Nickelodeon's New Extreme Sports Competition Series, My Family's Got GUTS, Premieres Monday, Sept. 15, at 8 P.M. ET/PT

Nickelodeon's New Extreme Sports Competition Series, My Family's Got GUTS, Premieres Monday, Sept. 15, at 8 P.M. ET/PT

Half-Hour Series Hosted by E! Entertainment and At The Movies' Ben Lyons

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NEW YORK, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Nickelodeon brings sports, fun and healthy competition to kids and families across the country this fall with the premiere of its new series My Family's Got GUTS on Monday, Sept. 15 at 8:00 p.m. (ET/PT.) The half-hour extreme sports series that asks 'Do You Have It?' is hosted by Ben Lyons (new co-host of At The Movies and E! Network's resident film critic) and co-hosted by popular Australian TV personality Asha Kuerten. My Family's Got GUTS will air every weeknight at 8:00 p.m. (ET/PT) from Monday, Sept. 15 through Friday, Sept. 26. The hour-long finale will premiere on Nick's Annual Worldwide Day of Play on Saturday, Sept. 27, at 8:00 p.m. (ET/PT).

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The new prime-time series is based on GUTS, Nickelodeon's groundbreaking original hit game show from the '90s. Shot at Universal Studios in Orlando, Fla., the new series is comprised of two 11-episode tournaments, each of which includes an hour-long finale and a half-hour special. My Family's Got GUTS is created and executive produced by Worldwide Biggies, the digital entertainment studio headed by renowned children's and family entertainment hit-maker Albie Hecht, who was part of the creative team behind the original hit GUTS show.

The premiere episode features two four-member families, the 'Sherry Storm' of Orlando, Fla. and the 'Chastain Charge' of Sharpsburg, Ga., who will battle it out for ultimate GUTS supremacy and a piece of the coveted "Aggro Crag," a mountain-climbing term for an "aggressive mountain." The winner will move on to compete against another family in the semi-finals in hopes of winning the grand prize and the largest piece of the Aggro Crag.

Each family will face-off in The Extreme Arena and compete in two of 10 extreme sports challenges. At the end of the episode, they advance to compete in the challenge of all challenges -- the Aggro Crag! The family who gets to the summit of the Aggro Crag wins and moves on to the next round of the tournament.

The 10 challenges include:

-- Sky Slam -- A two-on-two elastic sports basketball game where
bungee-jumping players ?ght for continuous super-high jump-balls, then
pass to teammates who slam dunk in a 13 ft. high basket.

-- Alley Hoop -- A three-team basketball challenge where players throw
major alley-oop passes to bungee-jumping teammates, who must catch the
pass and slam dunk in the sky-high basket. While they try to catch
and dunk, the other team, doing the same, can suddenly switch to
defense, and try to stop them.

-- Flying Football -- A two-on-two elastic sports football game where
high flying bungee jumping teams face each other and play QB and
receiver. One teammate passes and the other catches. Receivers can
also act as defenders and turn around and intercept the passes and
have the opportunity to also break up the play.

-- Volley Brawl -- A four-on-four rapid fire elastic sports volleyball
match where both teams continuously set and bungee-spike balls over
the super-high net into a target zone. All the while, the other team
can also block the spikes up high and defend the zones down low.

-- Supertoe PK -- A four-on-four elastic sports soccer duel where players
act as strikers and goalies, continuously kick high-flying balls at
each other and defend at the same time. Shooters can stop to defend
at any time, but may miss their own chance to shoot and score.

-- Air Slalom -- An aerial sports board-riding slalom run, except no snow
and no mountain -- just big air. Teams compete way up high, in sky
harnesses, cloud-surfing a team-effort slalom course. Four players
team-up to successfully navigate the course and pass the most gates.

-- Mile High Triple Jump -- A single player from each team must nail a
super-huge high jump, a pair of major high hurdles, then re-group for
a final monster vertical leap.

-- GUTS Grand Prix -- Three teams face-off in a four-on-four multi-bike
out door road race. Teams take to the city streets on unique custom
vehicles powered only by pedal-to-the-metal GUTS. This event means
team endurance and a head-to-head fight to the finish line.

-- Free Run City -- An urban landscape parkour challenge where teams
compete relay-style. All four players run/climb over a combination of
urban obstacles: back alleys, rooftops, water towers, sky bridges and
construction sites. Making cat leaps, kong vaults, wall spins and
more. Players in rigged harnesses can free-run over every obstacle
they face.

-- Formula GUTS -- A formula-one style foot-powered track race where
teams face chicanes and hairpins in a custom velomobile, a multi-lap
race for the best time.

-- The Aggro Crag -- The pinnacle of My Family's Got GUTS!, the Aggro
Crag is the ultimate challenge. The first to climb to the top means
one thing: victory! In the preliminary trials, two players from each
team face the mountain's bitter outer layer, teaming up to tackle the
brutal base and frozen face. Then, in the Semi-Finals and
Championship Round, all four players are needed to complete the
grueling journey to the top, starting with the Mesas of Doom, leaping
full-bore into the Aggro Crag's undiscovered core and finally racing
past the Glacial Gorge and up the Vertical Freeze in a race to the
very top, the Crystal Peak.

On Saturday, Sept. 27, in an unprecedented move, Nickelodeon Kids and Family Group will go off the air for an afternoon (12 to 3 p.m. ET/PT) across all its TV properties and related web platforms for its signature Worldwide Day of Play. This year marks the fifth annual event for Nickelodeon and its sister networks and the first time ever that all Nickelodeon television networks and their related websites -- including: Nickelodeon, The N, Noggin, Nicktoons Network, Nick.com, Noggin.com, Nicktoonsnetwork.com, and The-N.com -- will go dark to inspire kids to participate in the fight against childhood obesity.

Ben Lyons is one of the most sought-after television personalities in Hollywood. At the ripe age of 26, Ben is the resident film critic and entertainment correspondent on The E! Network and can next be seen as one of the new hosts of televisions most popular and respected movie review programs, At The Movies. He will take over the reigns from Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper to star in the next generation of the acclaimed series alongside Ben Mankiewicz. Ben's movie reviews and celebrity interviews are seen on E! News, The Daily 10, and E! Online, as well as in his signature segment and webpage called "The Lyons Den." The multi-tasking Lyons can also be seen as the West Coast Entertainment correspondent for ABC's Good Morning America, doing profiles on movie makers such as Indiana Jones producer Frank Marshall and interviews with celebrities like Dwayne Johnson and Abigail Breslin for the top-rated morning show. Lyons currently resides in Los Angeles.

Asha Kuerten, popular Australian TV personality, has hosted various charity and media events, film screenings, and short film festivals around Australia. She began her career as the host of Australia's Channel 9 afternoon kids' variety show, [Hot] Source. After two years and 200 episodes, she made the move to Sydney to host The Disney Channel's Studio Disney. Asha also had a guest spot hosting MTV's 2005 TRL Awards. In April 2006, Asha was nominated as Favourite Female Personality at the ASTRA awards and soon after landed the hosting role on FOX8's music show CD:LIVE. Asha is currently the host of the Channel 9 Saturday morning music magazine show The Music Jungle. She is also the 2008 face of skate brand Element.

My Family's Got GUTS is an extreme sports competition series that brings families together where every member of the team -- from the smallest to the strongest -- plays a vital role and works together to complete each challenge. Each episode will feature two teams of four players (two adults and two kids) who gather in the Extreme Arena to compete against each other in multiple rounds of events that put a twist on today's sports. In the final round, the families face off on a new updated 3D, super challenging version of the original GUTS' Aggro Crag fantasy mountain. The team with the most points going into the Crag round wins a time advantage, but the team who wins the Crag round wins the game.

The original GUTS was hosted by Mike O'Malley (Yes, Dear; Get the Picture) and aired on Nickelodeon from September 28, 1992, through October 1995. The half-hour action-sports game show allowed kid contestants to live out some of their greatest sports fantasies in a competitive arena. There were several different types of sporting events featured, including basketball, baseball, football and soccer, while other events made use of a wave pool, a racing track and fantasy ski slope.

About Worldwide Biggies

Created by renowned children's and family entertainment hit-maker Albie Hecht, Worldwide Biggies, is a new digital entertainment studio creating web-based intellectual properties for kids, families and young adults that are designed for additional distribution in the film, TV and licensing arenas. Worldwide Biggies launched its first multi-platform hit on Nickelodeon and Nick.com last year with The Naked Brothers Band and has produced the Video Game Awards on Spike TV, which Hecht created during his tenure as the network's president.

Worldwide Biggies has also created the community based competitions Worldwide Fido (www.worldwidefido.com) a website dedicated to user-submitted videos of dogs, and, in partnership with TMZ.com Star vs. Star (www.starvsstar.com) an online celebrity fantasy league. The digital studio recently launched The Princess Bride Game (www.princessbridegame.com), the first-ever downloadable video game based on the classic film. It has also created the humorous webisode series MoCap, LLC -- a mockumentary of a video game motion capture studio. Worldwide Biggies' affiliated non-profit Shine Global was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Feature category this year for War/Dance, a documentary set against the backdrop of Uganda's 20 year civil war.

Nickelodeon, now in its 29th 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 96 million households and has been the number-one-rated basic cable network for 14 consecutive years. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA)(NYSE:VIA.B).

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