Nickelodeon UK has announced in the following Nickelodeon UK Press Release their exciting festive plans to celebrate "Christmas On Nickelodeon UK 2012"!
It's A SpongeBob Christmas on Nickelodeon
- SpongeBob SquarePants and Friends Get Festive with the Big Advent Calendar -
London – 12th November 2012 – SpongeBob's Big Advent Calendar is back on Nickelodeon this Christmas. Following on from the success of last year, viewers can count down from Saturday 1st December until Christmas Day [Tuesday 25th December 2012] on-air and online with SpongeBob and his Nickelodeon chums. Viewers can watch daily at 8am and 4pm for an hour of special seasonal shows including new SpongeBob SquarePants, Fairly OddParents, Bucket & Skinner's Excellent Adventures [Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures], Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Winx Club and Power Rangers Samurai.
Making a special appearance during the festive hours of programming, an animated parcel will manifest on screen. Viewers can then visit nick.co.uk/spongebob to identify the present they spotted and unlock the calendar window for their chance to win that day’s gift. Prizes include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures, vehicles, playsets and combat gear, SpongeBob SquarePants puzzles, voice changer and magazine subscription as well as Winx Club dolls and Victorious goodies. Plus, there is a very special gift for the calendar window on Christmas Eve – a trip for a family of four to Nickelodeon Land at Blackpool Pleasure Beach!
A special part of Nickelodeon's festive programming line-up this year is the network's first-ever full-length stop-motion animation, "It's A SpongeBob Christmas." The special will air at 8am and 4pm on Sunday 2nd December, and throughout the festive period. “It’s A SpongeBob Christmas” is inspired by the classic Rankin/Bass specials (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town) and the popular SpongeBob song released in 2009, "Don't Be a Jerk (It's Christmas)," co-written by Tom Kenny (voice of SpongeBob) and Andy Paley. The new half-hour episode also features John Goodman as Santa Claus.
In "It's A SpongeBob Christmas" Plankton turns everybody in Bikini Bottom from nice to naughty by feeding them his special jerktonium-laced fruitcake, all in an effort to get his Christmas wish - the Krabby Patty formula. The Nickelodeon premiere will include bonus scenes featuring a stop-motion version of the character "Patchy," also voiced by Tom Kenny.
Work began on the special in October 2011 at Screen Novelties production studio in LA, where the artists worked closely with Paul Tibbitt (Executive Producer), Steve Hillenburg (Creator) and Vincent
Waller (Creative Director) to insure the two-dimensional cartoon characters were properly translated into three-dimensional puppets. Six sets were operating at one time where 60lbs of baking soda was used as snow, 42lbs of glitter added sparkle, 22lbs of wood chips created Sandy's tree house floor and 20 boxes of breakfast cereal covered the coral rocks.
"It's A SpongeBob Christmas" is also available to buy on DVD through Paramount Home Entertainment - out now, exclusively at Asda. The DVD features exclusive content including a behind-the-scenes making of the special, "Change of Sea-nery: Getting to the Bottom of a Stop-Motion Bikini Bottom," plus interviews with the cast and crew.
For more Nickelodeon Christmas products please visit amazon.co.uk/nickelodeon
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Nickelodeon has been bringing audiences in the UK and Ireland hit international and locally-produced kid’s content since 1993. Reaching 14 million homes, Nickelodeon offers a schedule packed with innovative, playful and heartfelt programming featuring top shows such as House of Anubis, SpongeBob SquarePants and iCarly. Viewers can also catch Nickelodeon in high definition through Nickelodeon HD and have the opportunity to catch up with the schedule through Nick +1. Exclusive games, behind the scenes clips, show information and more are available at nick.co.uk Nickelodeon is on Sky 604, Virgin 712, through BT Vision and TalkTalk channel 315.
Nickelodeon UK comprises seven dedicated entertainment channels for kids aged 4-15 and is a joint venture between Viacom International Media Networks and BSkyB Networks. Launched in 1993, the Nickelodeon Network is a top-performing commercial kids TV network in the UK and Ireland with Nickelodeon channels available in over 14 million cable and satellite homes.
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SpongeBob SquarePants and Friends are to get festive with the Big Advent Calendar on Nickelodeon.
Following on from the success of last year, viewers can count down from Saturday 1st December until Christmas Day on-air and online with SpongeBob and his Nickelodeon chums.
The children’s channel is to provide parents and young ones with daily seasonal shows at 8am and 4pm for an hour.
“Making a special appearance during the festive hours of programming, an animated parcel will manifest on screen. Viewers can then visit nick.co.uk/spongebob to identify the present they spotted and unlock the calendar window for their chance to win that day’s gift. Prizes include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures, vehicles, playsets and combat gear, SpongeBob SquarePants puzzles, voice changer and magazine subscription as well as Winx Club dolls and Victorious goodies. Plus, there is a very special gift for the calendar window on Christmas Eve – a trip for a family of four to Nickelodeon Land at Blackpool Pleasure Beach!” Nickeloden say.
A special part of Nickelodeon’s festive programming line-up this year is the network’s first-ever full-length stop-motion animation, “It’s A SpongeBob Christmas” co-written by Tom Kenny (voice of SpongeBob) and Andy Paley. The new half-hour episode also features John Goodman as Santa Claus.
In “It’s A SpongeBob Christmas” Plankton turns everybody in Bikini Bottom from nice to naughty by feeding them his special jerktonium-laced fruitcake, all in an effort to get his Christmas wish – the Krabby Patty formula. The Nickelodeon premiere will include bonus scenes featuring a stop-motion version of the character “Patchy,” also voiced by Tom Kenny.
Work began on the special in October 2011 at Screen Novelties production studio in LA, where the artists worked to insure the two-dimensional cartoon characters were properly translated into three-dimensional puppets. Six sets were operating at one time where 60lbs of baking soda was used as snow, 42lbs of glitter added sparkle, 22lbs of wood chips created Sandy’s tree house floor and 20 boxes of breakfast cereal covered the coral rocks.
