Butch Hartman Confirms Nickelodeon Making Third Live-Action/CGI "The Fairly OddParents" Movie, "A Fairly Odd Summer"

Butch Hartman, the creator of Nickelodeon's Emmy Award-winning original animated series (Nicktoon) "The Fairly OddParents", has today, Wednesday 2nd October 2013, announced and confirmed on his official Twitter profile page, @realhartman, the fantastic news that, following the huge success of "A Fairly OddMovie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!" and "A Fairly Odd Christmas", Nickelodeon Productions and Pacific Bay Entertainment are currently working on a third brand new live-action/CGI "The Fairly OddParents" original television movie called "A Fairly Odd Summer"!! Butch Hartman announced the news whilst on the set filming the all-new live-action FOP movie!

SUPER PSYCHED to be on the set filming a THIRD #FAIRLYODDPARENTS live action movie!!! More details to follow...

Although most of the exact details are yet to be announced, including the films storyline, as the movie is still in pre-production, the IMDb is reporting that Nickelodeon USA will premiere "A Fairly Odd Summer" in August 2014 as part of Nick's summer holidays programming line-up.

The Internet Movie Database is also reporting that Nickelodeon Stars Drake Bell ("The Amanda Show", "Drake & Josh"), Daniella Monet ("Victorious", "AwesomenessTV", "Fred: The Show"), Teryl Rothery, Daran Norris ("Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide", "Big Time Rush", "The Fairly Oddparents", "T.U.F.F. Puppy"), David Lewis, Mark Gibbon, and Devon Weigel will be reprising their roles as 'Timmy', 'Tootie', 'Mom', 'Dad', 'Mr. Denzel Crocker', 'Jorgen Von Strangle', and 'Vicky', respectively, and will feature actress Ella Anderson ("Dog with a Blog") as the character 'Mitzie' and actor Carter Hastings ("Liv & Maddie") as 'Marty'.

Nickelodeon have so far filmed scenes for their "A Fairly Odd Summer" movie on-location in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and in North Shore, O'ahu, Hawaii, USA.

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Nick France Acquires Brand New Animated Preschool Series "Guess How Much I Love You – The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare" For Nickelodeon Junior

The Canadian production, broadcasting and interactive media business news website Playback Online is reporting the exciting Nick Jr. International news in the following article, via Kidscreen, that Nickelodeon France, the French version of the popular kids' channel, has picked up the broadcast rights to the popular preschool series "Guess How Much I Love You – The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare", locally titled "Devine combien je t'aime", from Toronto, Canada-based 9 Story Entertainment.

Produced by Australia's SLR Productions, Germany's KiKA and Singapore's Scrawl Studios, the series is adapted from the bestselling picture book by Sam McBratney and published by the Walker Books Group, and features the love-themed seasonal adventures of Nutbrown Hare's family and their friends, in which the father and son attempt to measure how much they love each other.

The series launched on recently on Nick Jr. UK and Ireland and in France, and continues to air in territories including Australia, Norway, Israel, Portugal and Estonia. GHMILY also airs on TVO in Canada.

SLR Productions, building on the series' popularity in international markets, also released interactive episodes of GHMILY for Apple's iPad earlier this year (2013).

Nickelodeon Junior, Nick France's preschool channel, has announced in the slider on the homepage of the channels official website, nickelodeonjunior.fr, that Nickelodeon Junior will be premiering brand new episodes of "Devine combien je t'aime" every Wednesday at 7:50pm (19h50), and to celebrate, has unveiled a exclusive online streaming video clip from the show!:

9 Story sells preschool series to Nickelodeon France

Toronto, Canada-based 9 Story Entertainment has sold preschool series Guess How Much I Love You – The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare to Nickelodeon France.

Produced by Australia’s SLR Productions, Germany’s KiKA and Singapore’s Scrawl Studios, the series is adapted from the bestselling picture book by Sam McBratney.

The series launched on recently on Nick Jr. in the UK and in France, and continues to air in territories including Australia, Norway, Israel, Portugal and Estonia. GHMILY also airs on TVO in Canada.

SLR Productions, building on the series’ popularity in international markets, also released interactive episodes of GHMILY for iPad earlier this year.

From Playback Online

Tags: 9 Story Entertainment, KiKA, Nickelodeon, Scrawl Studios, SLR Productions

Also, from Animation Magazine:

9 Story Sells ‘Guess How Much I Love You’ to Nick France

9 Story Entertainment has sold SLR/KI.KA/Scraw Studios’ preschool toon Guess How Much I Love You: The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare (52 x 11) to Nickelodeon France. The beautifully animated 2D series is the first adaptation of the much loved bestselling picture book which has sold more than 32 million copies worldwide. Guess How Much I Love You relates the adventures of the Nutbrown Hares family and their friends with the same endearing simplicity and love that has made the book a timeless classic.

The series continues to air on Disney Junior US, KI.KA Germany, ABC4Kids Australia, Nickelodeon UK, TV2 Norway, Hop! Israel, RTP Portugal, Disney Spain & Italy, ZAPP Netherlands, TRT Turkey, Mini Mini Poland, VRT Belgium and EESTI Estonia, TFO and TVO Canada and YLE Finland.

“We are thrilled to be partnering with Nickelodeon France on this evergreen property and look forward to seeing the series succeed for them,” said Natalie Osborne, Managing Director, 9 Story Entertainment. “They are the perfect home for Guess How Much I Love You in France, especially with Nick Jr. in the U.K. having just recently launched the series,” added Jill Keenleyside, Vice President Distribution, 9 Story Entertainment.”

“The series continues to be an exceptional success in the international and domestic markets,” says Suzanne Ryan, exec producer and CEO of SLR Productions. “With its universal themes and gentle stories, it has timeless appeal to audiences all over the world. Its popularity has grown so much so that we have released the Guess How Much I Love You – Interactive Episodes iPad game application which can be downloaded for the global market from ghmily.tv/ipad-app.”

9 Story Enterprises owns a growing catalogue of popular toons such as which Arthur, Wibbly Pig, Wild Kratts and Almost Naked Animals in addition to new series such as Numb Chucks, Camp Lakebottom, Cache Craze, Daniel Tiger's Neighbourhood and Nerds and Monsters. The company recently acquired distribution rights to CCI Kids, the family content division of CCI Entertainment, increasing 9 Story’s portfolio to over 1500 half hours of content with shows such as Guess How Much I Love You, Joe & Jack, Artzooka! and Extreme Babysitting. For more info, visit www.9story.com.

Guess How Much I Love You: The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare

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Nickelodeon Orders Brand New Slow-Motion Physical Gameshow "Split / Second" To Series For Official Website

The official website of the television industry magazine Broadcast is reporting the exciting Nickelodeon News in the following article that Nickelodeon has ordered a brand new slow motion physical gameshow from ZigZag Productions called "Split / Second" to series for the networks official website!

The Viacom-owned broadcaster has commissioned a initial order of 15 episodes of the gameshow with the duration to be decided. Nickelodeon will initially launch the series online and has the option to move the show to traditional TV.

The news comes over a year after the kids channel originally piloted the gameshow.

"Split / Second" is designed to test the pace of contestants' reactions. Entrants will be whittled down via a series of fastest-first challenges, building to a head-to-head final. It will not be possible to tell with the naked eye which contestant wins games such as bursting a balloon the quickest, with drama injected via super-slow-motion replays of the events.

The show was commissioned by Nickelodeon's US vice president of original programming Jon Radler and will be executive produced by Zig Zag boss Danny Fenton and executive vice president (EVP) of Zig Zag USA Matt Gould:

Nickelodeon orders Zig Zag slo-mo gameshow

Nickelodeon has ordered Zig Zag’s slow motion, physical gameshow Split / Second to series for its website.

The Viacom-owned broadcaster has commissioned 15 episodes of the gameshow with the duration to be decided. It will initially launch online but Nickelodeon has the option to move to traditional TV.

This comes over a year after the kids channel originally piloted the gameshow.

Split / Second is designed to test the pace of contestants’ reactions.

Entrants will be whittled down via a series of fastest-first challenges, building to a head-to-head final. It will not be possible to tell with the naked eye which contestant wins games such as bursting a balloon the quickest, with drama injected via super-slow-motion replays of the events.

For full production credits visit

Broadcast Greenlight
Split / Second

The show was commissioned by Nickelodeon’s US vice president of original programming Jon Radler and will be executive produced by Zig Zag boss Danny Fenton and executive vice president of Zig Zag USA Matt Gould.

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