Nickelodeon Australia And New Zealand Updates - SLIMEFEST 2013, "The Haunted Hathaways", And "Rabbids Invasion" News Plus Brand New "SpongeBob SquarePants" Magazine

Below is a round-up of aweslime Nickelodeon Australia and New Zealand news that the Aussie and Kiwi version of the popular children's channel has recently announced and revealed!:

The official website of Nickelodeon Australia and New Zealand, nickelodeon.com.au, has unveiled the channels brand new official show websites for Nick AU & NZ's upcoming brand new Nickelodeon comedy series "The Haunted Hathaways" and "Rabbids Invasion", which may indicate that Nickelodeon Australia and New Zealand, the Australian and Kiwi version of the popular children's channel, may start to premiere and show Nickelodeon's brand new live-action supernatural comedy series "The Haunted Hathaways" and CG-animated series "Rabbids Invasion", based on Ubisoft's hit 'Raving Rabbids' video game franchise, soon!

Nickelodeon Australia has announced the exciting Nickelodeon International News in a post on their official Facebook profile page, facebook.com/NickelodeonAustralia, that the American actress, dancer, and singer Jadagrace and the American singer, dancer, DJ and rapper Redfoo from the electronic dance music duo LMFAO will be making special appearance at Nick Oz's upcoming second annual SLIMEFEST event, where, on Friday 27th September 2013, Nick Australia will be taking over the Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre to hold SLIMEFEST 2013, Australia's first music festival just for kids, tweens and teenagers! Jadagrace and Redfoo will be joining headliners Big Time Rush, the Australian pop, R&B, and soul singer-songwriter Guy Sebastian, US duo Heffron Drive, which consists of Big Time Rusher Kendall Schmidt and BTR's current guitarist, Dustin Belt, the Australian singer-songwriter and former child model from Perth, Western Australia, Samantha Jade, and the Sydney based all-male hip-hop dance and pop music group and "Australia's Got Talent" winners 'Justice Crew', which consists of group members Lukas Bellesini, Paul Eric Merciadez, John Len Ruela Pearce, Len John Ruela Pearce, Emmanuel Rodriguez, Samson Cosray Smith, and Solo Tohi! Commando Steve Willis, the toughest trainer on "The Biggest Loser" Australia, will also feature as a special guest star, facing the green for the second time after braving a full body slime submersion by Nickelodeon's "Human Slime Dunk Machine" at 2012's inaugural SLIMEFEST event!

To celebrate SLIMEFEST 2013, Nickelodeon Australia & New Zealand have also announced on Facebook that they have opened their 100% official Nickelodeon SLIMEFEST 2013 pop-up online shop (store) which is offering NickHeads the chance to pre-order exclusive SLIMEFEST merchandise, including shirts, glow sticks/light sticks, green nerd glasses, and baseball caps/hats! Pre-order your SLIMEFEST 2013 goodies now at slimefest.popshop.net.au!

Nickelodeon Australia has also announced the exciting news in separate post on their official Facebook profile page, facebook.com/NickelodeonAustralia, that Nick has released a brand new SpongeBob SquarePants Magazine in Australia! Each issue is packed full of SpongeBob games, stories, activities and fun Spongy facts! Issue #1 is available to buy in Australian shops now and comes with 2 bonus giant SpongeBob posters, SpongyFun Sayings featuring underwater sayings from Bikini Bottom, and a Pirate Training guide. Issue one also asks the question: Can pirates cure hiccups? Be Spongy!

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Nickelodeon UK Unveils New Design For Nick.co.uk; Unveils Revamped Blog And Official "Dance Academy" Website

To coincide with Nickelodeon UK & Ireland's brand new channel rebrand, the start of Nick UK's Autumn/Winter 2013 programming season, the start of the new 2013-2014 school year and Nickelodeon UK's 20th Birthday, Nickelodeon UK has recently made some exciting changes to their official website, nick.co.uk!

To celebrate Nickelodeon UK's recent rebrand, Nick.co.uk recently unveiled a brand new Nickelodeon logo and a all-new background to the 'Select a Show' navbar at the top of each page featuring a design from Nick UK's rebrand.

To further celebrate Nickelodeon UK's Autumn 2013 rebrand, Nick.co.uk has also redesigned Nick UK's official Nickelodeon blog, where NickHeads can read the latest Nickelodeon UK straight from Nickelodeon and can get involved by designing their own avatars and leaving comments within a moderated environment. You can visit Nick UK's revamped blog here at nick.co.uk/blog!

To celebrate Nickelodeon UK and Ireland and Nickelodeon HD UK starting to premiere and show the brand new second season of the Australian teen-oriented dance-themed television drama series "Dance Academy", including the brand new episodes "In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated" and "Dreamlife", every Tuesday to Friday at 6.00pm (repeated one hour later at 7:00pm on Nickelodeon UK's plus-one (+1) timeshift channel, Nick+1) from 17th September 2013, as part of Nickelodeon UK's Autumn/Winter 2013 highlights, the official Nick UK and Eire website, Nick.co.uk, has unveiled their brand new official "Dance Academy" show website to accompany season two, which you can view here at nick.co.uk/shows/danceacademy! Nick.co.uk's brand new "Dance Academy" show webpage features a "Meet The Characters" section featuring character bios and information about each character in "Dance Academy" - Tara Webster (Xenia Goodwin), Katrina "Kat" Karamakov (Alicia Banit), Abigail Armstrong (Dena Kaplan), Grace Whitney (Isabel Durant; credited as Issi Durant during series 2), Christian Reed (Jordan Rodrigues), Samuel "Sammy" Lieberman (Tom Green) and Ethan Karamakov (Tim Pocock) - a photograph gallery featuring stills from "Dance Academy", a link to Nickelodeon UK's official "Dance Academy" blog, and a video clips section featuring a online streaming video clip of Nick UK's brand new "Dance Academy" season two trailer/promo!

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Nickelodeon USA Unveils Parts Of Their Official "The Thundermans" Show Website; To Start To Broadcast Promos For New Series On Saturday 14th September 2013

To celebrate Nickelodeon USA, also known as Nick, starting to premiere and show the networks brand new original family comedy series "The Thundermans" soon, the (geo-locked) official Nick USA website, Nick.com, has unveiled and launched two parts of their brand new official "The Thundermans" show webpage to accompany Nick's all-new sitcom, which visitors located within North America can visit here at nick.com!

Nick USA's brand new "The Thundermans" website currently features a very special 'Kickin' It With The Cast' photo flipbook/gallery featuring exclusive pictures which reveal some the fun the cast get up to behind-the-scenes of their brand new sitcom and a "The Thundermans" message board (forum) for fans to talk about Nick's brand new comedy show "The Thundermans". It is expected that Nickelodeon will also add a 'About' page featuring information about Nick's all-new comedy show, a 'Meet The Characters' section featuring character bios and information about each of the characters in the Thunderman family - Max Thunderman (Jack Griffo), Phoebe Thunderman (Kira Kosarin), Tom Thunderman (Chris Tallman), Lisa Thunderman (Rosa Blasi), Nora Thunderman (Addison Riecke) and Oliver Thunderman (Diego Velazquez) - show information about the "The Thundermans", and show homepage and online streaming video clips.

Nickelodeon Star Jack Griffo, who plays Max Thunderman in Nick's all-new superhero comedy series, has announced in a Tweet (post) on his official Twitter profile page that Nickelodeon USA will today start to show the networks brand new promos for "The Thundermans", with the first preview scheduled to debut on-air tonight (Saturday 14th September 2013) during this evenings brand new episode of "Sam & Cat", titled "#BabysittingCommercial"!

@Jackgriffoholic: @LittlejGriffo so excited to see the first promo of #TheThundermans - Saturday 14th September 2013.

@Jackgriffoholic tonight during Sam n Cat! Thank u for supporting me on #Thundermans @NickelodeonTV - 9/14/2013.

In the show, The Thundermans are a typical suburban family who happen to have astounding superpowers. At the center of the action are the 14-year-old Thunderman twins, Max (Jack Griffo) and Phoebe (Kira Kosarin), who share the same bathroom, the same school and the same annoying younger siblings. Their only difference? Phoebe is a super student with a super sunny disposition who super looks forward to being a superhero someday, and Max aspires to become a super villain. The 13-episode series will commence production this spring and is written by longtime Nickelodeon producer Jed Spingarn, who most recently served as co-executive producer of the hit series "Big Time Rush" and prior to that, produced on "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius" and "Johnny Bravo". In the pilot, the part of 'Max' was played by Tyler Peterson.

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Nickelodeon Star Ariana Grande Announces She's Working On Her Second Album; Hopes To Release New LP In February 2014

MTV News UK is reporting in the following article that Nickelodeon Star Ariana Grande has announced that she is already working on her second album and hopes to release it in February 2014 - just one week after Ariana released her debut album, "Yours Truly"!

The singer revealed her plans after "Yours Truly" topped the US Billboard 200 and reached No.7 in the UK album charts.

The Nickelodeon actress, who plays Cat Valentine in the hit Nick original sitcoms "Victorious" and "Sam & Cat", told Rolling Stone magazine that she already has a few songs in mind for the new album. Grande revealed: "I've started working on it. I've come up with a few, two songs already that I want on it." However, the 20-year-old has tipped that her new LP will be different from her highly successful debut, stating she's keen to experiment. The "Baby I" hitmaker explained: "It's an album that I want to do a little bit different. I don't want it to sound like an extension of Yours Truly. I want it to sound like an evolution.



"I want to explore more sounds and experiment a little bit. I have a bunch of ideas I'm very excited about and a lot of stuff."

Ariana is currently on vocal rest after suffering a hemorrhaged vocal chord. Ariana today (Friday 13th September 2013) posted a special video on Instagram to thank her fans for their support and concern but shared "My voice is healthy". Get well soon, Ariana!

Ariana and her Nickelodeon co-star Jennette McCurdy, who plays Sam Puckett on "Sam & Cat", will be travelling to London, UK in October to host a very special Orange Carpet Premiere screening of the very first episode of their brand new original Nick comedy series to celebrate the UK launch of "Sam & Cat" on Monday 14th October 2013! British and Irish NickHeads, Arianator and McCurdians can enter Nick UK's exclusive competition to win tickets to the special event at Cineworld London at The O2 in Greenwich, South East London, UK on Saturday 12th October 2013 here on Nick.co.uk!:

Ariana Grande Teases New LP For Next February

Victorious star says she's already got two tracks for her next album...

Ariana Grande has announced that she is working on her second album and hopes to unleash it next February - just one week after releasing her debut.

The singer revealed her plans after Yours Truly topped the US Billboard 200 and reached No.7 in the UK album charts.

The Nickelodeon actress, who played Cat Valentine in hit show Victorious, told Rolling Stone magazine that she already has a few songs in mind for the new album.

Grande revealed: "I've started working on it. I've come up with a few, two songs already that I want on it.”

However, the 20-year-old has tipped that her new LP will be different from her highly successful debut, stating she's keen to experiment.

The Baby I hitmaker explained: "It's an album that I want to do a little bit different. I don't want it to sound like an extension of Yours Truly. I want it to sound like an evolution.



"I want to explore more sounds and experiment a little bit. I have a bunch of ideas I'm very excited about and a lot of stuff."

Ariana is currently on vocal rest after suffering a hemorrhaged vocal chord.

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Nickelodeon UK Teams Up With Viral Spiral For New Interstitial Series "Laugh Your Pants Off"

The television industry news website Broadcast is reporting the exciting Nickelodeon UK News in the following article that Nickelodeon UK and Ireland, the number one commercial kids' television channel in the UK, has struck a deal with viral experts Viral Spiral to feature popular online clips on Nick UK and Eire!

The humorous short-form video clips, branded as "Laugh Your Pants Off" (L.Y.P.O.), will air once a week and also be made available via Nickelodeon UK's official website, nick.co.uk, and mobile apps.

The first episode in the series, which you can watch a online streaming video clip below, was broadcast on Nick UK on Thursday 12th September 2013 and featured a dog which has a rude awakening.

Each week Viral Spiral will shortlist a number of clips appropriate for Nickelodeon's demographic, with the broadcaster then selecting one to feature.

The clips will comprise a variety of live-action videos sourced from video-sharing sites such as YouTube and Daily Motion:

Nickelodeon to air viral videos

Nickelodeon has struck a deal with viral experts Viral Spiral to feature popular online clips on the channel.

The humorous short-form video clips, branded as Laugh Your Pants Off (LYPO), will air once a week and also be made available via Nickelodeon's website and mobile apps.

The first in the series, which was broadcast yesterday, featured a dog which has a rude awakening.

Each week Viral Spiral will shortlist a number of clips appropriate for Nickelodeon’s demographic, with the broadcaster then selecting one to feature.

The clips will comprise a variety of live-action videos sourced from video-sharing sites such as YouTube and Daily Motion.

Viral Spiral founder Damian Collier said: "It's a way for Nickelodeon to get even more entertaining content to its demographic."

Nickelodeon's director of programming Tim Patterson, added: "We know that our kids go online to look for entertaining clips and to share the funniest things that they find with their friends.

"Through Viral Spiral we hope to bring content that is immediate, relevant and most importantly, hilarious to our audience; adding something unexpected to the Nick schedule."

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Also, from Digital TV Europe:

Nickelodeon UK partners with web video network Viral Spiral

Nickelodeon UK has partnered with management company and video network Viral Spiral, in a bid to bring viral online videos to the Viacom-owned kids network.

The deal will see Viral Spiral shortlist potential clips to be used on Nickelodeon as interstitials, packaged and banded on air as L.Y.P.O. (Laugh Your Pants Off).

Nickelodeon is due to launch the clips from this week, with one new video to premiere on the network every week with clips also available on Nick.co.uk.

“We know that our kids go online to look for entertaining clips and to share the funniest things that they find with their friends. Through Viral Spiral we hope to bring content that is immediate, relevant and most importantly, hilarious to our audience; adding something unexpected to the Nick schedule,” said Tim Patterson, VP, director of programming, Nickelodeon UK.

Viral Spiral exclusively represents, monetises and grows online channels with large followings – including many of the world’s best-known and most shared viral videos. Founder and CEO Damian Collier said: “We’re delighted to announce this project with Nickelodeon which will ensure that Nick remains the talk of the playground, serving up the most-current age-appropriate trending content to its young viewers.”

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