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"Epic Brainsi"--Pictured: Bucket (Taylor Gray), and Skinner (Dillon Lane) in "Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures" on Nickelodeon photo by: Lisa Rose/Nickelodeon ©2010 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved

Nickelodeon has picked up the new comedy series “Bucket & Skinner’s Epic Adventures” to add to its 2011 first quarter schedule of brand new programming.

“Bucket & Skinner’s Epic Adventures” is  a buddy comedy about two best friends on a never-ending quest for awesomeness, according to a Nickelodeon news release.

Tom Lynch (“The Troop,” “South of Nowhere”) is the show’s executive producer and Boyce Bugliari and Jamie McLaughlin (“Quintuplets,” “Kid Notorious”) are creators/executive producers. Jonathan Stark (“According to Jim”) also serves as an executive producer.

Production begins on the series this month in Los Angeles for a February 2011 premiere in the United States and globally on Nick channels throughout the world.

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