Monday, November 30, 2015

You're Invited To Nickelodeon's Ho-Ho Holiday Special!

Unwrap the fun and join all your favorite Nick stars "Rockin Around the Christmas Tree"! Check out Nickelodeon's Ho-Ho Holiday Special, premiering Saturday 5th December at 8:00pm ET/PT on 8:00pm ET/PT, and on Friday 11th December 2015 at 5:00pm on Nickelodeon UK and Ireland/HD and 6:30pm on Nickelodeon Australia and New Zealand!:



In a new spectacular hour-long variety special featuring musical numbers and comedy sketches, every Nickelodeon star under the sun, including Brec Bassinger, Buddy Handleson and Coy Stewart from "Bella and the Bulldogs", Benjamin "Lil P-Nut" Flores, Jr. from "Game Shakers", Kira Kosarin and Jack Griffo from "The Thundermans", Lizzy Greene, Aidan Gallagher, Casey Simpson and Mace Coronel from "Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn", Isabela Moner from "100 Things to Do Before High School", Jace Norman from "Henry Danger", and Breanna Yde from "School of Rock", shows up for the most amazing holiday party ever. However, it soon becomes clear that the whole evening is an evil trap devised by a mysterious stranger. The stars now have to struggle through various holiday-themed obstacles and challenges if they want to escape and find their way ho-ho-home. So come for the carolling, stay for the snowflakes and watch all your favorite stars come out in "Nickelodeon's Ho Ho Holiday Special"!
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Meet SwaySway And Buhdeuce - "Breadwinners"

Ever wondered where it all started for SwaySway and Buhdeuce? Well, look no further as we learn how they became the famous Breadwinners in this bread-tastic video clip from "Birds of a Feather"!:



Watch "Breadwinners" on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons!

Additional source: Wikipedia.
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Human Colosso - "The Thundermans"

Dr. Colosso (Dana Snyder) has been nominated for a Villain League award and in order for him to go, Max (Jack Griffo) turns Colosso human! Although things get hairy as they realise they've been nominated for other reasons in this super clip from the second season finale episode of Nickelodeon's hit original comedy series "The Thundermans", "A Hero Is Born"!:



Watch "The Thundermans" on Nickelodeon!
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Nickelodeon Germany, Nickelodeon Switzerland And Nickelodeon Poland To Premiere "Game Shakers" On Sunday 10th January 2016

Nickelodeon Northern Europe has announced the exciting Nickelodeon International news that Nickelodeon Germany, Nickelodeon Switzerland and Nickelodeon Poland will start to premiere and show Nickelodeon's brand-new original comedy series "Game Shakers" every Sunday from Sunday 10th January 2016, beginning with the shows one-hour series premiere, "Sky Whale"!


Nickelodeon Northern Europe will premiere each brand-new episode of "Game Shakers" every Sunday at 18:30 on Nickelodeon Switzerland (Schweiz), 18:50 on Nickelodeon Poland (Polska), and at 19:15 Uhr on Nickelodeon Germany (Deutschland)!

Although unconfirmed, it is expected that Nickelodeon Austria (Österreich), Nickelodeon Switzerland (Schweiz), Nickelodeon Netherlands (Nederland), Nickelodeon Belgium (België; Flanders), Nickelodeon Denmark (Danmark), Nickelodeon Sweden (Sverige) and Nickelodeon Norway will also debut Nick's all-new sitcom "Game Shakers" at the same time.

Created by hit-maker Dan Schneider ("Henry Danger", "iCarly", "Victorious", "Sam & Cat", "Zoey 101", "Drake & Josh", "Kenan & Kel"), "Game Shakers" follows a pair of 7th grade girls, Babe (Cree Cicchino) and Kenzie (Madisyn Shipman), who, after creating a wildly successful mobile game app called Sky Whale for a science project, start a gaming company in Brooklyn called Game Shakers with their friend Hudson (Thomas Kuc).


They're making games and kicking app!

But when superstar rapper Double G (Kel Mitchell, "Kenan & Kel", "All That", "Good Burger"), a super successful, unpredictable rapper, finds out the girls used one of his songs in their game without licensing it, he threatens to sue them for all he is owed! To make things right, Babe and Kenzie decide to make the rap superstar their business partner and hire his son, Triple G (Benjamin Lil P-Nut” Flores, Jr, "The Haunted Hathaways"), as a game consultant. Together, Babe, Kenzie, Hudson, Triple G and Double G will work to make Game Shakers a huge success in the gaming world! Will this new deal be a high score or a game over for Babe and Kenzie? Let the games begin!

Leading up to the debut of "Game Shakers" on Nickelodeon Germany, viewers can play "Sky Whale", the game featured in the series' premiere episode, on iOS and Android by downloading the app for free!

To celebrate Nickelodeon Germany debuting "Game Shakers" in January 2016, nick.de, nick.ch and nick.com.pl have launched their official "Game Shakers" show websites, which currently features photos of the cast of the series!

Sources: Nick Pressecenter, Nick Prasa. Additional source: wunschliste.de. Huge thanks to Nickelodeon Fans for the news!
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Nickelodeon Greenlights "The Ludwigs" For Local And Global Audiences

The children's entertainment and media news website Kidscreen is reporting the very exciting news that Nickelodeon has greenlit a brand-new project from Dutch production company that will yield two new series: An English-language, globally commissioned production titled "The Ludwigs", and "De Ludwigs", a Dutch-language production commissioned by Nickelodeon Netherlands (Nederland)!


The new series for kids ages six-to-12 (20 X 30:00 minute episodes) follows the comedic adventures of five foster children who are on a quest to find out what happened to their foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig, after they mysteriously disappear. While they work to unravel the mystery, the kids must keep up appearances that everything's fine at home, and fend off the Ludwig's greedy and duplicitous heirs.

"De Ludwigs" will air on Nickelodeon Netherlands in Spring of 2016, and English-language "The Ludwigs" will begin airing on Nickelodeon channels globally in the second half of 2016.

Both productions will be filmed and produced by Blooming Media in Amsterdam next year and will share the same sets.

The commission follows Nickelodeon's success with the daily, serialized format of hit shows such as "Every Witch Way", "House of Anubis", "Make It Pop", "Talia in the Kitchen" and "W.I.T.s Academy":
Nickelodeon orders The Ludwigs for local & global audiences


Nickelodeon is going back to where it all began.

When Europe-bred House of Anubis launched in the US in 2011, the mystery series marked Nickelodeon's first global live-action production filmed outside the US that went on to perform well on both domestic and global levels. Since then, the net has been actively pursuing a similar simultaneous production strategy, wherein series are produced in local territories and for the global market at the same time. Every Witch Way and Talia in the Kitchen, both of which were locally made by Nickelodeon Latin America before being primed for the world stage, followed the Anubis blueprint. (Talia is set to go worldwide in 2016).

Now, the net is focusing its attention on The Netherlands production scene once again. (Nickelodeon Netherlands worked with Belgian-based Studio 100 to co-produce the original, Dutch-language version of House of Anubis - Het Huis Anubis – in 2006). Local prodco Blooming Media has received the greenlight on a new project that will yield two new series: An English-language, globally commissioned production titled The Ludwigs, and De Ludwigs, a Dutch-language production commissioned by Nickelodeon Netherlands. Both productions will be filmed and produced by Blooming Media in Amsterdam next year and will share the same sets.

"We started to look outside of Latin America, and Ludwigs will take the same structure as Talia and Every Witch Way in that it will be filmed locally with one set and one storyline, but with different scripts," says Jules Borkent, SVP of global acquisitions and international programming at Nickelodeon, Viacom International Media Networks. "There are a lot of markets that have demand for local live-action content, and Holland is one of those places. There's a big market for Dutch comedy drama. We did House of Anubis, but we've never done an English-language version out of Holland. So it's super exciting."

The new series for kids ages six to 12 follows the comedic adventures of five foster children who are on a quest to find out what happened to their foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig, after they mysteriously disappear. While they work to unravel the mystery, the kids must keep up appearances that everything's fine at home, and fend off the Ludwig's greedy and duplicitous heirs.

De Ludwigs will air on Nickelodeon Netherlands in spring of 2016, and English-language The Ludwigs will begin airing on Nick channels globally in the second half of 2016.

"Audiences these days are so globalized. Amsterdam is very much a part of the story in The Ludwigs, and locations for us act as characters in the story," notes Borkent. "We really try to bring in local culture to kids shows and feel there is diversity in that. And there is a strong desire to expand on that."

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Nickelodeon And OSN Release Nickelodeon Play App In Middle East And North Africa

Nickelodeon, the number-one entertainment brand for kids, and Dubai-based pay-TV network OSN have announced the arrival of the Emmy Award-winning Nickelodeon Play app in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region!


Launched on Sunday 29th November 2015, Nickelodeon Play is available to download for free from the Apple app store for iOS devices and Google Play for Android devices.


While Nickelodeon Play, formally the Nick App, is free to download throughout the region, OSN subscribers also have access to full-length episodes of hit Nickelodeon shows such as "SpongeBob SquarePants" via their OSN credentials.


Nickelodeon Play features a neat functionality, including an innovative tile layout that can be swiped in any direction, promotes discovery and exploration and offers kids instant and on-demand access to more than 1,000 pieces of Nickelodeon-themed content in both English and Arabic. In addition to exclusive content for OSN subscribers, there will be original skits and sketches, behind-the-scenes clips from Nick stars and animated characters, and new games.


Since launching on iOS in the US in 2013, the app has amassed more than 17 million downloads to date, rolling out internationally across the UK, Latin America, Northern Europe and Australia. The goal of the app was to go beyond free video viewing, and instead offer more interactive content not seen on television - whenever and wherever the user wants it. As a result, it was honoured with a Creative Arts Emmy in the Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media category in September 2013, as well as a Broadcast Digital Award in 2014 and a Meffy Sector Award in 2015.

Nickelodeon Play is part of the Viacom Play Plex suite of mobile TV apps.

Nickelodeon HD is available exclusively on OSN in the MENA region.

Additionally, Nickelodeon UK has renamed the UK & Irish version of the Nick App to Nick Play! The update is available to download through the Apple and Google Play app stores.

Original source: RegularCapital.com; Additional sources: C21 Media, TBI Vision, Advanced Television, Communicate Online, Digital TV Europe, DigitalProductionME.com, Broadband TV News.
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Blind Taste Test Challenge: Maria Vs. Galilea - "Talia In The Kitchen"

Who ya got: Maria Quezada (Talia) or Galilea La Salvia (Julie)? They go head-to-head in today's Blind Taste Test! Make sure to check out brand-new episodes of "Talia in the Kitchen" season two weekdays at 7pm/6c, only on Nickelodeon USA!:


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Sneak-Peek From First Episode Of "Talia In The Kitchen" Season Two, "Storm And Grubb", Premiering 11/30 On Nickelodeon USA

To celebrate Nickelodeon USA starting to premiere brand-new episodes from the all-new second season of "Talia in the Kitchen" from Monday 30th November 2015 at 7:00pm ET/PT, Nick USA has unveiled a fantastic sneak peek preview from the series' hour-long second season opener episode, "Storm and Grubb", which you can watch in the super online streaming video clip here on Nick.com!


In the hour-long second season premiere episode of "Talia in the Kitchen", "Storm and Grubb" (#997), Talia (Maria Quezada) hides from a hurricane, until a mysterious boy discovers her; Aunt Tilly returns to take Talia and Julie (Galilea La Salvia) back to Boston. In the fantastic sneak peek, "Head in the Game", Will (Tommy Goodman) needs to stay focused and make sure that Talia doesn't surpass him as spice master! Nickelodeon USA will simulcast the brand-new "Talia in the Kitchen" special on TeenNick USA.

Additional source: Wikipedia.
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