Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Nickelodeon USA To Fully Premiere "The Thundermans" On Saturday 2nd November 2013

The entertainment news website Entertainment Weekly's 'the Family Room' television news blog is reporting the exciting Nickelodeon news that, following Nick USA's special sneak preview of the networks all-new superhero-themed comedy series "The Thundermans" on Monday 14th October 2013 (Columbus Day public holiday), Nickelodeon USA will fully start to premiere and show the all-new Nick sitcom every Saturday night from Saturday 2nd November 2013 at 9:00pm (ET/PT), as part of Nick USA's Fall/Winter 2013 programming highlights!

To celebrate, EW's 'the Family Room' has also unveiled a exclusive online streaming video clip featuring Nickelodeon's latest brand new promo/trailer for their all-new comedy show, which you can watch here at family-room.ew.com!


"The Thundermans" is about a typical suburban family who happen to have astounding superpowers. At the center of the action are the 14-year-old fraternal Thunderman twins, Max Thunderman (Jack Griffo) and Phoebe Thunderman (Kira Kosarin), who share the same bathroom, the same school and the same annoying younger siblings. Their only difference? Phoebe is a super student with a super sunny disposition who super looks forward to being a superhero someday, and Max aspires to become a super villain. "The Thundermans" also stars Chris Tallman as Tom Thunderman, Rosa Blasi as Lisa Thunderman, Addison Riecke as Nora Thunderman, and Diego Velazquez as Oliver Thunderman. The series commenced production during Spring 2013 and is written by longtime Nickelodeon producer Jed Spingarn, who most recently served as co-executive producer of the hit series "Big Time Rush" and prior to that, produced on "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius" and "Johnny Bravo". In the pilot, the part of 'Max' was played by Tyler Peterson.

Nickelodeon USA's official website, nick.com, has also launched the shows official website, nick.com/thundermans, which currently features a 'About' page featuring show information, a very special 'Kickin' It With The Cast' photo flipbook/gallery featuring exclusive pictures which reveal some the fun the cast get up to behind-the-scenes of their brand new sitcom and a "The Thundermans" message board (forum) for fans to talk about Nick's brand new comedy show "The Thundermans". Additionally, Nickelodeon USA started to air promo/trailers for "The Thundermans" on Saturday 14th September 2013.

Nickelodeon also recently ordered seven additional episodes of "The Thundermans", bringing the total number of episodes in season one of "The Thundermans" up to 20 episodes, following the initial 13-episode pickup in February 2013.

To celebrate Nick USA airing a special sneak peek of their brand new show on 10/14, Kosarin and Griffo lead a Thundermans-themed takeover of Nickelodeon USA's official Twitter account, @NickelodeonTV!