Drake & Josh courtesy Chris Cuffaro/Nickelodeon
Break out the eggnog (non-alcoholic, of course) all you Drake & Josh fans, and start celebrating the holidays early this year! Nickelodeon has just announced that two of their most popular stars Drake Bell and Josh Peck, will be reuniting for a new, two-hour original TV movie Drake & Josh: Best Christmas Ever. Set to begin production in July, the pic will "blend the classic buddy comedy viewers have come to expect from Drake and Josh with a heartwarming story for the season,” says Marjorie Cohn, executive vice president of Nick's Development and Original Programming.In the hilarious adventure, Drake and Josh, who happen to be working as the mall Santa and his helper, promise an adorable little girl that her foster parents and siblings will have "the best Christmas ever." Easier said than done considering this promise changes their lives completely (and lands Josh behind bars). What's your take on the reunion movie idea? Think this was brought about in part because o...
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Drake Bell courtesy Dimension Films
Jeers to Nickelodeon for promoting Superhero Movie during tween-friendly shows like iCarly. Sure, it stars Drake Bell from the network’s Drake & Josh, but the PG-13 flick also features — to quote the MPAA advisory — “crude and sexual content, comic violence, drug references and language.” (Not to mention Leslie Nielsen having sex with a corpse.) Then again, when a pregnant 17-year-old headlines one of your channel’s kidcoms, I guess anything goes.• For more Cheers & Jeers, check out the new vodcast.• Share your own raves and rants about other shows on the Reader Cheers & Jeers discussion board.• We may feature your Cheer or Jeer on TVGuide.com or in TV Guide magazine!
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Feb 21, 2008 08:12 PM ET
- by Ken Fox
A mob of angry customers storm the counter of their local video store, complaining that the VHS cassettes they've rented aren't the actual movies but cheap homemade reenactments. The plot of the new Jack Black comedy Be Kind Rewind? Not quite: This funny premise was actually the basis for a sketch on the popular Nickelodeon comedy series The Amanda Show, starring Amanda Bynes. Eight years ago.The skit, which recently surfaced on YouTube, features Bynes and costar Drake Bell as a pair of clerks in a "Blockblister" video store who've replaced tapes of Austin Powers, The Wizard of Oz, Titanic and others with their own crappy, basement quality versions — just what Black and his costar, Mos Def, do in Be Kind Rewind, which was written and directed by video-wunderkind-turned-feature-director Michel Gondry (The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Each time a customer complains, Amanda and Drake's boss argues in a comically heavy accent, "This movie better!" before the kids chime ...
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Drake Bell
With a popular TV show on the air and a new album hitting stores, you might think Drake Bell has it all, but when TVGuide.com sat down with the 20-year-old star, we found out he's only just begun. While preparing to tape a super-sized TEENick (airing Sunday at 3 pm/ET, as the conclusion to Nickelodeon's "Nicksgiving Weekend" marathon) inside NYC's Classic Car Club, Drake took a break from rehearsal to tell us about the new season of Drake & Josh (Sundays at 7 pm), his new sound, and his love for old cars, TV shows and music.
TVGuide.com: You sounded great in there just now.Drake Bell: Oh, thank you.
TVGuide.com: You must be a big Beatles fan. I can hear the inspiration a little bit.Bell: Yeah, a huge Beatles fan.
TVGuide.com: Which other
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Hellboy: Sword of Storms
Former adolescents Michael Davis and Mark Nollinger can still summon their inner middle-schooler when they watch tween TV. They got together the other day to compare notes on the new season for kids who are approximately 5 feet tall, wear braces and inject the word "like" between words, like, all the time.
Michael Davis: Which new or returning shows will send parents screaming out of the room?
Nollinger: It's too early to tell with the new shows, although I can imagine that even some folks who loved Beavis and Butt-Head as college students might not welcome Mr. Meaty (premiering Sept. 22, on Nickelodeon) into their living rooms as parents. Personally, I can handle just about anything as long as I don't have to hear the Camp Lazlo theme song ever again. I do
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Barney & Friends' Riff, Degrassi's Cassie Steele (Manny)
New characters! New episodes! New seasons! Check out our helpful guide to our favorite returning kids shows on broadcast, cable and satellite.
PreschoolFirst up, Sesame Street (PBS) celebrates the start of Season 37 next week by adding the magical Abby Cadabby, a delightful (if mistake-prone) sprite who represents the first new female Sesame Muppet in more than 13 years. [Look for a TVGuide.com Insider Q&A with Abby on Monday, Aug. 14.] Barney & Friends (Sept. 15, PBS) also waited 13 years to introduce Riff, their new dino character, whose musical imagination helps usher in an era of more varied tunes. New playmates will also populate the worlds of
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