NEW YORK, April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- LazyTown will energize preschoolers with a fresh slate of high-energy adventures as Nick Jr. kicks off a new, 22- episode second season of the hit comic-action series that gets kids up and moving. Season two of LazyTown, Nick Jr.'s half-hour, live-action preschool series that uses puppets and CGI-animation, will premiere on Monday, May 15 from 12:00 - 12:30 p.m. (ET/PT) with a hilarious new alien adventure entitled, "Ziggy's Alien."
Nick Jr. will roll out a new episode from the second season of LazyTown every weekday throughout the week of May 15. On Friday, May 19, an encore marathon of the first four new episodes will air from 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. (ET/PT). LazyTown airs regularly weekdays on Nick Jr. at 12:00 p.m. (ET/PT) and weekends on CBS (check local listings).
Nick Jr. will also kick off season two across multiple Nickelodeon Preschool TV platforms. Beginning Monday, May 8, two new music videos from the second season of LazyTown and character clips will be available on wireless carriers. Also beginning May 8, Nick Jr. Video, a broadband video service available on Nickjr.com, will stream the new LazyTown music videos and character clips. On Monday, June 5, Video On Demand windowing of season two episodes will commence on Comcast, Charter, Cablevision, Verizon FiOS and Cox.
"LazyTown really gets preschoolers up and moving with its action-packed storylines, gravity-defying athletic stunts and high-energy Euro-Pop music," said Brown Johnson, Executive Creative Director, Nickelodeon Preschool Television. "We are proud to be working with Magnus Scheving and his Icelandic crew on a new season of adventures set in a vibrant world of colorful characters, physical comedy and healthy messaging for kids."
On Tuesday, May 16, Nickelodeon and Paramount Home Entertainment will release a DVD and VHS entitled, "Sports Candy Festival," which is the second episode of the new season, in addition to three other LazyTown adventures. The DVD will also include a special "Stretch with Stephanie" exercise feature.
On "Ziggy's Alien," Ziggy wants to play "outer space" with Stephanie, Stingy and Pixel, but they say that he's too small. While Ziggy's older friends build a homemade rocket ship for their Sky Rocket Club, Ziggy eagerly hangs around them causing his usual klutzy mishaps. The noise they are making keeps the lazy Robbie Rotten from taking a nap, so he dresses up as Zobby the space alien, to scare Ziggy into being quiet for awhile! Robbie Rotten's disguise works as Ziggy befriends Zobby and is excited to show the others that he has found an alien of his very own. But Stephanie, Stingy and Pixel want to help return the alien to his own planet, and they prepare to blast Zobby off into outer space - without realizing that Ziggy has jumped into the spaceship too! Sportacus arrives just in time to save the day.
On "Sports Candy Festival," which premieres Tuesday, May 16 at 12:00 p.m. (ET/PT), Stephanie, Stingy and Ziggy decide it is time they did something special for Sportacus, since he is always saving everyone in town. Since Sportacus loves "sports candy," the LazyTown gang decides to host a Sports Candy Festival, where everyone in town will make a special dish out of a fruit or vegetable, and give it to Sportacus as a gift. But Robbie Rotten tries to foil their plan by disguising himself as a giant carrot, banana and apple, hoping to scare the kids and steal all the sports candy in LazyTown. Will he succeed in depleting all of the energizing food and putting a stop to the special festival?
LazyTown was created in Iceland by professional athlete Magnus Scheving and is set in a strange and wonderful village where eight-year-old Stephanie, played by Emmy-nominated Julianna Rose Mauriello, and her friends are caught between a charismatic, slightly above average superhero named Sportacus (played by Scheving) and the town's villain Robbie Rotten (Stefan Karl), who spends his time lounging around and eating junk food. A mix of live-action, puppets and CGI animation, LazyTown is dedicated to making physical activity and healthy lifestyles for kids entertaining.
LazyTown creator and star Magnus Scheving is a world class athlete, entertainer and writer in his native Iceland. During his travels around the world lecturing on health and fitness, parents always asked Scheving about exercise and nutrition for children. As a response, he created LazyTown in 1995 with the book "Go, Go LazyTown!" and the property was built into a household name in Iceland with businesses including publishing, live theatrical performances and a radio station. LazyTown made its debut as a television show on Nick Jr. in August, 2004.
LazyTown is shot in Iceland with an international cast and crew, using one of the most technologically advanced HDTV video and film facilities in the world. LazyTown production has implemented an extremely advanced HDTV 24P digital cinematography environment which immediately produces finished movie quality results in real-time, while the action is happening.
Nick Jr. is a specially designed programming block airing on Nickelodeon weekdays from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. (ET/PT) and weekends on CBS (check local listings). Completely dedicated to preschoolers ages 2-5, Nick Jr.'s Emmy, Peabody and Parents' Choice Award-winning programs are curriculum based, fun and commercial free. At Nick Jr., kids play to learn with innovative, original shows created just for them.
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