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via Nickelodeon press release:

KIDS AND FAMOUS FORMER KIDS COME CLEAN
IN NICK NEWS WITH LINDA ELLERBEE: “LIES WE TELL IN MIDDLE SCHOOL,”
PREMIERING MARCH 6 AT 9:00 P.M. (ET/PT) ON NICKELODEON

Kids —Plus Former Kids Owen Wilson, Donald Faison, Jeff Foxworthy, Guy Fieri, Victoria Justice, Big Time Rush, Rosie Perez and Niecy Nash — Featured
in Kid-Ranked Countdown of Top 10 Middle School Lies

NEW YORK, March 1, 2011 – Liar! Liar! Pants on fire! Most people lie at one time or another, but according to recent research, the most deceitful age is 12. Nick News with Linda Ellerbee asked kids what they lied about, then kids went online to rank their lies in the half-hour special, “Lies We Tell in Middle School,” premiering Sunday, March 6, at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon. The show features these most memorable tall tales from kids and celebrities Owen Wilson (Marley & Me), Donald Faison (Scrubs), Jeff Foxworthy (Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?), Guy Fieri (Minute To Win It), Victoria Justice (Victorious), Kendall, James, Carlos and Logan (Big Time Rush), Rosie Perez (White Men Can’t Jump) and Niecy Nash (Clean House).

“There are some funny stories in this show and some brave ones,” said Ellerbee. “Some of these kids are going on camera and revealing lies they’ve told their parents and friends — who may not have known until that moment that they’d been lied to. I imagine some interesting conversations will follow.”

Here are some of the instances where kids lie: To make myself look good to others. About dating (or not dating). To get out of stuff. About homework and grades. To protect others, such as my friends or siblings. To get out of trouble.

Can you guess which is the most common category in which kids say they lie?

What was it for you?

Nick News, produced by Lucky Duck Productions, enters its 20th year in 2011 and is the longest-running kids’ news show in television history. It has built its reputation on the respectful and direct way it speaks to kids about the important issues of the day. Over the years, Nick News has received more than 20 Emmy nominations and recently won its eighth Emmy Award for The Face of Courage: Kids Living with Cancer for Outstanding Children’s Nonfiction Program. Additional Emmy wins for outstanding children’s programming include: Coming Home: When Parents Return from War (2009); The Untouchable Kids of India (2008); Private Worlds: Kids and Autism (2007); Never Again: From the Holocaust to the Sudan (2005); Faces of Hope: The Kids of Afghanistan (2002) and What Are You Staring At? (1998). In addition, in 1995, the entire series won the Emmy. In 2009, Nick News was honored with the Edward R. Murrow Award for best Network News Documentary for Coming Home: When Parents Return from War — the first-ever kids’ television program to receive this prestigious award. Nick News has also received three Peabody Awards, including a personal award given to Ellerbee for explaining the impeachment of President Clinton to kids, as well as a Columbia duPont Award and more than a dozen Parents’ Choice Awards.

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