Monday, July 01, 2013

Nickelodeon UK To Premiere New Nick Game Show "Figure It Out" In July 2013

Nickelodeon UK and Ireland has announced and confirmed to NickALive! the very exciting Nick UK News that, to celebrate the British and Irish summer school holidays, Nickelodeon UK and Ireland and Nickelodeon HD UK, the number one commercial kids TV network in the UK, will start to premiere and show the popular Nickelodeon game show "Figure It Out", from late July 2013, as part of Summer on Nickelodeon UK 2013 (exact transmission (TX) air dates, air times and episode names to be announced by Nickelodeon UK)! #SummerOnNick

Every episode of "Figure It Out", based on the Classic Nickelodeon USA game show of the same name, features a panel of Nickelodeon Stars and celebrities trying to guess the unique feat or accomplishment of two kid contestants each, in three rounds of game play, by asking 'yes' or 'no' questions and being bombarded by messy visual and tactile clues. For every round the panel fails to figure it out, the contestant wins a prize. If, after three rounds, the panel can't figure out the kid's unique feat, the contestant takes home the grand prize. Each game culminates in the reveal of the talent with an in-studio demo, and each episode is filled with tons of Nickelodeon's world famous slime!

"Figure It Out" panelists include Alex Heartman from "Power Rangers Samurai", Ana Mulvoy Ten and Jade Ramsey from "House of Anubis", Victoria Justice, Ariana Grande, Avan Jogia, Daniella Monet, Elizabeth Gillies, Eric Lange, Leon Thomas III, Matt Bennett, Michael Eric Reid from "Victorious", Ryan Potter, Carlos Knight and Gracie Dzienny from "Supah Ninjas", Ashley Argota from "True Jackson, VP" and "Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures", Carlos Pena, Jr., Challen Cates, Ciara Bravo, Cody Simpson, James Maslow, Kendall Schmidt, Logan Henderson, Stephen Kramer Glickman and Tanya Chisholm from "Big Time Rush", Chris O'Neal, Cymphonique Miller, Halston Sage, Kirk Fox, Lulu Antariksa, Max Schneider, Noah Crawford and Samantha Boscarino from "How to Rock", Drake Bell from "The Amanda Show", "Drake & Josh", "A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!", and "A Fairly Odd Christmas", Jake Weary from "Fred: The Show", "Fred: The Movie" and "Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred", Jennette McCurdy, Nathan Kress and Noah Munck from "iCarly", Lucas Cruikshank from "Marvin Marvin", Ramy Youssef from "See Dad Run", Rachel Crow from "Fred: The Show", plus Nolan Gould from ABC and Sky 1 HD's "Modern Family".

"Figure It Out" originally aired for four seasons on Nickelodeon USA from July 1997 to December 1999 and was hosted by Olympic gold medalist swimmer Summer Sanders. Panelists from the original broadcast included Kenan Thompson [All That, Kenan And Kel, iParty With Victorious], Aaron Carter, Amanda Bynes [All That, The Amanda Show, What I Like About You], Chris Jericho, Coolio, Jack Hanna, Sherman Helmsley, Evander Holyfield, Joe Namath, Julius Erving, Michelle Trachtenberg (The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Harriet The Spy), Mike O'Malley [Guts, Global Guts] and Mya, among several others. The series was created by Kevin Kay and Magda Liolis with Eileen Braun and Magda Liolis currently serving as executive producers.

Nickelodeon has a long history of developing original, hit game shows. The first game show that aired on the network was Double Dare in 1986, featuring Nick's signatory slime. Over the next 16 years, Nickelodeon launched many other game shows including hits such as Finders Keepers and Super Sloppy Double Dare ('87), Family Double Dare, ('88), Make the Grade and Think Fast ('89), Wild and Crazy Kids ('90), Get the Picture ('91), GUTS and Nick Arcade ('92), Legends of the Hidden Temple ('93), Global GUTS, ('95), Figure it Out ('97), You're On! and Figure it Out: Family Style ('98), Figure it Out: Wild Style ('99), Double Dare 2000 ('00), and Nick Robot Wars and Scaredy Camp ('02). Six years later came Family GUTS [My Family's Got GUTS] ('08), BrainSurge ('09), Family BrainSurge ('11), and Nickelodeon Internationals Camp Orange].