Guy Sebastian And Nickelodeon Australia Release "Dare to be Square" As Charity Single For Kids Helpline

Nickelodeon Australia and New Zealand has announced on their official "Dare to be Square" website the very exciting Nickelodeon News that, as part of their "SpongeBob SquarePants"-themed pro-social campaign, "Dare to be Square", an exciting initiative to promote positivity and inclusiveness and to give Aussie and Kiwi kids a voice, Nickelodeon and the Australian pop, R&B, and soul singer-songwriter Guy Sebastian have released Guy's new "Dare to be Square" song, which he recently performed at SLIMEFEST 2013, as a charity single to help raise money for Kids Helpline, Australia's only free, 24/7, confidential counselling service for kids!

The song, which can be downloaded now on iTunes Australia for AUD$2.19, and all money raised will support Kids Helpline!

Leading up to SLIMEFEST 2013, Guy Sebastian and Nick Oz & NZ dared Australian and Kiwi kids to be part of the campaign by joining in by learning the lyrics to "Dare to be Square" and upload a video of themselves singing the chorus to the official DTBS website, http://daretobesquare.com.au. Entrants could then find themselves singing along with Guy as part of Nick's virtual choir on the big screen when Guy performed the song SLIMEFEST 2013!

The Australian tabloid newspaper The Daily Telegraph is reporting that Guy Sebastian was prompted to write the tune after his own son, 17-month-old Hudson, was punched by a bigger child during a park outing.

He hopes the lyrics, which includes the line "Who I am is who I am / and that's all right / Now I don't care what anybody says", will prompt teenagers to think about what is "cool behaviour". "Being cool is being happy with who you are and confident in the fact you are different," he previously told The Daily Telegraph.

Kids Helpline, which has answered more than six million calls and online contacts since opening in 1991, hopes the awareness created by the campaign will help young people nationwide.

"The more we can give kids a chance to develop resilience and say ‘I am proud to be me’, then the healthier and happier kids will be," Kids Helpline general manager Wendy Protheroe said. "(This is focused on) being brave enough to say what is happening in your life, being brave enough to reach and find ways to help and realise there are an awful lot of young kids in Australia who are just like you but they are daring to be themselves."

Kids Helpline offers FREE 24/7 phone and online help for anyone aged from 5 to 25 years. Callers to Kids Helpline are welcome to chat about anything that's on their mind, including what's going on at home, about a friend who needs help, about something that may be bothering them at school, and about feeling sad or confused. Kids Helpline exists to help you! Contact Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800 or through the charity's official website, www.kidshelp.com.au.

Remember to keep spreading the message of positivity by throwing a square in the air and use the hashtag #daretobesquare!

Full information can be found on Nick's official "Dare to be Square" website, http://daretobesquare.com.au.

Nickelodeon Australia & New Zealand Acquire Rights To "Bradley and Bee" For Nick Jr.

The entertainment news website C21Media is reporting the exciting Nickelodeon International news that Nick Jr. Australia & New Zealand, Nickelodeon Australia and New Zealand's local version of the popular preschool channel, has picked up the broadcast rights to the brand-new CG-animated preschool series "Bradley and Bee" (52x11') from Edinburgh, Scotland-based Red Kite Animation, a award-winning production company that specialises in the development and production of children's animated content for international television broadcast:

UK toon jets off down under

... broadcaster in Australia and New Zealand is among the latest international broadcasters to come on-board high-flying toon Bradley & Bee. Nickelodeon will air the 52x11' series on Nick Jr in Australia and New Zealand, joining the likes of YLE in Finland and SVT in Sweden in picking up the...

You can read the full article here on the official C21 Media website (paid subscription required).

The 52 x 11-minute CG-animated series is based on "The Adventures of Bradley and Friends" from Hungry Boy Productions' Scott Downie and will make its UK debut on Channel 5's "Milkshake!" preschool block in 2015.

Red Kite developed the series with animation software developer Digimania on-board as co-producer.

"Bradley and Bee" follows the adventures of seven-year-old Bradley and his five-year-old sister, Bee, who own a magical pop-up book that, when opened, can transport the pair to exotic geographical locations via Bradley's toy model plane, Victor. The series celebrates cultural diversity and focuses on problem-solving as the siblings must, for example, figure out ways to herd bison, save snakes and help hippos with bad cases of hiccups. (Additional information from Kidscreen)

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Butch Hartman Confirms Nickelodeon Making Third Live-Action/CGI "The Fairly OddParents" Movie, "A Fairly Odd Summer"

Butch Hartman, the creator of Nickelodeon's Emmy Award-winning original animated series (Nicktoon) "The Fairly OddParents", has today, Wednesday 2nd October 2013, announced and confirmed on his official Twitter profile page, @realhartman, the fantastic news that, following the huge success of "A Fairly OddMovie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!" and "A Fairly Odd Christmas", Nickelodeon Productions and Pacific Bay Entertainment are currently working on a third brand new live-action/CGI "The Fairly OddParents" original television movie called "A Fairly Odd Summer"!! Butch Hartman announced the news whilst on the set filming the all-new live-action FOP movie!

SUPER PSYCHED to be on the set filming a THIRD #FAIRLYODDPARENTS live action movie!!! More details to follow...

Although most of the exact details are yet to be announced, including the films storyline, as the movie is still in pre-production, the IMDb is reporting that Nickelodeon USA will premiere "A Fairly Odd Summer" in August 2014 as part of Nick's summer holidays programming line-up.

The Internet Movie Database is also reporting that Nickelodeon Stars Drake Bell ("The Amanda Show", "Drake & Josh"), Daniella Monet ("Victorious", "AwesomenessTV", "Fred: The Show"), Teryl Rothery, Daran Norris ("Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide", "Big Time Rush", "The Fairly Oddparents", "T.U.F.F. Puppy"), David Lewis, Mark Gibbon, and Devon Weigel will be reprising their roles as 'Timmy', 'Tootie', 'Mom', 'Dad', 'Mr. Denzel Crocker', 'Jorgen Von Strangle', and 'Vicky', respectively, and will feature actress Ella Anderson ("Dog with a Blog") as the character 'Mitzie' and actor Carter Hastings ("Liv & Maddie") as 'Marty'.

Nickelodeon have so far filmed scenes for their "A Fairly Odd Summer" movie on-location in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and in North Shore, O'ahu, Hawaii, USA.

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Nick France Acquires Brand New Animated Preschool Series "Guess How Much I Love You – The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare" For Nickelodeon Junior

The Canadian production, broadcasting and interactive media business news website Playback Online is reporting the exciting Nick Jr. International news in the following article, via Kidscreen, that Nickelodeon France, the French version of the popular kids' channel, has picked up the broadcast rights to the popular preschool series "Guess How Much I Love You – The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare", locally titled "Devine combien je t'aime", from Toronto, Canada-based 9 Story Entertainment.

Produced by Australia's SLR Productions, Germany's KiKA and Singapore's Scrawl Studios, the series is adapted from the bestselling picture book by Sam McBratney and published by the Walker Books Group, and features the love-themed seasonal adventures of Nutbrown Hare's family and their friends, in which the father and son attempt to measure how much they love each other.

The series launched on recently on Nick Jr. UK and Ireland and in France, and continues to air in territories including Australia, Norway, Israel, Portugal and Estonia. GHMILY also airs on TVO in Canada.

SLR Productions, building on the series' popularity in international markets, also released interactive episodes of GHMILY for Apple's iPad earlier this year (2013).

Nickelodeon Junior, Nick France's preschool channel, has announced in the slider on the homepage of the channels official website, nickelodeonjunior.fr, that Nickelodeon Junior will be premiering brand new episodes of "Devine combien je t'aime" every Wednesday at 7:50pm (19h50), and to celebrate, has unveiled a exclusive online streaming video clip from the show!:

9 Story sells preschool series to Nickelodeon France

Toronto, Canada-based 9 Story Entertainment has sold preschool series Guess How Much I Love You – The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare to Nickelodeon France.

Produced by Australia’s SLR Productions, Germany’s KiKA and Singapore’s Scrawl Studios, the series is adapted from the bestselling picture book by Sam McBratney.

The series launched on recently on Nick Jr. in the UK and in France, and continues to air in territories including Australia, Norway, Israel, Portugal and Estonia. GHMILY also airs on TVO in Canada.

SLR Productions, building on the series’ popularity in international markets, also released interactive episodes of GHMILY for iPad earlier this year.

From Playback Online

Tags: 9 Story Entertainment, KiKA, Nickelodeon, Scrawl Studios, SLR Productions

Also, from Animation Magazine:

9 Story Sells ‘Guess How Much I Love You’ to Nick France

9 Story Entertainment has sold SLR/KI.KA/Scraw Studios’ preschool toon Guess How Much I Love You: The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare (52 x 11) to Nickelodeon France. The beautifully animated 2D series is the first adaptation of the much loved bestselling picture book which has sold more than 32 million copies worldwide. Guess How Much I Love You relates the adventures of the Nutbrown Hares family and their friends with the same endearing simplicity and love that has made the book a timeless classic.

The series continues to air on Disney Junior US, KI.KA Germany, ABC4Kids Australia, Nickelodeon UK, TV2 Norway, Hop! Israel, RTP Portugal, Disney Spain & Italy, ZAPP Netherlands, TRT Turkey, Mini Mini Poland, VRT Belgium and EESTI Estonia, TFO and TVO Canada and YLE Finland.

“We are thrilled to be partnering with Nickelodeon France on this evergreen property and look forward to seeing the series succeed for them,” said Natalie Osborne, Managing Director, 9 Story Entertainment. “They are the perfect home for Guess How Much I Love You in France, especially with Nick Jr. in the U.K. having just recently launched the series,” added Jill Keenleyside, Vice President Distribution, 9 Story Entertainment.”

“The series continues to be an exceptional success in the international and domestic markets,” says Suzanne Ryan, exec producer and CEO of SLR Productions. “With its universal themes and gentle stories, it has timeless appeal to audiences all over the world. Its popularity has grown so much so that we have released the Guess How Much I Love You – Interactive Episodes iPad game application which can be downloaded for the global market from ghmily.tv/ipad-app.”

9 Story Enterprises owns a growing catalogue of popular toons such as which Arthur, Wibbly Pig, Wild Kratts and Almost Naked Animals in addition to new series such as Numb Chucks, Camp Lakebottom, Cache Craze, Daniel Tiger's Neighbourhood and Nerds and Monsters. The company recently acquired distribution rights to CCI Kids, the family content division of CCI Entertainment, increasing 9 Story’s portfolio to over 1500 half hours of content with shows such as Guess How Much I Love You, Joe & Jack, Artzooka! and Extreme Babysitting. For more info, visit www.9story.com.

Guess How Much I Love You: The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare

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Nickelodeon Orders Brand New Slow-Motion Physical Gameshow "Split / Second" To Series For Official Website

The official website of the television industry magazine Broadcast is reporting the exciting Nickelodeon News in the following article that Nickelodeon has ordered a brand new slow motion physical gameshow from ZigZag Productions called "Split / Second" to series for the networks official website!

The Viacom-owned broadcaster has commissioned a initial order of 15 episodes of the gameshow with the duration to be decided. Nickelodeon will initially launch the series online and has the option to move the show to traditional TV.

The news comes over a year after the kids channel originally piloted the gameshow.

"Split / Second" is designed to test the pace of contestants' reactions. Entrants will be whittled down via a series of fastest-first challenges, building to a head-to-head final. It will not be possible to tell with the naked eye which contestant wins games such as bursting a balloon the quickest, with drama injected via super-slow-motion replays of the events.

The show was commissioned by Nickelodeon's US vice president of original programming Jon Radler and will be executive produced by Zig Zag boss Danny Fenton and executive vice president (EVP) of Zig Zag USA Matt Gould:

Nickelodeon orders Zig Zag slo-mo gameshow

Nickelodeon has ordered Zig Zag’s slow motion, physical gameshow Split / Second to series for its website.

The Viacom-owned broadcaster has commissioned 15 episodes of the gameshow with the duration to be decided. It will initially launch online but Nickelodeon has the option to move to traditional TV.

This comes over a year after the kids channel originally piloted the gameshow.

Split / Second is designed to test the pace of contestants’ reactions.

Entrants will be whittled down via a series of fastest-first challenges, building to a head-to-head final. It will not be possible to tell with the naked eye which contestant wins games such as bursting a balloon the quickest, with drama injected via super-slow-motion replays of the events.

For full production credits visit

Broadcast Greenlight
Split / Second

The show was commissioned by Nickelodeon’s US vice president of original programming Jon Radler and will be executive produced by Zig Zag boss Danny Fenton and executive vice president of Zig Zag USA Matt Gould.

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