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Nickelodeon has named James Stephenson to the newly created position of Senior Vice President, Animation and Games, adding animation production and development to his current responsibilities of digital content creation.  Stephenson will be based at Nickelodeon’s animation studio in Burbank, Calif., reporting to Russell Hicks, President, Content Development and Production, Nickelodeon Group.

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Press Release Nickelodeon, the number-one entertainment brand for kids, announced today it has ordered 20 episodes of the comedy-adventure series, Welcome to the Wayne, marking its first digital short-form series to be greenlit for television.  Along with the pick-up, Nickelodeon will create a companion app, “The Wayne,” allowing users to gain a deeper, hands-on experience into the series.  Welcome to the Wayne, which originally launched as a series for the Emmy Award-winning Nick App and Nick.com last year, follows the adventures of two ten-year-old boys exploring the crazy, unpredictable world of their New York City apartment building, The Wayne. The…

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Press Release Following the successful launch of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collection, Diamond Select Toys announced today the expansion of its Nickelodeon partnership with the release of a brand-new SpongeBob SquarePants Minimates line. The collection will include SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, Mr. Krabs, Sandy, Grandpa Redbeard, Perch Perkins and Plankton designed as 2-inch-tall mini-figures with multiple points of articulation and interchangeable parts and accessories.

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Press Release Now through March 15, Turtle fans can watch the special one-hour premiere Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, “Battle for New York” exclusively on Nick.com and the Nick App ahead of its on-air debut Sunday, March 15, at 11:00 a.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon. During the episode, Leo doesn’t trust Slash when he emerges leading a team called the “Mighty Mutanimals.” While the Mighty Mutanimals lay siege to the Techno Cosmic Research Institute, the Turtles must brave the bizarre world of Dimension X to save the enslaved people of New York.

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Press Release Nickelodeon has partnered with Get Schooled, a national non-profit co-founded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Viacom, to award one skilled and innovative animator with a $25,000 scholarship by creating an original animated short. This partnership marks the first-ever animation scholarship program between the two organizations, which will help elevate and support the brightest up and coming animators by giving an opportunity to submit their story.

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Press Release Nickelodeon and Papercutz, the industry leader in children’s graphic novel publishing, are proud to announce an innovative first look deal, the first agreement of its kind that the network has made with a graphic novel publisher. The partnership will give Papercutz the first option to adapt all-new Nickelodeon original properties into comics and graphic novels.

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Press Release Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles enters the New Year with the return of season three debuting Sunday, Jan. 11, at 11:00a.m. (ET/PT). In the all-new episode, “Eyes of the Chimera,” Casey, Raph, Mikey and Donnie are captured by a flying mutant who has an obscure connection to April. Meanwhile, April and Leo must overcome their disabilities to save them. Fans can catch new episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in its new timeslot on Sundays at 11:00a.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon.

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Press Release Nickelodeon and Playmates Toys, the companies behind the hit TV show and number-one-selling action-figure brand, Teenage Mutant Ninjas Turtles, today announced the launch of its Bebop and Rocksteady action figures available mid-November exclusively at Walmart. The villainous duo will then make their much-anticipated return to TV this January as part of the current third season of Nickelodeon’s CG-animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series.

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Press Release Seth Green joins the voice cast as Leonardo in Nickelodeon’s season three premiere of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles premiering this Friday, Oct. 3, 8:00pm (ET/PT). In the season opener, “Within the Woods,” the team comes to grips with the possibility that Leonardo won’t get better, while things only get worse: a new mutant captures Raphael.

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