Consumer Products

Germany
NVCP has extended its deal with Tortoise-Design which will see vinyl skins for laptops, handys, iPods, MP3 players and game pads branded with Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants, Avatar, Back at the Barnyward, iCarly and Comedy Central’s South Park. The products will be available via distributors, mail order catalogues, video and video game shops, as well as wholesalers throughout Austria, Germany and Switzerland from this Summer.

South Africa
NVCP announced a brand new partnership with one of South Africa’s largest clothing manufacturers and major character wear companies, Powerhouse International Fashions. The three-year deal kicks off with SpongeBob SquarePants and Dora the Explorer branded outerwear and sleepwear launching throughout the market in Mr Price, Shoprite and Pick n’ Play retail outlets.

Turkey and Cyprus (Northern)
Nickelodeon and Viacom Consumer Products (NVCP) has agreed it’s first-ever collaboration with new partner and back-to-school expert, Hakan Canta. The first in-market deal is for SpongeBob SquarePants and Dora the Explorer school and fashion bags, stationery, packed lunch boxes and umbrellas. Set to launch this Summer, the products will be available at wholesalers and all super and hypermarkets across Turkey including Carrefour, Migros and Tesco.

Programme Sales

MTV Networks International has signed several brand new deals from its catalogue of high-profile music awards shows, as well as relicensing and inking deals for new episodes of Nickelodeon programming across Europe and Latin America:

In Asia, Malaysia’s TV8 has picked up the recent MTV Movie Awards 2009 featuring man of the moment, Bruno, with CCTV3 in China licensing the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008. Upcoming Los Premios 2009 and the Video Music Awards 2009 will broadcast on Campus TV Hondurena (Honduras) and the recent BET Awards 2009 have been picked up by key Scandinavian broadcasters, TV2 (Denmark) and TV Norge (Norway).

Following its huge success around the world, Mediaset in Italy has picked up a second series of Nickelodeon’s iCarly, the first-ever scripted series to incorporate kid-created original content into a live action tween show. Pre-school hit shows, Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego, Go!, are flying high in Colombia with the latter set to broadcast for the first-time on Caracol TV and new seasons, plus a special of the former, to air on Senal Colombia. Seasons 1-2 of Nickelodeon’s Kappa Mikey will launch on Mexico’s Canal Once this year and in a multi-territory deal with Belleville, hit shows, Avatar and Fairly Odd Parents will broadcast across the region.