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Ads on foreign TV stations transmitted in Ireland aimed at very young children have been found to breach Irish broadcasting codes.

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Jessica Toonkel reveals how TV networks in America are now measuring viewers’ biometrics and brain waves in the war to preserve their advertising market share and win viewers back from the online world.

Robert Cullen is as animated as the cartoons he creates.

Do you ever tie your shoelaces and think "This is taking soooo long. I’m a busy man/woman/child. I have so many important things to be doing. Like sitting and staring into space while I think about getting up’?

If you grew up as a child of the 90s, then you were probably exposed to Nickelodeon cartoons at some point.

The traditional green slime flowed at the Kids’ Choice Awards, but it was Angelina Jolie’s message of empowerment for youngsters that stuck. 

When the secret crabby patty formula is stolen, SpongeBob and pals go on an adventure to retrieve it!

Fresh from his anann under the sea, SpongeBob SquareBrístí is making his way, absorbent and porous, to a phictiúrlann near you. Paramount Pictures says that The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water will be available in Irish as well as English in cinemas from March 27.

Christine Cavanaugh, a prolific voice actress who brought to life characters including Babe the pig, has died aged 51.

This week, Robert Downey Jr stars in courtroom drama The Judge, live-action fantasy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and high-school sweethearts get a second chance at love in The Best of Me.

Check out our spoiler-free guide to the best programmes on TV tonight.

The Nickelodeon star shares the news on Twitter.

Troubled former teen star Amanda Bynes has pleaded no contest to alcohol-related reckless driving after she clipped a Los Angeles County sheriff’s patrol car.

Amanda Bynes may be mentally unfit to stand trial.

Amanda Bynes could leave her mental health facility within 60 days.

Amanda Bynes is reportedly making "significant improvements" in hospital.

Amanda Bynes’s parents are deeply concerned that their daughter may hurt herself or others unless they are allowed to assume control over her medical care and finances, court filings show.

Amanda Bynes wants to have cosmetic surgery on her "whole face".

Amanda Bynes is planning to have a fourth nose job.

Netflix is to air original television programming from Dreamworks Animation in a deal described as a major coup for both companies.

Investigators are looking into claims made by actress Amanda Bynes that New York Police Department officers sexually assaulted her when she was arrested for throwing a marijuana bong out of the window of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment.

Amanda Bynes' parents do not think she needs to go to rehab.

Actress Amanda Bynes was charged with reckless endangerment after police said that she heaved a marijuana bong out of an apartment window in New York City.

A little-known actress rapping about her "snot-stained sack" and diet of "leftover fish fingers" has become the latest YouTube viral sensation.

One Direction’s Take Me Home has taken the boys to the top of the US charts.

One Direction’s Take Me Home has taken the British boys to the top of the US charts – and to new heights.

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Amanda Bynes “obsessively hates” Lindsay Lohan.

One Direction’s Harry Styles was left embarrassed when his bandmates convinced him he was delivering a baby on television.

Actress Amanda Bynes has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after she grazed a sheriff’s patrol car, authorities said.

The slime flowed fast and furious at the 25th annual Kids’ Choice Awards - where even celebrities get doused in bucket loads of green gunk.

An award-winning Irish studio has hired 50 skilled animators to help produce what’s being tipped as Disney’s next global cartoon smash hit.

The music mogul Simon Cowell - who has his own record label Syco - is in the early stages of putting together a pop group to conquer the US market and has been in talks with a number of producers and songwriters to create the right sound.

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS is in hot water after a study suggested that watching just nine minutes of it can cause short-term attention and learning problems in 4-year-olds.

'Loose Women' host and actress Denise Welch bowed out of 'Dancing on Ice' last night joking that she was “knackered” but had “the most wonderful time”.

Reality television star and former “Queen of the Jungle” Kerry Katona has skated off 'Dancing On Ice'.

Model Elen Rivas and former Neighbours actor Craig McLachlan have skated off this year’s 'Dancing on Ice' competition.

Angela Rippon and Nadia Sawalha’s skating skills failed to impress as they became the first celebrities to leave the qualifying rounds of the new series of 'Dancing On Ice'.

Kerry Katona said training for the latest series of 'Dancing On Ice' has been “complete therapy” – despite spraining her ribs on the rink.

Russell Brand turned up at the European premiere of his new film, 'Despicable Me' - only to duck out before the film even started.

Disney has commissioned a new animated series to be produced by Oscar-nominated Irish studio Brown Bag films that will help teach children the importance of healthy living.

Victoria Beckham will play a sexy mermaid 'SpongeBob SquarePants'.