Nickelodeon TV Movie Event Unfabulous: The Perfect Moment Starring Emma Roberts Premieres Friday, October 6, 8-9 P.M. (ET/PT)

Nickelodeon TV Movie Event Unfabulous: The Perfect Moment Starring Emma Roberts Premieres Friday, October 6, 8-9 P.M. (ET/PT)

Addie Crashes Wedding to Court Romance with Jake in Big Comic Adventure Set in Chinatown

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Nickelodeon presents a super-sized comic adventure starring Emma Roberts in Unfabulous: The Perfect Moment, a television movie event premiering Friday, October 6 (8-9 p.m. ET/PT). The one-hour telefilm set in Chinatown finds awkwardly adorable tunesmith Addie Singer (Roberts) taking a wedding-crashing chance on romance when her crush, Jake, returns from a summer in Canada to attend his cousin's nuptials.

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The hit TEENick series Unfabulous, currently in its second season, will air regularly in TEENick's new Sunday lineup at 8:30 p.m. (ET/PT), beginning October 1, and launch its third season in first quarter 2007.

"What's especially fun about the movie is that we get to see Addie and her friends outside the regular series environment of school and home. Having them in Chinatown adds another level of excitement, alongside the ticking clock of whether or not she finally connects with Jake," said Nickelodeon's Marjorie Cohn, Executive Vice President, Current Series and Development. "Most exciting is that it all could culminate with her and Jake finally expressing their feelings for one another."

An entire summer has flown by since Jake (Raja Fenske) left for Canada, leaving Addie forlorn that she never opened her heart to him. When she hears via the rumor mill at school that he's back for one weekend only -- and that he may have rekindled romance with an old flame -- she vows to track him down at his cousin's wedding and reveal her feelings once and for all. Meanwhile, feeling the sting of romantic rejection, Addie's brother Ben (Tadhg Kelly) sets out to shadow Jen's new boyfriend in Chinatown -- and so agrees to chauffeur his little sister and her pals Geena (Malese Jow) and Zach (Jordan Calloway) to the wedding en route.

The whole gang plans to pull out all the stops. But the clock ticks as they are sidetracked on colorful streets by the likes of Peking Acrobats, a fortuneteller, a tattoo artist and a turtle-lobster race. In a comedy of errors, Ben lands in the clink just as Addie's on the brink of getting her moment with Jake. Will she be able to bail him out and get back to the church on time to set off romantic fireworks, or will she lose Jake to conniving Patti Perez? All her money is on the lobster. If he finishes first, it's a slam-dunk.

Throughout 2006, the hit series consistently has ranked with Nickelodeon's Drake & Josh, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide and Zoey 101 among cable TV's Top 10 rated shows among tweens. It receives over 13 million total viewers, including 5 million tweens 9-14 each month.*

The series and the TV movie come courtesy of executive producer/creator Sue Rose (Pepper Ann, Angela Anaconda), an Emmy and Annie nominee who has been honored by such organizations as Girls Inc., First Americans in the Arts and Parents' Choice for her strong, female lead characters and quality programs. Kids tune in to see independent Addie navigate through the fabulous and unfabulous aspects of day-to-day life. She's a typical teen, aside from her penchant for sometimes silly but poignant song-writing, and her music helps her make sense of the sometimes unexplainable events that go hand-in-hand with adolescence, as she learns about romance and responsibility, friendship, and finding a balance.

New music is penned by hit singer/songwriter Jill Sobule ('90s hits Supermodel and I Kissed a Girl) and performed by Roberts. In response to its popularity, last year Nickelodeon and Columbia records released Unfabulous and More: Emma Roberts, which includes many of the songs from the first season as well as new music.

Roberts, who is the daughter of actor Eric Roberts and the niece of Julia Roberts, has been featured on the big screen and will headline there as Nancy Drew in 2007. In 2001, she nailed her first acting audition and was cast by the late director Ted Demme as the daughter of Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz in the box office hit Blow. In 2004, she appeared in lead roles in Grand Champion and Spymate. This year, she starred opposite Joanna "JoJo" Levesque in Aquamarine, a feature film about two girls who discover a mermaid.

Nickelodeon, now 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 eleven consecutive years. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA)(NYSE:and)(NYSE:VIA.B).

* Nielsen Cume Data May 2006

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CONTACT: Jennifer Musselman, Nickelodeon, +1-310-752-8205

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