Thursday, January 14, 2016

Nickelodeon News Bytes - Thursday 14th January 2016

NickALive!'s pick of Nickelodeon News from around the internet!



- Let's play Double Dare! ABC's popular comedy series The Goldbergs will pay homage to the hit classic Nickelodeon game show Double Dare next week! In the brand-new episode, things get messy between Adam (Sean Giambrone) and Emmy (Stephanie Katherine Grant) when Double Dare hosts auditions at school -- and not just because of the obstacle course. Insteading of asking each other to be partners, Adam asks Pops (George Segal) to be his, while Emmy asks Handsome Ben (Froy Gutierrez) to be hers, leading to a fight. The episode is inspired by creator Adam F. Goldberg's real friends, Benjamin "Handsome Ben" Bauman and Amy "Regular Amy" Gross, who were actually on Double Dare back in the day. The two make cameos in the episode as Double Dare producers. Meanwhile, Barry (Troy Gentile) thinks Beverly (Wendi McLendon-Covey) is a good luck charm for his favorite sports team. The all-new episode airs on Wednesday 20th January 2016 at 8:30/7:30c on ABC! Check out exclusive photos from the Double Dare episode of The Goldbergs here on TVGuide.com!


- It's Slime Time! Australian tennis ace Daria Gavrilova (World No. 36) was awarded Nickelodeon's highest honour by Woolworths Ball Kids in the Nickelodeon Kids' World playground at the Australian Open Festival site in Birrarung Marr when she was drenched in Nickelodeon's famous green slime, joining fellow tennis pros Andy Murray and Priscilla Hon! Fans can visit the festival from Monday 18th January 2016! Watch Daria being slimed, and her priceless reaction, in the video below, and check out more pictures here on the
Australian Open's official Facebook page
! Sports presenter Clint Stanaway also got slimed!



- Kauai, Hawaii resident Siena Agudong has landed a role on Nickelodeon's "Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn"! Siena will play the character Natlee in six episodes of NRDD, with her character getting longer and longer parts in each episode!

- Nickelodeon Iberia will start to premiere and show "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" season four from Monday 8th February 2016! Nickelodeon Portugal will debut each all-new episode from the fourth season of "As Tartarugas Ninja" at 18:00 and Nickelodeon Spain (Espana) will premiere each brand-new episode of "Las Tortugas Ninja" season four at 19:00!

- Nick Jr. USA will premiere brand-new episodes of "Franklin and Friends" daily at 6pm ET/PT from Monday 25th January 2016! Nick Jr. will encore each all-new episode the same evening at 11:36 PM ET/PT. The currently announced brand-new episodes of "Franklin and Friends" that Nick Jr. will debut in January 2016 are:

1/25 - Franklin and the Adventure on Planet Zorb; Franklin and the Two Unicycles
1/26 - Franklin's Firefighter Flapjacks; Franklin and the Missing Mega Machine
1/27 - Franklin's School; Franklin Plays Hoppity Bop

- Nickelodeon Greece will start to premiere and show more brand-new episodes of "Blaze and the Monster Machines" ("Ο Μπλεϊζ και οι Φίλοι του") from Monday 18th January 2016 at 09.45!

- Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB and VIA) today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.40 per share on both its Class A and Class B common stock. The dividend will be payable on April 1, 2016 to stockholders of record at the close of business on Sunday 13th March 2016.

- Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) has added MEC to its shortlist as it hunts for a UK media agency to handle all its TV channels – including Channel 5, MTV and Nickelodeon – for the first time. The other five shops in the running are: PHD, Starcom Mediavest Group, the7stars, UM London and Vizeum.

- Nickelodeon USA will debut brand-new Fan Art and Emoji-inspired bumpers designed by Brooklyn, NY-based illustrator Natali Martinez this weekend! Check them out below!:


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