Nickelodeon Acquires New Tween Comedy Series, Life With Boys

TrendPK.com:Nickelodeon, the number-one entertainment brand for kids, announced today a global broadcast acquisition with Classic Media and Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana for the new half-hour series, Life With Boys. The 22-episode series created by Michael Poryes ( Hannah Montana and That’s So Raven), starring Torri Webster as “Tess” and Madison Pettis as “Allie,” is produced by Nelvana and Helion Pictures.

“We are excited to partner with Classic Media, Nelvana and Helion Pictures on this exciting new property,” said Jules Borkent, Senior Vice President, Programming and Acquisitions, Nickelodeon. “Life With Boys is a perfect addition to our programming line-up, and we feel the tween series will enhance our global audience’s TV viewing experience.”

“Nickelodeon is the perfect platform for this new series from Michael Poryes which we all believe will be a breakout hit,” said Chloe van den berg, Executive Vice President, International, Classic Media.

“Life With Boys has enjoyed success in Canada and the UK and we are delighted that audiences in the US and around the world will finally meet these wonderfully real and memorable characters,” said Jerry Diaz, Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Distribution, Nelvana Enterprises.

The partnership covers exclusive TV rights in the US and Pay TV rights for regional Nickelodeon channels, across Europe, including Germany, Benelux, the Nordics, as well as Latin America and Asia. Broadcast rights for the UK have been previously secured by Nickelodeon in an earlier announced deal with Helion Pictures.

Each half-hour episode follows 14-year-old Tess Foster as she navigates her way through the turmoil of teen life while living at home with her single, overprotective dad and three brothers. Although Tess adores the four important men in her life, they do have four totally different perspectives. Despite the shortcomings of being the only girl in a male household, the boys can sometimes offer solid advice. Whether it’s building up the courage to talk to a boy, dealing with an obnoxious one, or coping with the repercussions of being the only girl on the boys’ wrestling team, Life With Boys sheds a comedic light on many of life’s difficult moments.

About Classic Media
Classic Media, one of the world’s largest independent entertainment companies, is a leader in reinventing the classics of yesterday and creating the entertainment classics of tomorrow. The Company owns and manages a globally-recognized portfolio of well-known family and pop-culture entertainment brands, including Casper the Friendly Ghost®, Where’s Waldo?®, Lassie®, The Lone Ranger®, and new brand Life With Boys™. Big Idea Entertainment, a member of the Classic Media family, is the leading faith-based studio and producer of children’s programming, including the best-selling animated series, VeggieTales®. Classic Media programming is distributed in more than 170 territories worldwide and showcased in multiple formats, including TV, film, home video, consumer products, publishing, digital, and music. Visit us at www.classicmedia.tv

About Nelvana
Nelvana is owned by Corus Entertainment Inc., a Canadian-based media and entertainment company. Corus is a market leader in specialty television and radio with additional assets in pay television, television broadcasting, children’s book publishing and children’s animation. The Company’s multimedia entertainment brands include YTV, Treehouse, Nickelodeon (Canada), W Network, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network (Canada), CosmoTV, Sundance Channel (Canada), Movie Central, HBO Canada, Nelvana, Kids Can Press and radio stations including CKNW AM 980, 99.3 The FOX, Country 105, 630 CHED, Q107 and 102.1 the Edge. Corus creates engaging branded entertainment experiences for its audiences across multiple platforms. A publicly traded company, Corus is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (CJR.B). Experience Corus on the Web at www.corusent.com.

About Helion Pictures
Helion Pictures was created by Managing Director Steven Bawol to create long-running fiction series’ for the international market and has been responsible comedies like “One for the Road” for Channel 4 in the U.K., interactive fiction like “Boy Meets Girl” for Swedish broadcaster SVT and Nickelodeon U.K.’s successful live-action comedy series, “Renford Rejects” and “Genie in the House”. Bawol co-created “Section de Recherche”, France’s most successful one-hour police series for TF1, France’s largest broadcaster. Currently, he is Executive producer of “The Borgias”, a drama series created by Tom Fontana for Canal +, and has shows in development with Starz, Channel 4, TF1, Broadview TV and Cybergoup Studios.

About Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon, now in its 32nd year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The company includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, online, recreation, books and feature films. Nickelodeon’s U.S. television network is seen in more than 100 million households and has been the number-one-rated basic cable network for 17 consecutive years. For more information or artwork, visit http://www.nickpress.com. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB).

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Returning Panesar dejected by humiliating defeat

 

He expressed dejection over England s humiliating 72-run defeat against Pakistan in the second Test, saying he would swap his six wickets for his team s win.

 

England, playing their first Test series as world number one, went down to Pakistan s spin duo of Abdul Rehman (6-25) and Saeed Ajmal (3-22) after being set a tricky 146-run target at Abu Dhabi Stadium on Saturday.

 

Panesar set them on track for a series-levelling win by taking 6-62 in Pakistan s second knock.

 

Pakistan now have an unassailable 2-0 lead with the third and final Test starting from February 3 in Dubai. Pakistan won the first Test by ten wickets, also played in Dubai.

 

Panesar, who was playing his first Test since Cardiff in the 2009 Ashes, said he was ready to swap his wickets for England s win.

 

“I m still hurting from the loss. It would be nice to get some wickets but I would rather have a none-for and see England win. I want my performances to contribute to England winning and be part of a successful team,” said Panesar.

 

The 29-year-old said England s failure in the last innings put paid to their efforts.

 

“Pakistan played very well at a critical stage of the match. We played good cricket throughout the Test but it was just the last innings where they performed really well.

 

“We re hurting and we re determined to come back in the next Test.”

 

Panesar said the team remained confident despite the losses.

 

“The boys are still upbeat and looking forward to the third Test. They want to prove we can do well here and we re determined to put on a good show in the last Test,” said Panesar, who admitted playing in Asia was different.

 

“Playing in these conditions is different from English conditions and we all want to grow and learn and become better at coping,” said Panesar of the conditions which England will also face in Sri Lanka and India later this year.

 

“Playing in the subcontinent is exciting. We have Tests in Sri Lanka and India coming up so the opportunity to play two spinners is exciting for me and I enjoy playing under the leadership of (Andrew) Strauss and Andy (Flower).”

 

Panesar said he was not looking too far ahead in his career.

 

“I want to keep learning and keep growing. I want to experience more challenges to test my character and I think that will help me develop further as a player and as a person as well,” he added.

 

Panesar has so far taken 133 wickets in 40 Tests.–AFP

 

MQM will not allow anybody to divide Sindh : Altaf

 

Addressing a public gathering in Sukkur, Muthidda Qaumi Movement Chief Altaf Hussain said that today s rally is a challenge for the people who want to make Pakistan their personal asset.

  

Altaf said that today s rally is a referendum for those who have intentions to divide Sindh. He said that the MQM is real guarantor of progress and prosperity in Sindh.

 

He said that if Sindhi people refuse to pay 70% of revenue, how it would be possible to run the country.

 

He said that actual revolution is to change the status quo of feudal, looters and plunderers who have been exploited the wretched of earth for centuries in the name of so-called norms and values.

He said that today’s public gathering is a referendum against hatching conspiracies for partition of Sindh. He said all the people belonging to any community should embrace each other to shun away antipathies.

While referring to Quaid e Azam address after creation of Pakistan, Altaf said that everybody is free to follow his own religion in accordance with his norms and rituals.

He said that outdated and degenerated rituals and customs like karo-kari and marriage with the Holy Quran should be exterminated on priority basis.

The government should announce comprehensive water project for the people of Sukkur, he said.

Apart from this, he said that separate colleges for boys and girls should be established in the city, adding that a special university should also be formed for higher education of local people.

Highlighting railway system, he said that it should be renovated for better service.

He said that special attention should be focussed on journalist community in the city and Sukkur Press Club should be granted Rs one million so that it may be consolidated.

While expressing his condolence over killings of lawyers, he said that it is conspiracy to ignite clash between Shia and Sunnis.

He appealed to the government to provide special protection to lawyers who fight for rule of law and establishment of justice.

 
Criticising the PML-N, he said that public should be provided special protection from mafia which is selling fake and substandard medicines for their vested interests.

Commenting law and order situation in Balochistan, he said that law and order should be restored in the war-torn areas of the province.

 

Likewise, Fata people should be taken into confidence while taking decisions about their future, avoiding use of power.

Referring a mystic Sufi Latif Bhatai, he said that success can be achieved only by dint of hardships.

 

Akshay Kumar returns in Khatron Ke Khiladi – 4

COLORS’ flagship show Fear Factor Khatron Ke Khiladi is all set to present an innovative ‘integrated product’ for the first time on Indian television. This summer, the audiences can expect the best of action unfold as India’s thrilling reality show Khatron Ke Khiladi returns with the Akshay Kumar as the host. Season 4 promises ‘Torchaar’ and extreme adventure and inculcates the spirit of pushing boundaries to experience that one moment of thunder.

After three successful seasons COLORS’ ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi – Torchaar’ reaches the wild land of South Africa with 13 striking hunks and 13 female partners. An exciting bouquet of 13 women from different walks of life will be paired along with common heroes! The participants will be pushed off their comfort zone, the level of stunts and tasks will be extreme and intense than ever before, making this a deadly combination of drama and action on small screen! The winner will not only be bestowed with the coveted title of being the ‘Khiladi’ but also chosen as the ‘Thums Up Thunder Star’. The ‘Thums Up Thunder Star’ will get an exclusive opportunity to feature with the Thums Up brand ambassador Akshay Kumar in the brands new communication campaign.

Ashvini Yardi, Head of Programming, COLORS says, “With every season of Fear Factor Khatron Ke Khiladi, our endeavor is to present something new, exceptional and clutter breaking to the viewers. Akshay Kumar returns as the host along with 13 men attempting the deadliest stunts shot in the exotic locales of South Africa, Khatron Ke Khiladi – ‘Torchaar’ making it a must watch this summer.”

Akshay Kumar who believes in performing every stunt prior to the boys has gone through rigorous training himself. Straining every muscle of his body, he is back with a vengeance only to break hell loose on the boys.

Talking about his comeback on Khatron ke Khiladi – ‘Torchaar’ Khilaadi of Bollywood, Akshay Kumar says, “It feels good to be back to my home ground with Khatron Ke Khiladi and it is exciting to do something which I love to do – adventurous stunts. As the name suggests it will be ‘torchaar’ to the core and the boys will be expected to perform some really edgy stunts. The girls too can shed their vanities and nervous giggles and be prepared to face challenges thrown their way. I am going to be absolutely tough and brutal with the boys and yes it will be worth watching.”

Indian model vows to strip for WCup win

MOHALI: Women in India are encouraged to dress modestly at all times, but a brasher side to modern life has been exposed after a popular model vowed to strip naked if the nation wins the cricket World Cup.

Poonam Pandey, 20, who features in a best-selling Indian swimwear calendar, said she wanted to provide an incentive to players by promising them she would bare all – though whether her offer will be welcomed is not known.

“I’m a cricket fanatic and I’m a diehard supporter of my nation. India needs a lot of support and this is my way of supporting the team,” she told several newspapers on Wednesday.

Asked by reporters if she was pulling of a publicity stunt, she replied: “Absolutely not. I’m confident of my body and I’m doing this to excite our boys to play better.”

Pandey received widespread media attention for her pledge, with the Times of India illustrating its story with a colour photograph of her wearing a skimpy bikini.

“Pray for Todays Match that the Boys Play well and make us Proud,” she said on her Twitter page ahead of India’s crunch semi-final game against Pakistan.

Her offer echoes that of Larissa Riquelme, a model who attracted global fame by pledging to run naked through the streets of Paraguay’s capital Asuncion if her country won the 2010 football World Cup.

Paraguay were knocked out by Spain in the quarter-finals and she instead posed nude in front of her national flag. AGENCIES

Focusing Semi Final: MS Dhoni

Indian team captain MS Dhoni said that Indian team is focusing on the semi final match against Pakistan. He said that they are in the competition to play well with full concentration. MS Dhoni said that they are not involving in media hype and looking to play well for the team.

Self Reliance–A key to success

Thanks to foreign ‘aid’. Our debts have consistently increased to unsustainable level, and economic growth consistently decreased. Wealth is correlated with poverty because the two go hand in hand. We cannot eliminate poverty through foreign aid without elevating our own wealth. It cannot be accomplished by simply giving wealth to those who need it. True wealth is not having something simply today, true wealth comes from being able to go out everyday and generate more than the previous day. Wealth is not created through wealth redistribution no matter how much we may wish it otherwise. Pakistan has been under “development” for the last sixty three years. It needs leadership, empowerment, and inspiration and a reconnection to its culture coupled with proper future planning. Government should formulate concrete self reliance strategy, and adopt long or short term policy to encourage self reliance in the public and private sectors. Foreign aid to impoverished nations is no more a solution to poverty than social welfare in our own country. It needs to become self-sufficient and sovereign from foreign influence. The exploitation goes hand in hand with aid, and only serves to keep corrupt governments in charge. With deepening poverty in Pakistan where ‘aid’ had, and still has, its hand fittingly wrapped around the necks of the poor, it would seem official that development ‘aid’ is neither necessary nor sufficient for ‘development’; To continue with the trick of ‘aid’ seems to be generously absurd.

Pakistan contains many lessons from this fraud of ‘aid’. It has lost self-sufficiency in food production that it enjoyed before development assistance was invented, and during the past few decades, has become instead a beggar hopelessly dependent on the largesse of outsiders–per-capita food production has fallen in every year since 1980s. Seven out of every ten Pakistanis, are furthermore, now reckoned to be destitute or on the verge of extreme poverty. The policy dictates of the solidly backed IMF, World Bank, and other multilateral lenders are such that whatever the situation, it’s only ideal that whichever monies they will advance can create positive economic change irrespective of political will of sitting recipient governments. The money sent by the US, UK, Canada and other capitalist nations about 50% ends up in the pockets of the multi-national corporations/ contractors of donor countries, and contrary to the expectations of the donor agencies sizable chunks of money are hoarded away in politicians’ private bank accounts. Despite, the arrangement of “paying-off” the local ruling class is routine amongst the colonial capitalist nations. In turn, the poor people of Pakistan have to bear burden of 100% liability along with interest. Government of Pakistan should stop taking all types of foreign loans. Pakistani people do not need it, just government and military need the loans. People of Pakistan have never got benefit of all these loans but have been paying heavy taxes for those loans which are stocked in the pockets of bureaucrats, politicians and military generals. I would suggest people of Pakistan must rise to roads to stop these foreign loans, which is darkening the future of next generation. The people taking these huge loans will be out of the country along with their brief cases leaving the poor people of Pakistan at the mercy of circumstances.

Elite capitalist nations, such as US, UK and Canada, portray some aid packages to Muslim countries as charity. But, in reality, this money is an investment that enables the colonial powers to maintain their influence in the Muslim lands. Foreign aid is a tool of control instead of it being a tool of eradication of poverty. We must reject the continued subordination of our affairs to these colonial nations. Wealth creation is the only way to eradicate poverty and foreign aid or foreign loan is not. It certainly works regardless of the society that you are in is to produce something that people are willing to pay for. It is through the process of creation and bartering that wealth is created and maintained. To truly bring a nation out of poverty is through the creation of goods that others are willing to purchase. Both domestically and globally Pakistani products have yet to gain acceptance for their quality and worthiness. It is not understandable as to why don’t we work harder for that, why don’t we work hard in the farms, factories, offices, and to build schools, especially to educate the women, so they teach their children, and so on! Deploy at least 7% of GDP in education for the next 10-15 years; educated nation will definitely get rid of all evils of our society and economy. An educated citizen is less likely to vote for a corrupt politician, or to let what is theirs is stolen by corrupt politicians. Pakistan has been blessed with enormous natural resources, but a handful of people have some how managed to gather it up, while the majority are starving and desperate. Garnered and justified in the name of the destitute and the vulnerable, ‘aid’s main function in the past more than half-century has been to create and then entrench a powerful new breed of wealthy, privileged and accountable-to-one gang of foreign parasites. In this camp of screw-the-poor-out-of-existence made up of the World Bank, IMF, United Nations and other worthless behemoths of international mediocrity, ‘aid’—and nothing else—has provided ‘jobs for the boys’ and has permitted record-breaking self-serving behavior, arrogance, paternalism, and fearless cowardice.

Self reliance should be our national slogan and not a political catch-word. Self reliance is a boon and a skill, a need and a necessity, a challenge and a benefit. Self-reliance is a key to gratifying and productive life. Being self reliant gives us great freedom. And this experience opens our eyes to new possibilities, to new prospects, to new options. Our forefathers, our Qaid wanted to see Pakistan an independent and self-reliant country. Pakistan has no alternate except to rely on its own capabilities to defend its sovereignty. We should follow the saying, “You can give a man a fish and feed him for a day or teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime.” A fisherman waits on no one to provide food; a fisherman knows where to go to get it and can feed himself quite well.

School Gyrls A Very School Gyrls Holla-Day

School Gyrls  A Very School Gyrls Holla-Day , In “A Very School Gyrls Holla-Day” (Nickelodeon, Saturday), the stars of Nick Cannon’s “School Gyrls” featurette return, narrating as their future aged selves a spaghetti-strap-thin tale of being trapped in a mall overnight — it’s just connecting tissue, really, between some new and old holiday songs in modern modes and makes no particular sense, but it’s loose and likable.

The story-to-song ratio is much higher in “Big Time Christmas” (Nickelodeon, Saturday) an hourlong expansion of “Big Time Rush,” Scott Fellows’ exuberant boy-band-as-Monkees-as-Looney-Tunes Nickelodeon series, that finds its stars trying to get home to Minnesota. Guests include Miranda Cosgrove, from “iCarly,” and the bizarrely wholesome Snoop Dogg, who helps the boys cut a new version of “The 12 Days of Christmas.”

Tragedy briefly strikes when they are told, ” Justin Bieber just released ’50 Days of Christmas’ with 50 Cent. It’s over eight hours long, and it’s a masterpiece.”

Hazara University boys hostel burns to ashes

Staff Report

MANSEHRA: The boys hostel of Hazara University completely burnt to ashes midnight on Sunday.

According to police and university administration, due to a short circuit at 3:00am, a fire broke out in the boys hostel of the university.

Students and teachers residing in the hostel tried to control the fire, but failed. Later on, they called the fire brigade.

During this period, the fire continued to spread rapidly as wood was used in bulk in the construction of the hostel.

The fire spread all across the hostel and completely burnt it. Trend Pk

Hazara University boys hostel burns to ashes

Staff Report

MANSEHRA: The boys hostel of Hazara University completely burnt to ashes midnight on Sunday.

According to police and university administration, due to a short circuit at 3:00am, a fire broke out in the boys hostel of the university.

Students and teachers residing in the hostel tried to control the fire, but failed. Later on, they called the fire brigade.

During this period, the fire continued to spread rapidly as wood was used in bulk in the construction of the hostel.

The fire spread all across the hostel and completely burnt it. Trend Pk

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