Nickelodoen will begin offering episodes of the hit preschool series The Wonder Pets for download in Apple’s iTunes Music Store this month. The arrangement is part of a deal between Apple and MTVN Kids and Family Group, which is also putting up programming from The N, TEENick and Nick at Nite.
A total of six Nickelodeon shows will be available for download at $1.99 per episode. In addition to staples such as The N’s Degrassi: The Next Generation and TEENick’s Drake & Josh and Zoey 101, the package includes the new puppet series Mr. Meaty. The buddy comedy set in a mall food court will begin airing on Nickelodeon on Sept. 22 and will be available on iTunes in mid-September. The show actually got its start online as a series of shorts featured on Nickelodeon’s TurboNick broadband platform on Nick.com.
As various shows premiere on-air, they will be added to the iTunes library at www.itunes.com. By the end of September, Nick hopes to have approximately 450 half-hour episodes available from the Nickelodeon, The N and Nick at Nite libraries. The first season of The Wonder Pets (10 episodes) will be available for download on Sept. 12.
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