Kelly Ripa and Her Son Michael to Guest Voice on New Episode of Go, Diego, Go! - 'Diego's Wolf Pup Rescue' - Monday, September 18 on Nick Jr.

Kelly Ripa and Her Son Michael to Guest Voice on New Episode of Go, Diego, Go! - 'Diego's Wolf Pup Rescue' - Monday, September 18 on Nick Jr.

Season Two of TV's Number One-Rated Preschool Series Returns to Nick Jr. Beginning Monday, October 2

Diego's Wolf Pup Rescue To Roll Out on Multiple Platforms Including Broadband Video Play on Nick Jr. Video and To Release on DVD and Home Video Beginning Friday, September 15

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NEW YORK, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Diego and Dora team up again to help rescue a lost baby wolf pup who is separated from his mom (voiced by TV personality Kelly Ripa) on a new episode of television's top-rated preschool series Go, Diego, Go!, entitled, "Diego's Wolf Pup Rescue." The new half-hour episode will premiere on Monday, September 18 at 9:30 a.m. (ET/PT).

The second season of Go, Diego, Go! will kick off with a special week of premiere episodes from Monday, October 2 through Friday, October 6 (9:30 - 10:00 a.m., ET/PT). The series regularly airs at 9:30 a.m. ET/PT weekdays on Nick Jr. Academy Award-nominated actress Rosie Perez also returns to the series as the voice of "Click" the Camera.

Series star Jake T. Austin, the voice of rough-and-tumble animal rescuer Diego, can also be heard this September as the lead character, Yankee Irving, in the animated feature film Everyone's Hero, scheduled to be released Friday, September 15.

Nick Jr. will roll out the new episode "Diego's Wolf Pup Rescue" across multiple Nickelodeon Preschool platforms as follows:

-- Beginning Friday, September 15, an excerpt from "Diego's Wolf Pup
Rescue" will be available on wireless carriers.
-- On Tuesday, September 19, Nickelodeon and Paramount Home Entertainment
will release a DVD and VHS entitled, "Wolf Pup Rescue," which will
feature the title episode in addition to three other Go, Diego, Go!
adventures. It will also include a trial of the "Diego's Dinosaur
Adventure" PC CD-ROM game.
-- Beginning October 2, Nick Jr. Video, Nick Jr.'s broadband video service
available on Nickjr.com, will begin to stream the full half-hour
episode.

In "Diego's Wolf Pup Rescue" Mommy Maned wolf (Kelly Ripa) has just given birth to five wolf pups at the Rescue Center, but one of them turns up missing! Diego and Dora use Click the Camera, Rescue Pack and Back Pack to help locate the littlest wolf pup (played by Kelly's son Michael), who is lost in the tall grass. They follow footprints and step high through the grass to locate the wolf pup. Diego, Dora and Alicia zoom off in the Rescue Center Jeep to reunite the little wolf pup with her Mommy and four wolf pup brothers and sisters.

In each episode, Diego (Jake T. Austin) with help from his friends,

high-tech gadgets and viewers at home, identifies and locates an animal in trouble and the adventure begins. Diego is joined by his 11-year-old sister Alicia (Constanza Sperakis), a computer whiz who is bilingual and easily switches between speaking English and Spanish. Baby Jaguar is the animal closest to Diego's heart, and his youthful eagerness sometimes puts him in precarious situations. Other characters include Click (Rosie Perez), a high- tech camera with a knack for locating lost animals; Rescue Pack, a messenger bag that can transform into any form of transportation Diego needs, like a boat, snowboard or parasail; and the Bobo Brothers, a mischievous pair of spider monkeys. Diego's cousin Dora also makes guest appearances in the series.

Nick Jr. is a specially designed programming block airing on Nickelodeon weekdays from 9 a.m. - 12 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.

Nickelodeon, in its 27th year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The company includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, online, recreation, books, magazines and feature films. Nickelodeon's U.S. television network is seen in more than 90 million households and has been the number-one-rated basic cable network for more than eleven consecutive years. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NYSE:VIA)(NYSE:VIA.B).

Source: Nickelodeon

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