Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Nickelodeon UK Unveils Their Brand New Official "Extreme Babysitting" Show Website

To celebrate and promote Nickelodeon UK's brand new Canadian hidden camera prank show "Extreme Babysitting", Nickelodeon UK and Ireland's official website, Nick.co.uk, has unveiled Nick UK & Eire's brand new official "Extreme Babysitting" show website to accompany the brand new series, which you can visit here at www.nick.co.uk/shows/extremebabysitting!


Nickelodeon UK's all-new "Extreme Babysitting" webpage features a bio of master prankster Andy Chapman, a photograph gallery featuring stills from the series, and a video section featuring a selection of exclusive clips showcasing some of the best pranks featured in the show!

Catch brand new episodes of "Extreme Babysitting" every Monday at 6:30pm, straight after all-new episodes of "Sam & Cat" at 6pm, only on Nickelodeon UK (replayed at 7:30pm and 7pm on Nick+1)!
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The Official Nickelodeon UK Website Launches Their Brand New Official "Sanjay and Craig" Show Webpage

To celebrate and promote Nickelodeon UK's animation and action channel, Nicktoons UK and Ireland, starting to premiere and show Nickelodeon's brand new original animated series (Nicktoon), "Sanjay and Craig", weekdays at 4:30pm from Monday 4th November 2013, Nickelodeon UK and Ireland's official website, Nick.co.uk, has unveiled Nick UK & Eire's brand new super tasty official "Sanjay and Craig" show website to accompany the brand new Nicktoon, which you can visit here at nick.co.uk/sanjayandcraig (and nick.co.uk/shows/sanjayandcraig)!


Nickelodeon UK's all-new totally rad "Sanjay and Craig" webpage features a "Meet The Characters" section featuring character bios and information about each character in S&C - Sanjay Patel, Craig, Vijay Patel, Remington Tufflips, Belle Pepper, Megan Sparkles, Hector Flanagan, Mr. Leslie Noodman, and Darlene Patel - a photograph gallery featuring pictures from "Sanjay and Craig", a exclusive online game called "Rad Awesome Butt Doctors", and a video clips section featuring a exclusive online streaming video clip of Nicktoons UK's brand new "We're Sanjay and Craig" launch trailer/promo!
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Nickelodeon USA To Fully Premiere "The Thundermans" On Saturday 2nd November 2013

The entertainment news website Entertainment Weekly's 'the Family Room' television news blog is reporting the exciting Nickelodeon news that, following Nick USA's special sneak preview of the networks all-new superhero-themed comedy series "The Thundermans" on Monday 14th October 2013 (Columbus Day public holiday), Nickelodeon USA will fully start to premiere and show the all-new Nick sitcom every Saturday night from Saturday 2nd November 2013 at 9:00pm (ET/PT), as part of Nick USA's Fall/Winter 2013 programming highlights!

To celebrate, EW's 'the Family Room' has also unveiled a exclusive online streaming video clip featuring Nickelodeon's latest brand new promo/trailer for their all-new comedy show, which you can watch here at family-room.ew.com!


"The Thundermans" is about a typical suburban family who happen to have astounding superpowers. At the center of the action are the 14-year-old fraternal Thunderman twins, Max Thunderman (Jack Griffo) and Phoebe Thunderman (Kira Kosarin), who share the same bathroom, the same school and the same annoying younger siblings. Their only difference? Phoebe is a super student with a super sunny disposition who super looks forward to being a superhero someday, and Max aspires to become a super villain. "The Thundermans" also stars Chris Tallman as Tom Thunderman, Rosa Blasi as Lisa Thunderman, Addison Riecke as Nora Thunderman, and Diego Velazquez as Oliver Thunderman. The series commenced production during Spring 2013 and is written by longtime Nickelodeon producer Jed Spingarn, who most recently served as co-executive producer of the hit series "Big Time Rush" and prior to that, produced on "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius" and "Johnny Bravo". In the pilot, the part of 'Max' was played by Tyler Peterson.

Nickelodeon USA's official website, nick.com, has also launched the shows official website, nick.com/thundermans, which currently features a 'About' page featuring show information, a very special 'Kickin' It With The Cast' photo flipbook/gallery featuring exclusive pictures which reveal some the fun the cast get up to behind-the-scenes of their brand new sitcom and a "The Thundermans" message board (forum) for fans to talk about Nick's brand new comedy show "The Thundermans". Additionally, Nickelodeon USA started to air promo/trailers for "The Thundermans" on Saturday 14th September 2013.

Nickelodeon also recently ordered seven additional episodes of "The Thundermans", bringing the total number of episodes in season one of "The Thundermans" up to 20 episodes, following the initial 13-episode pickup in February 2013.

To celebrate Nick USA airing a special sneak peek of their brand new show on 10/14, Kosarin and Griffo lead a Thundermans-themed takeover of Nickelodeon USA's official Twitter account, @NickelodeonTV!

Nickelodeon UK Announces "Sam & Cat" As Their Best Series Launch Ever

The Nickelodeon UK Press Office has announced the fantastic Nickelodeon UK News in Tweet (post) on their official Twitter profile page (@NickelodeonUKPR) that the UK premiere of Nick's brand new buddy comedy series "Sam & Cat" on Monday 14th October 2013 at 6:00pm on Nickelodeon UK and Nickelodeon HD UK was Nickelodeon UK's best series launch ever in Nick UK's 20 year history! Ratings wise, the Nickelodeon channel (Nick UK) & Nickelodeon network ranked #1 for the day and #2 across all channels in the 6:00pm-6:30pm time-slot!:
Sam & Cat was our best launch EVER. Nickelodeon channel & network ranked #1 for the day and #2 across all channels in the 6pm-6.30pm slot
Additionally, the success of the British premiere of the very first episode of "Sam & Cat", "#Pilot", was also seen online through social media activity, with Nickelodeon UK's custom hashtag, #TEAMSAMANDCAT, trending in the UK for around two hours post the premiere!

UPDATE (Wednesday 16th October 2013): The Hollywood Reporter has announced Nickelodeon UK's ratings for the British debut of the very first episode of "Sam & Cat", "#Pilot"!

The UK premiere of "Sam & Cat" on Nick UK on Monday 14th October 2013 at 6:00pm (BST (GMT+1)) drew an average of 240,100 kids and 293,700 overall viewers. The figures include live and immediate DVR viewing. The performance is up 228 percent from the network's average for that time slot among kids aged 4-15. Nickelodeon U.K. was the top kids channel and number two across all channels in Britain in the 6 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Monday time slot, according to network data. "Sam & Cat" also ranked as the top-rated show on Monday across all U.K. kids networks. As of Tuesday (15th October 2013) afternoon, 276,200 kids and 331,800 total viewers have watched the first episode of "Sam & Cat".


The series follows total opposites Sam Puckett (Jennette McCurdy) and Cat Valentine (Ariana Grande). After quickly becoming friends and roommates, they find themselves babysitting three younger kids, which give Sam and Cat the idea to start Sam & Cat's Super Rockin' Fun-Time Babysitting Service. Already proving to be a hit in the United States and with episodes featuring the UK's own Sophia Grace and Rosie, "Sam & Cat" is the latest series from Dan Schneider, creator of "iCarly" and "Victorious".

In addition to catching the new show on Nickelodeon, McCurdians and Arianators can visit nick.co.uk/samandcat for additional information on the show, clips, games and exclusive episodes of "The Lil' Sam & Cat Show", the animated short companion webisode show which will premiere online every Tuesday from 15th October. Fans on Twitter can also use #TEAMSAMANDCAT to follow all of the very latest "Sam and Cat" news.

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Catch brand new episodes of "Sam & Cat" every Monday at 6:00pm (replayed at 7:00pm on Nick UK's plus-one (+1) timeshift channel, Nickelodeon +1), with encores throughout the week!
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