Nickelodeon UK Kids Choice Awards
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The Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards UK, also known as the KCAs, is an annual awards show, similar to the American and Australian versions. The show features numerous celebrity guests and musical acts. In recent years slime stunts have come into the show. The KCAs also hosts live musical entertainment.
debuting on air date 27 September 2007.
judge Dannii Minogue
debuting on air 23 September 2008.
. It was cancelled because of the more popular BAFTA
Children's Awards, and due to the Financial crisis of 2007–2010.
, but due to popular demand, inserts with Teen Nick host Olly Murray were included, along with an added UK category.
on April 3, 2011, the day after the US broadcast. As before, inserts featuring UK hosts were included, which also featured two categories specific to Nick UK.
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channel presenters Mark Felgate, Sy Thomas and Laura Hamilton were also at the ceremony in both 2007 and 2008, they went backstage with celebrities and nominee winners for a spin-off show on the channel and online.
2007
The first ever UK awards ceremony took place on 20 October 2007 presented by pop band McFlyMcFly
McFly are an English pop rock band who first found fame in 2004. The band consists of Tom Fletcher , Danny Jones , Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd . They were signed to the Island Records label from their 2004 launch until December 2007, before creating their own label, Super Records...
debuting on air date 27 September 2007.
2008
The second UK awards ceremony took place on 13 September 2008, presented by The X FactorThe X Factor (UK)
The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. Created by Simon Cowell, it began in September 2004 and is contested by aspiring singers drawn from public auditions. It is the originator of the international X Factor franchise. The seven series of the show to date...
judge Dannii Minogue
Dannii Minogue
Danielle Jane "Dannii" Minogue is an Australian singer-songwriter, actress, television personality, radio personality, fashion designer and model...
debuting on air 23 September 2008.
2009
In 2009 the third UK awards ceremony was supposed to take place on an unknown date, and presented by Hadouken!Hadouken!
Hadouken! are an English grime, electronica, dance band who formed in Leeds in October 2006 by singer, writer and producer James Smith, alongside his girlfriend, synth player Alice Spooner, guitarist Daniel "Pilau" Rice, and drummer Nick Rice. The band name is taken from the name of a special...
. It was cancelled because of the more popular BAFTA
British Academy of Film and Television Arts
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is a charity in the United Kingdom that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation.-Introduction:...
Children's Awards, and due to the Financial crisis of 2007–2010.
2010
Nick UK presented the US 2010 Kids' Choice Awards2010 Kids' Choice Awards
Nickelodeon's 23rd Annual Kids' Choice Awards were held on March 27, 2010 on the Nell and John Wooden Court of Pauley Pavilion, on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles, California...
, but due to popular demand, inserts with Teen Nick host Olly Murray were included, along with an added UK category.
2011
Nick UK screened the US 2011 Kids' Choice Awards2011 Kids' Choice Awards
Nickelodeon's 24th Annual Kids' Choice Awards were held on April 2, 2011 at 8 p.m. ET at the Galen Center at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles's University Park neighborhood due to renovations disallowing use of traditional venue Pauley Pavilion until at least 2013. Jack Black...
on April 3, 2011, the day after the US broadcast. As before, inserts featuring UK hosts were included, which also featured two categories specific to Nick UK.
Locations
The locations for the first two award ceremonies were at ExCel Exhibition Centre, LondonLondon
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
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Hosts
The NickelodeonNickelodeon UK
Nickelodeon is a children's television channel available on Sky, Virgin Media, Smallworld Cable, TalkTalk TV and UPC Ireland in the United Kingdom and Ireland, including on demand on BT Vision. The channel was launched on 1 September 1993...
channel presenters Mark Felgate, Sy Thomas and Laura Hamilton were also at the ceremony in both 2007 and 2008, they went backstage with celebrities and nominee winners for a spin-off show on the channel and online.