At NATPE, Nickelodeon Latin America announced the lineup new animated and live-programming to join its 2006 schedule. The network has acquired the animated series Lola and Virginia from Icon Animations and Kappa Mikey from Animation Collective, and picked up Whoopi Goldberg’s live-action series Just for Kicks. Also on tap is the network’s first’ever original series, Skimo, a live-action sitcom being produced in Mexico City.
Other animated series acquired for 2006 include the Nickelodeon originals The X’s and Catscratch, Method Film’s Skyland and 4 Kids Prods.’ Yu-Gi-Oh Gx. Nick Latin America will also air fresh episodes of popular toon shows including SpongeBob Square Pants, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Rugrats All Grown Up, Danny Phantom, My life as a Teenage Robot, Trollz, Dora the Explorer, Blue’s Clues, Little Bill and Go Diego Go! Nick Jr. will also premiere Dougie in Disguise, a show about an ordinary kid whose collectible sticker albums come to life through imagination, and Wonder Pets, a live-action/animated series about three, brave opera-singing classroom pets that become superheroes after school.
Nick’s Latin America audience will also be treated to the Feb. 13 debut of Nick at Nite, the night-time programming block featuring iconic sitcoms of the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. The block will debut pan-regionally in Spanish and Portuguese, airing daily on Nickelodeon Latin America and Nickelodeon Brazil from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. respectively. Shows on tap include Alf, Mork & Mindy, Different Strokes, The Facts of Life, The Addams Family, The Munsters, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie and Growing Pains.
MTV Networks Latin America Inc., a unit of Viacom Inc., owns and operates MTV Latin America, Nickelodeon Latin America, VH1 Latin America, Viacom Networks Brazil and the MTV Networks Digital Suite, a package of five digital services’MTV James, MTV Hits, VH1 Soul, VH1 Mega Hits and Nickelodeon’s GAS (Games and Sports for Kids).
