Nick Preps New Original TV Movie

NEW YORK: Jerry Trainor and Jennette McCurdy, two of the stars of Nickelodeon’s hit series iCarly, will headline the kids’ channel’s new original movie Best Player, slated for a 2010 premiere.

Shooting is to take place in Vancouver beginning October 24 for the movie, about two cyber athletes who inadvertently learn that the real world can be just as exciting and rewarding as a virtual one. "Best Player is a funny and compelling story about online gaming taken to the extreme," said Marjorie Cohn, the executive VP of original programming and development at Nickelodeon. "This movie gives Jerry Trainor and Jennette McCurdy a new platform in which to showcase their talent and our audience will love seeing them star in these new comedic roles."

In Best Player, Quincy (Jerry Trainor) is a thirty-something baggage handler by day and online video game master by night, living in his parents’ basement, whose world gets turned upside down when his parents decide to sell their house and move to Florida. In a bid to win the money to buy his parents home, he enters a video game tournament and comes up against "Prodigy" (Jennette McCurdy).