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Children’s TV industry veteran Nina Hahn will leave the Paramount-owned kidcaster Nickelodeon after more than 17 years at the end of the month, C21 Media is reporting.
UK-based Hahn, Senior Vice President (VP) of production and development at Paramount Global, will leave the company on August 31, having joined in 2005 as VP of international development for Nickelodeon.
A well-known figure on the international kids’ TV circuit, Hahn oversees content development and coproduction partnerships for animated, live-action and preschool content for Nickelodeon outside of the US.
Hahn has more than 25 years of experience creating and producing content for kids and is credited with being the driving force behind establishing the Nickelodeon brand as an international hub for creators and talent.
During her tenure at Nickelodeon, Hahn has led the organisation’s first global hub for content sourcing and creation, and initiated projects in markets such China, Israel and India, where the company was not previously active.
London-based Hahn is also head of VIS Kids, the division launched towards the end of 2020 that develops and produces content for Nickelodeon and other Paramount-owned brands in addition to third-party buyers and partners.
Prior to joining Nickelodeon, Hahn worked as an independent producer and development consultant for kids content producers and broadcasters in New York, including HBO and Jim Henson Productions.
C21 understands Hahn will be returning to consulting after leaving Paramount at the end of the month.
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Meghan Markle's long-awaited new podcast appears to answer one particularly vociferous critic whose royal biography has dominated headlines in summer 2022.
The Duchess of Sussex's weekly show Archetypes dropped on Spotify on August 23 to a media fanfare, with headlines focusing on the hair-raising story of son Archie narrowly avoiding becoming caught up in a fire during a royal tour of South Africa when he was not even five months old.
However, without fanfare or direct reference, Meghan's opening show had the effect of clapping back at a biographer whose broad-ranging accusations filled news sites in July.
Tom Bower's book Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors disputed a famous story about a feminist campaign Meghan purportedly launched aged 11, described her as ambitious and suggested she had pretended to be friends with tennis star Serena Williams.
Archetypes had answers for all three of those points as Meghan interviewed Williams about the negative tropes that hold women back.
Meghan Markle, seen during the 2022 Invictus Games, in The Hague, Netherlands, on April 16, 2022, described her friendship with Serena Williams (inset, together at their first meeting in 2014) in her "Archetypes" podcast. Their conversation contrasts with the account by Tom Bower (inset, right) of their relationship in his book Revenge.
Meghan starts her podcast by retelling a famous story disputed in Bower's book about letters she sent calling on Procter & Gamble to change a dish soap advert.
The anecdote was one of the stories to emerge about the duchess in the early phase of her relationship with Prince Harry, before they married.
An advert for Ivory Clear dish soap had said "women are fighting greasy pots and pans," leading boys in her school to suggest "that's where women belong. In the kitchen," the duchess said.
Meghan says she wrote to the company, as well as Hilary Clinton and others, calling for a change to the sexist wording.
Bower suggested Meghan had piggybacked on a much wider campaign, adding: "There was no evidence that her letter was even read."
He wrote: "Thomas Markle knew that thousands of American women were similarly annoyed. Many had sent protests to Procter & Gamble.
"With her father's encouragement, Meghan joined the bandwagon. She wrote to Procter & Gamble's chairman and also to Hillary Clinton, the First Lady. Like other protestors, she urged that the slogan should be changed to 'People all over America'.
"After she received no reply, Thomas wrote follow-up letters demanding that the corporation and Clinton acknowledge his daughter.
"Nothing happened. Using his contacts, Thomas arranged for Linda Ellerbee, a host on Nickelodeon, a children's TV channel run by Lucky Duck productions, to report Meghan's protest at her school.
"Seeing herself interviewed on the broadcast TV film report, accompanied by a re-enactment clip of her 'writing' to Clinton, naturally boosted Meghan's self-confidence.
"Some weeks later, Procter & Gamble bowed to the thousands of protests and changed the advertisement's strapline."
Archetypes doubled down on Meghan's account of making a difference with her letter-writing campaign and included clips from the Nick News segment, allowing viewers to hear the coverage for themselves.
Eleven-year-old Meghan can be heard saying: "So I was wondering if you would be able to change your commercial to 'people all over America.' Thank you, Meghan Markle."
The duchess added: "And would you believe it? Three months later, a new version of the ad appeared on TVs all around the country. They changed the language in the ad—from 'women' to 'people.'
"Now, I could paint this as a moment of triumph. And don't get me wrong: it was. Because I learned that my one small action could have a ripple effect far beyond me.
"But this experience was also something bigger: an awakening. To the millions of ways—big and small—that our society tries to box women in, to hold women back, to tell women who and what they should and can be."
Ambition is the main theme of Archetypes episode one, while the series as a whole is about the negative labels placed on women.
Bower has—both in his book and in interviews—characterized Meghan as ambitious.
He quotes her father Thomas Markle stating that during her acting career on Suits she began talking down to him.
Bower added: "The previously compassionate creature was becoming a woman of strong opinions and bigger ambitions. Flush with money, her sense of duty and obligation began to slip. She finally had status. She was being taken seriously."
In a July interview on Good Morning Britain promoting the book, he said: "Overall I came across with the impression of a woman who is very intelligent, very determined, very ambitious but also ruthless."
Meghan told her Archetypes podcast: "So, I don't remember ever personally feeling the negative connotation behind the word ambitious until I started dating my now husband. And um, apparently ambition is, uh… a terrible, terrible thing, for a woman that is—according to some.
"So, since I've felt the negativity behind it, it's really hard to un-feel it. I can't unsee it, either, in the millions of girls and women who make themselves smaller—so much smaller—on a regular basis."
Bower also suggested in the book that Meghan exaggerated her friendship with Williams when working on a cover interview for Vanity Fair with journalist Sam Kashner.
He wrote: "Over the next few days he called those who Meghan had recommended as her friends. Serena Williams denied she was Meghan's friend but just an acquaintance.
"She gave him an enigmatic quote: 'You've got to be who you are, Meghan. You can't hide.'"
On Archetypes, during an unrelated discussion, Williams said: "We've been friends for so long. I'm super loyal, to a fault, you know that."
Meghan replied: "Oh, I know. But do you remember when we met for the first time? I was thinking about that. Do you remember?"
The duchess then recounted a February, 2014 meeting—more than three years before the Vanity Fair cover story—in New York ahead of the Super Bowl the following day.
She said: "And I remember going, Oh, my gosh, who's Serena Williams going to talk to, you? And I look behind me, and when I turned around, you were there in front of me. We became such fast friends."
"I mean, the things people think and the things that people don't…" she continued, without direct reference to Bower. "But in our friendship when you have to see things that are mischaracterizing of me, but you experience behind closed doors the pain that I'm going through and vice versa."
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Kel Mitchell has called iCarly alum Jennette McCurdy courageous for her bravery in sharing her experiences and challenges in her memoir. Mitchell went on to state that people have different stories, and the manner in which they want to get out their stories is definitely important. McCurdy had a lot to reveal in her memoir, and Mitchell is proud of her courage in going so.
The Chicago-born actor recalled certain times his colleague had to face certain difficult situations alone. He remembered an instance where McCurdy faced a tough situation when her mom passed. Kel Mitchell called Jennette McCurdy courageous because he loves hearing her tell her story as she draws strength from it.
Mitchell, who starred in the Nickelodeon shows All That, Kenan & Kel, Game Shakers and the Nickelodeon movie Good Burger, and met McCurdy when he guest starred on Sam & Cat, didn’t just call Jennette McCurdy courageous for nothing. Her book had lots of revelations that one wouldn’t imagine the 30-year-old writer and actor had to go through. McCurdy’s book analyzed the complicated relationship she had with her mother, Debra. The actress’s mother was quite controlling before she died of cancer when Jennette clocked 21.
Another reason Mitchell possibly called Jenette McCurdy courageous was when she turned down $300,000 to never talk about her experience at Nickelodeon. McCurdy contributed immensely to Nickelodeon to get such treatment from someone she referred to as “The Creator,” widely speculated to be the same person who produced the shows Mitchell and McCurdy worked on.
In the exclusive interview with Page Six, Mitchell revealed that one of his best memories at Nickelodeon was his collaboration with McCurdy. He stated that his author friend was super awesome on the set of Sam & Cat. Mitchell disclosed that he got to hang out and have fun with his wife and McCurdy. The actor left showbiz for good after seeking therapy in 2010, and Kel Mitchell was fully in support of McCurdy’s courageous move.
According to the actor and youth pastor, it’s not good to put yourself in a box. It’s wiser to go for different things, just like McCurdy is gradually transitioning into an amazing author.
“I think that’s awesome. Never just hold yourself in a box. Do many things. Go after many different things,” says the youth pastor and author, who is readying the release of his second book, Prank Day.
“I love seeing that: actors becoming authors, becoming pastors,” he adds, “all these different things.”
Of all the jobs Mitchell has taken, co-hosting Deliciousness alongside Tiffani Thiessen (Saved By The Bell), Angela Kinsey and Tim Chantarangsu might be his favorite to date. “I’m loving this journey. I like to find the joy in every moment and this is very fun. You get to sit on the couch and just crack up at all these food fails,” the Good Burger actor says.
“I love watching that show and I’m all about food. Because of Good Burger, I get free burgers and all kinds of stuff. So it just kind of works!”
The Season 3 of Mitchell’s show, Deliciousness, on the other hand, is available to stream on MTV.com and Paramount+.
iCarly (the original and the new series), Game Shakers, Kenan & Kel and All That are available to stream on Paramount+.
