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Bah, Humbug: SpongeBob Banned From Xmas Lighting

SpongeBob SquarePants

Bureau­crats in Wolver­hamp­ton, Eng­land refused to let Sponge­Bob Squarepants go on stage for the city’s Christ­mas lights turn-on cer­e­mony because it was felt that his cos­tume was to large for him to climb five steps to the platform.

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Jill Sanford Named Vice-President at Nickelodeon Animation

Nickelodeon

Nick­elodeon has named Jill San­ford vice-president of ani­ma­tion devel­op­ment for the Nick­elodeon Group.

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Turtle Power Returns Saturday

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Get ready for Tur­tle power to sur­face on Nick­elodeon this Sat­ur­day, Sept. 29, at 11AM (ET/PT) in a spe­cial one-hour tele­vi­sion event in the all-new, CG-animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur­tles series.
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SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D Comes to Life in Spring

SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D

Who lives in a pineap­ple under the sea and may be com­ing soon to a theme park, zoo or aquar­ium near you? Sponge­Bob SquarePants.

Nick­elodeon is team­ing again with attrac­tion pow­er­house SimEx-Iwerks Enter­tain­ment and cre­ative stu­dio Super 78 to bring the smash hit car­toon series to life in Sponge­Bob SquarePants 4-D – The Great Jelly Res­cue.

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Guild Members to Discuss TV Animation Development

The Animation Guild, Local 839

The State Of TV Ani­ma­tion Devel­op­ment” will be the sub­ject of a panel dis­cus­sion at the gen­eral mem­ber­ship meet­ing of The Ani­ma­tion Guild on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 25.

Devel­op­ment”: that enig­matic place where all tele­vi­sion shows get their start. What’s hap­pen­ing in TV ani­ma­tion devel­op­ment today? How does it work, and what are they cur­rently excited about? What are they look­ing for, and what makes a great pitch?

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Nick Teams With NFL… Again!

NickToons

Nick­elodeon and the National Foot­ball League con­tinue their rela­tion­ship with NFL Rush Zone: Sea­son of the Guardians, the sec­ond sea­son of the first-ever orig­i­nal half-hour ani­mated series devel­oped by a major U.S. sports league and a cable net­work, the two enti­ties jointly announced today.

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Russell Hicks named Nick’s president of content

Russell Hicks

Rus­sell Hicks, a 14-year Nick­elodeon vet­eran and its chief cre­ative offi­cer since 2008, has been named to the new posi­tion of pres­i­dent of con­tent devel­op­ment and pro­duc­tion for the Nick­elodeon Group.

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Nickelodeon OKs new animated, live-action series

Nickelodeon

Nick­elodeon announced Fri­day that it has green­lit over a dozen new ani­ma­tion, live-action and TV-movie projects — fea­tur­ing top cre­ative tal­ent in front of and behind the cam­era, iconic char­ac­ters from its most pop­u­lar series and an ani­mated talk­ing snake — that will begin rolling out this fall and into 2013.

The CG-animated series Mon­sters vs. Aliens and 2D-series San­jay & Craig have been green­lit, with both pro­duc­tions based at Nickelodeon’s Ani­ma­tion Stu­dio in Bur­bank, Cal­i­for­nia. In addi­tion, Nick preschool has added a new ani­mated series, Monty and Norville, and two pilots, Blaze and the Mon­ster Machines and Bad Seeds.

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Nickelodeon’s Robot & Monster Premieres Today


Robot & Monster

Nickelodeon’s brand-new CG-animated buddy com­edy, Robot & Mon­ster, pre­mieres on Sat­ur­day, August 4 at 11:00 a.m. (ET/PT). The series fol­lows the friend­ship and adven­tures of the most unlikely best-friend duo, Robot, a mechan­i­cal and self-proclaimed genius, and Mon­ster, a happy-go-lucky organic. These pals live in a strange world where robots and mon­sters, also known as mechan­i­cals and organ­ics, live side-by-side and every­body is united by a love for bacon.

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Legend of Korra Draws 4.5 Mill Viewers

The Legend of Korra

Nickelodeon’s highly antic­i­pated pre­miere of The Leg­end of Korra, scored a strong 4.5 mil­lion total view­ers, rank­ing as basic cable’s number-one kids’ show and top ani­mated pro­gram for the week with total view­ers. The series, which con­tin­ues the mythol­ogy of the beloved ani­mated fran­chise Avatar: The Last Air­ben­der, also posted dou­ble and triple-digit increases across all kid and tween demos.

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Nick To Debut Skateboard Series April 27


Wild Grinders

Pro­fes­sional skate­boarder and entre­pre­neur Rob Dyrdek (star of MTV’s Rob & Big, Fan­tasy Fac­tory and Ridicu­lous­ness) brings a car­toon com­edy, set against the excit­ing back­drop of the sport of skate­board­ing, to Nick­toons with the new series, Wild Grinders, pre­mier­ing Fri­day, April 27, at 7:00 p.m.

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French say “non” to underwater SpongeBob statues

SpongeBob SquarePants

Sponge­Bob SquarePants and his friends live in the sub­ma­rine city of Bikini Bot­tom — but they won’t get a res­i­dency per­mit in France.

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Chipwrecked sails in to win at Kids’ Choice Awards

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked

The partly ani­mated “Alvin and the Chip­munks: Chip­wrecked” was named Favorite Movie at Sat­ur­day night’s Nick­elodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, defeat­ing two other hybrid films.

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Nickelodeon plans more than 650 new episodes

Nickelodeon

Nick­elodeon, at its annual upfront pre­sen­ta­tion held Wednes­day at Jazz at Lin­coln Cen­ter in New York, unveiled plans for an unprece­dented 650 new episodes — the top-ranked network’s most ever — of both brand-new con­tent and return­ing hits, as well announc­ing pre­miere details for the highly antic­i­pated ani­mated series The Leg­end of Korra, a stop-motion Sponge­Bob SquarePants Christ­mas spe­cial, and an orig­i­nal ani­mated series based on the Rav­ing Rab­bids video games.

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Angry Birds Short To Sail Into Nick

Angry Birds Space

An all-new exclu­sive Angry Birds short film, “Angry Birds Space” lands on Nick­elodeon and Nick­toons on Wednes­day, March 21, at 7:00 p.m. on Nicktoons.

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