Nickelodeon's Danny Phantom: The Ultimate Enemy is Ultimate Ratings Success!

Nickelodeon's Danny Phantom: The Ultimate Enemy is Ultimate Ratings Success!

One-Hour Movie Event Earns Top Spot in Its Timeperiod with All Kids and Tweens on All Broadcast and Cable Television; Garners 4.1 Million Total Viewers

NEW YORK, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- On Friday night, Danny Phantom faced his biggest challenge ever and as a result, became an ultimate ratings success. More than 4 million total viewers tuned into the one-hour special event, Danny Phantom: The Ultimate Enemy, which won its time period (Friday, Sept. 16, 8-9 p.m. ET/PT) with all kids and tweens for all broadcast and cable television. With kids 2-11, the special averaged a 7.6/2.5 million K2-11, up +19% versus last year's like time period. Danny triumphed with kids 6-11, averaging an 8.9/1.8 million K6-11, up +31% versus year-ago levels. And with tweens 9-14, he scored an impressive +66% increase over last year, earning a 7.6/1.5 million T9-14. And 4.1 million total viewers (P2+) tuned in to watch Danny in his biggest face-off yet.

In Danny Phantom: The Ultimate Enemy, summer's over and it's back to school for Danny Fenton (voiced by David Kaufman), but delving into his studies while simultaneously fighting ghosts turns out to be too much for him. After making the decision to cheat on a test that determines his future, he suffers the consequences and must face his ultimate enemy or risk turning to the dark side forever.

Danny Phantom follows the funny, fantastic action-packed adventures of Danny Fenton, who straddles two worlds as a shy freshman at Casper High and a heroic phantom-fighter with ghostly superpowers. With his best friends, techno-geek Tucker and free-thinking Goth girl Sam, he thwarts the misdeeds of menacing ghosts -- and stumbles through daily social hurdles. Since its debut in April 2004, Danny Phantom, has grown to be the third ranked property on all of kids' television among two to eleven year-olds. (Source: NMR 3/28/05- 6/26/05)

Creator/executive producer Hartman wrote and directed episodes of Dexter's Laboratory, Cow & Chicken and Johnny Bravo before segueing to Nickelodeon's Oh Yeah! Cartoons! and creating the network's mega-hit series The Fairly OddParents, one of the top two shows on all of kids' television. Danny Phantom is a Nicktoon, and is produced at the Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank, California.

Nickelodeon, now in its 26th 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 89 million households and has been the number- one-rated basic cable network for ten consecutive years. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom International Inc.

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