Nickelodeon Wins At The 2014 Kidscreen Awards

The children's entertainment and media news website Kidscreen has announced the very exciting Nickelodeon news that Nickelodeon has won several awards in the 2014 Kidscreen Awards, Kidscreen's annual awards ceremony which takes place during the Kidscreen Summit in New York that celebrates and honours the year's best kids programming and broadcasting work. The winners were determined by two panels of respected broadcast executive judges and were awarded their awards at the 2014 Kidscreen Awards ceremony held in New York on Tuesday 11th February 2014. The ceremony was hosted by comedian Sean Cullen.

In the Programming - Tweens/Teens category, the official website of the Australian teen-oriented dance-themed television drama series "Dance Academy", which airs on Nickelodeon UK and Ireland and TeenNick USA, won the "Best Companion Website" award. In the Programming - Preschool category, the official website of Zodiak Kids' popular preschool series "Tickety Toc", ticketytoc.com, won the "Best Companion Website" award. In the Creative Talent Category, the popular Nickelodeon Preschool series "The Wonder Pets!" won the "Best Voice Talent" award.

In the Broadcasting category, designed to spotlight the best efforts made by broadcasters to forge stronger connections with kids and family audiences around the world, Nickelodeon Northern Europe's 2013 brand refresh won the "Best Channel Design" award! The winners of the Broadcasting categories were determined by a Kidscreen readership online vote that took place in December 2013.

Nickelodeon has always been, and will always be for and about kids, and Nickelodeon prides themselves on creating surprising and playful entertainment experiences everywhere they go. To deliver that, Nickelodeon's brand identity needs to be anchored in what is uniquely Nickelodeon, but still be capable of stretching, morphing and evolving. Because kids are ever-changing and the only way to reflect kids is to keep adapting with them.

As part of Nickelodeon's 2013 global rebrand, Nick's on-air design is now based on a grid-system. The huge benefit of the grid system is that, although it is a set and unchangeable structure, the designer has a lot of possibilities to play around creatively within the frames. Nickelodeon's on-air design-team now has the option to pick from a vast range of Nickelodeon characters like SpongeBob and Patrick from "SpongeBob SquarePants" or Po from "Kung Fu Panda" and include them in trailers, promos, bumpers, idents and end-credits in a fun, colourful, playful way and even reduce them to their colour tone and most iconic attributes. As part of Nickelodeon's 2013 brand refresh, there are now more colours beside the signature Nickelodeon-Orange, which will stay. Plus, Nickelodeon's world famous SLIME is now an all year round event and has now got its own colour code. Until recently, slime was mainly limited to the annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, but now can be found on-air all the time. Slime rules!

Another new element on-air are the patterns, which are used within the grid and combined with all colours and the iconic character elements.

With the design refresh Nickelodeon now has a lot more elements that are funny and playful – a set of whole new typefaces with letters made of ham, wool, balloons and sponges or in an old-school-comic art look that was created to surprise Nick North's audience with unexpected designs.

Nickelodeon has broadened the number of animation techniques they use ranging from 3D and 2D, to drawing and stop motion. Additionally, the iconic Nickelodeon logo can be used in a more fun and creative way - Nickelodeon can play with it, morph it, put it upside down, hide it behind a set of funny characters... but the Nick logo always transforms back into the original in the end.

The core of Nickelodeon is to be heart, fart and smart at the same time and, most of all, be FUN. Making children laugh is Nickelodeon's first and foremost important goal. This is what Nickelodeon's new channel design wants to show.

The design refresh has not only been adapted for on-air use but also for online and mobile platforms, within print communication and on the ground. You can view a video showcasing Nick North's 2013 rebrand below. [Source: Kidscreen Awards]

Nickelodeon Northern Europe's 2013 Brand Refresh:



Spearheading Nickelodeon Northern Europe's 2013 rebrand is "Fizzl Wow Zoom", a brand new Nickelodeon song! The song was composed by and is a collaboration with audio designer Sebastian Müller of Hofkapellmeister Audiodesign & Musicproduction and four Berlin Beatbox artists. Together, they form the Nickelodeon house band 'Razzzonicks'. The song, which mainly consists of many noises and sounds from shows aired in all countries within the Northern Europe Cluster - Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. A extended version of the new Nickelodeon song is available to sing and dance along to in the online streaming video below!

Nickelodeon ImageSpot 2013 (Long Version) [Mach Mal Nickelodeon] from Stefan Schomerus on Vimeo.

A huge congratulations to everyone who won a award in the 2014 Kidscreen Awards!

Below is a full list of Kidscreen Awards 2014 winners, from Kidscreen:

And the 2014 Kidscreen Awards winners are...

Comedian Sean Cullen took to the stage this evening to host the annual Kidscreen Awards, which celebrate the year's best work in children’s television and take place annually during Kidscreen Summit in New York. Determined by two panels of respected broadcast executive judges, awards in the Programming and Creative Talent categories were given to the following entries:

PROGRAMMING—PRESCHOOL CATEGORY

Best Animated Series
Sarah & Duck
Karrot Entertainment/CBeebies/BBC Worldwide

Best Animated Series
Rastamouse
The Rastamouse Company

Best Non-Animated or Mixed Series
Sesame Street
Sesame Workshop

Best One-Off, Special or TV Movie
Meet The Small Potatoes
Little Airplane Productions

Best Companion Website
Tickety Toc
Zodiak Kids

PROGRAMMING—KIDS CATEGORY

Best Animated Series
Strange Hill High
CBBC/FremantleMedia/Factory Transmedia

Best Non-Animated or Mixed Series
Horrible Histories
Lion Television/Citrus TV/CBBC/BBC Worldwide

Best One-Off, Special or TV Movie
The Snowman and The Snowdog
Lupus Films

Best Companion Website
Peleda
Vishus Productions/ABC3

PROGRAMMING—TWEENS/TEENS CATEGORY

Best Animated Series
Dan Vs.
Film Roman, in association with The Hatchery

Best Non-Animated or Mixed Series
R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
Front Street Productions, in association with The Hatchery

Best One-Off, Special or TV Movie
Peleda
Vishus Productions/ABC3

Best Companion Website
Dance Academy Series 3
Werner Film Productions/Hoodlum/ABC/ZDF/ZDFE/ACTF

CREATIVE TALENT CATEGORY

Best Design
The Snowman and The Snowdog
Lupus Films

Best Acting
Horrible Histories
Lion Television/Citrus TV/CBBC/BBC Worldwide

Best Writing
Horrible Histories
Lion Television/Citrus TV/CBBC/BBC Worldwide

Best Animation
The Snowman and The Snowdog
Lupus Films

Best Directing
The Snowman and The Snowdog
Lupus Films

Best Music
The Snowman and The Snowdog
Lupus Films

Best Voice Talent
The Wonder Pets!
Little Airplane Productions

The Kidscreen Awards also includes a category designed to spotlight the best efforts made by broadcasters to forge stronger connections with kids and family audiences around the world. These winners were determined by a Kidscreen readership online vote that took place in December.

BROADCASTING CATEGORY

Channel of the Year
PBS Kids

Best Channel Website
PBS Kids
www.pbskids.org

Best Channel Design
Nickelodeon Northern Europe

Best Integrated Promotion
Sprout
Mom Is Here

Best Interstitial Campaign
Cartoon Network EMEA
Gumball Song

Best On-Air Host or Hosting Team
Sprout
The Sunny Side Up Show hosts

For more details about the Kidscreen Awards, visit http://awards.kidscreen.com.

Tags: 2014 Kidscreen Awards

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Canada's Corus Entertainment Unveils Teletoon Integration Plan

The children's entertainment and media news website Kidscreen is reporting the Canadian television industry news in the following article that, on the heels of its CRTC-approved US$233 million buy-out of the 50% stake in Teletoon Canada that it did not already own, Toronto's Corus Entertainment Inc. has revealed a divisional restructure based on the programming schedules of YTV and Teletoon being managed separately.

As a result of the purchase, which includes licences for Teletoon, Télétoon, Teletoon Retro, Télétoon Rétro and Cartoon Network Canada, Teletoon now sits under the new Corus Kids vertical, headed up by Vice President (VP) of television Colin Bohm.

As one of six new distinct business verticals, including Corus Média for Quebec's French-language market, launched by the Canadian media conglomerate in July 2013, Corus Kids includes Corus' kids specialty TV services (YTV, Treehouse, Nickelodeon Canada), Nelvana Studio and Nelvana Enterprises.

To incorporate Teletoon's French-language services, as well as Historia and Séries+, which were also approved in the takeover, Corus has launched a Montreal-based office led by Mario Cecchini, who's been appointed president of Corus Média and head of Eastern Ontario.

With YTV and Teletoon being managed separately under the new structure, Corus has implemented a system to ensure that programming and scheduling are complementary.

For Corus Kids, Jocelyn Hamilton remains the VP of programming and original productions responsible for overseeing the integrated strategy for kids programming, acquisitions and original production, including Nelvana and third-party content. She will continue to report to Colin Bohm.

On the YTV, Treehouse and Nick Canada original programming side, long-time Corus executive Jamie Piekarz is now director of content, responsible for original programming and acquisitions. She was previously Corus Kids' director of original programming.

Over at Teletoon, director of content Alan Gregg also adds acquisitions to his responsibilities and now oversees all original content development and production for Teletoon and Teletoon Retro and their respective multiplatform services.

For scheduling executives, Corus veteran Helen Kim is now director of programming for YTV and Nickelodeon Canada, while Katie Wilson takes on the director of programming role for Teletoon and Cartoon Network Canada. John Rooney, Teletoon's former director of programming, has left the company and is now an independent media consultant at johnromedia.

Heading up the Teletoon French team as VP of programming, and reporting directly to Mario Cecchini, is long-time Teletoon executive Carole Bonneau. "For French-language specific opportunities, producers and distributors should talk to Bonneau," says Bohm. She oversees program schedules, acquisitions and original production for Teletoon, Télétoon, Teletoon Retro, Télétoon Rétro and Cartoon Network Canada.

Bohm would not comment on how many Teletoon employees were let go as a result of the integration or additional specific names, but redundancies were made.

From a pitching perspective, according Bohm, any pitches for YTV and Treehouse should go through Jamie Piekarz, and any for Teletoon, Teletoon Retro and Cartoon Network should go through Alan Gregg.

Regarding a CRTC stipulation requiring Corus to ensure that content from Teletoon, YTV and Treehouse not overlap by more than 10%, Bohm says the new separate programming teams reporting to Hamilton will manage this accordingly.

The buy-out also comes with CDN$40 million in tangible benefits including Teletoon's five networks, H&S, Ottawa Radio and indie production spend:

Corus unveils Teletoon integration plan

On the heels of its CRTC-approved US$233 million buy-out of the 50% stake in Teletoon Canada that it did not already own, Toronto’s Corus Entertainment has revealed a divisional restructure based on the programming schedules of YTV and Teletoon being managed separately.

As a result of the purchase, which includes licences for Teletoon, Télétoon, Teletoon Retro, Télétoon Rétro and Cartoon Network Canada, Teletoon now sits under the new Corus Kids vertical, headed up by VP of television Colin Bohm.

As one of six new distinct business verticals, including Corus Média for Quebec’s French-language market, launched by the Canadian media conglomerate last July, Corus Kids includes Corus’ kids specialty TV services (YTV, Treehouse, Nick Canada), Nelvana Studio and Nelvana Enterprises.

To incorporate Teletoon’s French-language services, as well as Historia and Séries+, which were also approved in the takeover, Corus has launched a Montreal-based office led by Mario Cecchini, who’s been appointed president of Corus Média and head of Eastern Ontario.

With YTV and Teletoon being managed separately under the new structure, Corus has implemented a system to ensure that programming and scheduling are complementary.

For Corus Kids, Jocelyn Hamilton remains the VP of programming and original productions responsible for overseeing the integrated strategy for kids programming, acquisitions and original production, including Nelvana and third-party content. She will continue to report to Bohm.

On the YTV, Treehouse and Nick Canada original programming side, long-time Corus executive Jamie Piekarz is now director of content, responsible for original programming and acquisitions. She was previously Corus Kids’ director of original programming.

Over at Teletoon, director of content Alan Gregg also adds acquisitions to his responsibilities and now oversees all original content development and production for Teletoon and Teletoon Retro and their respective multiplatform services.

For scheduling executives, Corus veteran Helen Kim is now director or programming for YTV and Nickelodeon Canada, while Katie Wilson takes on the director of programming role for Teletoon and Cartoon Network Canada. John Rooney, Teletoon’s former director of programming, has left the company and is now an independent media consultant at johnromedia.

Heading up the Teletoon French team as VP of programming, and reporting directly to Cecchini, is long-time Teletoon exec Carole Bonneau. “For French-language specific opportunities, producers and distributors should talk to Bonneau,” says Bohm. She oversees program schedules, acquisitions and original production for Teletoon, Télétoon, Teletoon Retro, Télétoon Rétro and Cartoon Network Canada.

Bohm would not comment on how many Teletoon employees were let go as a result of the integration or additional specific names, but redundancies were made.

From a pitching perspective, according Bohm, any pitches for YTV and Treehouse should go through Piekarz, and any for Teletoon, Teletoon Retro and Cartoon Network should go through Gregg.

Regarding a CRTC stipulation requiring Corus to ensure that content from Teletoon, YTV and Treehouse not overlap by more than 10%, Bohm says the new separate programming teams reporting to Hamilton will manage this accordingly.

“We’re aware this is a conditional license, and it is something we’re monitoring very carefully to make sure we are compliant. The channels have been very successful as ones with distinct voices targeting different demos and dayparts throughout the week.”

The buy-out also comes with CDN$40 million in tangible benefits including Teletoon’s five networks, H&S, Ottawa Radio and indie production spend.

"One of the obvious questions we heard in Ottawa was from the independent production community regarding concern that we'll divert too much money to our own productions," says Bohm.

"I think the CRTC, in its wisdom, put restrictions in place around the amount of production that we can buy from our own production company. Our intent is to manage this as carefully as we have and continue to rely on Canadian independent production to bring us great shows in English and French for all of our services. It is a good outcome and we are excited for the growth opportunities ahead."

Tags: Cartoon Network, Corus Entertainment, Teletoon

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Nickelodeon Australia Debuts "Legend of Korra" Book 2: Spirits On Foxtel Go

Nickelodeon Australia has announced in a post and trailer on their official Facebook profile page, Facebook.com/NickelodeonAustralia, the very exciting Nickelodeon International News that, to celebrate Nickelodeon Australia and New Zealand starting to premiere and show episodes from season two of Nickelodeon's hit original animated series (Nicktoon) "The Legend of Korra", called "Book Two: Spirits", soon, Nickelodeon Australia has debuted every episode of "Legend of Korra" "Book 2: Spirits" on Foxtel's multi-platform TV service, Foxtel Go, letting Aussie NickHeads the chance to watch TLoK season two on-demand on smartphones (iPhone and and selected Samsung GALAXY devices), tablets, laptops, PC and Mac's before it premieres on Nickelodeon Australia and New Zealand!:

Korra is back!!

To celebrate we're bringing you every single episode of The Legend of Korra Book 2 exclusively on Foxtel Go!

That's right, you can watch the entire season RIGHT NOW - http://ow.ly/txj2g!

You can find out more information about how to watch "The Legend of Korra - Book Two: Spirits" on Foxtel Go here on Foxtel's official website.

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Nickelodeon Australia And New Zealand To Premiere "Monsters Vs. Aliens" On Monday 17th February 2014

Nickelodeon Australia has announced in a series of posts on their official Facebook profile page, Facebook.com/NickelodeonAustralia, the exciting Nickelodeon International News that Nickelodeon Australia and New Zealand will start to show Nick and DreamWorks Animation's brand new CG-animated Nicktoon series "Monsters vs. Aliens" from Monday 17th February 2014 at 8:00am!:

If you love Monsters and Aliens... and B.O.B., you're going to LOVE our new show!!

Monsters vs. Aliens - Premieres Monday 17th January [February]. http://ow.ly/tifNs - Wednesday 5th February 2014

B.O.B. is coming to Nickelodeon!!!

We can't wait to watch Monsters vs. Aliens!! The new show premieres NEXT Monday at 8am. http://ow.ly/tu9WY - 11/2/2014

Nickelodeon changed their cover photo. - 15/2/2014

Team Monster or Team Alien??

Get ready to join them all in Area Fifty-Something! Monsters Vs. Aliens - Premieres Monday at 8am. http://ow.ly/tBKgh - 15/2/2014

Uh oh! Link and B.O.B. have accidentally unleashed a horde of zombies!!

Help them clean their home in our NEW game. PLAY Mean Clean Zombie Brains now - http://ow.ly/tBN9v

Catch our new show Monsters Vs. Aliens - Starts Monday @ 8am. - 16/2/2014

To celebrate Nick AU & NZ debuting "MvA", Nickelodeon Australia and New Zealand's official website, nickelodeon.com.au, recently unveiled their brand new official "Monsters Vs. Aliens" show webpage, which features a Meet The Characters section featuring bios for each character in "M v A" - Susan/Ginormica, B.O.B., Dr. Cockroach, Link, Coverton, Sqweep, Sta'abi, Vornicarn, and General Monger - plus a show info page featuring information about Nick's brand new animated Sci-Fi comedy series "Monsters vs. Aliens" and a exclusive online game!

"Monsters vs. Aliens" – Inspired by DreamWorks Animation's 2009 blockbuster feature film ($383 million worldwide gross), this new series follows the further adventures of the beloved monsters -- B.O.B., the gelatinous blob without a brain; Link, the prehistoric fish-man; Dr. Cockroach, the half-man/half-insect mad scientist; and Susan (aka Ginormica), the incredible growing woman — as they learn to adapt to a new world filled with bizarre aliens. This series, which is greenlit for 26 episodes, marks the third partnership between Nickelodeon and DreamWorks Animation.

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YTV's New March Break-Out Schedule Gives Kids An Entire Month Of New Episodes, Movie Premieres And Specials

Corus Entertainment Inc. has announced the fantastic Nickelodeon News in the following press release, from Corus Entertainment's corporate website, that the Canadian youth television station 'YTV' will be holding the Canadian premieres of the brand-new Nickelodeon show "Breadwinners" and all-new episodes and specials of "SpongeBob SquarePants" ("SpongeBob, You're Fired"), "Sam & Cat" (#TheKillerTunaJump: #Freddie #Jade #Robbie), "Haunted Hathaways", "The Thundermans" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", showing a selection of Nickelodeon Movies ("Jinxed" and "Rango"), plus will be airing a special "Kids' Choice Countdown" KCA pre-show which will lead up to the LIVE simulcast of "Nickelodeon's 27th Annual Kids' Choice Awards", the first ever live telecast of the KCAs on YTV, as part of the networks March Break-Out programming highlights! You can find YTV's full March Break-Out highlights in Corus' official press release below.

Original Corus Entertainment Inc. Press Release:

2/11/2014

YTV's New March Break-Out Schedule Gives Kids an Entire Month of New Episodes, Movie Premieres and Specials

* YTV airs Nickelodeon's 27th Annual Kids' Choice Awards live on Saturday, March 29

* New series The Next Star: SuperGroup, Breadwinners and Nerds and Monsters debut in March

* Cache Craze returns for a second season featuring Olympians Alex Bilodeau and Rosie MacLennan in the premiere episode

* The highly anticipated premieres of SpongeBob SquarePants special "You're Fired" and Sam & Cat reunion special with former iCarly and VICTORIOUS co-stars

Corus Entertainment's YTV is celebrating March Break for the entire month with an exciting programming slate that includes three new series, returning series, new episodes, movie premieres and specials.

Two new hilarious animated series Breadwinners and Nerds and Monsters are joining YTV's stable of cartoon comedy hits. Breadwinners, a Nickelodeon original series with a groovin' soundtrack, follows two booty-shaking ducks as they operate a quirky bread delivery service out of their awesome, jet-fueled Rocket Van. Nerds and Monsters, from Slap Happy Cartoons, is about a group of nerdy kid characters with quick wits on a fantastic uncharted island, à la Gilligan's Island. It's laugh-a-minute as the nerds must use nothing but their smarts to survive the relentless attacks by the island's inhabitants – a tribe of hideous, inept monsters.

YTV's brand new series, The Next Star: SuperGroup is a spin-off singing competition series in search of the next popular boy or girl group. Produced by Tricon Films & Television in association with YTV, the search for Canada's next SuperGroup sensation follows the journey of 30 finalists who travel to Toronto and compete in groups of five while they are mentored by an expert panel. In the end, only two groups will go head-to-head in the live finale, where viewers will vote to determine who wins the grand prize and title of The Next Star: SuperGroup.

For the first time ever, Nickelodeon's 27th Annual Kids' Choice Awards will air live on YTV on Saturday, March 29 at 8 p.m. ET/PT and will be simulcast on Nickelodeon (Canada). This year, Hollywood Superstar Mark Wahlberg (Transformers: Age of Extinction) will take the stage as host of the KCAs. YTV's coverage will also include a pre-show, Kids' Choice Countdown, with The Zone's Carlos Bustamante on location featuring exclusive celebrity interviews at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT.

"We're thrilled to be launching so many new series and special programming events in March," says Jocelyn Hamilton, Vice President, Programming and Original Production, Corus Kids. "YTV is a top destination for kids during March and we have a jam-packed schedule that will keep kids and their families entertained for the entire month."

Viewers can also look forward to new episodes of Haunted Hathaways, Japanizi: Going, Going, Gong!, Numb Chucks, The Thundermans and Some Assembly Required.

SERIES PREMIERES

Breadwinners (20 X 30) – Canadian Premiere
Premieres: Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. ET/PT beginning March 8
A brand-new animated series from Nickelodeon Animation Studio follows two booty-shaking ducks as they operate a bread delivery service out of their awesome, jet-fueled Rocket Van. The series charts the adventures of best friends, SwaySway and Buhdeuce, as they deliver bread to hungry beaks everywhere. These best buds live together, laugh together, and get into all sorts of riduckulous adventures together. Breadwinners is created by Steve Borst (Teen Titans Go!, MAD) and Gary "Doodles" Di Raffaele (MAD, Metalocalypse), who was discovered from Nick's 2012 Animated Shorts Program.

The Next Star: SuperGroup (6 X 60) – World Premiere
Premieres: Tuesdays at 7 p.m. ET/PT beginning March 11
The competition series is hosted by Jordan Francis (Camp Rock, Connor Undercover, CBC's Cross Country Fun Hunt) and performance coaches include actress and recording artist Cory Lee (Degrassi: The Next Generation, Instant Star) and multi-platinum music producer and songwriter Damon Sharpe (The X Factor, Big Time Rush). They will be joined by a panel of industry experts, who include choreographer Nico Archambault (So You think You Can Dance Canada, Nureyev), vocal coach Sarah Morrison (Canadian Idol, Canada's Got Talent), make-up artist Vanessa Jarman (Canada's Next Top Model, How to Look Good Naked Canada), and stylist Corey Ng (MuchMusic, ET Canada). After assembling the young artists into five groups, the coaches and experts will guide and mentor each act as they are faced with an array of challenges designed to help them fine tune their sound, style and chemistry.

Cache Craze Season 2 (20 X 30) – World Premiere
Premieres: Tuesdays at 6 p.m. ET/PT beginning March 11
Three of Canada's Gold Medal winning Olympians team up with three aspiring teen athletes in a no holds barred quest to become Cache Craze Champions. Team "Winter Gliders" features hockey player William Torriani who has enlisted Canada's hero from the 2010 and 2014 Winter Games, Alex Bilodeau. On team "Sky Riders," gymnast Rachel Tam has partnered with Gold Medalist Rosannagh (Rosie) MacLennan who brought home Olympic Gold in Trampoline, Individual Women in 2012. And finally, distance swimmer Liam Desjarlais has drafted Olympic legend Benoit Hout who has won 19 Paralympic medals including 9 Gold. These three Olympians are way out of their comfort zone while they attempt to slay some killer bees, impress a hostile audience with street magic and nab as many digital caches as they can while vying to claim the most coveted prize in sports, the Cache Craze Amaze Ball. Cache Craze is produced by 9 Story Entertainment.

Nerds and Monsters (20 X 30) – World Premiere
Premieres: Wednesday, March 12 at 5:30 p.m. Returns to its regular timeslot at 4:30 p.m. ET/PT on Wednesdays beginning March 19.
Nerds and Monsters tosses a group of nerdy kids on a fantastic uncharted island. The tween castaways must use nothing but their smarts to survive the relentless attacks by the island's inhabitants – a tribe of hideous and hilarious Monsters that are mistakenly threatened by their human invaders. Lucky for the nerds, these dim-witted monsters don't have any smarts.

SPECIALS

SpongeBob SquarePants "SpongeBob, You're Fired" – Canadian Premiere
Premieres: Monday, March 10 at 5:30 p.m. ET/PT
In order to save money, Mr. Krabs fires SpongeBob. But unable to just do nothing, SpongeBob decides to go back to work doing anything, anywhere. To celebrate the new episode, YTV is airing a special day-long SpongeBob SquarePants marathon, Krusty Kronicles, which features back-to-back Krusty Krab-themed episodes beginning at 9 a.m. ET/PT The episode marathon will be interrupted only for the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie at 12 p.m. ET/PT.

Sam & Cat "#TheKillerTunaJump: #Freddie #Jade #Robbie" – Canadian Premiere
Premieres: Monday, March 17 at 6 p.m. ET/PT
In the hour-long event, former iCarly and VICTORiOUS co-stars Freddie (Nathan Kress), Jade (Elizabeth Gillies) and Robbie (Matt Bennett) return as guest stars in their respective character roles. In this episode "Killer Tuna Jump," Jade and Sam become friends and Cat feels left out so she decides to turn the tables by befriending an old friend of Sam's. Sam then does the same and the girls' jealousy soon spirals out of control.

Kids' Choice Countdown – World Premiere
Saturday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT
The Zone host Carlos Bustamante hosts a pre-show from the KCAs in Los Angeles.

Nickelodeon's 27th Annual Kids' Choice Awards – Simulcast with Nickelodeon
Premieres: Saturday, March 29 at 8 p.m. ET/PT
Mark Wahlberg hosts this year's KCAs, broadcast live on YTV, with more slime (and armpit farts) than ever before.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Canadian Premiere
A new one-hour Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles special airs Saturday, March 29 at 10:30 a.m. ET/PT
New episodes premiere all month long on Saturdays at 11 a.m. ET/PT

MARCH BREAK-OUT BIG FUN MOVIES PREMIERES

Dear Dumb Diary (2013) – Saturday, March 1 at 6 p.m. ET/PT
Dolphin Tale (2011) – Sunday, March 2 at 6 p.m. ET/PT
Animals United (2010) – Saturday, March 8 at 6 p.m. ET/PT
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011) – Sunday, March 9 at 6 p.m. ET/PT
The Smurfs (2011) – Wednesday, March 12 at 6 p.m. ET/PT
The Ant Bully (2006) – Thursday, March 13 at 6 p.m. ET/PT
Jinxed (2013) – Friday, March 14 at 6 p.m. ET/PT
Rango (2011) – Saturday, March 15 at 6 p.m. ET/PT
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (2011) – Sunday, March 16 at 6 p.m. ET/PT

Check out www.YTV.com for more upcoming new episodes and marathons during March Break Out.

About YTV

Celebrating 25 years in television, YTV is a leading cross platform entertainment brand for kids and families. The channel offers quality entertainment with hilarious animated and live-action comedy series, popular Nickelodeon series, blockbuster movies, top-rated original Canadian programming, music, celebrities and the channel's after-school block, The Zone. Through its multiple platforms and exclusive digital and interactive content, YTV is the voice of Canadian youth culture. YTV is owned by Corus Entertainment Inc., a Canadian-based media and entertainment company that creates, broadcasts and licenses content across a variety of platforms for audiences around the world. The Company's portfolio of multimedia offerings encompasses specialty television and radio with additional assets in pay television, television broadcasting, children's book publishing, children's animation and animation software. Corus' brands include YTV, TELETOON, ABC Spark, W Network, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network (Canada), HBO Canada, Historia and Séries+, as well as Nelvana, Kids Can Press, Toon Boom and 39 radio stations including CKNW AM 980, 99.3 The FOX, Country 105, 630 CHED, Fresh FM London, Q107 and 102.1 the Edge. A publicly traded company, Corus is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (CJR.B). Experience Corus on the web at www.corusent.com.

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Although not confirmed, it is thought the brand-new "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" special that YTV will be airing on Saturday 29th March 2014 will be the new two-part special "The Manhattan Project".

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