Australian Commercial Television Network "Network Ten" Acquires Broadcast Rights For The Popular CGI-Animated Series "Matt Hatter Chronicles" For Their Free-To-Air Channel "ELEVEN"

From Kidscreen:

Network Ten picks up Matt Hatter Chronicles

Australia's Network Ten has snapped up boy-skewing, 3D/CG-animated series Matt Hatter Chronicles for its free-to-air channel ELEVEN.

Scheduled to premiere in 2013 on ELEVEN's Toasted TV block, the 26 x 30-minute Arc Productions-animated TV series from UK-based Platinum Films and Toronto-based Dream Mill will also be supported by an online and social media digital interactive component at matthatter.com.

The series, which has been a ratings success on Nicktoons and ITV in the UK, debuted on Canada’s Teletoon (English and French speaking) on September 8 and additional broadcasters on-board include Nickelodeon (Australia and New Zealand), RTE (Eire), SABC (South Africa) and JCC (Middle East).

The brand’s L&M program is also set to expand with consumer products launching in 2013 and a recent deal by Platinum will see ITVS GE represent rights for merchandising, publishing, promotional and home entertainment in the UK, Eire, Australia and New Zealand.

Tags: Australia, ELEVEN, Matt Hatter Chronicles, Network Ten

Also, from Broadcast:

Matt Hatter Chronicles sells to Australia's Network Ten

Australia's Network Ten has acquired kids' adventure series Matt Hatter Chronicles for broadcast in 2013.

The HD CGI animation, produced by indie Platinum Films and Toronto-based Dream Mill Inc, tells the story of a boy that has to defend the “multiverse”. The 26 x 30 minute series will air as part of Eleven's Toasted TV.

Cherrie Bottger, head of children’s television at Network Ten, said: “We’re delighted to be adding Matt Hatter Chronicles to our children’s line-up on Eleven and we hope to mirror the success that the series has enjoyed in other territories around the world. The 360-degree approach of this exciting series reflects our belief in offering interactive and immersive content for our young audience, both on-air and online.”

Last month, Platinum launched a digital hub for the series – matthatter.com – which features 200 pages of content that allows fans to find out more about the hero. It received 50,000 hits in its first weekend. Online activity, including social media, will be rolled out to support its launch on Eleven.

Matt Hatter Chronicles is show on Nicktoons and ITV in the UK, Teletoon in Canada and has already sold to Nickelodeon in Australia and New Zealand, RTE in the Republic of Ireland, SABC in South Africa and JCC in the Middle East. Further deals are expected to follow for Western Europe and the rest of the world.

Nigel Stone, chief executive at Platinum Films added: “Matt Hatter’s appeal is universal and we are confident that the show will become a firm favourite for all those budding schoolboy heroes across the territory.”

Also, from Animation Magazine:

Network Ten Dons 'Matt Hatter' for Spring 2013

Australia’s Network Ten has nabbed boys’ animated adventure-comedy Matt Hatter Chronicles for its digital free-to-air channel, ELEVEN, series producer Platinum Films has announced. The 26 x 30 HD CGI show will premiere in 2013 as part of ELEVEN’s Toasted TV line-up.

Produced by leading U.K. indie Platinum Films and Toronto-based Dream Mill Inc. and animated by Arc Productions (the Canadian studio behind Gnomeo & Juliet), Matt Hatter Chronicles charts the adventures of Matt Hatter, a 13-year-old schoolboy whose life is changed forever when he discovers his family defends a gateway to another dimension called the Multiverse—in order to protect the Multiverse and save his grandpa, Matt and best friends Roxie and Gomez must defeat and capture an assortment of powerful villains from movies, myths and legends.

Last month, Platinum launched the first phase of www.matthatter.com, getting 50,000 hits in its debut weekend. Over 200 pages of content allows fans to take a walk in Matt Hatter’s shoes, and will lead to Platinum’s digital strategy to support the broadcast by collaborating with ELEVEN to develop online activity, interactive digital content and social media engagement.

The series premiered on Canada’s Teletoon (English and French) in September and is already a favorite on Nicktoons and ITV in the U.K. where it has risen to a top rated position on both channels. Matt Hatter has sold to Nickelodeon in Australia and New Zealand, RTE in Ireland, SABC South Africa and JCC Middle East. Following MIPCOM, new deals across major Western Europe territories and the ROW are forthcoming.

Matt Hatter Chronicles

Nickelodeon USA Adds The New "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Theme Song To The US Version Of iTunes!

Nickelodeon USA has announced on the homepage of their official website, Nick.com, that Nickelodeon has added the theme tune of Nickelodeon's brand new CGI-animated "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" television series as a single to the US version of Apple's iTunes store, which US fans of Nickelodeon's new "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" TV series can now buy and download on the official iTunes US website, itunes.apple.com, or through the iTunes app on a Apple iPhone/iPod/iPad for 99¢!:

Love the new TMNT song?

It's now available on iTunes!

Turtle Power!

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Theme Song - Single
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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Name: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Theme Song
Artist: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Time: 1:02
Price: $0.99

Genres: Children's Music, Music
Released: Oct 23, 2012
℗ 2012 Viacom International

Biography

Genre: Children's Music
Years Active: '80s, '90s

Does anybody between two and seven years of age not love the Turtles? Based around the kiddie TV series (currently in separate shows in syndication and CBS), the concept had already moved into films before it embraced rock & roll in 1990, with a very successful live concert tour and a major tie-in with Pizza Hut. The music is a derivative mix of pop, rock, rap, and metal, and has enraptured the little ones into getting their parents to spend big bucks.

Below are the lyrics to Nickelodeon's brand new "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" theme tune so you can sing-a-long to Nickelodeon's brand new "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" theme song, courtesy of ForeverMutation:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Heroes in a half-shell

Turtle Power!

Here we Go!

It's the lean green ninja team
On the scene, cool teens doing any thing
So extreme, up the sewers like a laser beam
Get rocked with the shell shock pizza kings
Can't stop these radical dudes
The secret of the ooze, make a chosen few
Emerge from the shadows to make their move
The good guys win and the bad guys loose

Leonardo is the leader in blue, does anything it takes to get his ninjas through
Donatello is the fellow, has the way with machines
Raphael has the most attitude on the team
Michealangelo, he is one of a kind, and you know where to find him when it's party time
Master Splinter taught them every single skill that they need
to be one mean, lean, green incredible team

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Heroes in a half-shell

Turtle Power!

Extra tags: Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael, Leonardo, Mikey, Raph, Donnie, Leo

Official Nickelodeon Websites Around The World Unveil Halloween Treats To Download

To celebrate the spookiest and scariest month of the year and Halloween, Nickelodeon channels and networks around the world (Nickelodeon International / Planet Nickelodeon) have unveiled some thoroughly haunted Halloween-themed Nickelodeon goodies for visitors to their official Nickelodeon websites to download to help and make sure that their Halloween celebrations go with a spooktacular BOO!

Want to go Trick or Treating as a hero in a half shell? There's still time to download Nickelodeon Europe's great printable "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle" Mask / Bandana colouring in (coloring in) activity, which you can download and colour as your favourite "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle" character, or even color it in your own colour to be your very own "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle" character and to become the 5th member of the Lean, Mean Ninja Team! Although it's only available to download in German, in Belgium, in Swedish, in Dutch, and in Danish, the instructions are straightforward, simply download, print, colour in, cut-out, cut out the two holes at the sides, and attach some string or elastic to the holes to wear it around your head.

The official Nickelodeon Japan website, NickJapan.com, has also unveiled some thoroughly haunted Halloween-themed Nickelodeon goodies to download, including a Halloween-themed "Spongebob Squarepants" computer desktop wallpaper featuring Nickelodeon Superstar SpongeBob SquarePants dressed up in a Wicked Witches Halloween costume riding a broomstick, Halloween-themed colouring in/painting activities featuring SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star with their Halloween "Trick-Or-Treat" candy bags and Dora The Explorer and Boots The Monkey with a Halloween pumpkin which has been carved, and a 'Happy Halloween' printable craft featuring popular Nickelodeon Stars, including from "iCarly" and "The Penguins Of Madagascar".

The official Nickelodeon Italy (also known as Nickelodeon Italia) website, NickTV.it, has also unveiled some thoroughly spine-chilling Halloween-themed Nickelodeon goodies to download, including Halloween-themed Nickelodeon computer desktop wallpapers featuring stars from hit Nickelodeon shows, "Spongebob Squarepants" (including one featuring a scary scene from 'The Krusty Krab' and another of Spongebob Squarepants dressed in a vampire Halloween costume), "Rugrats All Grown Up!" (Tommy Pickles in a vampire Halloween costume), "Edgar & Ellen", and "Dora the Explorer" (featuring Dora the Explorer dressed in a cat costume and holding a trick or treat candy/sweet container in the shape of a Halloween pumpkin), and PC screensavers, including one that features a Nickelodeon Halloween-themed scene from "The Fairly OddParents" (Timmy Turner in a Frankenstein costume and Cosmo and Wanda in the shape of spiders in front of the Turner's house).

There's more Halloween treats to download on the official website of Nickelodeon Spain (also known as Nickelodeon Espana), Nickelodeon.es, including Halloween themed pictures and colouring in and craft printables featuring characters from popular Nickelodeon Stars, including from Nickelodeon Preschool's "Team Umizoomi" and "Dora The Explorer" (including a Dora The Explorer Halloween-themed Door Hanger to download, print-out and cut-out), and the popular Nickelodeon original animated series "SpongeBob SquarePants"!

Nick Or Treat!

Nickelodeon's Mega-Popular Original Animated Series "SpongeBob SquarePants" Named The USA's Most-Loved Television Series!

From USA Today:

In search of the USA's most-loved TV series

Here's how Spongebob floated to the top of the USA's top series in Web traffic and social media mentions.

12:22PM EDT October 25. 2012 - What's the most-loved series on television? And, frankly, how does one go about measuring that kind of passion?

Fortunately, with so many ways these days for folks to express their enthusiasm for specific shows, there is more evidence available than ever. So USA TODAY, in an attempt to measure viewers' dedication, pulled data from a wide range of those platforms in search of Television's Most-Loved Shows.

Looking at a year-long period — July 1, 2011, to June 30, 2012 — we created a recipe for a stew of statistics:

-- We collected data on social media activity, website traffic and actual viewership: counts of Twitter mentions and followers, Get Glue check-ins, Facebook fans, fan-fiction activity, and Google Plus pluses and inclusion in circles. We added total social activity measured by social-media metrics firm Trendrr.

-- With measurements from Web-traffic trackers at Hitwise Experian, we sifted in visits to television-show websites.

-- And we stirred in prime-time, premiere-episode average viewership numbers from television's official scorekeeper, Nielsen Co.

Each measure accounted for a percentage of a show's final score.

After all that, what bubbled up as the series that commands the most passion from its fans? Tops in USA TODAY's TV-passion index: Nickelodeon's Spongebob Squarepants — which, perhaps not surprisingly, dominated the charts from both Hitwise and Trendrr — followed by Fox's fictional songfest, Glee, and the network's popular singing competition, American Idol.

A look at a just a couple of the number sets:

Total social activity (in millions of mentions, from Trendrr):

1 SpongeBob Squarepants 15,133,047

2 American Idol 9,040,514

3 Jersey Shore 7,899,373

4 Glee 6,685,882

5 Pretty Little Liars 6,618,041

6 Bad Girls Club 6,439,736

7 WWE Raw 5,957,343

8 The Voice 5,524,227

9 The X Factor 5,249,078

10 106 and Park 5,080,676

Website traffic (in pct. of total visits to major network and cable sites, from Hitwise Experian):

1 Spongebob (Nick) 12.02%

2 Adventure Time (Cartoon [Network]) 5.03%

3 South Park (Comedy Central) 2.85%

4 American Idol (Fox) 2.53%

5 Ben 10: Ultimate Alien (Cartoon) 2.39%

6 Phineas and Ferb (Disney) 2.03%

(tie) Dancing With the Stars (ABC) 2.03%

8 Tosh.0 (Comedy Central) 1.90%

9 Jersey Shore (MTV) 1.52%

10 The Daily Show (Comedy Central) 1.30%

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

USA TODAY merged viewership data with Web-traffic rankings to determine who was No. 1

'Spongebob' was tops in social activity and website traffic

Fox's 'American Idol' and 'Glee' were Nos. 2 and 3

Five Facts About Nickelodeon And "Big Time Rush" Star Carlos Pena, Jr.

Below is a Nickelodeon News article about Nickelodeon and "Big Time Rush" boy band star Carlos Pena, Jr. from the 'Nickelodeon Stars' section of the (geo-locked) official Nickelodeon USA website, Nick.com:

Carlos Pena Is A Black Belt!

Carlos Pena is a well-trained entertainer. But he also has the creds to take on a number of other jobs! Like scuba instructing, cooking, even competitive eating (have you seen how fast he can wolf down a corn dog?). While interviewing with Popstar!, Carlos listed some all new fun facts about himself. And we learned how much of a multi-talented star he really is! Peep his facts, below.

1. Carlos has a black belt in Taekwondo!
2. Carlos was a cheerleader in high school.
3. The BTR boys call Carlos the "mom of the group," because he's always picking up after them (he can be a bit of a neat freak).
4. He's a certified scuba diver.
5. When Carlos is crushing on a gal, he likes to cook for her!

So who's ready to throw on their flippers and head into the ocean with Carlos? Or join him in the ring for a kung fu face off? Hmmm, considering his black belt status, we'd better stick with diving for fish.