Nickelodeon To Hold First Ever "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Panel At New York Comic-Con 2012

According to the official New York Comic-Con 'Panels & Screenings Schedule' website, nycc12.mapyourshow.com, Nickelodeon will be holding their first ever "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" New York Comic-Con panel at New York Comic-Con 2012, an annual New York City, NY, USA fan convention dedicated to comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television, on Friday 12th October 2012 between 6:45 pm - 7:45 pm, which will feature "Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Executive Producers Ciro Nieli ("Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!") and Peter Hastings ("Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness", "Catscratch", "Animaniacs", "Tak & the Power of Juju") discussing Nickelodeon's new TMNT series, reveal development art and give fans a sneak peek at the next episode of Nickelodeon's brand new CGI-animated "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" television series. Prepare to be Shell-Shocked!:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Date: Friday, October 12
6:45 pm - 7:45 pm

Location: 1E13

Description:
Go Green! With the Lean, Mean, Ninja Team – Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Experience Nickelodeon’s FIRST EVER Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle New York Comic-Con panel as Executive Producers Ciro Nieli (Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!) and Peter Hastings (Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Catscratch, Animaniacs) discuss the new series, reveal development art and give fans a sneak peek at the series’ next episode. Prepare to be Shell-Shocked!

Tracks:
Animation, TV

Kidz Cool It Offers Early Review Of Nickelodeon's Brand New CGI-Animated "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" TV Series; NVCP To Release First Wave Of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Merchandise In The UK In December 2012!

To celebrate and promote Nickelodeon UK premiering and showing Nickelodeon's brand new CGI-animated "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" television series from Monday 1st October 2012 at 5.00pm (BST (GMT+1)), starting with a very special one-hour television event, as part of "October on Nickelodeon UK", "Kidz Cool It" has posted a early review about Nickelodeon's brand new "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" TV show on their official website, Kidzcoolit.com! What do the 'Kidz Cool It' reporters think about Nickelodeon's reincarnation of the popular "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series? Find out by reading their review here on Kidzcoolit.com!

As part of Kidz Cool It's review of Nickelodeon's new "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" TV show, Kidz Cool It have also posted a few exclusive photographs from one of Nickelodeon UK's earlier "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" events, including photographs of Kevin Eastman, the co-creator of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", Nickelodeon's exclusive "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" themed bottles of water, Nickelodeon's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Press Badges/Lanyard's (featuring a exclusive TMNT sketch by Kevin Eastman), how the look of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" action figure product lines have changed over the years since the 1980's (as a timeline), and a sneak peek of Nickelodeon And Viacom Consumer Products UK's upcoming "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" merchandise/toy ranges, which will be released in UK and Ireland retailers in December 2012 in time for Christmas!

Nickelodeon Scandinavia And Nickelodeon Benelux Pick Up The Broadcast Rights To Alphanim's "Santapprentice"

From C21Media:

Nets delve into Alphanim library

Broadcasters across the globe have acquired library programming from France's Alphanim.

Among the deals, Discovery Kids (Asia) has acquired France Televisions/Canal+ coproduction Pok & Mok (78x7′), along with EBS (South Korea), YLE (Finland) and Canal+ (Poland).

Discovery Kids also bought The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog (52x13′), while Canal+ has taken on Potatoes and Dragons (78x7′), Ralf the Record Rat (104x1′) and X-Duckx (78x8′).

Other deals include Taiwan's Eastern TV buying Cooking? Child’s Play (39x8′), Nickelodeon acquiring Santapprentice (52x13′) for Scandinavia [Nickelodeon Scandinavia; including Nickelodeon Denmark, Nickelodeon Norway, and Nickelodeon Sweden] and Benelux [Nickelodeon Benelux; including Nickelodeon Belgium and Nickelodeon Netherlands] and DR taking it to Denmark. Spain's ETB has bought three seasons of Galactick Football (78x26′).

Gaumont-owned Alphanim also secured further deals in Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey, Brazil and Slovenia.

Jesse Whittock
26-09-2012
©C21Media

GENRES: Animation, Children's
SHOWS: Cooking? Child's Play, Galactik Football, Pok & Mok, Potatoes and Dragons, Ralf the Record Rat, Santapprentice, The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog, X-Duckx
COMPANIES: Alphanim, Canal+, Discovery Kids, DR, Eastern TV, EBS, ETB, France Televisions, Gaumont Group, Nickelodeon, YLE
SECTIONS: C21Kids
COUNTRIES: Finland, France, Korea, Poland, Scandinavia, Spain, Taiwan

Alphanim's "Santapprentice" is a Christmas themed movie/film about a young orphan who, due to every Santa Claus retiring every 163 years, is selected to replace Santa Claus when he retires.

Also, from Kidscreen:

Alphanim secures raft of international broadcasting sales

Paris, France-based prodco Alphanim has announced a slew of new TV deals across Europe, Scandinavia, Asia and Brazil.

The France TV and Canal+ 78 x seven-minute animated co-production Pok & Mok was snapped up by Discovery Kids for its Asian feeds, and by EBS (South Korea), YLE (Finland), and Canal+ (Poland). Canal+ Poland has also scooped up Alphanim's Potatoes and Dragons (78 x eight minutes), Ralf the Record Rat (104 x one-minute), and X-DuckX (78 x eight minutes).

Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog (52 x 13 minutes) has been taken by Discovery Kids Asia while Eastern TV has picked up Cooking? Child's Play (39 x eight minutes) for Taiwan.

Moving to Scandinavia, Nickelodeon has acquired Santa Apprentice (52 x 13 minutes) for all territories including rights to Benelux, and DR TV Denmark has also grabbed the series.

In Brazil, season two of adventure comedy Gawayn (52 x 13 minutes) has been nabbed by Globosat.

Rounding out the sales, Spain’s ETB has picked up all three seasons of Galactik Football (78 x 26 minutes), and in CEE and Turkey, Cooking? Childs’s Play (39 x eight minutes) has been purchased by RTV Slovenia, while ATV has snatched Turkish rights to The Small Giant (52 x 13 minutes), Toto Trouble (52 x 13 minutes), The Green Squad (52 x 13 minutes), Woofy (65 x five minutes) and Mouss & Boubidi (52 x one minute).

Tags: Alphanim, Asia, Brazil, Europe, Pok & Mok, Scandinavia

Nickelodeon International Picks Up Broadcast Rights To The Animated Children's Comedy Series "Lucky Fred"

From C21Media:

Nick gets lucky with toon

Viacom’s Nickelodeon has added kids animation Lucky Fred to more of its channel feeds worldwide, while broadcasters in Mexico and South Korea follow suit.

Lucky Fred
Lucky Fred (52x12′) has been picked up for free-TV by Nickelodeon in Germany [Nickelodeon Germany/Nickelodeon Deutschland] and Poland [Nickelodeon Poland/Nickelodeon Polska], as well as ORF in Austria and Televisa Mexico.

Meanwhile, Nickelodeon in Ukraine [Nickelodeon Ukraine] and the Baltic states [Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland], Canal Panda in Portugal and Tooniverse in South Korea have picked up pay-TV rights to the toon, which is coproduced by Imira Entertainment, fellow Spanish firm Televisió de Catalunya and Rai Fiction in Italy.

Lucky Fred has now been sold to networks in more than 160 territories, including France's TF1 and Disney channels across the world.

The toon follows the comic adventures of an ordinary 13-year-old boy who accidentally becomes the owner of a shape-shifting robot.

Nico Franks
26-09-2012
©C21Media

TAGS: Acquisition
GENRES: Animation, Children's
SHOWS: Lucky Fred
COMPANIES: Canal Panda, Imira Entertainment, ORF, RAI Fiction, Televisa Mexico, Televisió de Catalunya, Tooniverse
SECTIONS: C21Kids
COUNTRIES: Austria, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Ukraine

Also, from Kidscreen:

New international broadcasters for Lucky Fred

A number of new broadcasters have picked up Imira Entertainment’s hit animated kids series Lucky Fred.

Nickelodeon has snapped up free-TV rights for Germany and Poland, and pay-TV rights in the Baltics and Ukraine. In additional deals, pay-TV rights have been taken by Canal Panda for Portugal and South Korea’s Tooniverse while free-TV rights have been picked up by ORF Austria and Televisa Mexico.

The latest deals further expand the audience reach of the program which currently airs in more than 163 territories worldwide including France (TF1), Spain, France, Italy, Germany, India, Israel and Australia (Disney Channel), Benelux, Scandinavia, Latin America, Asia and South Korea (Nickelodeon), Malaysia (RTM), UAE (e-Vision), Ireland (TG4), and Turkey (Kidz).

Lucky Fred (52 x 12 minutes), is co-produced with Televisió de Catalunya (Spain) and RAI Fiction (Italy), and follows the adventures of 13-year-old Fred who has a personal robot that can transform into anything he wants.

As a cross-platform IP, Imira launched a Lucky Fred app in February that features a web and mobile-based interactive geo-localised aliens hunt.

Additional licensing partners include TF1 Licences (France), Coscoi (South Korea) and CPLG (Benelux, Germany and Italy) in categories including toys, publishing, apparel, and stationery.

In Spain and Portugal, Editorial Planeta (Castilian version) and Grup 62 (Catala version) will release 16 book titles between 2012 and 2014 including eBooks.

Tags: Canal Panda, Imira Entertainment, Lucky Fred, Nickelodeon, Televisa

Nickelodeon UK To Rebrand Their Plus One Timeshift Channel 'Nick Replay' To 'Nickelodeon +1' From Tuesday 2nd October 2012

According to OverNights.tv, Nickelodeon UK are planning to rename Nickelodeon UK and Ireland's plus one (+1) timeshift channel from 'Nick Replay', which rebroadcasts what's on Nick UK & Eire one hour later, to 'Nickelodeon +1' (also known as 'Nick +1') on Tuesday 2nd October 2012:

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BARB reported channels

Nickelodeon Replay will be rebranded to Nickelodeon +1 on 2nd October 2012.

source: Kantar Media

[Nickelodeon UK News credit: NickUKHub]

Separately, Nickelodeon UK and Ireland will 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, on Monday 1st October 2012, and Viacom18, the owners Of Nickelodeon India (also known as Nick India), are planning to launch their brand new entertainment television channel 'Rishtey' in the UK on Monday 22nd October 2012.