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Wanda Sykes Top Appear In Bubble Guppies Special


Bubble Guppies

Actress/comedian Wanda Sykes makes a splash as the voice of a mean witch in the first-ever hour-long spe­cial of Nickelodeon’s top-rated CG-animated preschool series, Bub­ble Gup­pies, pre­mier­ing Sun­day, Feb. 19, at 8:00 p.m. In “Bub­ble Puppy’s Fin-tastic Fairy­tale Adven­ture,” preschool­ers will join the char­ac­ters on a fairytale-themed adven­ture through an enchanted under­wa­ter world.

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NickToons to Premiere Monsuno


Monsuno

Nick­toons launches Mon­suno, a half-hour action-adventure series debut­ing with two back-to-back episodes on Thurs­day, Feb. 23, at 8:00 p.m. In the 52-episode series, the fate of the world lies in the hands of a group of heroic kids who wres­tle with the power to com­mand and bat­tle crea­tures called Mon­suno.
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Chicago critics name “Rango” Best Animated Feature


Rango
The Chicago Film Crit­ics Asso­ci­a­tion declared the trippy com­edy Rango on Mon­day to be the best ani­mated fea­ture of 2011. Rango won out over chal­lengers The Adven­tures of Tintin, Arthur Christ­mas, Puss In Boots and Win­nie the Pooh.
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Nickelodeon Goes To The Birds


Angry Birds – Wreck the Halls
An all-new exclu­sive Angry Birds hol­i­day short film, “Angry Birds – Wreck the Halls” comes to Nick­elodeon, Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 17 dur­ing the 11 a.m. air­ing of Kung Fu Panda: Leg­end of Awe­some­ness in Nick’s Sat­ur­day morn­ing ani­ma­tion block.
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LA film critics give kudos to Verbinski’s “Rango”


RangoEcho­ing its Washington-area coun­ter­part, the Los Ange­les Film Crit­ics Asso­ci­a­tion has given Gore Verbinski’s Rangoits award for Best Animation.

The Adven­tures Of Tintin: Secret Of The Uni­corn, directed by Steven Spiel­berg, was named runner-up in the cat­e­gory for the 37th annual Los Ange­les Film Crit­ics Asso­ci­a­tion Awards.
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Fox News makes fair & balanced attack on SpongeBob


SpongeBob SquarePants

Sponge­Bob SquarePants may be a rad­i­cal who’s more green than yel­low, the hosts of Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends sug­gested in a recent broadcast.

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Fanboy and Chum Chum” Voicers Don Capes and… Underwear?


Fanboy and Chum Chum

Fan­boy and Chum Chum” voice artists Jamie Kennedy and Josh Duhamel threw on some capes and under­wear for an upcom­ing promo of their Emmy Award-winning Nick­elodeon ani­mated series. Josh voices the role of Oz (Fanboy’s uber-geek men­tor) and Jamie voices Fanboy’s untrust­ing wiz­ard friend, Kyle. This is the first time both gen­tle­men appear together in sup­port of their show.

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Nicktoons Greenlights Rob Dyrdek’s Wild Grinders for 2012

Wild Grinders

Pro­fes­sional skate­boarder Rob Dyrdek will bring the fun, fast-paced world of skate­board­ing to Nick­toons with an orig­i­nal, ani­mated series, Wild Grinders, it was announced today by Keith Dawkins, Senior Vice Pres­i­dent, Gen­eral Man­ager, Nick­toons and Teen­Nick. Inspired by Dyrdek’s real-life expe­ri­ences, the half-hour com­edy fol­lows the car­toon adven­tures of a group of friends bonded by their love of skate­board­ing.
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SpongeBob mushroom discovered in forests of Borneo

SpongeBob mushroom

Sing it with us: What lives in the rain­for­est, under a tree? Spongi­forma squarepantsii, a new species of mush­room almost as strange as its car­toon namesake.

Its dis­cov­ery in the forests of Bor­neo, says San Fran­cisco State Uni­ver­sity researcher Den­nis Des­jardin, sug­gests that even some of the most charis­matic char­ac­ters in the fun­gal king­dom are yet to be iden­ti­fied.
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Sean Astin Joins TMNT Voice Cast


Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings) joins the cast of Nickelodeon’s all-new CG-animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur­tles as Raphael, one of four teenage broth­ers ded­i­cated to a life bat­tling evil denizens. Round­ing out the cast are Jason Biggs (Amer­i­can Pie) as Leonardo, Greg Cipes (Teen Titans) as Michelan­gelo and Rob Paulsen (Planet Sheen) as Donatello. Paulsen also voiced the orig­i­nal Raphael from 1987–1996 in the first series.

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Nick adding 450 animation episodes over 3 years

Nickelodeon

Nick­elodeon will intro­duce 450 episodes of new ani­ma­tion pro­gram­ming over the next three years, with nearly 200 episodes rolling out on Sat­ur­day morn­ings in 2012.

New shows include:

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