iCarly Blog

During their hiatus from iCarly, Jerry Trainor and Jennette McCurdy are going to be busy shooting a new Nick movie called “Best Player”. To the uninitiated, Jerry Trainor plays Spencer and Jennette plays Sam Puckett on our favorite TV show, iCarly. Best Player is supposed to start shooting film this week.

The made for TV movie, is about a thirty-something champion gamer who doesn’t want to grow up and still lives with his parents in the basement. Of course this character is perfect for Jerry Trainor to play. Jennette plays a teen champion called the “Prodigy” who comes along to challenge the aging gamer a hard run for the championship.

Marjorie Cohn, a Nick executive was quoted as saying that their movie strategy is to take the up and coming stars from thier live-action hits and feature them in their own movies. And according to the exec, Jerry Trainor and Jennette McCurdy were at the top of their list! Just like at Disney, TV movies have become big business at Nick and other channels. They are relatively cheap to produce and have a big draw from the stars’ large fan bases. We can’t wait to watch Jennette and Jerry go at it in the “Best Player”.

TrueChild, a recent nonprofit group based out of Washington, D.C. is trying to fight stereotypes and bad television programming that they feel harms children, has reviewed and rated many popular children’s TV shows, including our favorite, iCarly.

The shows that were tested and graded are a sample from PBS Kids, Disney, Nickelodeon and the Cartoon Network.  TrueChild evaluated the shows for primarily how they display and demonstrate  gender-based stereotypes when it comes to how they act, appearance, emotion, activities, etc.

iCarly, not surprisingly, received an A!  The Disney show that they are competing against, Jonas, received an F!  Disney, it seems you need to make some changes with your show. 

You can view their ratings at http://truechild.org/tvreportcards

According to the latest information released today by Nickelodeon, Nick and iCarly are top rated destinations for TV viewing kids.   Nick is number one with K2-11, earning a 3.6/1.2 million a +33% lead over the next closest kids’ competitor , The Disney Channel, 2.7/925,000.

Nick is number one with K6-11, and Nick leads with tweens as well over the second place finisher, The Disney Channel.

iCarly is basic cable television’s number-one show for kids 2-11, kids 6-11 and total viewers for the first quarter of 2009.  Tell us something we didn’t know!   iCarly’s ratings are up 63% with K2-11  and 104% among tweens over last year.

And iCarly is the highest rated cable TV program with 6-11 and 9-14 year olds on Saturday nights.   iCarly is rocking it out folks!  Congratulations to iCarly.