Nickelodeon News

Sheryl Lee Ralph talks to BWW about her new show 'Instant Mom,' playing Jennifer Hudson's mom on 'Smash' and the role she would love to do on Broadway.

Nickelodeon, the number-one entertainment brand for kids, announced today that is has ordered 26 episodes of two new animated series, Bad Seeds and Pig Goat Banana Cricket, to be produced at the Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank, Calif.

Nickelodeon, the number-one entertainment brand for kids, announced today that is has ordered 26 episodes of two new animated series, Bad Seeds and Pig Goat Banana Cricket, to be produced at the Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank, Calif. The announcement was made by Russell Hicks, President, Content Development and Production, Nickelodeon.

Nickelodeon launches season two of the hit animated series, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Saturday, Oct. 12, at 11:00 a.m. (ET/PT), continuing the crime-fighting adventures of the four mutant turtlesLeonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo.

Sheryl Lee Ralph talks to BWW about her new show 'Instant Mom,' playing Jennifer Hudson's mom on 'Smash' and the role she would love to do on Broadway.

"We love to celebrate with our guests and Halloween is a SLIME filled spooktacular here at the hotel," said Tony Aslanian, director of sales and marketing for Nickelodeon Suites Resort, "we want every guest to make memories to last a lifetime and during October we make them a little sweeter."

The world premiere of the highly anticipated new musical ALL OUT OF LOVE will be staged in Perth and then Singapore in 2014! ALL OUT OF LOVE features the classic songs of Air Supply, one of the world's most successful and enduring bands, with over 80 million album sales worldwide, and an original script skilfully woven into a new love story by award winning Canadian playwright Jim Millan, ALL OUT OF LOVE is poised to be one of musical theatres next hit shows.

Ghosts, zombies and monsters come to life every week in October as Nickelodeon celebrates the spookiest month of the year with the premiere of DEADTIME STORIES, a brand-new, half-hour series, scaring on Thursday, Oct. 3, at 8 p.m.

Global Streetwear e-retailer, Karmaloop is set to release the highly-anticipated Spongebob Squarepants X ICECREAM Brand Capsule Collection conceptualized by Nickelodeon and World-Renowned musician, producer, fashion designer, and self-proclaimed SpongeBob Squarepants enthusiast, Pharrell Williams.

Nickelodeon's celebration today of its 10th annual Worldwide Day of Play (WWDoP) drew more than 35,000 kids and families to the Nethermead in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, in addition to the thousands more who attended local events throughout the country and abroad all week long.

Nickelodeon invites preschoolers on a wheely big adventure in the brand-new Dora the Explorer primetime special, 'Dora's Great Roller Skate Adventure,' premiering tonight, Sept. 22, at 7 p.m. (ET/PT).

The Phoenix Theater Ensemble is presenting both Improv 4 Kids (Todays 9/21 & 9/28 at 11am) and LMAO Off-Broadway (Today 9/28 at 10pm) from Improv Comedy Troupe EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH. Tickets to the shows ($10 for Family Series; $20 for Nite Flight) are available via Ovation Tix (866-811-4111). Shows are running in repertory with Phoenix theater Ensemble productions of 'Go To Brel' (featuring Go Mohan) and 'Don Juan in Hell' (by Karen Case Cook) at The Paradise Factory (64 E 4th St NYC, btwn 2nd & 3rd - Next Door to La MaMa)

Pop star Ariana Grande, rose to immense popularity starring as the beloved Cat Valentine, culminating in her own hit series Sam & Cat. The series premiered on Nickelodeon in June 2013 and is now a bona fide hit for the network. Broadway fans knew her long before however, as she starred in the original cast of Broadway's '13'.

Oxygen Media has announced the addition of Jennifer Young to the position of Vice President, Ad Sales Marketing. In this role, Young will lead the development of strategic and innovative multiplatform sponsorship initiatives, helping to maximize Oxygen's opportunities with advertisers. She will continue to develop and grow Oxygen's 'Live Out Loud' brand on the sales side, in addition to overseeing the network's upfront strategy in the client and agency marketplace. Based in New York, Young will report to Puja Vohra, Senior Vice President, Marketing.

Nick News with Linda Ellerbee hears from kids consumed by anxiety in the new half-hour special, 'Worried Sick: Living With Anxiety,' premiering on Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 8 p.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon. In the special, kids around the country share their stories of dealing with and managing their anxiety disorders.

For the week of September 9, 2013, driven by all-new episodes of hit series 'Jessie,' 'Good Luck Charlie' and 'Austin & Ally,' along with newcomers 'Liv and Maddie' and 'Wander Over Yonder,' Disney Channel ranked as the decisive #1 TV network in Total Day across Kids 2-11 (827,000/2.1 rating), Kids 6-11 (563,000/2.4 rating) and Tweens 9-14 (490,000/2.0 rating) - marking its 3rd consecutive week sweeping the major youth demographics - and was the #1 entertainment cable TV network for the 2nd week in a row in Total Viewers (1.50 million).

Winners of the 2013 Primetime Creative Emmy Awards were announced yesterday afternoon at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony held at the Nokia Theatre L.A.in Los Angeles.

The Tony Awards telecast took home four Emmys including Outstanding Special Class Program, Outstanding Musical Direction and Outstanding Musics and Lyrics for 'If I Had Time' with lyrics by Adam Schlesinger and music by David Javerbaum.

The cable television premiere of COMMUNITY kicks off with a special 10-episode block of fan-favorite episodes today, September 15 from noon – 5:00 p.m. on COMEDY CENTRAL

SLUT, one of the most Popular Productions of the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival, will return for four more performances as part of the FringeNYC Encore Series from tonight, September 14 to 29.