Nickelodeon Germany To Hold Special "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Exhibition At 'Comic Action 2012'!

Nickelodeon Germany has announced on their official website, Nick.de, that, to celebrate and promote Nick Germany starting to premiere and show Nickelodeon's brand new CGI-animated "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" television series from Sunday 4th November 2012 at 10.30am (local time), Nickelodeon Germany (also known as Nickelodeon Deutschland) will have a special "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" exhibition at this years 'Comic Action', 'Comic Action 2012', which will be held in the German city of Essen between Thursday 18th October 2012 and Sunday 21st October 2012!

Nickelodeon Germany's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" exhibition at 'Comic Action 2012' will span 150 m2 (square meters) and will feature special "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" information booths/stands where visitors can learn more about Nickelodeon's brand new "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" television series and the Heroes in a Half Shell - Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo - themselves, a "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" game station where visitors will be able to play great Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games, and a special showing of the very first episode of Nickelodeon's brand new "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series, called "Rise of the Turtles",

Nickelodeon Germany will also hold a special questions and answers (Q&A) session with Kevin Eastman, Co-Creator of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", and Rich Magallanes, Senior Vice President of Nickelodeon Animation on Thursday 18th October 2012, and a special professional animation workshop where visitors will get to learn how the characters of Nickelodeon's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" come to life on Saturday 20th October 2012, plus, Nick Germany will also be holding a great "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" competition/contest, where Nickelodeon Germany will be asking entrants to make their very own "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" comic books for the chance to win 1 of 10 ultimate "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" packages!

Below is Nickelodeon Germany's Nickelodeon News article about Nick Germany holding a special "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" exhibition at 'Comic Action 2012', which also offers German "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" fans and Nickelodeon Germany viewers the chance to win tickets to Nick Germany's special "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" exhibition at this years 'Comic Action' comic-con which will be held in Essen, Germany between Thursday 18th October 2012 and Sunday 21st October 2012, which has been translated by Google Translate:

THE TURTLES AT THE COMIC ACTION IN ESSEN

GEWINNE TICKETS FÜR DIE COMIC ACTION 2012 IN ESSEN! / WIN TICKETS FOR THE COMIC ACTION 2012 IN ESSEN!

From Thursday, 18 to Sunday 21 October in Essen will be the great comic show 'Action Comics' instead. Why Nickelodeon is a 150 m2 stand for the new series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the spot.

WITH A LITTLE LUCK WIN TICKETS FOR THE FAIR AND TURTLES 100% POWER!

The contest can be found below on this page!

Dive visited the home of Leo, Donnie, Raph and Mikey in the urban world of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and was.

THERE AWAITS YOU PLENTY OF ACTION:

* Get our information booths all about the four brothers from New York!

* Games at different stations cool Turtles games

* Look 'you exclusive footage of the first episode of the Turtles, before they are shown on TV!

* Meet on Thursday, 18 October, the inventors and creators of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Kevin Eastman (inventor of the Turtles) and Rich Magallanes know (head of the animation department at Nickelodeon). Löchere it till you drop with all your questions!

* Take on Saturday 20th October attended a professional animation workshop. Learn how the characters come to life!

* Carry at our grand prize draw to: Write your own Turtles comic and win one of ten packages Turtles fan!

* So come 'on 18 to 21 October's comic action by and experience the full power Turtles Power!

* Incidentally, the Turtles are from Sunday 4 November at 10:30 clock at Nickeldeon on TV!

JOIN NOW AND WIN TICKETS FOR THE COMIC ACTION!

Take right now in our contest and a chance to win one of 8 family ticket (4 people / 1 day!) For a day of your choice for the comic action in Essen

Also, below is the untranslated Nickelodeon Germany news article:

DIE TURTLES AUF DER COMIC ACTION IN ESSEN

Von Donnerstag, den 18. bis Sonntag, den 21. Oktober findet in Essen die große Comic Messe 'Comic Action' statt. Deswegen ist Nickelodeon mit einem 150 m2 großen Stand zur neuen Serie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vor Ort.

GEWINNE MIT ETWAS GLÜCK TICKETS FÜR DIE MESSE UND FÜR 100% TURTLES-POWER!

Das Gewinnspiel findest du weiter unten auf dieser Seite!

Tauche ein in die Großstadtwelt der Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles und sei zu Gast im Zuhause von Leo, Donnie, Raph und Mikey.

DORT ERWARTET DICH JEDE MENGE ACTION:

* Erfahre an unseren Infoständen alles Wissenswerte über die vier Brüder aus New York!

* Spiele an verschiedenen Stationen coole Turtles-Games

* Schau' dir exklusive Ausschnitte der ersten Folge der Turtles an, bevor sie im TV zu sehen sind!

* Lerne am Donnerstag, den 18. Oktober die Erfinder und Macher der Turtles Kevin Eastman (Erfinder der Turtles) und Rich Magallanes (Chef der Animationsabteilung bei Nickelodeon) kennen. Löchere sie bis zum Umfallen mit all deinen Fragen!

* Nimm am Samstag den 20. Oktober an einem professionellen Animationsworkshop teil. Lerne, wie die Figuren zum Leben erweckt werden!

* Mach' bei unserem großartigen Gewinnspiel mit: Schreibe deinen eigenen Turtles-Comic und gewinne eins von zehn Turtles Fan Paketen!

Also komm' vom 18. bis 21. Oktober bei der Comic Action vorbei und erlebe die volle Ladung Turtles-Power!

Übrigens: Die Turtles gibt es ab Sonntag, den 4. November um 10:30 Uhr bei Nickeldeon im TV!

JETZT MITMACHEN UND TICKETS FÜR DIE COMIC ACTION GEWINNEN!

Nimm' jetzt an unserem Gewinnspiel teil und gewinne mit etwas Glück eines von 8 Familientickets (4 Personen/ 1 Tag) für einen Tag deiner Wahl für die Comic Action in Essen!

Nickelodeon Germany Announces To Start To Show Nickelodeon's Brand New CGI-Animated "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" TV Series From Sunday 4th November 2012 At 10.30am!

Nickelodeon Germany has announced and revealed the Nickelodeon Germany/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles News in a "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" banner on the homepage of their official website, Nick.de, that Nickelodeon Germany (also known as Nickelodeon Deutschland) will start to premiere and show Nickelodeon's brand new CGI-animated "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" television series on Sunday 4th November 2012 at 10.30am (local time)!:

Premiere AM 4. November UM 10.30 UHR

Nickelodeon Star Victoria Justice Introduces An Exclusive Online Streaming Video Clip From Her Upcoming Brand New Nickelodeon Movie "Fun Size" For Digital Spy

From Digital Spy:

Exclusive: Victoria Justice, Chelsea Handler in 'Fun Size' video clip - watch

Justice plays a teenager whose Halloween plans are disrupted by babysitting.

Victoria Justice and Chelsea Handler star in a new clip from Fun Size.

Directed by The OC and Gossip Girl executive producer Josh Schwartz, Fun Size stars Justice as Wren, a teenager whose plan to attend a Halloween party held by her crush is jeopardised by babysitting duties.

Handler, Jane Levy, Thomas Mann and Johnny Knoxville are among the film's supporting cast. Schwartz is also producing, while long-time The Colbert Report scribe Max Werner has penned the script. > Victoria Justice on 'Victorious' success: "It's mind-blowing" Fun Size will be released on October 26 and 29 in the US and UK respectively. Watch a promo for Justice's Nickelodeon sitcom Victorious [for the show's premiere on Nickelodeon USA] below:

Former Nickelodeon UK Presenter Mark Felgate To Hold Comedy Show At Havant Leisure Centre, Havant, UK On Friday 5th October 2012

From AboutMyArea:

Banter Comedy Club Presents Mark Felgate

An amazingly hilarious mix of stand-up, music and ventriloquism!

As seen on BBC1, BBC2, Nickelodeon, Channel 5, BBC3, ITV and more, Mark Felgate will be taking the stage at Havant Leisure Centre on Friday 5th October. He will supported by 3 great acts from around the UK, which may be changed due to their TV commitments beyond the organisers control.

Tickets are £4 in advance and £5 on the door and are available from wegottickets.com or Havant Leisore Centre.

Door open at 7.30pm.

For more information please visit www.bantercomedy.com.

Mark Felgate was a Nickelodeon UK Presenter between 2005 and 2009, where he presented Nickelodeon UK's live in-vision continuity studio links in-between programmes, including for the Nickelodeon Programming Blocks "The Crunch!", "HeadHeads" (also known as "Nick Heads"), "ME:TV", "Slime Across The UK", "Slime Across Ireland", "Summer on Nick", "Ross Lee's Ghoulies", and was a contestant/housemate in Nickelodeon UK's parody of the reality show "Big Brother" called "Big Bother", after Nickelodeon UK spotted him during Nickelodeon UK's talent show competition to find the next Nickelodeon Presenters called "The Big Nick Pick" in 2004.

Ciro Nieli, Executive Producer Of Nickelodeon's Brand New "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" CGI-Animated TV Series, Talks About How 'Booyakasha' Became The New 'Cowabunga'

From the entertainment news website Entertainment Weekly's 'Inside TV' television news column:

'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' producer: How 'booyakasha' became the new 'cowabunga'

Old-school fans of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise may have noticed something interesting in the run-up to Nickelodeon's upcoming animated reboot: the lack of cowabungas.

The Turtles’ standby catch phrase — first introduced in the '50s by The Howdy Doody Show and later popularized by TMNT's Michelangelo – has so far been conspicuously absent from the new series. Meanwhile, another four-syllable exclamation has appeared in its stead: booyakasha, a word strongly associated with Sacha Baron-Cohen’s Ali G character.

What, we wondered, is up with that? Ciro Nieli, executive producer of Nickelodeon's TMNT update, had some answers for us.

“There was a lot of talk about what the new 'cowabunga' was, or whether it should even remain 'cowabunga,'” Neili tells EW. "We hadn't initially come up with anything yet because we didn't really necessarily need it [at the time]."

“But then when we were at the record, one of the actors — Greg Cipes, who actually plays Michelangelo — just kind of went for it,” Nieli explains. “When he said it in the room, there were a lot of executives there. I think it was our first record. And it was that moment when he said it — I think he just really pulled it off and kind of won everybody over in the room. And it stuck.”

But diehard fans shouldn’t mourn the loss of cowabunga just yet. “That cowabunga replacement is one of many things we say,” Neili says. “And we might actually — I think cowabunga might be coming. We just wanted to wait on it. We didn’t want to do everything at once.”

So, today's children are about to witness a cowabunga-free Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, at least for a while. How do you TMNT OGs take that news? Do you applaud the new series’ decision to develop its own voice, or is this on par with suddenly giving the gang an alien backstory? Let us know!

Tags: EW Exclusive, Nickelodeon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, TMNT, TV Scoop

Also, from WhatCulture!:

New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV Show Replaces Cowabunga With “Booyakasha”

Oh my! The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans have had more than their fair share of bad news in the last 12 months so it should come as no real surprise that the latest buzz regarding the franchise is also going to ruffle a few feathers. Not that turtles have feathers.

According to Entertainment Weekly, a world famous Ninja Turtles catchphrase will not be uttered during the premiere season of the new TMNT TV show which is airing on Nickelodeon in the US and [Nickelodeon] in the UK. That's right Turtles fans, “Cowabunga” is out. The new buzz word in the sewers of New York City? “Booyakasha”.

The show’s producer Ciro Neili had this to say:

“There was a lot of talk about what the new ‘cowabunga’ was, or whether it should even remain ‘cowabunga. We hadn’t initially come up with anything yet because we didn’t really necessarily need it [at the time]. But then when we were at the record, one of the actors — Greg Cipes, who actually plays Michelangelo — just kind of went for it. When he said it in the room, there were a lot of executives there. I think it was our first record. And it was that moment when he said it — I think he just really pulled it off and kind of won everybody over in the room. And it stuck.”

Exactly why a phrase most commonly associated with Sacha Baron-Cohen’s alter-ego Ali G is being used in a kids TV show considering they officially shouldn't have watched any Ali G is beyond us, however Neili assures us that Cowabunga is not gone forever – probably.

“That cowabunga replacement is one of many things we say. And we might actually — I think cowabunga might be coming. We just wanted to wait on it. We didn’t want to do everything at once.”

So how do we all feel about this change? Are the catchphrases of classic shows as important as the stories and characters themselves? Will you be watching the cowabunga-less Teenage Mutant Ninja/Hero Turtles? And is this the biggest travesty since Ninja was replaced with Hero in the UK? Have your say below.

Nickelodeon UK Announces Plans To Premiere The Brand New "Fred" Movie "Fred 3: Camp Fred" And More Brand New Episodes Of "Fred: The Show" In October 2012

Nickelodeon UK has announced the Nickelodeon UK News in their brand new "Catch brand new episodes of Fred: The Show" (below with transcript) that Nickelodeon UK will continue to premiere and show brand new episodes of the brand new Nickelodeon comedy series "Fred: The Show" every Friday at 4.30pm (repeated at 5.30pm on Nick UK's plus one (+1) timeshift channel, Nick Replay UK) and during the upcoming October 2012 school half-term holidays, and are planning to premiere and show the brand new Nickelodeon Original TV Movie called "Fred 3: Camp Fred", on Nickelodeon UK and Ireland and Nickelodeon HD UK in October 2012, as part of "October on Nickelodeon UK"!

Catch brand new episodes of Fred: The Show every Friday and during Half Term...

[Fred Figglehorn (portrayed by Lucas Cruikshank): But that's impossible! Improbable! Preposterous!]

...and travel to camp with Fred in the brand new movie, all this October, only on Nickelodeon!

In the brand new "Fred" movie, called "Fred 3: Camp Fred" (formally titled "Fred Goes to Camp"), school's out for the summer and the fast-talking, hyper teenager "Fred Figglehorn" is headed to camp! In Fred 3: Camp Fred, Fred's mom (Siobhan Fallon Hogan) enrolls him in the world's worst summer camp - the dilapidated Camp Iwannapeepee. Fred is miserable until he meets a motley group of campers who teach him what camp is really about – making new friends. Together, Fred and his new friends, "Magoo" (Joey Bragg), "Dig" (Adrian Kali Turner, "Bad Teacher", "The Walking Dead"), "Spoon" (Leah Lewis), and "Chatter" (Matthew Scott Miller), are determined to muster up the strength and confidence to beat their rivals at the nearby posh Camp Superior in the annual Summer Camp Games. Based on one of the most popular internet characters of all time, the third installment of the hit TV movie franchise also features Tom Arnold as Floyd the camp director, WWE Superstar John Cena as Fred's imaginary dad, Charlie Carver ("Desperate Housewives") as Hugh Thompson the resident jock, Daniella Monet ("Victorious") as Fred's sassy best friend Bertha, Jake Weary ("As the World Turns") and Carlos Knight ("Supah Ninjas") as Fred's rivals. "Fred 3: Camp Fred" is executive produced by Brian Robbins of Varsity Pictures, Michael Green, Gary Binkow and Evan Weiss of The Collective, and Lucas Cruikshank. The movie is written by Drew Hancock ("Supah Ninjas", "FRED: THE SHOW") and directed by Jonathan Judge ("FRED: THE SHOW", "Big Time Rush").