On this day 32 years ago at 7:00am, Nickelodeon officially launched in the U.K. as part of the then new Sky Multi-Channels package!
Also on this day in 1999, Nickelodeon launched Nick Jr., the world's first preschool channel!
Nickelodeon UK, the first international version of Nickelodeon, has changed a lot over the years. Take a look back at 1993 with Nickelodeon UK's first ever television schedule, and take a trip down memory lane and look through the first 10 years of Nickelodeon UK using Nickelodeon UK's Timeline, plus throwback to the late nineties with NickALive!'s celebration of Renford Rejects!
On this day 31 years ago at 7:00am, Nickelodeon officially launched in the U.K. as part of the then new Sky Multi-Channels package!
Also on this day in 1999, Nickelodeon launched Nick Jr., the world's first preschool channel!
Nickelodeon UK, the first international version of Nickelodeon, has changed a lot over the years. Take a look back at 1993 with Nickelodeon UK's first ever television schedule, and take a trip down memory lane and look through the first 10 years of Nickelodeon UK using Nickelodeon UK's Timeline, plus throwback to the late nineties with NickALive!'s celebration of Renford Rejects!
The Official H2O Roblox Game ✨Tutorial✨ | H2O - Just Add Water
Calling all Mermaids: The official H2O - Just Add Water Roblox game is now live.
Join Cleo while she shows you around the Roblox Mako Island, and introduces you to the fun games and quests the game has in store for you. Don't forget to customise your character in the shop and share the game with your friends! You can even watch full episodes of H2O in the game as well. Let the official H2O - Just Add Water YouTube channel know what you think about the game and have fun in your brand new tails 🧜🏼♀️
H2O – Just add water is about three teenage girls who can transform into mermaids.😮
After a night bath in a lake, everything is different and as soon as Cleo, Emma and Rikki come in contact with water, they transform and get a mermaid tail. After further experimentation, the girls also discover they have supernatural powers over water like boiling or freezing water. They try to keep their secret from everyone else which makes their everyday life anything but simple. 🧜♀️🌊
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The Weirdest, Wackiest and Most Wonderful Episodes of Round The Twist | Twisted Lunchbox - Australia’s Best Kids TV
Grab a drink and settle down to watch some fan favourite episodes of Round The Twist, including "Birds Do", "The Cabbage Patch Fib" and "Lucky Lips"!
Have you ever, ever felt like this? Have strange things happened, are you going round the twist? Ghosts, vikings, magical underpants, runaway shadows… Round The Twist is an offbeat comedy series that will enchant the entire family.
When the Twist kids – Pete, Linda and Bronson – and their Dad leave the city for a quiet life in the coastal town of Port Niranda, they get more than they bargained for. The lighthouse the Twists have moved into is haunted, and Port Niranda is a town where the weird and unexpected regularly occurs.
Twisted Lunchbox is brought to you by Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF). The ACTF is a national non-profit children’s media production and policy hub. The ACTF is a leading body for Australian children’s media; enabling the production, development and distribution of high quality, culturally relevant and distinctive entertainment for Australian children, and children around the world. The ACTF is well known for the production of some of Australia’s most iconic kids’ tv shows, including ‘Round the Twist’, ‘Mortified’, 'Lockie Leonard', ‘You’re Skitting Me’ and much more!
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"Have You Ever, Ever Felt Like This?" - Round The Twist Theme Song - Twisted Lunchbox - Australia’s Best Kids TV
The iconic and extended theme tune from classic Aussie kids TV show, Round The Twist!
Have you ever, ever felt like this? Have strange things happened, are you going round the twist? Ghosts, vikings, magical underpants, runaway shadows… Round The Twist is an offbeat comedy series that will enchant the entire family.
When the Twist kids – Pete, Linda and Bronson – and their Dad leave the city for a quiet life in the coastal town of Port Niranda, they get more than they bargained for. The lighthouse the Twists have moved into is haunted, and Port Niranda is a town where the weird and unexpected regularly occurs.
Twisted Lunchbox is brought to you by Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF). The ACTF is a national non-profit children’s media production and policy hub. The ACTF is a leading body for Australian children’s media; enabling the production, development and distribution of high quality, culturally relevant and distinctive entertainment for Australian children, and children around the world. The ACTF is well known for the production of some of Australia’s most iconic kids’ tv shows, including ‘Round the Twist’, ‘Mortified’, 'Lockie Leonard', ‘You’re Skitting Me’ and much more!
Paramount+ UK & Ireland is HERE! Stream a Mountain of Entertainment, including your Nickelodeon favourites! Try it FREE at ParamountPlus.com!
Paramount+ is also available with Sky Cinema at no extra cost.
Check out a spooktacular selection of Nickelodeon Halloween presentation (including idents, bumpers, trailers and BUGs/DOGs) from Nickelodeon channels around the world!:
Scream all your favorite Nickelodeon Halloween favorites on Paramount+
On this day 30 years ago at 7:00am, Nickelodeon officially launched in the U.K. as part of the then new Sky Multi-Channels package!
Also on this day in 1999, Nickelodeon launched Nick Jr., the world's first preschool channel!
Nickelodeon UK, the first international version of Nickelodeon, has changed a lot over the years. Take a look back at 1993 with Nickelodeon UK's first ever television schedule, and take a trip down memory lane and look through the first 10 years of Nickelodeon UK using Nickelodeon UK's Timeline, plus throwback to the late nineties with NickALive!'s celebration of Renford Rejects!
Nickelodeon UK is celebrating 30 years of being on our TV screens, and to mark the occasion, Nickelodeon partnered with 3D street artist Joe Hill to unveil a piece of Slime filled street art in London!
Fans could visit the Nickelodeon artwork, featuring a river of Nickelodeon's iconic green slime as well as iconic Nickelodeon characters Chuckie from the Rugrats, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Raphael from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at Hawley Wharf near Camden Market, a short distance from Paramount Global's London HQ, on Thursday 31st August 2023, where it was on display up until 3pm.
Round the Twist, Storyboarding and VFX Virtual Workshop | Australian Children's Television Foundation
Explore the award-winning television series Round the Twist and learn the importance of storyboarding when creating VFX (visual effects) and SFX (special effect).
The storyboards for Round the Twist were integral in the production of all the wacky and fun moments in the beloved series. Storyboards use visuals to effectively communicate ideas during the filmmaking process, producing a blueprint for cast and crew ahead of shooting scenes. VFX and SFX take a lot of planning and creative problem solving.
This virtual workshop features interviews with Dennis Nicholson, VFX Supervisor for Round the Twist Series 3 & 4 who unpacks the original hand-drawn storyboards from the series.
Despite only lasting one 40-episode season, the late 90s animated series Extreme Ghostbusters, a follow-up to the widely popular The Real Ghostbusters, has gone on to garner a devoted following, not only prompting many fans to demand more adventures of Kylie, Eduardo, Roland, and Garrett but leaving some with unanswered questions surrounding the short-lived series.
Recently featuring a cosplay-centric Ghostbusters episode of The Ship-it Show podcast, co-host and voice of Kylie Griffin, Tara Strong, is back, leading an Extreme Ghostbusters reunion, being again joined by Greg Cipes and Miranda Parkin, but this time, welcoming special guests Jason Marsden, Billy West, Pat Musick, Maurice Lamarche, Rino Romano, and Dave Coulier.
While the entire near hour-long reunion is more than worth your time, with the podcast offering up an in-depth behind-the-scenes glimpse at the series, it was Marsden’s comments about the reasoning for the show’s cancellation that instantly caught fans attention, with the actor saying:
“I was so jaded, thinking this is show friends, I keep forgetting that no, it’s show business. When I asked Audu Paden, our producer, “So, why’d you guys decide to do another Ghostbusters series?” He’s like, “To sell toys,” with Mardsen adding, “That’s all it was, and because the toys didn’t sell, despite all the amazing work everyone did, in front of the mic, and behind the mic, and the art department, and all the animators, it suffered.
Upon hearing the reason for cancellation, Strong, somewhat upset, responded:
“I never knew that was the reason it got canceled. Like, that’s so sad, and you know, they didn’t really put out a lot of toys, so what were they expecting? You know, usually, when you’re on a show that you know comes with a built-in fanbase, you do some dope-a*s merch. There’s some kind of cra*py toys, but there weren’t, like, amazing things, right?”
While on the topic of toys, Marsden spoke about his character, Garrett, who was one of the only leads not to receive an action figure, being told that it would be “insensitive to the children who were in wheelchairs.”
“And they were progressive with the show, having such diversity, and having Garrett in the wheelchair, but they wouldn’t make Garrett in a wheelchair as an action figure. What I was told, they thought it’d be insensitive to the children who were in wheelchairs. They went as far as to make, and I saw pictures of this, a prototype of Garrett with bionic legs. Talk about insensitive, that’s insensitive. And as a fan of the OG Real Ghostbusters, and who collected the toys, they didn’t really hold a candle to the original toys.”
Sadly its not uncommon that TV shows aimed towards kids get canceled early, simply because the show isn't merchandisable.
If you happened to have miss the Ghostbusters cosplay-centric episode of The Ship-it Show, featuring special guests the S.O.S. Ghostbusters UK, the colander-wearing Jarrett Pressman, and Kylie Griffin cosplayer Emma Méligne, give it a watch here.
Billy West admits he was lied to over Extreme Ghostbusters Slimer role: "I was mortified" | Ghostbusters News
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We Ship Extreme Ghostbusters with ICONIC VAs! | The Ship-it Show
Today we discuss all things Slimer, things Slimed, and things that will be Slimed when we talk to the cast of: Extreme Ghostbusters! Ever wanted to know what Janine (Pat Musick) thinks of Egon (Maurice LaMarche), or fun stories from behind the scenes of recording at night? Take a listen here!
Check out a spooktacular selection of Nickelodeon Halloween presentation (including idents, bumpers, trailers and BUGs/DOGs) from Nickelodeon channels around the world!:
Scream all your favorite Nickelodeon Halloween favorites on Paramount+
Have you ever, ever felt like this? Have strange things happen, are you going Round The Twist? Check out this comparison video comparing the intros of Round The Twist - complete with its iconic theme song!
Have you ever, ever felt like this? Have strange things happened, are you going round the twist? Ghosts, vikings, magical underpants, runaway shadows… Round The Twist is an offbeat comedy series that will enchant the entire family.
When the Twist kids – Pete, Linda and Bronson – and their Dad leave the city for a quiet life in the coastal town of Port Niranda, they get more than they bargained for. The lighthouse the Twists have moved into is haunted, and Port Niranda is a town where the weird and unexpected regularly occurs.
Twisted Lunchbox is brought to you by Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF). The ACTF is a national non-profit children’s media production and policy hub. The ACTF is a leading body for Australian children’s media; enabling the production, development and distribution of high quality, culturally relevant and distinctive entertainment for Australian children, and children around the world. The ACTF is well known for the production of some of Australia’s most iconic kids’ tv shows, including ‘Round the Twist’, ‘Mortified’, 'Lockie Leonard', ‘You’re Skitting Me’ and much more!
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Novel Entertainment is teaming up with social enterprise Madlug to support the company’s mission to raise awareness of the value and worth of care experienced children, while helping them make their way in dignity.
Under the collaboration, Novel Entertainment has donated its Horrid Henry brand to enable Madlug to create a backpack featuring the popular children’s entertainment property.
Launched on on Thursday 21st July and priced at £29.99, the Madlug x Horrid Henry backpack is available in red and blue. As part of Madlug’s ‘buy one, give one’ initiative, for every Horrid Henry backpack purchased, a care experienced child will receive their own pack-away travel bag.
The Horrid Henry x Madlug backpack logo was specially designed to incorporate Madlug’s brand by House of Fandango’s Lucy Freeth, and will be available to buy exclusively from Madlug.com. The launch is being supported by a promotional and social media campaign.
As well as supporting Madlug’s aim to empower care experienced young people by providing them with job training and entrepreneurial opportunities, this initiative aligns with Novel’s wider social impact programme. Last year saw the release of Horrid Henry and the Groovy Grandma, a conversation about loss, which was donated to GOSH’s Power of Play Platform. Alongside inclusivity consultant George O’Shaughnessy, Madlug, and the Foundling Museum, Novel Entertainment are now working on a second film, which will be a conversation about love.
Novel Entertainment’s co-founder and creative director, Lucinda Whiteley, said: “As part of our ongoing efforts to bring Horrid Henry into the area of social impact and make a difference with the brand, it’s a privilege to support and be part of Madlug’s hugely worthwhile mission. Our aim is to continue this collaboration with Madlug in the long-term and to support the enterprise as they make sure every child in care knows they are incredible and feel valued.”
Dave Linton, Founder at Madlug, added: “There’s over 100,000 children in care in the UK and Ireland and one child enters the care system every 15 minutes, most having their belongings moved in black bin bags or plastic shopping bags. This is the first time we’ve collaborated with a company to use their IP to raise funds for the Madlug movement, and we’re delighted to have Novel Entertainment’s support as we give Horrid Henry fans the chance to give dignity to children in care. Because no child should be carrying their life in a bin bag.”
To find out more information about Madlug and to purchase a Horrid Henry backpack visit https://www.madlug.com/
Caroline Mickler Ltd Adds Two Major New Licenses to Horrid Henry Campaign
Caroline Mickler Limited, an award-winning, independent licensing agency which builds licensing programs for a number of major brands, has signed two new licenses for Novel Entertainment’s internationally renowned Horrid Henry brand.
Winning Moves, a maker of international family favorite games, has launched a special Horrid Henry edition of the classic Top Trumps card game. Games, toys and arts and crafts developer John Adams Leisure, meanwhile, is planning a Horrid Henry version of its popular book-making studio Bookeez.
The special Horrid Henry edition of Top Trumps contains 30 cards packed full of fun stats, including Musical Talent, Detention Rating, and even a Moody Score. It also contains character bios of the most-loved characters from Horrid Henry, including Brainy Brian, Miss Battle-Axe and Henry himself. All of the Horrid Henry favorites are included in the easy-to-carry travel pack, meaning the game can be played anywhere, anytime.
Packaged in a stand-out yellow case, the pack, aimed at all children aged six and above, launched at high street stores and toy retailers in August.
John Adams’ Bookeez encourages children to express themselves through their own stories, bringing their own books, journals, poems and comics to life by decorating, stamping and stencilling pages using the special Bookeez tools.
This new version – the first licensed version of Bookeez – features Horrid Henry in the packaging and a Bookeez Studio in blue and yellow – two of Henry’s favorite colours! Horrid Henry sticker sheets and pre-punched covers are also included so fans of Horrid Henry can create their own themed stories around their favorite fictional characters.
The Horrid Henry Bookeez set is for imaginative children aged seven and above who love to create their own stories and want to bring their creative worlds to life. It will be launching in October and will be available from Amazon, Toymaster and other high street retailers.
Horrid Henry is a major multi-media brand. On launch, the TV show rapidly became CITV’s most popular series and is now NickToons and Nickelodeon UK’s most popular show, as well as being a hit on Nicktoons Africa, Netflix and Amazon Kids+. The series, which spans 250 episodes and a number of specials, is broadcast in over 150 territories outside the UK. Novel also co-produced the live action feature film of Horrid Henry; the first ever British kids’ movie to be filmed in 3D. There is an active licensing and merchandising program in place and the property was successfully adapted for the stage as Horrid Henry – Live and Horrid, which ran for 285 performances in London’s West End and across the UK. The character’s official YouTube channel has attracted 1.6 billion views to date.
Megan Lowe, Senior Licensing Manager, Winning Moves UK Ltd, says: “Winning Moves is really excited to work with Horrid Henry on this special edition of Top Trumps, combining two much-loved family brands. It’s a great license that has believable, likeable and well-rounded characters, who celebrate individuality and friendship, all whilst making us laugh.”
Lynette Leet, Marketing Manager, John Adams Leisure Ltd, says: “We’ve had amazing success with Bookeez, but have been waiting for the perfect partner to create a licensed version to reach a whole new audience. Horrid Henry is an iconic brand that is loved by children all over the world. Children will now be able to create inspiring stories and cheeky adventures with their favourite Horrid Henry characters.”
Caroline Mickler will be at BLE discussing the ongoing development of licenses for Horrid Henry, along with her company’s plans for the coming year at stand A162. She says: “We’re thrilled to announce these partnerships with two major players in the games market for Horrid Henry. Both licenses underline the continuing strength of the brand across multiple media; they also brilliantly capture the humour and irreverence that make Henry and his adventures so popular.”
