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Nickelodeon's 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' Hits All-Time Series High

NEW YORK, July 22, 2008 -- Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender ended its third season with a "b-Aang," scoring the series' highest ratings ever, and earning the number-one spot on broadcast and basic cable television for the week with kids and tweens.

The two-hour season-three finale, Sozin's Comet (Sat., July 19, 8 p.m. ET/PT), wrapped up a week of new, half-hour Avatar episodes (Mon-Tues., Thurs.-Fri., 8 p.m. ET/PT), including a one-hour TV movie mid-week, Avatar: Boiling Rock (Wed. July 16, 8 p.m. ET/PT).

Ratings highlights for Nick's Avatar week include:    » read more »

NBA All-Star LeBron James Is Featured Player in His Own Green-Themed Online Game, "LeBron James: Worldwide Big Green Bike-a-thon!"

NEW YORK, June 30, 2008 -- Four-time NBA All-Star LeBron James teams up with Nickelodeon's The Big Green Help pro-social campaign this month in a brand-new online mini-game, LeBron James: Worldwide Big Green Bike-a-thon! that features James himself. Available now on biggreenhelp.com, players are asked to help a bike-riding LeBron James avatar deliver green tips across the globe to rack up points and progress to the next level of play.    » read more »

iCarly is Topping the Charts!

NEW YORK, June 19, 2008 -- iCarly - Music from and Inspired by the Hit TV Show, the album of music and dialogue from the popular live-action TEENick series starring tween TV sensation Miranda Cosgrove, has just debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Kid Audio album chart and #1 on the SoundScan Top Children's Current album sales chart.

The iCarly album has also entered the Billboard and SoundScan Top Soundtrack albums charts at #2 (second only to the "Sex & the City" soundtrack) while debuting on the Billboard 200 albums chart at #28 with a bullet designating an album with significant airplay and sales gains this week.    » read more »

Nick News with Linda Ellerbee Celebrates July 4th Weekend by Honoring Kids of U.S. Troops in Coming Home

NEW YORK, June 17, 2008 -- By the end of July, 20,000 U.S. troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan will have come home -- and today nearly half (43%) of all deployed U.S. troops are parents. Nick News with Linda Ellerbee honors the bravery and sacrifices of those men and women by honoring the bravery and sacrifices of their kids in a special, Coming Home: When Parents Return from War premiering Sunday, July 6, at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon.    » read more »

Dave Williams Named Senior Vice President and General Manager, Games Group; Kyra Reppen Tapped as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Virtual Worlds Group

NEW YORK, June 17, 2008 -- To provide its audiences with more innovative gaming and virtual world experiences, Nickelodeon Kids and Family Group has formed new Games and Virtual Worlds Groups. Dave Williams will run the Games Group and Kyra Reppen will lead the Virtual Worlds Group, both under the title of Senior Vice President (SVP) and General Manager (GM). The announcements were made by Steve Youngwood, Executive Vice President, Digital Media, to whom Williams and Reppen report.    » read more »

iCarly Prime-Time Special Draws 4.5 Million Total Viewers, Ranks As Basic Cable's Number-One Entertainment Program for the Weekand Year to Date, iCarly Series Ranks as Top Three Tween Show on Broadcast and Basic Cable TV

NEW YORK, June 17, 2008 -- Nickelodeon's hit iCarly series scored big with its first-ever super-sized episode, iCarly Saves TV (June 13, 8 p.m. ET/PT), ranking as the week's number-one entertainment show [non-sports] in total viewers on basic cable television. The program was also number one for the week across all of Nick's key demos -- tweens 9-14, kids 6-11 and kids 2-11 -- on both broadcast and basic cable television.    » read more »

Web Show Heroes Carly and Sam Clash With Clueless TV Network Suits

LOS ANGELES, June 2, 2008 -- When Carly, Sam and Freddie are approached by a big-time broadcaster to adapt their popular web show for TV, their ecstasy quickly turns to agony as the tween trio clashes with clueless network executives and they find themselves struggling to save the iCarly they know and love, in an all-new primetime special "iCarly Saves TV" premiering Friday, June 13 at 8 p.m. (ET/PT).

Highlights:
- Special Caps Off a Four-Hour iCarly Marathon, Arriving on Heels of iCarly Album Release (June 10)
- Leon Thomas (August Rush, Broadway's The Lion King) and Rachel Fox (Desperate Housewives) Guest-Star    » read more »