Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Coronavirus: Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2020 back on and taking place 2 May - with slime - but now done mostly from home with Victoria Justice as host.


by Thinus Ferreira

The Nickelodeon channel's Kids' Choice Awards 2020 is back on and will take place this Saturday, 2 May - and although there will still be slime it will mostly be a done-from-home show.

After the Kids' Choice Awards 2020 that was set for 22 March was called off because of the growing global Covid-19 pandemic, it will now be shown on Nickelodeon in the United States on Saturday.

A broadcast date for the Kids' Choice Awards 2020 on the African Nickelodeon (DStv 305) channel feed of ViacomCBS Networks Africa isn't known yet with the awards that doesn't appear on the latest schedule yet.

The awards will be hosted by Victoria Justice and celebrities scheduled to appear on the Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards 2020 include Dwayne Johnson, Ariana Grande, Kristen Bell, Josh Gad, Camila Cabello, Millie Bobby Brown, Ellen DeGeneres, BTS, Shawn Mendes, Lil Nas X, Dove Cameron, Tom Holland, David Dobrik, Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke and SSSniperWolf.

There will also be appearances from cast members of The Avengers: Endgame (Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo and Jeremy Renner), and a sneak peek of Nickelodeon's new live-action series The Astronauts, from Imagine Entertainment.

Segments will include JoJo Siwa discovering slime secretly placed in every area of her home; a performance by recording artist and actor Asher Angel of his chart-topping single "All Day"; and an look at Nick's Slime in Space voyage.

The NBA champion LeBron James will receive the 2020 Generation Change Award. Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards 2020 is produced by Nickelodeon Productions with Jay Schmalholz as executive producer.