Monday, September 03, 2012

Actress Madison Pettis Announces Plans To Film Season Two Of The Canadian Teen Comedy "Life With Boys"

American actress Madison Pettis, who plays 'Allie Brooks' on "Life with Boys", which Nickelodeon channels and networks around the world (Planet Nickelodeon) broadcast, including Nickelodeon UK and Ireland, has announced on her official Twitter profile page (@MadisonPettis22) that Nelvana and YTV are about to go into production and film the second season of the hit Canadian teen sitcom "Life with Boys":
How do I pack everything for 3 months?? Going 2 Toronto tomorrow 2 start #LifeWithBoys Season 2!!! http://instagr.am/p/PDNizHTUMI/ - Saturday 1st September 2012

In the car heading to LAX... Flying to Toronto today for season 2 of #LifeWithBoys!! http://instagr.am/p/PFVC6QTUMx/ - Sunday 2nd September 2012.

Video Of Nickelodeon UK's Brand New "Camp Orange: The Lost Kingdom - Judgement Day" Promo; Watch The Exciting Final Of "Camp Orange: The Lost Kingdom" On Sunday 9th September 2012 At 9.30am!

Over the past four weeks, the "Camp Orange: The Lost Kingdom" ("You'll never make it alone!") contestants - Zach and Chris (team "Noisy Ninjas"; the red team), Zoe and Tilly (team "Crazy Einsteins"; the purple team), Tom and Frankie (team "Surf Turtles"; the yellow team), and Hannah and Amanda-Jane (team "Moon Waffles"; the green team) - have been competing and battling it out against each other playing the toughest "Camp Orange" ever, and this week, it's Judgement Day on "Camp Orange: The Lost Kingdom", as the adventure of a lifetime concludes, and Nickelodeon has saved the most hardest, slimiest, and creepiest challenges for the final. Who will conquer? Who will crumble? And who will you crown Champ Orange? There's only one way to find out, watch the exciting finale episode of "Camp Orange: The Lost Kingdom", Nickelodeon's adventure reality show for best friends, Sunday 9th September 2012 at 9.30am (repeated at 10.30am on Nick UK's plus one (+1) timeshift channel, Nick Replay UK), only on Nickelodeon! Who do you want to win Champ Orange? There's still time to vote for your favourite "Camp Orange: The Lost Kingdom" team - the Noisy Ninjas, the Crazy Einsteins, the Surf Turtles, or the Moon Waffles - here on Nickelodeon UK's official "Camp Orange: The Lost Kingdom" website here on the official Nickelodeon UK website, Nick.co.uk/CampOrange!

Below is a high quality (HQ) streaming Nickelodeon video and transcript of Nickelodeon UK's new "Camp Orange: The Lost Kingdom - The Finale" promo/trailer that was written and edited by Nickelodeon International producer at Karoline Bauer:

Camp Orange 2012 from Karoline Bauer on Vimeo.

Promo for the final of Nickelodeon's adventure game show Camp Orange.

Written and Edited by Karoline Bauer

Judgement Day has arrived at Camp Orange, and the toughest...

[Nickelodeon UK presenter Anna Williamson: Your smiling now]

Slimiest...

...and creepiest challenges have been saved for last.

Who will conquer?

Who will crumble?

And who will you crown Champ Orange?

Find out in the final Camp Orange: The Lost Kingdom, next Sunday at 9.30am, only on Nickelodeon!

Camp Orange, brought to you by Fruit Shoot. Show us your skills.
Also, from the official "Camp Orange: The Lost Kingdom" blog on Nick UK's official "Camp Orange" website on the official Nickelodeon UK and Ireland website, Nick.co.uk/CampOrange:
LARDER LADDER




Wow!! Yet another brilliant Camp Orange, we weren't sure our teams would ever escape the Larder Ladder! Just how many more twists and turns are our campers going to face? If you missed out on the action make sure you catch up this week on Nickelodeon!

Plus this week is the last week to choose your Champ Orange, the overall winner of Camp Orange. We’ll be finding out who you picked on next week’s show so make sure you cast your vote. And if that wasn’t reason enough you get the chance to win a Nintendo 3DS, with Victorious game and a Mountain Bike! What are you waiting for?

Nickelodeon UK Announces Plans To Launch A Plus One Timeshift Channel For Nick Jr. Channel UK Called "Nick Jr +1"

UPDATE - Nickelodeon UK and Ireland have launched "Nick Jr +1" on Sky Digital channel 630, which was previously the Sky EPG (electronic program guide) channel number occupied by NickToons UK and Ireland's plus one (+1) timeshift channel "Nicktoons Replay", which Nick UK closed down to make room for "Nick Jr +1". Unlike "Nicktoons Replay", "Nick Jr +1" will broadcast 24 hours a day instead of 12 hours a day.

According to OverNights.tv, Nickelodeon UK and Ireland are planning to launch a brand new preschool channel called "Nick Jr +1", which will be a plus one (+1) timeshift channel that will rebroadcast what's on the main Nick Jr. Channel an hour later, similar to Nickelodeon UK's plus one (+1) timeshift channel, Nick Replay UK:
Nick Jr +1 will begin BARB reporting on 1st October, 2012.

source: Kantar Media
It is currently unknown whether Nick Junior's brand new channel, Nick Jr +1, will launch as a brand new channel in addition to Nick Jr. UK & Ireland and spin-off preschool channel Nick Jr. 2, or will replace Nickelodeon UK's second preschool channel, Nick Jr. 2.

Nickelodeon Voice Actor Sandy Fox To Provide The Voice Of "Betty Boop" In New Film For Lancôme Paris

From MELODIKA.net:
Betty Boop Comes to to Life in a New Film for Lancôme Paris

Lancôme Paris has reinvented glamour by bringing together two icons, classic 1930’s cartoon star Betty Boop and international supermodel Daria Werbowy in a worldwide campaign to promote Lancôme’s latest brand extension Hypnôse Star.

The voice behind the iconic Betty Boop for the worldwide campaign is Sandy Fox, a dynamic voice talent residing in Los Angeles, California. Well known in Hollywood for her childlike voice, Sandy began her voice over career in the early 90’s doing kids voices for The Simpsons. She has worked in animation, anime, and live action projects for The Jim Henson Company, Disney, Universal Pictures, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and FOX.

Sandy began her career portraying the "Boop oop a doop" girl in 1981 as the featured vocalist for the 1920’s jazz group The Cocoanut Manor Orchestra, singing songs in the style of the 1920’s pop singers Helen Kane and Annette Henshaw, and original compositions by Dick Hyman. She toured jazz clubs and festivals on the east coast for over eleven years with The Cocoanut Manor Orchestra and opened for legendary jazz musicians Cab Calloway, Pete Fountain, Ray Charles and Dizzy Gillespie to name a few.

In 1991, she was signed by Universal Studios Hollywood and King Syndicate Features as the Official Betty Boop to travel the world portraying the living version of the famed cartoon character. Sandy appeared as Betty Boop on “Good Morning America” as well as hundreds of radio and television publicity appearances nationally and internationally promoting the Hollywood movie studio.

In 1998 she was hired by the Universal Studios theme park “Islands of Adventure” in Orlando, Florida to voice Betty Boop for “The Toon Lagoon Betty Boop” attraction and marketplace. Visitors in the park can still hear her songs and recognizable voice there today.

King Features, the worldwide exclusive licensing agent for Betty Boop, worked closely with Lancôme on the development of the Hypnose Star campaign. Famous French comic book artist and filmmaker Joann Sfar was brought in to direct the exclusive promotional film “Star Eyes”. His previous credits include writing and directing Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life and The Rabbi’s Cat. Sfar worked alongside the director of photography from The Artist, Guillaume Schiffman, both of whom are César Award Winners. The promotional film was created by WAM // Publicis 133 Lux in Paris and has already received over 2 million hits on YouTube.

“We’re thrilled to have Betty Boop associated with a prestige brand such as Lancôme, and we are impressed with Lancôme’s appreciation of how Betty could bring a distinctive dimension to the campaign.” said Cathleen Titus, King's VP of International Licensing.

Lancôme’s campaign premiered in the UK exclusively at luxury department store Selfridges London. The campaign has since launched at retail locations in various European markets, and has made its way to the U.S. this month for an exclusive launch at Sephora.

In November, in-store displays with Betty Boop will expand into department and specialty stores including Macy’s, Dillard’s, Bloomingdales, Saks, Lord & Taylor and Nordstrom.

Betty Boop was first introduced to the public in 1930. She was created by Max Fleischer for his "Talkartoons", the first "talkies" of animation, which Fleischer Studios produced for Paramount. By 1932 she was considered to be the first and only female animated screen star and took the country by storm as a national sex symbol. Today Betty Boop is one of the most popular and successful licensed cartoon characters in entertainment history and is known throughout the world.

“It was a dream come true to fly to Paris and work with Joann Sfar and the stellar teams behind the film. I have been fortunate to portray many different animated characters throughout my life but being the voice of Betty Boop is an honor, as she will forever be the Queen of Cartoons.” said Fox

Sandy is represented by the Abrams Artists Agency Los Angeles.
Among Sandy Fox's credits, she provided the voice of 'Robin' in the episode "Super John Joe Junior" of Nickelodeon's animation showcase series "Random! Cartoons" and the voice of 'Mipsy Mipson' in the Nickelodeon original animated series ("NickToon") "As Told by Ginger".

Former Nickelodeon General Counsel Judith A. McHale Nominated To Be Appointed To Yellow Media's New Board Of Directors

From PRNewswire via The Sacramento Bee:
Yellow Media Announces Proposed Nominees to New Board of Directors

MONTREAL, Aug. 31, 2012 -- /CNW Telbec/ - Yellow Media Inc. (TSX: YLO) announces today the nominees that are proposed to be elected as part of its previously announced plan of arrangement and recapitalization. The following individuals will be appointed to the new Board of Directors of the company upon the plan of arrangement and recapitalization becoming effective, which is expected to occur by September 30, 2012, and will succeed to the current Board of Directors of the company:

Craig Forman Robert MacLellan Kalpana Raina
David Lazzarato Martin Nisenholtz Michael G. Sifton
David G. Leith Judith A. McHale Marc P. Tellier

As previously disclosed by the company in a press release dated July 23, 2012 and its management proxy circular dated July 30, 2012, the proposed nominee directors were selected as part of an extensive process completed by the Search Committee. Among the proposed nominee directors, Craig Forman, David G. Leith, Martin Nisenholtz and Marc P. Tellier are members of the company's current Board of Directors, and David Lazzarato, Robert MacLellan, Judith A. McHale, Kalpana Raina and Michael G. Sifton would be serving as directors of the company for the first time.

Additional information with respect to the proposed members of the new Board of Directors may be found on the attached Schedule "A" to this press release. Except as disclosed therein, none of the proposed nominee directors hold shares or other securities of Yellow Media Inc. This press release is incorporated by reference in, and should be read together with, the company's management proxy circular dated July 30, 2012.

Meetings of Debtholders and Shareholders

Yellow Media also wishes to remind its debtholders and shareholders that meetings will be held at the Palais des congrès, 1001 Place Jean-Paul-Riopelle, Room 510, Montreal, Québec, H2Z 1H5, on September 6, 2012 for purposes of voting on the proposed recapitalization. Debtholders and shareholders are urged to give serious attention to the recapitalization. It is extremely important for Yellow Media's future that the recapitalization be approved and implemented without delay and the company recommends that debtholders and shareholders vote in favour of the recapitalization. Proxies must be received no later than 4:00 p.m. (Montreal time) on September 5, 2012.

Further Information

Debtholders and shareholders should now have received, either directly from Yellow Media or through their intermediary, a copy of the management proxy circular dated July 30, 2012 with respect to the proposed recapitalization.

A copy of the management proxy circular and further information about the recapitalization are available on SEDAR (www.sedar.com and the company's website www.ypg.com).

A Questions & Answers document specific to the recapitalization is also available on the company's website.

If you have any questions or need assistance completing your proxy or voting instruction form, please call Kingsdale Shareholder Services Inc. at 1-800-749-9197 or email contactus@kingsdaleshareholder.com.

About Yellow Media Inc.

Yellow Media Inc. (TSX: YLO) is a leading media and marketing solutions company in Canada. The company owns and operates some of Canada's leading properties and publications including Yellow Pages™ print directories, YellowPages.ca™, Canada411.ca and RedFlagDeals.com™. Its online destinations reach approximately 8 million unique visitors monthly and its mobile applications for finding local businesses and deals have been downloaded more than 4 million times. Yellow Media Inc. is also a leader in national digital advertising through Mediative, a digital advertising and marketing solutions provider to national agencies and advertisers. For more information, visit www.ypg.com.

Caution Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements about the objectives, strategies, financial conditions, results of operations and businesses of the company. These statements are forward-looking as they are based on our current expectations, as at August 31, 2012, about our business and the markets we operate in, and on various estimates and assumptions. Our actual results could materially differ from our expectations if known or unknown risks affect our business, or if our estimates or assumptions turn out to be inaccurate. As a result, there is no assurance that any forward-looking statements will materialize. Risks that could cause our results to differ materially from our current expectations are discussed in section 7 of our August 9, 2012 Management's Discussion and Analysis. We disclaim any intention or obligation to update any forward-looking statements, except as required by law, even if new information becomes available, as a result of future events or for any other reason. The implementation of the recapitalization is subject to a number of conditions provided in the plan of arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act, including, without limitation, court and any required regulatory approvals (including stock exchange approvals). The implementation of the recapitalization is also subject to a number of other risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, those described in the section "Risk Factors" of the company's management proxy circular dated July 30, 2012 prepared in connection with the Meetings. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that the recapitalization will occur. The recapitalization could be modified, restructured or terminated.

Schedule "A"

Proposed Nominee Directors

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Judith A. McHale New York, United States

Judith A. McHale is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Cane Investments, LLC, a private investment company focused on providing early stage capital and strategic advice and assistance to start-up companies around the world. Prior to her current position, Ms. McHale was appointed in 2009 as the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in President Barack Obama's Administration, where she acted as a senior officer in the Department of State and a principal advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton until 2011. Ms. McHale served at Discovery Communications, the parent company of the Discovery Channel, from 1995 to 2006, including as President and Chief Executive Officer from 2004 to 2006, Chief Operating Officer from 1995 to 2004 and Executive Vice President and General Counsel from 1989 to 1995. Prior to that, Ms. McHale served as General Counsel for MTV Networks, overseeing legal affairs for MTV, Nickelodeon and VH-1.

Ms. McHale serves on the Board of Directors of Ralph Lauren Corp. She has also served on the Boards of Directors of John Hancock Financial Services Corp, Potomac Power and Electric Company (PEPCO), Host Hotels and Resorts, Inc. and Digital Globe, Inc. Ms. McHale is a graduate of the University of Nottingham (UK) and Fordham University Law School (New York), and has received honorary degrees from the University of Maryland, American University, the University of Miami and Colby College.

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SOURCE Yellow Media Inc.