Sunday, March 18, 2018

Balloon Vending Machine at Camp Anawanna?! | Salute Your Shorts | NSFW: Nick Shows Were Freakin' Weird

You sure don’t want one of these balloons to break...


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Fun Times With Rez | Full Short By Chris Conforti | Nickelodeon Animated Shorts

An island sets the scene for the wacky misadventures of a red panda named Rez. Fun Times with Rez, another one of Nickelodeon's fantastic Animated Shorts, created by Chris Conforti (Kappa Mikey, Wonder Pets!, Team Umizoomi, Our Cartoon President)!


Watch lots more animated shorts from the Nickelodeon Global Animated Shorts Program on the official Nickelodeon Animated Shorts Facebook page and on the Nick Animation YouTube channel!

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On A Roll: PAW Patrol's Surprising Connection With Canada's Newfoundland

Jennifer Dodge went from a linguistics degree at MUN to an executive gig in children's TV


The hit Nickelodeon and TVO preschooler show PAW Patrol features a pre-teen boy named Ryder leading a crew of rescue dogs. (Spin Master Entertainment)

Newfoundland, Canada: Most of the province's parents with at least one young child are familiar with PAW Patrol, the beloved CG-animated preschool show where a tween and a squad of talking dogs regularly save their town from disaster and the mayor has a purse chicken.

But what they may not know is that the hit show, which was just awarded three Canadian Screen Awards, has a strong Newfoundland connection thanks to Jennifer Dodge, who is the Executive Vice-President (EVP) at Spin Master Entertainment, the Toronto-based company that produces PAW Patrol.

Dodge's time with the show goes back to 2009, when she joined Spin Master and helped launch its entertainment group.

"We were looking for an exciting action-adventure type of series for preschoolers," Dodge told told CBC News of the birth of PAW Patrol, which she worked on with a team at Spin Master and show creator Keith Chapman, who also developed Bob the Builder.

Started from the bottom, now she's here

Dodge was an executive producer on the show for its first three seasons, which is a long way up from her start in the entertainment industry.

She was writing her final exams at Memorial University, where she studied linguistics, when a fellow Newfoundlander working in craft services in Toronto called her up and convinced her to give the industry a try after graduation, Dodge told the St. John's Morning Show on Friday from Toronto.


Jennifer Dodge is executive vice-president of entertainment at Spin Master Entertainment. (CNW Group/Spin Master Corp.)

A three-week stint answering phones for a company now called DHX Media — a Halifax-based company that purchased Charlie Brown and Strawberry Shortcake for $345 million US in 2017 — eventually led to a position as the head of development and production, Dodge said.

A MUN linguistics degree may not seem the most obvious starting point to a career as a children's television executive, but that ability to work one's way up through the ranks is one of the great things about the entertainment industry, she said.

"Really that's the only way to do it. Nobody graduates from any degree and then ends up being an executive producer the next week. We all start at the bottom."

Canada is at the top of children's entertainment worldwide

PAW Patrol and Spin Master Entertainment are part of a vital industry in children's entertainment that is recognized across the globe, Dodge said.

"Worldwide, Canada is really known as one of the premier producers, creators, and distributors in children's entertainment, especially in animation, and we have a long legacy of that," she said. "When we go to international markets, Canadian producers are known by the broadcasters worldwide and in the U.S."

Some of that work was recently rewarded at the Canadian Screen Awards, where PAW Patrol won for best preschool program or series; best sound, animation; and best direction, animation.

The awards were announced at the non-broadcast Gala Honouring Excellence in Creative Fiction Storytelling in Toronto on March 7.

PAW Patrol also leads the field in another increasingly important part of the children's entertainment industry: toy sales.

PAW Patrol had one of the Top 10 bestselling toys in the United States in January, according to the NPD Group, and this month Spin Master purchased American toy maker Gund for $79.1 million US.

"It's a very big business," Dodge said of toys based on children's entertainment. "PAW Patrol is no exception. In fact, it's the biggest business that we do right now."

And parents with PAW-obsessed preschoolers can expect to see the show's toys on holiday wish lists for years to come. The show's fifth season is currently airing on Nickelodeon, and seasons six and seven, along with two specials and a feature film, are also in the works.

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Additional source: Wikipedia.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Co-creator Kevin Eastman Talks About How He Started A Independent Pop-Culture Dynasty

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cocreator Kevin Eastman Went for a Modest Underground Comics Career. He Started an Independent Pop-Culture Dynasty Instead.

You can't create a comics dynasty on purpose. In fact, it seems helpful not to try. Spider-Man, Superman, Batman—all were cranked out by middle-aged day-jobbers on deadline. They were intended to fill a bit of newsprint and then make way for the next fantastical character, not to permanently lodge in the pop-culture pantheon.


In the eighties, Kevin Eastman set out for a modest career in underground comics, which is a reasonable goal when you've co-created a book about anthropomorphic turtles who learned martial arts from a talking rat and who hang out in a sewer with a TV reporter. Imagining that this premise might birth an enduring multimedia phenomenon would not have been reasonable, to put it mildly. But that's what happened.

Eastman and co-creator Peter Laird revolutionized the comics industry by ducking around the superhero monopolies and self-publishing in black-and-white with wild success at a time when this was unheard of. They still own the characters to this day, after all the movies and cartoons, the toys and costumes—and the Turtles are still in print, now in color and published by IDW.

Eastman is one of dozens of creators, also including indie stars like Brandon Graham and mainstream fixtures like Walt and Louise Simonson, who headed to the Raleigh Convention Center for NC Comicon: Oak City this weekend. Indy Week reached Eastman at his home studio in San Diego, where he was working on sketches for a Batman-TMNT crossover. He discussed how Heavy Metal magazine inspired the Turtles before the Turtles bought him Heavy Metal, getting sued over the word "cowabunga" by Buffalo Bob from Howdy Doody, and his favorite bits of Turtle-abilia.

INDY: You were a reader of self-published comics before you took self-publishing to a new level with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. How did you discover independent comics at a time when they were less easy to find than they are now?

KEVIN EASTMAN: I grew up with what was in the spinner racks at the local drug store, but then along came Heavy Metal magazine. In 1977, I bought the first issue. Heavy Metal published some amazing European talents, but they also published American underground comics. I really flipped out over Richard Corben, who's definitely my number-two influence after Jack Kirby. It was such a fantastic and bizarre style, it pushed and stretched the imagination in so many ways. In my search for Corben material, I went to The Million Year Picnic in Harvard Square and they had this massive underground comics selection. Most important, I found Dave Sims's Aardvark-Vanaheim, publishing Cerebus. Reprints of underground comics from the sixties and seventies, coupled with what the new guys like Dave Sim were doing, throw in a dash of Heavy Metal—that really pushed me toward what I wanted to do in comics.

You bought Heavy Metal in 1991 and edited it for fifteen years, and you're still the publisher. Was that like a childhood dream come true?

Oh my goodness, yeah. I joke that if you think about it, my discovery of Heavy Metal in 1977 led me to self-publishing, and then when Peter and I created the Turtles together, because we owned and controlled all things Turtles, we also profited from it. Heavy Metal helped me create the Turtles, so I could then buy Heavy Metal.

When you and Peter Laird started publishing the Turtles comics, did you have any inkling they might become multimedia pop-culture icons, or did it just seem like this totally niche and crazy thing you were doing?

Oh yeah, we definitely knew. [Laughs] No, of course not. If you look at the first issue, it was a complete story. We didn't think we'd sell that many copies or do another issue. We just deeply loved the idea and had so much fun doing the kind of comic book we wanted to read. We thought it was a fun homage and parody of comics, something we had to get out of our system. When it started selling, people at comic shops and fans started writing us saying, when are you going to do issue two? It came out in January 1985, and we made enough money—I think we sold about fifteen thousand copies—to pay rent and draw comics full-time. I point to 1985 as the year the dream came true, this lifelong fantasy we used to tell our parents about, drawing comic books for a living, and they look at you with that mortified look, like, oh my goodness, we're going to have one of those kids who never moves out of the basement. By the time Hollywood came knocking, at the top of the black-and-white-comics boom, we were selling about a hundred thousand copies an issue, which was mind-blowing.

You didn't make up the word "cowabunga," but you might as well have. How did that phrase enter the Turtles' lexicon; how did you make up their slang?

It really came out of the animated series. If you look at the comics, there were kind of funky pop-culture references, like Casey Jones saying "Goongala Goongala," which is something Tarzan said whenever he wanted an elephant or a lion to do something. I remember watching Beach Blanket Bingo and these Saturday morning matinee movies with this California surfer-dude thing going on. Growing up in the woods in Maine, it was about as alien as you could imagine. We just riffed on that. "Cowabunga" evolved with David Wise, the writer of the early animated episodes, and became the catchphrase that caught on. We got sued by Buffalo Bob from Howdy Doody.

Right, I read that's where the term first came from?

Yeah, he said we basically stole it. I had never seen it, it was before my time. We were like, no, we stole it from Annette Funicello! I don't know if it had transferred into public domain or common usage, but the case was dismissed, let's put it that way.

A lot of our readers will know the Turtles from the movies and the cartoon more than from the comics. How are the comics different?

The original comics were really written for Peter and myself, intended for an older audience—though neither of us are huge fans of really gory stuff and swearing—but it had a bit more edge to it than what mainstream comics were doing. When we adapted them into the first cartoon series, we knew this was for a much younger audience and a number of things were softened. The first cover where I painted the Turtles in color, they all had red bandanas. When they wanted to do them as toys and cartoons, they said, can we come up with a way to tell them apart better? Peter came up with the idea of different-colored bandanas, which I thought was awesome.

The kids version reached a much wider audience. It was years and years until a lot of those initial fans of the cartoons discovered the comics. We kind of got them at a young age when they were buying the toys and watching the cartoon, and when they got older and still had passion for the Turtles, they discovered this older-audience Turtles. It's so humbling and cool when we do conventions and see parents who were fans of the original series, and their kids have now discovered the Turtles through Nickelodeon's cartoon series, all dressed up together.

With the incredible amount of Turtles stuff out there, do you have any favorite toys or properties?

Absolutely. The first live-action movie, directed by Steve Barron with incredible costumes by Jim Henson, I thought was a perfect blend of the original black-and-white series and the humor of the animated series. And the first round of toys in 1988. I remember when Peter and I stumbled into a Kay-Bee Toys in Springfield, Massachusetts, and saw them for the first time. They would do Turtles as different characters, and the Star Trek Turtles—I was a huge Star Trek fan growing up, so I loved that. And of course, nothing could take away from what Peter and I originally did, working in the same room passing pages back and forth, because that's where it all started.

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Nickelodeon Animation To Host Three Talent Development & Outreach Sessions At GLAS Animation Festival 2018

Ever dreamed of working at Nickelodeon? Here’s your opportunity to learn how! Nickelodeon's Talent Development & Outreach team will be hosting three sessions at GLAS Animation Festival 2018, taking place between Thursday, March 22-Sunday, March 25, 2018 in the historic city of Berkeley, California, giving attendees a deep dive into Nickelodeon’s recruitment process, get tips on how to stand out from the competition in order to land your dream job at Nick, get the inside scoop of working in the animation industry, and get your portfolio reviewed! Below is a list of Nickelodeon's 2018 GLAS Animation Festival sessions:


Gettin’ the Perfect Gig


Ever dreamed of working at Nickelodeon? Here’s your opportunity to learn how!

Join Ariel Goldberg (Manager – Recruitment, Production) for a deep dive into Nickelodeon’s recruitment process. He’ll share first-hand tips on how to stand out from the competition in order to land your dream job.

Date and Time:

Sat, March 24, 2018
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT

Location:

David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
United States

Price: Free

Click here to RSVP!

Inside Nickelodeon’s Artist Program


The Story Starts Here… The Nickelodeon Artist Program offers aspiring artists the opportunity to hone their artistic skills while working on Nickelodeon's animated TV shows… you want in?

NAP alumni and storyboard artists, Celestino Marina (The Girl from Dinosaur Island, Harvey Beaks) and Lisa Vandenberg (Someone Needs To Stop Aunt Phyllis, Henry Danger The Animated Series), will share their Program experience and advice on navigating the animation industry. Sherley Ibarra (Sr. Manager, Talent Development & Outreach) will moderate the panel, and be on hand to offer tips and tricks on the application process; what Nick looks for and how to separate yourself from the pack.

If you’ve ever wanted to work in TV animation, here’s your exclusive opportunity to get the inside scoop.

Date and Time:
Sat, March 24, 2018
11:15 AM – 12:12 PM PDT

Location:
David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
United States

Price: Free to attend

Click here to RSVP!

Meet-n-Greet


Don’t forget your portfolio and resume!

Portfolio reviews will be available with Ariel Goldberg.

By appointment only.

Additionally, Jorge R. Gutiérrez, the co-creator of El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera and director of The Book of Life, will also be hosting a panel at the 2018 GLAS Animation Festival!:

Jorge Gutierrez: The Tacos of Success and Dripping with the Sauce of Failure!

Join Jorge Gutierrez as he takes us through his rollercoaster career from the mean streets of Tijuana to the CalArts Experimental Animation program to the Nickelodeon animated series El Tigre, The Adventures of Manny Rivera to the animated feature film The Book of Life with Guillermo del Toro and finally to the creation of the VR short Son of Jaguar for Google Spotlight Stories. Mustaches will be grown by all. You too, ladies!

Date and Time:
Fri, March 23, 2018
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM PDT

Location:
David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
United States

Admission: $20

About The GLAS Animation Festival

GLAS Animation Festival takes place March 22-25, 2018 in the historic city of Berkeley, California, just a quick ride away from San Francisco. GLAS introduces new ideas and expands the scope of animation by bringing new voices, new talents, new themes, and a new generation of independent filmmakers and curators to the United States. The festival highlights fresh voices in independent animation while curating special programs of the most significant periods of animation history that serve as an inspiration for contemporary animators.

For full information about GLAS Animation Festival 2018, visit glasanimation.com.


Nickelodeon is a Major Sponsor of GLAS Animation Festival 2018.

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Missouri Youngster Wins Guest Spot On Nickelodeon's 'School Of Rock'

10-year-old Perryville, Missouri native Paul Montgomery recently received the chance of a lifetime -- an all-expense paid trip to appear in an episode of Nickelodeon's hit musical comedy series School of Rock!


"He received $500 spending cash and then he got paid for being on-set," Brandy Lindsey said. "He was only in a three-second clip, but all expenses were paid except for food."

Montgomery won by watching Nickelodeon's popular comedy adventure series Hunter Street last Spring, but wasn't allowed to reveal his newfound stardom until Sunday, March 11, the on-air date of his appearance in season three, episode 17, "We Gotta Get Outta This Place."

"You had to find the hidden letter, and at the end of the week enter those letters, and he was chosen," Lindsey said.

Paul Montgomery, third from right, surrounded by the cast of Nickelodeon's "School of Rock."
Photo by Nickelodeon Studios

Lindsey said Montgomery was the secondary choice because the initial winner's parents didn't agree to the contest rules.

During Montgomery's on-screen time his role was to "run around" during the episode's "fire drill," explained Lindsay.

For the show's taping, Lindsey and Montgomery made their all-expense paid trip to Hollywood, California, last July.

Congrats Paul! :) Fans can check out Paul's appearance on School of Rock episode "We Gotta Get Outta This Place" on Nickelodeon, Nick.com and the Nick App!

More Nick: Nickelodeon USA's March 2018 Premiere Highlights!

Original source: Southeast Missourian newspaper.
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Paramount To Film Live-Action 'Dora The Explorer' Movie In Queensland, Australia

After a last-ditch effort to stop the movie being produced in another country, Paramount’s live action children’s film Dora The Explorer is to be filmed in Queensland, Australia.


The move, reports Variety, highlights the intense competition for so-called runaway productions, and the efforts being made to further increase Australia’s financial incentives for film production.

The decision was announced on Sunday, March 18 by the Premier of Queensland, Annastacia Palaszczuk. “Yes, we did it. Dora comes to Queensland,” Palaszczuk said. That is a reference to how each episode of Nickelodeon's beloved animated preschool series ends with the song “We Did It.” The new film sees Dora as a teenager navigating the world with her cousin Diego.

Dora The Explorer will be filmed on the Gold Coast’s Sound Stage 9 at Village Roadshow Studios. It is to be produced through the Paramount Players division of Paramount Pictures and will be directed by James Bobin (The Muppets, Alice Through the Looking Glass), with a script from Storks and Neighbors director Nick Stoller. Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes label and his partners Andrew Form and Brad Fuller are producing the flick. The film's cast has not been set. Production on the movie is scheduled to commence after the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games in April, reports the Gold Coast Bulletin.

Dora the Explorer will receive a wide release in North America on Friday, August 2, 2019.

But it was nearly another story. On Friday, March 16, Australia’s federal government refused to give the film an additional tax break, beyond the country’s 16.5% production offset scheme. That appeared to mean that the film would not be shot in Australia. Palaszczuk accused federal treasurer Scott Morrison of bias towards other states and of costing jobs in her state.

Instead, after asking Paramount for a further 48 hours to negotiate, Queensland agreed to increase the incentive it will pay to the production. Palaszczuk declined to detail the amount, though local media sources have put the figure at over $6.17 million (A$8 million).

Australia has several features that attract footloose or runaway productions, including well-developed infrastructure, English-language crews and varied locations. But, even after the weakening of the Australian dollar at the end of the commodities boom, it also has high costs.

In recent weeks there have been cries of alarm that the flow of incoming movie shoots had all but dried up. And both Screen Queensland and Ausfilm have lobbied government to raise the incentive for all major films from 16.5% to 30%.

So far, the federal funding has been on a case-by-case basis. Recent Hollywood pictures that have been granted additional, discretionary funding from the federal government, and which then shot in Australia, include Thor: Ragnarok and Aquaman.

“The decision to provide competitive incentives to lure the production came down to a single criteria: creating jobs,” said Palaszczuk. “Over the past three years my government has committed $23.1 million (A$30 million) attracting movie makers to Queensland through our Production Attraction Fund, gaining more than $270 million (A$350 million) of direct expenditure in our state.”

Kira Kosarin Shares A Super Secret About This Weekend's New 'The Thundermans'; Nickelodeon USA To Premiere Series Finale This Summer

Kira Kosarin revealed quite a bittersweet fact about The Thundermans ahead of this weekend’s new episode.


The 20-year-old actress and singer dished that tomorrow’s new episode was the last one ever filmed for the show.

“Fun fact: ‘congratulations Max, congratulations Phoebe’ were the last words we ever said as Phoebe and Max. The very last take, we decided to surprise the crew by saying ‘congratulations Jack, congratulations Kira,’ but I burst into tears halfway through ‘congratulations’” she wrote on Twitter.

I'm not crying, you're crying!

This may be the last episode filmed, but it isn’t the last episode of the series. We still have about five more episodes til the end.

Watch a sneak peek on nick.com and the Nick App and tune into the brand-new The Thundermans episode "All the President's Thunder-Men" on Saturday 17th March 2018 at 8:00pm ET/PT, only on Nickelodeon USA!

Update (3/18): Following Saturday 17th March 2018's brand-new episode of The Thundermans, Nick USA will be premiering the remaining episodes of The Thundermans, including the bittersweet hour-long series finale, "The Thunder Games", during Summer 2018!

Nickelodeon USA and Nick Jr. USA to Premiere New Episodes of 'Peppa Pig' and 'Ben & Holly' In April 2018

Nickelodeon USA will be taking viewers on more magical adventures with brand-new oink-tastic episodes of two preschool favorites premiering this April: Peppa Pig and Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom!


First up, five new “Peppasodes,” of the British sensation Peppa Pig will make their snortingly-funny debut on Nickelodeon USA beginning Monday, April 2nd at 9:00am ET/PT, with another episode launching every Monday morning all month long. Each oinktastic “Peppasode” includes five stories featuring the adventures of the lovable Peppa, along with her brother George, Mummy Pig, Daddy Pig and her friends as they ride scooters, visit the zoo, meet the Queen, explore Australia – and, of course, jump in lots of muddy puddles! To celebrate, Collider Kids has unveiled a fantastic sneak-peek video clip from an the from the April 2nd episode, which you can watch here on collider.com, along with a pair of new images, which you can check out below!:

And as for Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom, the show kicks off April with magical fun when two back-to-back new half-hour episodes fly onto Nick Jr. USA at 7:00pm ET/PT and 7:30pm ET/PT this April 1st! (No foolin’!) Young fans can tune in to join Princess Holly and her best friend Ben Elf as they search for Gaston the ladybird, meet a mermaid, visit a museum – and much more. Check out magical images from these episodes below!

Take a look at Peppa Pig's upcoming schedule, as well as oink-tastic preview images, below:

Premiering Monday, April 2, 2018 at 9:00am on Nickelodeon


Scene from 'Peppa Pig' episode "Miss Rabbit's Taxi". Image via Nickelodeon

- “Parachute Jump”: The school roof is leaking, so Mummy Pig does a parachute jump to raise money to fix it!

- “Miss Rabbit’s Taxi”: Miss Rabbit spends the day picking people up and dropping people off in her job as a taxi driver.

- “Playing Pretend”: Peppa and her friends learn how to play games of pretend.

- “Scooters”: Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig discover how fun scooters can be.

- “George’s Racing Car”: Peppa, George, and Grandpa Pig are sitting inside watching motor racing on the television. Inspired by the racing, Grandpa Pig builds George his very own racing car.

Premiering Monday, April 9, 2018 at 9:00am on Nickelodeon

- “Move To Music”: Madame Gazelle gets Peppa and her playgroup friends to dance to all different styles of music.

- “School Project”: It’s school project time for Peppa and her friends, which means they have to build castles and bring them into playgroup!

- “Simple Science”: While the playground is getting rebuilt, Daddy Pig teaches the children some simple science!

- “Pedro is Late”: The playgroup is going on a trip to the museum and everyone is on the bus ready to go. But where is Pedro Pony?

- “Gerald Giraffe”: Gerald Giraffe makes friends on his first day at playgroup.

Premiering Monday, April 16 at 9:00am on Nickelodeon

- “The Zoo”: Madame Gazelle takes the children on a trip to the zoo, where they get a tour from the zookeepers: Mr. Lion, Mrs. Crocodile, and Mr. Giraffe!

- “The Police”: Police Officer Panda and Police Officer Squirrel have come to teach Peppa and her friends all about bicycle safety.

- “Mummy Pig’s Book”: Mummy Pig has finally finished writing her first book and decides to take it to playgroup to read to the children with unexpected results.

- “London”: Madame Gazelle takes the whole class to London for the day and they get a tour by The Queen herself!

- “The Queen”: Miss Rabbit is to be given the Queen’s award for Industry for all the hard work she does – and Peppa and her friends accompany Miss Rabbit to the Palace to meet the Queen!

Premiering Monday, April 23 at 9:00am on Nickelodeon

- “The Outback”: Peppa, George, Mummy Pig, and Daddy Pig visit the Kangaroo family in Australia and are excited to explore The Outback.

- “Surfing”: On their second day in Australia, the Kangaroo family takes Peppa and family to the beach, where they try surfing for the first time.

- “Great Barrier Reef”: Peppa and her family continue their vacation fun. Today, everyone is going to work on Mrs. Kangaroo’s submarine!

- “Boomerang”: Peppa and her family’s holiday is coming to an end, but there’s still time to play with a Boomerang and make friends with Mr. Wallaby.

- “Kylie Kangaroo”: Peppa and George meet Kylie Kangaroo and her brother Joey. Peppa shows Kylie how to jump up and down in muddy puddles, but who can jump the highest?

- Premiering Monday, April 30 at 9:00am on Nickelodeon


Scene from 'Peppa Pig' episode "Parachute Jump". Image via Nickelodeon

- “Nursery Rhymes”: Madame Gazelle and the playgroup share their best nursery rhymes.

- “Digger World”: Mummy and Daddy Pig take Peppa and George to Digger World, where they build walls and knock them down again. They even get a chance to help out Mr. Bull when there’s an obstacle in the road.

- “The Doll Hospital”: After Teddy rolls down hills and jumps in muddy puddles, Peppa takes her to Miss Rabbit’s Doll Hospital to get fixed up – but Peppa soon realizes she likes Teddy just the way she is.

- “Wendy Wolf’s Birthday”: Wendy Wolf’s birthday is here, and she has invited Peppa and friends over for a party.

- “Princess Peppa”: Granny and Grandpa Pig come for a dinner party with Mummy and Daddy Pig, but Peppa and George are too tired to go to bed, until they are told a story.

Take a look at the fantastic images from both brand-new episodes of Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom, followed by episode descriptions below!:

Premiering Sunday, April 1, 2018 at 7:00pm on Nick Jr.


Scene from 'Ben & Holly' episode "Chickens Ride West". Image via Nick Jr.

- “Gaston is Lost”: Ben and Holly want to play with Gaston the ladybird, but he is missing. Nanny Plum uses her magic crystal ball to retrace Gaston’s steps and find his whereabouts. Along the way, they discover that the ladybird’s daily routine is not at all what they thought.

- “Chickens Ride West”: King Thistle wants a boiled egg for his breakfast, but Mr. Elf has forgotten to bring him one. So the elves decide to deliver the chickens from the Elf Farm, so the King can have an egg whenever he likes!

Premiering Sunday, April 1, 2018 at 7:30pm on Nick Jr.


Scene from 'Ben & Holly' episode "The Mermaid". Image via Nick Jr.

- “The Mermaid”: Lucy and her dad are having a quiet, relaxing day boating on the lake when they fish out an old glittery mirror from the bottom of the lake and decide to keep it. Unfortunately, the mirror belongs to a mermaid called Princess Oceana, and she needs it back!

- “Daisy and Poppy’s Trip to the Museum”: When Daisy, Poppy, and their toddler friends go on a trip to the big museum with their teacher Mrs. Fotheringill, the naughty toddlers cause chaos. Before too long, Mrs. Fotheringill has been zapped back to the stone-age, and Nanny Plum has turned everyone into frogs.

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A piece of unused music from Nickelodeon's Harvey Beaks animated series. Orchestrated and Conducted by Steve Bartek!



From Ego Plum's official Tumblr blog:

"Ego Plum’s Absurdity Suite

Occasionally when I work on a series, I write a few pieces of music that aren’t necessarily for specific scenes. These are more like mood pieces that encapsulate the overall feel and character of the show. Here’s an unused piece of music from Carl Greenblatt’s Harvey Beaks show I composed with no clear intention in mind. I was attempting to write as the love child of Carl Stalling (Looney Tunes) and Bernard Herrmann (Psycho/Vertigo). It was just me having fun at the orchestra’s expense (not to mention Nickelodeon’s expense). I love that the studio and our wonderful producer afforded us the freedom to experiment like this and make our little show as good as we could make it.

A special shout-out to the genius orchestrator Steve Bartek, who had his way with my melodies on the second half (at my request) and turned this in to something even more absurd than what I hoped for!

-Ego Plum"

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