Worldwide Pants Developing New Game Show For Nickelodeon

The entertainment industry news magazine The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is reporting the exciting Nickelodeon News that Worldwide Pants Inc., the American television and film production company owned by comedian and talk show host David Letterman, is currently developing a potential brand-new game show for Nickelodeon!:

Worldwide Pants: Letterman's production company isn't going anywhere. The shingle, which makes Late Show, co-produces The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, rakes in syndication money from Everybody Loves Raymond and has an active development slate, including a game show at Nickelodeon and a Harry Connick Jr. comedy at Fox. Insiders say Letterman hasn't decided how personally involved he wants to be, though president and CEO Rob Burnett will remain at the helm. It is unlikely that Worldwide Pants will produce a late-night show post-Letterman, who, aside from Johnny Carson, has been the lone late-nighter to own his time slot. Notes one source, "CBS is buying retail when they could be buying wholesale."

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NickToons UK To Premiere Brand-New "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Special "Wormquake!" On Saturday 12th April 2014

British and Irish ShellHeads, take cover, there's a Wormquake on the way! Nickelodeon UK, the number one commercial kids TV network in the UK, has announced in a advertisement in the April 2014 issue (#13) of Panini's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" magazine and on the What's On section of their official website, nick.co.uk, the Booyakasha TMNT news that Nick UK's animation and action channel, Nicktoons UK and Ireland, will premiere and show the hour-long special "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" season 2 episode "Wormquake!" in two parts on Saturday 12th April 2014! NickToons will debut "Wormquake! - Part 1" at 9:30am and "Wormquake! - Part 2" at 10:00am, with both parts repeated at 6:00pm and 6:30pm, respectively.

"Wormquake!" is a all-new hour-long special that is packed with epic ninja battles, Kraang worms (yes, you read that right), and the long awaited arrival of... TIGER CLAW!

In "Wormquake!", Leonardo must decide whether to risk his brothers' lives or ask for Splinter's help when facing Shredder's deadly new assassin, Tiger Claw. Meanwhile, Donatello must put aside his rivalry with Casey Jones in order to uncover a Kraang plot. The episode also features a special reunion of the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" ("Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles" in the UK) voice cast, Townsend Coleman, Barry Gordon and Rob Paulsen, who reprise their roles as the 1987 counterparts of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael, respectively, at the end of the episode.

Above retro-style "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" screenshot/framegrab from TMNT Wiki.

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Nickelodeon Movies And Paramount Pictures Unveil First Four Teaser Posters For "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"

To celebrate Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures upcoming "Ninja Turtles" movie, Nick and Paramount have today, Tuesday 8th April 2014, released the first four teaser posters for their brand-new movie on the films official Tumblr blog, tmntmovie.tumblr.com, which you can view below!

The new teaser posters for "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" feature each of the boys' weapons clenched in their hands - Leonardo with his katana, Donatello with his bo staff, Raphael with his sais and Michelangelo with his nunchuks - with each of the Heroes in a Half Shells' distinctive colors prominent within each TMNT poster:

Leonardo with Katana

Michelangelo with Nunchuks

Donatello holding Bo Staff

Raphael holding Sais

The synopsis for "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" reads, "The city needs heroes. Darkness has settled over New York City as Shredder and his evil Foot Clan have an iron grip on everything from the police to the politicians. The future is grim until four unlikely outcast brothers rise from the sewers and discover their destiny as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Turtles must work with fearless reporter April O'Neil (Megan Fox) and her wise-cracking cameraman Vern Fenwick (Will Arnett) to save the city and unravel Shredder’s diabolical plan."

Check out Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures' first teaser trailer for "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" here on NickALive!.

The film, directed by Michael Bay ("Transformers"), is an reboot of the iconic franchise and will feature a origins story for the Heroes in a Half Shell, with Alan Ritchson, Pete Ploszek, Jeremy Howard and Noel Fisher stepping into the shells of Raphael, Leonardo, Donatello, and Michelangelo respectively. "Ninja Turtles" also stars Will Arnett as Vernon Fenwick and Whoopi Goldberg as Bernadette Thompson.

"Ninja Turtles" will be released in theatres and RealD 3D in the USA on Friday 8th August 2014 and in Digital 3D and 2D in cinemas across the UK on Friday 17th October 2014!

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Nickelodeon Decides Not To Order "Twang" To Series

Actress Rachel Cannon has confirmed to NickALive! in a Tweet (post) on her official Twitter profile page, @MsRachelCannon, that, after Nickelodeon ordered and filmed a pilot episode for a potential brand-new live-action comedy series "Twang" in 2013, Nickelodeon has decided not to pick-up the sitcom to series:

they decided not to pick it up. #boo.

"Twang" (working title) was going to be a all-new sitcom about a family that relocates from Hollywood, California to run a diner in Tennessee. The show was created and executive produced by Andy Gordon ("True Jackson, VP", "Just Shoot Me", "Kirstie"). The pilot starred actress Gatlin Green and her brother, Cooper Green, Storm Reid, Noah Urrea, Richard Reihle as the father of Rachel Cannon's character, and Patsy Cline.

Rachel Cannon has also confirmed the news and shared a few photographs from the set of "Twang" on her official website, rachel-cannon.com.

"Twang" logo from On Camera Audiences.

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Nick And Conglomerate Sunway Group Partner For Nickelodeon Explorer's Oasis, Asia's First Nickelodeon-Branded Attraction; To Open In Malaysia In March 2015

The Edge Malaysia, Malaysia's award-winning business and investment weekly newspaper, is reporting the exciting Nickelodeon Asia news on the publications official website, TheEdgeMalaysia.com, that Nickelodeon Asia has partnered with the Conglomerate Sunway Group for the development of the first Nickelodeon-branded attraction in Asia, which will be constructed in its 88-acre Sunway Lagoon, located in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia!

For the project, Conglomerate Sunway Group will make a total investment of RM100 million.

Tan Sri Dr. Jeffrey Cheah, the founder and chairman of The Sunway Group of Companies in Malaysia, told reporters after the signing collaboration agreement with the Vice President (VP) of Nickelodeon recreation business development, Gerald Raines, that the new attraction, which will be called Nickelodeon Explorer's Oasis, will open its door to the public in March 2015, and will see the construction of six Nickelodeon-themed rides and nine new Nickelodeon attractions on the new 10-acre park in Sunway Lagoon.

Under the terms of the new agreement, Nickelodeon, the world's number-one global entertainment brand for kids and family, will bring its characters, expanded interactive shows and signature green slime to Sunway Lagoon.

Nickelodeon Explorers' Oasis will add to Sunway Lagoon's five existing parks namely Water Park, Amusement Park, Extreme Park, Interactive Wildlife Park and Lynton V Harris Scream Park.

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