Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Nickelodeon USA Premieres "Make It Pop", New Musical Comedy Series, Monday 6th April 2015

Original Nickelodeon USA Press Release via TV by the Numbers:

NICKELODEON PREMIERES MAKE IT POP, NEW MUSICAL COMEDY SERIES, MONDAY, APRIL 6, AT 7 P.M. (ET/PT)

Sneak Peek to Air on Thursday, March 26, at 7 p.m. (ET/PT)


Santa Monica, Calif. – (March 24, 2015) – Three unique girls--an aspiring pop diva, a fashionista and a bookworm--come together at school to form their own K-pop-inspired band in Nickelodeon's newest live-action, daily scripted series, Make It Pop, premiering Monday, April 6, at 7 p.m. (all times ET/PT). Co-created by Thomas W. Lynch and multi-faceted entertainer Nick Cannon, Make It Pop features original songs and performances with a modern pop twist and an EDM beat from the show's emerging, real-life group, XO-IQ. Viewers can catch a sneak peek of Make It Pop on Thursday, March 26, at 7 p.m. and again on Friday, March 27, at 5 p.m. Make It Pop will air regularly on Nickelodeon weekdays at 7 p.m. and each episode will be available on Nick.com and the Nick App the day after its linear TV premiere.


Pictured: (L-R) Jodi (Louriza Tronco), Sun Hi (Meghan Lee) and Corki (Erika Tham) in the new live-action series, Make It Pop, coming to Nickelodeon in the 2015-16 season. Photo Credit: Nickelodeon. ©2015 Viacom International, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Continuing Nickelodeon's success with the daily, serialized format of hit shows like Every Witch Way and House of Anubis, Make It Pop is a new half-hour comedy where diva Sun Hi (Megan Lee), fashionista Jodi (Louriza Tronco) and bookworm Corki (Erika Tham) must learn to live together in perfect harmony after they are randomly selected to room together at boarding school. With the help of fellow classmate and aspiring DJ, Caleb (Dale Whibley), the girls grow from roommates to bandmates as their group, XO-IQ, becomes a school-wide sensation and they compete for a place in the upcoming school musical, all while balancing music, grades, relationship and crushes.

Make It Pop is co-created by Thomas W. Lynch (The Secret World of Alex Mack, South of Nowhere) and Nick Cannon (Nickelodeon HALO Awards) and produced by DHX Media. Lynch and Cannon will serve as executive producers together with DHX Media's Steven DeNure and Anne Loi. The musical direction of the series is being led by Bill Silva Entertainment, with music supervision by Peter Coquillard and Pilar McCurry of Silva Music Publishing. XO-IQ is managed by Bill Silva Management.

Nickelodeon, now in its 35th year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The company includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, online, recreation, books and feature films. Nickelodeon's U.S. television network is seen in almost 100 million households and has been the number-one-rated basic cable network for 19 consecutive years. For more information or artwork, visit http://www.nickpress.com. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIA.B).

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Choose Brec Bassinger's Orange Carpet Nail Art Style For The Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2015

Brec Bassinger, the star of Nickelodeon's hit brand-new show "Bella and the Bulldogs", has announced some fantastic news she's been biting her nails to tell everyone!

To celebrate Nickelodeon's 28th Annual Kids' Choice Awards, Brec, who is a big fan of nail art, especially anything sparkly and with claws, is letting fans vote on what nail art style she'll be rocking on the Orange Carpet during the Kids' Choice Awards 2015 on Saturday 28th March 2015! Fans located in North America can vote for which nail art style they think Brec should wear to KCA 2015 at nick.com/kca! Fans can choose from two nail styles:


Check out Brec announcing the news with her fellow Nickelodeon co-stars Haley Tju, Lizzy Greene, Kira Kosarin and Lilimar Hernandez in a special Nick Stars Takeover video below!:


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Nickelodeon UK Slimes Ant and Dec As They Receive Honorary Kids' Choice Award

They are used to playing pranks on other people or forcing celebrities to eat insects on "I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!", but Ant and Dec got a taste of their own medicine when they accepted a Kids' Choice Award – a world-famous Nickelodeon sliming, the ultimate Nickelodeon honour!


In a secret visit at ITV Studios, Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly were awarded Nickelodeon's first ever Kids' Choice Award for 'UK TV Legends' by Jordan Banjo and Perri Kiely, the UK hosts of the 2015 KCAs!


While Ant and Dec were accepting their coveted orange blimp award, Jordan and Perri watched with glee as the "Saturday Night Takeaway" hosts sealed their own fate by unwittingly hitting a button which set off Nickelodeon's slime machine!


Nickelodeon created the UK TV Legends award especially for Ant and Dec in recognition of their outstanding contribution to entertainment and to celebrate Ant and Dec’s TV triumphs throughout their esteemed careers, Nickelodeon has honoured the presenters with its highest accolade – a sliming!


Ant said: "Thanks to everyone at the Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards for honouring us with this blimp and the greatest privilege of all, a sliming!"

Dec added: "We are blown away to receive this amazing TV Legends award. But watch out Perri and Jordan, we'll get you back for the sliming!"

Ant & Dec have joined a star-studded list of previous slimees including Justin Bieber, Taylor Lautner, Katy Perry, Halle Berry, Nick Jonas, Harrison Ford, Orlando Bloom, Andy Murray, and recently, Perri Kiely and his Diversity co-dancers.

As part of Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards 2015, kids can vote across seven UK specific and additional international categories online at kca.nick.co.uk/vote, on The Nick App (now available on Android) and via Twitter using the hashtag #KCA. Fans can join in on the slime-fest by going to kca.nick.co.uk the official destination for everything Kids' Choice Awards, with hilarious videos, photo galleries, games and all of the latest KCA news on this year's show and nominees.

UK hosts Jordan Banjo and Perri Kiely will be in LA bringing viewers the best of the behind the scenes action and orange carpet gossip from this year's show. In the run up to the awards, fans can tune in and hang with Jordan and Perri as they visit LA, tour Hollywood, meet Nickelodeon stars, send back the very latest Orange Carpet gossip, showcase the very best of Nickelodeon, cover all the excitement in the build-up to this years slime-tastic extravaganza and countdown to the Nickelodeon 2015 Kids' Choice Awards every Friday from 4:00pm, only on Nickelodeon UK (from 5:00pm on Nick+1)!

Fans can tune-in to Nick for the UK premiere of the Nickelodeon 2015 Kids' Choice Awards, Nickelodeon's 28th Annual Kids' Choice Awards, on Sunday 29th March 2015, starting with "Kids' Choice Countdown 2015" at 5:00pm, then the main show, the 2015 Kids' Choice Awards, hosted by the multi-talented singer/songwriter and actor Nick Jonas, from 5:30pm (repeated from 6:30pm on Nick UK's plus-one (+1) timeshift channel, Nick+1), less than 24 hours after the live US show, which will take place in Los Angeles' legendary 'Fabulous' Forum for the first-time ever on Saturday 28th March 2015!

All photos by Andrew Timms/Nickelodeon.

Sources: The Official Ant & Dec Website, Press Association via Stourbridge News, Digital Spy, This Is Lancashire.
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Monday, March 23, 2015

Nickelodeon To Release Episodes Of 2003 Series Of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" On DVD; To Give "Pulverizer Power" DVD Wide Release

TVShowsOnDVD.com is reporting the Turtley Awesome news that, following NickToons USA airing the 2003 series of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", produced by 4Kids Entertainment and Mirage Studios, in December 2014, Nickelodeon will be releasing six episodes of the 2003 series of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" on two DVD's, "NYC Showdown" and "Search for Splinter", on Tuesday 9th June 2015!:
When four pet turtles were bathed in ooze, they began to mutate and became the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Raised in New York City sewers by their foster father and martial-arts Master Splinter, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael wage war against crime. They stop evildoers in all forms, whether barbaric gangs, lowlife crooks, deranged cyborgs, or even the crime syndicate The Foot, led by their archrival, The Shredder.

The search is on in this totally rad value-pack! A Mousers attack has separated the Turtles from their master! But they get more than they bargained for when their search for Splinter leads them to a building connected with their mutation. Also, it's total Turtles action when Leo, Raph, Donnie, and Mikey return to New York with one goal in mind: to destroy the Shredder once and for all. And this battle promises to be a fight to the finish!

The classic 2003 series of the hot Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise returns to DVD with Volume 1 and Volume 2. Each single-disc volume includes 3 first season episodes filled with all the ninja action and comic-book adventure that TMNT fans love...released in time for summer and available at hot, low value pricing!
Additionally, Nickelodeon and Paramount will be giving their "Pulverizer Power" TMNT DVD, was exclusively at Wal-Mart during Summer 2014, a wide release on Tuesday 9th June 2015! The DVD will feature three related Pulverizer-themed episodes from Nickelodeon's hit 2012 "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series - "The Pulverizer" (Season 1), "The Pulverizer Returns!" (Season 1), and "Mutagen Man Unleashed" (Season 2, featuring a mutated Pulverizer):
It's three episodes packed with non-stop crime-fighting action and hilarity. First, the Turtles encounter their very first fanboy, a teenager who dresses up in a costume to fight crime as...The Pulverizer! Then, The Pulverizer is back, and this time the Turtles actually want his help to battle Shredder and stop him before he creates a mutant army. Finally, Donnie's attempts to invent a cure for the mutated Pulverizer are interrupted when the lovesick teenager escapes and terrorizes April as Mutagen Man!
You can find the cover art for all three of Nickelodeon's upcoming "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" DVD's below:


Additional source: Toon Zone forums member Storm Eagle.
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Viacom International Media Networks Names June Yeoh Senior Director Of International Program Sales For Asia

Original Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) Asia Press Release via VIMN Asia's official Pressroom:

VIACOM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA NETWORKS NAMES JUNE YEOH SENIOR DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM SALES FOR ASIA

SINGAPORE, 23 MARCH 2015 – Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) announced today that June Yeoh has been appointed Senior Director of International Program Sales in Asia.


In this position, which she will assume on 7 April 2015, Yeoh will report to Caroline Beaton, VIMN's Senior Vice President for International Program Sales and will be based in Singapore. She will oversee all of VIMN Asia's international program sales across Greater China, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia; the company's brand portfolio in Asia includes MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr. and Comedy Central.

"I'm pleased to have June Yeoh return to Viacom given her extensive experience working across different portfolios of the TV industry and her stellar track record of sales success," said Beaton. "We're confident Yeoh will be an invaluable team player as we take our brands and international program sales in Asia to the next level."

Yeoh brings with her more than 12 years of experience in the TV industry, having covered Channel, Content and Distribution. Before joining VIMN, Yeoh was Manager of TV Content Distribution and Format Sales at BBC Worldwide Southeast Asia since 2011. She was responsible for the sales of BBC Worldwide's programs and formats catalogs to all terrestrial, Pay and digital platforms in Southeast Asia. Prior to that, she worked at Bloomberg LP, CNBC International and at MTV Asia.

Yeoh holds an honor's degree in Communications from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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About Viacom International Media Networks

Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN), a unit of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB), is comprised of many of the world's most popular multimedia entertainment brands, including MTV, MTV LIVE HD, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Comedy Central, Paramount Channel, and more. Viacom brands are seen globally in more than 3.2 billion households in approximately 170 territories and 37 languages via more than 200 locally programmed and operated TV channels and more than 550 digital media and mobile TV properties. Keep up with VIMN news by visiting the VIMN PR Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/VIMN_PR. For more information about Viacom and its businesses, visit www.viacom.com, the Viacom blog at blog.viacom.com and Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/Viacom.

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