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May 13 2013 03:02 PM ET

Nick's 'Sam & Cat' gets June premiere date

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Your tween’s crossover fanfiction will soon hit the small screen: New spinoff series, Sam & Cat, starring Ariana Grande (Victorious’ Cat Valentine) and Jennette McCurdy (iCarly’s Sam Puckett) will premiere on Saturday, June 8 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Nickelodeon. The show will follow the Victorious and iCarly faves as they meet, become best friends and, in a plot twist that will make Baby-Sitters Club adult fans want to cheer, start their very own babysitting service.

The show was created by Nick regular Dan Schneider (iCarly, Victorious, Drake & Josh, Zoey 101). The premiere episode will have total opposites Sam and Cat meet when a wild predicament lands both girls in the back of a moving garbage truck. They then find themselves babysitting three young kids, and soon after, Sam & Cat’s Super Rockin’ Fun-Time Babysitting Service is born.

“Sam & Cat is the perfect vehicle to showcase the amazing chemistry and comedic talents of Jennette and Ariana,” said Russell Hicks, President of Content Development and Production at Nickelodeon, in a release. “Fans will love seeing two of their favorite Nick characters back in action in this wild and hilarious comedy.”

 

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May 2 2013 05:00 PM ET

Lisa Kudrow to guest on Nick's 'Wendell & Vinnie': EXCLUSIVE

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Another of your favorite Friends is hitting the small screen again.

EW has learned that Lisa Kudrow will guest star on Nickelodeon’s new series Wendell & Vinnie later this year. The show, which premiered in February, is about carefree 30-year-old memorabilia store owner Vinnie (iCarly fave Jerry Trainor) whose life is turned upside down when he unexpectedly becomes the guardian of The World’s Most Mature 12-year-old, Wendell (Buddy Handleson). Unexpected hijinks with this newfound odd couple naturally ensue.

Kudrow’s episode, in which she’ll play a rival collectibles owner out for a piece of Star Trek memorabilia (DATA eyes) that Vinnie wants to snag for his store, will air sometime this fall. UPDATE: Also guest starring that episode: Brent Spiner (Star Trek’s Data). Other guest stars this season include Dan Castellaneta (The Simpsons), Robin Givens (House of Payne), and Willie Garson (Sex and the City).

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May 1 2013 01:10 PM ET

Watch Michael Imperioli in the 'Sopranos'-heavy 'Nicky Deuce' -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO

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Don’t expect to see Michael Imperioli reviving his violent, respect-craving Christopher Moltisanti for Nickelodeon’s new movie Nicky Deuce.  Though we understand why you might be confused since the movie is based on a book co-authored by The Sopranos’ Steve Schirripa, stars Schirripa, and will feature cameos from James Gandolfini, Imperioli, Vincent Curatola and Tony Sirico.

But as you can see from this exclusive clip, which also prominently features a horse, Imperioli is actually playing a mad scientist-type of doctor known as… The Doctor.: READ FULL STORY »

Apr 30 2013 12:33 PM ET

Nickelodeon's 'Team Umizoomi' visit Gordon Ramsay -- VIDEO

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Gordon Ramsay took a break from yelling obscenities in the kitchen to play nice with a couple of animated kids.

As part of Nick’s preschool series Team Umizoomi, which is all about math, Ramsay finds himself in need of some help in the kitchen when he finds a plate full of ingredients for strawberry shortcake not yet made. Ramsay’s famous temper is hinted at, although happily he manages to keep thing pleasant for the under-five set. Adults will get a chuckle out of Ramsay’s ending invitation for team Umizoomi to join him long-term as his cooking helpers. They may only be preschoolers, but even they know a bad idea when they hear it.

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Apr 25 2013 09:39 AM ET

'Fairly Oddparents' exclusive: Season 9 will premiere...

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Get ready for more wands, wings, and floaty crowny things. Nickelodeon’s third-longest running Nicktoon ever will return for an all-new season Saturday, May 4, at 9:30 a.m.

Though a few one-off OddParents specials have aired already this year, the May 4 episode is the official start of season 9 — a milestone of which Fairly OddParents creator Butch Hartman is understandably proud.

The animator tells EW that while the show has certainly evolved since its 2001 premiere — fairy godfather Cosmo, for example, has become “really stupid” because “the dumber we made him, the more jokes we could write” — its core values have stayed intact, even though its original viewers aged out of Nickelodeon’s audience long ago.

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Apr 23 2013 12:26 PM ET

'30 Rock,' 'Arrested Development,' 'Breaking Bad' actors unite for Nickelodeon's 'Sanjay and Craig'

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A Calvin and Hobbes-esque series that stars alumni of four culty classics from the ’00s — and is produced by the guys who created The Adventures of Pete & Pete? Nickelodeon’s upcoming animated series Sanjay and Craig is clearly aimed at 20-somethings as well as their young nieces and nephews — and given the talent involved, this attempt to attract young adults just might work.

Like Disney’s similarly-named Phineas and Ferb, Sanjay and Craig follows the misadventures of its two title characters: excitable 12-year-old dreamer Sanjay (voiced by 30 Rock‘s Maulik Pancholy) and his best friend, a tricky anthropomorphic snake called Craig (The Nerdist‘s Chris Hardwick). READ FULL STORY »

Apr 4 2013 05:48 PM ET

Victoria Justice to guest on 'Big Time Rush' -- EXCLUSIVE

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Nickelodeon’s bringing some Justice to Big Time Rush.

EW has learned that Victoria Justice, former star of Victorious, will appear as herself on an installment of Nickelodeon’s boy band sitcom this spring. The episode, titled “Big Time Tour Bus,” is notable for another reason as well — it’ll be directed by band member Carlos Pena, who plays jokester Carlos on the show.

In “Big Time Tour Bus,” the boys find themselves caught in traffic while traveling to their next gig. It’s up to Justice to keep the concert’s audience entertained as the guys try to figure out what to do next.

Art, naturally, imitates life; as announced last week, Justice will be joining Big Time Rush on their upcoming Summer Break Tour. Concerts begin in LA June 21st; tickets will go on sale this Saturday, April 6.

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Apr 3 2013 05:57 PM ET

Tia Mowry-Hardrict to star in NickMom's first original scripted comedy

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Think Sister Sister, minus one sister: The Game‘s Tia Mowry-Hardrict, best known for starring opposite her sister Tamara in a variety of projects including the reality show Tia & Tamara – which returns to the Style Network this summer — is striking out on her own in a new sitcom.

Instant Mom will star Mowry-Hardrict as Stephanie, a party girl who inherits three stepchildren when she marries an older man (Michael Boatman). Moesha‘s Sheryl Lee Ralph also stars as Stephanie’s mother Maggie.

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Mar 26 2013 06:33 PM ET

Ariana Grande finds 'The Way' to pop success?

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Parents, get ready to hear this song over and over and over again — in your car, coming out of your kid’s room, spilling out of their headphones. Nickelodeon star Ariana Grande’s new single (featuring Mac Miller) ‘The Way’ went to number 1 on iTunes when it was released today, in no small part thanks to her 5.4 million Twitter followers. While the legion of fans the 19-year-old cultivated while on Victorious are waiting to catch Grande and iCarly‘s Jeanette McCurdy on the upcoming spinoff Sam & Cat, they’ll be sure to put this on constant replay. And the Mariah Carey-esque sound will likely help it got a lot of radio play.

Check out the official lyric video below and take a peek at some of the slightly more grownup lyrics, like Miller’s risque line:

You a princess to the public/but a freak when it’s time./
Said your bed be feeling lonely/so you sleepin’ in mine. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 23 2013 09:44 PM ET

Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2013: Your slime recap!

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Twilight‘s Kristen Stewart, One Direction, The Hunger Games, Selena Gomez, Victorious, and Katy Perry were all winners at last night’s Kids’ Choice Awards on Nickelodeon. But that’s not why you were watching, was it? When it comes to the KCA, it’s all about the slime. We were promised a Slime Dunk, a Mega-Slime, and more — and Nick, along with host Josh Duhamel in an array of silly costumes, mostly delivered. EW.com social media goddess Nika Vagner and I Vine-capped the whole affair on EW’s Twitter. Below we present, uninterrupted, all the squishy, icky, green-and-gooey goodness. (UPDATE: Check out the full winner’s list.)

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