Wednesday, March 01, 2017

Dan Schneider | “iCarly” | "iFind Spencer Friends" | Emma Stone Meets iCarly

Best Actress Oscar winner Emma Stone plays a crazy iCarly fan in this classic clip from iCarly episode "iFind Spencer Friends", complete with a special message from Dan Schneider! Congrats Emma!:



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Nick Jr. UK Digitally Premieres First Episode Of "Rusty Rivets" On NickJr.co.uk

To celebrate Nick Jr. UK and Ireland/HD starting to premiere and show Nickelodeon's brand-new animated preschool series Rusty Rivets weekdays at 5:30pm from Monday 6th March 2017, Nick Jr. UK has made the very first episode of Rusty Rivets, "Rusty's Rex Rescue", available to watch in full for free on the channels' official Rusty Rivets website, nickjr.co.uk/rusty-rivets!


There's always a big adventure in Nickelodeon's brand-new animated preschool series, Rusty Rivets! Created and produced by Spin Master Entertainment (PAW Patrol), the show follows Rusty, a 21st century kid hero who always saves the day by relying on his imagination and incredible resourcefulness. Inspired by the DIY culture of the maker movement, Rusty Rivets (26 half-hour episodes) helps preschoolers gain confidence and fuel their creativity with a strong focus on inventing, creating and problem solving.


In Rusty Rivets, 10-year-old Rusty, along with his best bud Ruby, invents his way out of every jam by repurposing spare parts and found objects into the wildest, coolest, most awesome contraptions ever. The series encourages kids to use their imaginations to design and create fun new gadgets and inventions.

In the series premiere, "Rusty's Rex Rescue"/"Rusty's Park N' Fly," (#101) Rusty's friend Liam gets trapped on top of a tall stack of junk in Rusty's Recycling Yard. To rescue Liam, Rusty and Ruby design a Jurassic robot who ultimately becomes their new trusty friend Botasaur. In the next adventure, Rusty and his friends must bring Mr. Higgins' remote control plane down safely when it can't land. Together, they must engineer a daredevil rescue to save the plane.

Online at nickjr.co.uk, parents and children can discover creative Rusty Rivets activities, find out more about about the show, as well watch exclusive clips from the series.


Spin Master and Nickelodeon will launch a innovative Rusty Rivets toy line that will focus on exactly what Rusty does in the show, "Design it and combine it", in North America in 2017, with Rusty Rivets merchandise rolling out across Europe and the rest of the world from the beginning of 2018, following the shows international debut in 2017. Rusty Rivets products will be available at leading retailers.


Rusty Rivets is the sixth series from Spin Master Entertainment and follows on the success of PAW Patrol and Bakugan Battle Brawlers. The new series is overseen by executive producers Ronnen Harary and Laura Clunie.

Where every day's an adventure, Nick Jr. is a top-performing commercial pre-school entertainment brand in cable and satellite homes. Launched in 1999 as the world's first channel dedicated to pre-school children, Nick Jr.'s programming includes beloved shows Paw Patrol, Dora and Friends: Into the City!, Peppa Pig, Lily's Driftwood Bay and Blaze and the Monster Machines. Online, clips, games, exclusive activities and downloads are all available at nickjr.co.uk Viewers also have the opportunity to catch up with the schedule through Nick Jr. +1. Nick Jr. is available on Sky 615, Virgin 715, through BT Vision and TalkTalk channel 318.

More Nick: Nick Jr. UK's Brand-New Preschool Series "Rusty Rivets" To Provide Preschoolers With An Entry Point To The Maker Movement!

Additional source: TheFutonCritic.com.
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"Bubble Guppies Live! Ready to Rock" Promises 'Different Approach' To Nickelodeon's Hit Preschool TV Show

It’s not like Bubble Guppies brass expect young audiences to believe the objects of their affection are actually submerged on stage.


Audience participation will be key when Bubble Guppies take the stage March 12 at Kiwanis Community Theatre.

Call it conception, not deception.

“You don’t really want to fool them … You want to fuel them with the opportunity to use their imagination,” Patti Caplette, artistic director of Bubble Guppies Live! Ready to Rock, told the Sault Star. “So it’s a different approach. You sort of guide them along with a few devices and they go, ‘Yeah, I can see that now.’ It’s like looking at a picture with different kinds of glasses on.”

Based on Nickelodeon’s hit preschool TV show that premiered in 2011, the live tour will visit Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada on Sunday 12th March 2017 at Kiwanis Community Theatre.

Having the cast, acting out the underwater adventures of a group of merperson preschoolers, appear to be plunged was a “very interesting artistic challenge,” especially conveying the illusion of characters “continuously” floating, Caplette told the Sault Star in a recent telephone interview from Winnipeg.

“So we devised ways they could stand and move their back legs so that their tails would constantly be in motion and their arms are kind of floating about,” she said, adding Koba Entertainment’s task was made that much easier with the recruitment of Bubble Guppies creators and writers Jonny Belt and Robert Skull.

“It was a lot of exploratory movement, but I think it does really resonate that they are guppies floating in their watery world.”

The show revolves around a band member gone AWOL. When the Bubble Guppies are getting ready to play, a special band member goes missing and the show can’t go on. With help from Mr. Grouper and Molly, Gil and the other characters embark on a “musical expedition” as they search for their friend.


The character Rock Lobster has been created especially for the live event.

Dubbed by Caplette as the Bubble Guppies’s “greatest fan ever,” Rock Lobster is an integral component of the show’s emphasis on audience interaction.

“He kind of comes out of the audience as one of the fans and gets to interact with the audience in saying, ‘Well, what should happen next?’ Or, ‘Did you see Bubble Puppy?’ It’s very much that kind of interaction.”

Some songs are specific to the stage show, but producers took as many tunes “as possible” from the TV show.

“They fit beautifully,” said Caplette, who, before turning to choreography, was a dancer for more than 15 years with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.

The stage show — one hour and 20-minutes in duration — uses computer-generated imagery (CGI), which encompasses both static scenes and dynamic images with big screens, and takes four to five hours to set up.

“It’s tricky, because it still means for an 11 .m. show, our crew is there by 6 or 7 o’clock in the morning,” Caplette said, adding Bubble Guppies Live! Ready to Rock will have ample adult appeal.

“I think even more so. They get a double whammy of not only enjoying the professional singing and dancing and theatrics of the stage. But they get the double whammy of seeing the brilliant, smile smile of delight on their children’s faces. I think they come off really, really a winner.”

If you go:

What: Bubble Guppies Live! Ready to Rock;

When: Sunday, March 12, 1 p.m.;

Where: Kiwanis Community Theatre;

Tickets: In person at Kiwanis Community Theatre Box Office, Station Mall, by phone at (705) 945-7299 or online at http://kctc.ca/index.html

Full tour information can be found at www.BubbleGuppiesOnTour.com.

Additional source: Google.co.uk.
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"Double Dare" Host Marc Summers Gets Real About Mental Illness In New Documentary "On Your Marc"

Marc Summers invaded kids' living rooms every week in the late ’80s and early ’90s, hosting the messiest, craziest, most unpredictable game show out there: Double Dare.


Over 30 years after the Nickelodeon game show first premiered, Summers is the subject of a new documentary about his own life, including his struggles with "crippling OCD." Despite the severity of his condition, Summers didn't let the messiness of the show stop him from doing his job: "I defy anybody to ever look at an episode and say I was not having a good time," he says in the movie's trailer.



The trailer for On Your Marc — a play on Summers's oft-spoke Double Dare phrase "on your mark" — takes you behind the scenes of the iconic television host's career and the one-man show he performed about his experiences. In the film, Summers also gets candid about his battle with cancer, explaining he didn't advertise his diagnosis "because in show business, it could ruin your career." Look out for celebs as eclectic as Neil Patrick Harris and Guy Fieri providing commentary in the inspiring video above. On Your Marc is coming soon.

Original source: MTV News.

More Nick: Marc Summers In Negotiations To Bring Back "Double Dare" In "Some Form Or Fashion"!
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Nickelodeon News Bytes - Tuesday 28th February 2017

NickALive!'s pick of Nickelodeon news, highlights and more from around the internet!:


- Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ:VIAB, VIA) today announced that Bob Bakish, President and Chief Executive Officer, will participate in a Q&A session at the Deutsche Bank 25th Annual Media & Telecom Conference in Palm Beach, Florida on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 10:25 a.m. ET. A live webcast of the session will be available to the general public through a link on the Investor Relations homepage of Viacom’s website (ir.viacom.com). A replay of the audio webcast will be available in the “Events / Webcasts” section of this site.

- Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures star Ashley Argota to headline Fairview Middle School’s Parent-Teacher Organization's first Singer/Songwriter Night on Saturday, March 11 starting at 4 p.m.!


- Are Isabela Moner (100 Things To Do Before High School, Legends Of The Hidden Temple) & Thomas Kuc (Game Shakers) in a feud all because of their hair?

- Scott Family Amazeum entices youngsters to have messy fun; Make a 10-foot-tall SpongeBob SquarePants come to life in the Nickelodeon PlayLab!

- Saluting the lesser-known roles of this year’s Oscar-nominated actors, including La La Land's Ryan Gosling in the 1995 Are You Afraid of the Dark? episode "The Tale of Station 109.1"!

- SpongeBob Moves In number 4 Top Paid iPad App (week ending February 26, 2017)!

- China’s Year of the Peppa Pig: Under managing director Olivier Dumont’s guidance, eOne Family’s animated preschool juggernaut has become one of the Mainland’s most popular programs with over 16 billion digital platform views! Masterminding Peppa’s global conquest is children’s animated content division, eOne Family, headed by managing director Olivier Dumont. AWN joined Dumont in London to learn about his China strategy and reflections on content in the Middle Kingdom.

- Comedy Central names Tanya Giles as new General Manager. Giles joined Viacom in 1997 as a Senior Analyst at Nickelodeon. From there she moved to TV Land as VP of Research and Planning. She became directly involved with Comedy Central in 2007 when she was promoted to SVP, Research and Planning, for Viacom’s Entertainment Group, which consisted of Comedy Central, Spike and TV Land.

- Judge orders WME-IMG to arbitrate dispute over Cam Newton's Nickelodeon show, All in With Cam Newton. Nickelodeon won't have to participate in the arbitration because Viacom wasn't a party to the arbitration agreement.

Additional source: IMDb.
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