Nickelodeon Kicks Off New Season of Hit Mockumentary Series, The Naked Brothers Band with Hour-Long Prime-Time Premiere 'Mystery Girl,' Guest Starring Tween Sensation Miranda Cosgrove, Saturday, October 18

Nickelodeon Kicks Off New Season of Hit Mockumentary Series, The Naked Brothers Band with Hour-Long Prime-Time Premiere 'Mystery Girl,' Guest Starring Tween Sensation Miranda Cosgrove, Saturday, October 18

New Season Features 13 New Original Songs Written and Performed By Nat Wolff and Alex Wolff - Series Welcomes Oscar(R) Winner Whoopi Goldberg, Grammy(R)-Nominated Artist Natasha Bedingfield, Comedian Dave Attell, Leon Thomas and Nickelodeon's Victoria Justice

The Brothers Kick Off Their First National Music Tour, "Nat & Alex Wolff: Fully Clothed & On Tour" on Saturday, November 1 at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ - Additional Cities To Include Boston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Chicago, Washington, DC And Many More

NEW YORK, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Nickelodeon kicks off the third season of the hit mockumentary series, The Naked Brothers Band with a special hour-long movie titled "Mystery Girl," premiering Saturday, Oct. 18, at 8:30 p.m. (ET/PT). The upcoming television movie stars real-life brothers, musicians and teen sensations Nat Wolff and Alex Wolff along with celebrity guest Miranda Cosgrove, star of the hit Nickelodeon series, iCarly. The new season follows the fortunes of the band as they make their first motion picture, from shooting to the red carpet premiere, and features four, prime-time hour-long television movie events and three half-hour holiday specials filled with special guests and all-new music written and performed by both Nat Wolff and Alex Wolff.

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The premiere episode includes the debut of the band's latest songs, "Blueberry Cotton." "Face in the Hall" and "Scary World," three of 13 new original songs written and performed by Nat Wolff and Alex Wolff rolling-out throughout the third season. "Face in the Hall" is featured on the recently released album from Nickelodeon and Columbia Records' titled iCarly - Music From and Inspired by the Hit TV Show. The new season will also feature a star-studded celebrity line-up including Whoopi Goldberg, Natasha Bedingfield, David Attell, ?uestlove (The Roots), David Desrosiers (Simple Plan), Simon Kirke (Bad Company), Tobin Esperance (Papa Roach), Leon Thomas and Nickelodeon's very own Victoria Justice, star of the upcoming Nickelodeon television movie Spectacular.

In "Mystery Girl," The Naked Brothers Band is making a major motion picture! But it's far from quiet on the set as Nat grapples with why his girlfriend Rosalina is trying to get herself written out of the script. To Nat's dismay, he discovers that Rosalina is about to leave on a six-month cruise around the world -- her prize for winning a music competition. Meanwhile on the set, Alex freaks out when he discovers that his part in the movie calls for him to kiss his skateboarding buddy, Juanita! David, Thomas and Qaasim plot to overthrow the movie's bullying director and Nat discovers he's starting to have feelings for his co-star, actress Miranda Cosgrove who plays herself.

The brothers will also hit the open road this fall for their very first music tour titled "Nat & Alex Wolff: Fully Clothed & On Tour" kicking off at the world famous Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ on Saturday, Nov. 1. The cross-country weekend tour, which is being exclusively booked by Live Nation, will hit multiple cities across the country including Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New Orleans and Chicago, just to name a few. The rock star brothers will perform many of their hit songs from the first and second albums including, "I Don't Want To Go To School," "Crazy Car" and "Mystery Girl." Fans of Nat and Alex can currently purchase tickets at www.LiveNation.com.

   Cities and Dates:   --  Saturday, Nov. 1 Asbury Park, NJ Stone Pony   --  Sunday, Nov. 2 Westbury, NY Capitol One Theater at Westbury   --  Saturday, Nov. 8 New York, NY Blender Theater at Gramercy   --  Sunday, Nov. 9 New York, NY Blender Theater at Gramercy   --  Saturday, Nov. 15 Baltimore, MD Ram's Head Live!   --  Sunday, Nov. 16 Philadelphia, PA Theater of the Living Arts   --  Saturday, Nov. 22 Chicago, IL House of Blues   --  Sunday, Nov. 23 St Paul, MN Myth   --  Friday, Nov. 28 Orlando, FL House of Blues   --  Saturday, Nov. 29 Orlando, FL House of Blues   --  Sunday, Nov. 30 New Orleans, LA House of Blues   --  Saturday, Dec. 6 Washington, DC Sixth & I Memorial Synagogue   --  Sunday, Dec. 7 Boston, MA Berklee Performance Center   --  Saturday, Dec. 13 Anaheim, CA House of Blues   --  Sunday, Dec. 14 Los Angeles, CA The Roxy    

The Naked Brothers Band is a hit across multiple platforms including TV, music and digitally on nick.com and Nicktropolis. Currently, the series has garnered over 5.9M page views since its launch on nick.com. For gaming, The Naked Brothers Band have hit an all-time high with 68.2M kid plays for year to date and 1.68M podcasts of the band have been downloaded. On Nicktropolis, The Naked Brothers Band has generated 12.9M page views and 5.1M visits. (**Source: Omniture Sitecatalyst V 13.5 (1/1/08-7/13/08). The band has sold over 340,000 albums combined. Their sophomore release, "I Don't Want To Go To School" enjoyed 10 consecutive weeks on the Billboard Top Albums chart.

Inspired by the Wolff siblings' real-life, preschool-born band, The Naked Brothers Band follows a world-famous rock group, chronicling their fame, friendship, temporary break-up and adolescent experiences. The cameras track the charismatic rock stars led by dreamy, sensitive singer-songwriter Nat, 13, and energetic, unabashedly adorable drummer Alex, 10, on and off stage, focusing, too, on their celebrity lifestyle with all of its perks and problems. Featured as well are the Wolff boys' real-life friends and band mates from pre-school days: cellist Thomas (Thomas Batuello) and keyboard player David (David Levi), along with guitarist Qaasim (Qaasim Middleton) and bassist -- Nat's crush -- Rosalina (Allie DiMeco). Cooper (Cooper Pillot), the band's pint-sized manager, completes the tween troop, and Jesse (Jesse Draper) is Nat and Alex's ditzy tutor/babysitter and real-life cousin.

The series is created, executive produced, written and directed by Polly Draper (thirtysomething) who doubles as off-camera mom to Nat Wolff and Alex Wolff. She was nominated for a 2008 Writers Guild Award in the category of Children's Episodic & Specials for the episode titled "Nat is a Stand Up Guy." Celebrated jazz musician/composer Michael Wolff (The Arsenio Hall Show) -- the stars' real-life dad and Draper's husband -- keeps it all in the family but plays against type as the screen tweens' musically inept father and serves as the series' music supervisor/co-executive producer. Along with Draper, Albie Hecht (The Rugrats Movie, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events) serves as executive producer of the series in association with Nickelodeon Television.

The Naked Brother's Band airs on more than 40 Nickelodeon channels worldwide. The Naked Brothers Band has been nominated for two 2007 Nickelodeon Australia Kids' Choice Awards, a 2007 Nickelodeon UK Kids' Choice Award, and The Naked Brothers Band movie received a nomination for a 2007 Teen Choice Award. Additionally, Nat Wolff, Alex Wolff, and Michael Wolff are all recipients of the BMI 2007 Cable Award.

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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