisition and the roll out of VOD and mobile services.
“Edward joins us from an acquisitions background that spans TV, online, mobile and content licensing, which we expect will help secure our leading position in the kids genre in Asia Pacific,” said Mark Eyers, Turner International’s regional chief content officer.
Meanwhile, Turner International, the global arm of Turner Broadcasting System now headed up by Gerhard Zeiler, is still undergoing a review of its EMEA business. Former Disney exec Giorgio Stock has been drafted in as president of TBS EMEA, while the region’s chief content officer Michael Carrington has left to join Hit Entertainment. Staff headcount is still understood to be under review.
The British newspaper The Daily Mirror is reporting in an article on their official website that, due to reports of the arrest of the Australian entertainer Rolf Harris in connection with Operation Yewtree, Nickelodeon UK and Ireland has decided to withdraw Nick Jr. UK and Blue Zoo's animated preschool series "Olive the Ostrich", a series in which Rolf Harris narrates, from their preschool channels, Nick Jr. UK and Ireland and Nick Jr. 2, schedules for the time being while the police investigation is ongoing. You can read the article in full here on mirror.co.uk.