Nick Unveils Holiday Slate

NEW
YORK, November 25: Throughout the month of December, Nickelodeon will present
seven all-new seasonal specials, including the two-hour original TV movie Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh, which
premieres December 5 at 8 p.m.

Merry Christmas, Drake
& Josh
features Henry Winkler and MMA fighter Kimbo Slice respectively
guest-starring as the fair-minded judge and Josh's good-hearted ex-cellmate who
help the brotherly duo keep their Christmas promise to a family of foster kids.

On
December 8, The Wonder Pets! "Save
the Nutcracker!" features a contemporary spin on Tchaikovsky's holiday
classic. The Fairly OddParents'
special "Merry Wishmas!" premieres on December 12 at 8 p.m. The
episode watches as Timmy Turner must convince Santa that the holiday is worth
saving when "Wishmas" threatens to replace it forever.

Nickelodeon
has also lined up a number of live-action specials for teens and tweens. On
December 13, iCarly's "iChristmas"
episode will premiere. In a take-off of the Christmas classic It's a

Wonderful Life, the show follows as
Carly angrily wishes she had a "normal" brother, and an angel appears
to show her what her life would be like with a buttoned-up sibling. On True Jackson, VP, Lulu thinks Max's
accountant may be Santa Claus because of his striking resemblance to Kris
Kringle. Whoopi Goldberg and Natasha Bedingfield guest-star on The Naked Brothers Band Christmas
special. The episode centers on a benefit the band is holding for Save the
Children.

Nick
Jr. will celebrate the holidays with "Frosty Fridays," featuring
mini-marathons of holiday episodes from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. On December 5,
preschoolers can tune in for the premiere of the Wow! Wow! Wubzzy! seasonal episodes "A Great and Grumpy
Holiday" and "The Super-Special Gift." The marathons will also
include seasonal episodes of Nick Jr.'s hit series The Wonder Pets!, The
Backyardigans, Dora the Explorer, Go, Diego, Go! and Yo Gabba Gabba!

—By
Kristin Brzoznowski