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  • LazyTown’s Bing Bang (Time To Dance) sold 100,000 singles in the UK (2006)

    LazyTown’s Bing Bang (Time To Dance) sold 100,000 singles in the UK (2006)

    Musician Máni Svavarsson has achieved the great success of having sold 100,000 singles with his song Bing Bang from LazyTown, and the song has thus become a gold record seller on the British charts. The song has just entered the list and ranks in fourth place on the list behind the artists Take That, Booty Luv and Eminem and ahead of Nelly Furtado, Justin Timberlake and Beyonce. Máni says in an interview with Morgunblaðið that he received congratulations from his publishing company last Sunday...
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  • Invisible special effects in LazyTown

    Invisible special effects in LazyTown

    LazyTown’s film world is complex and when the dynamic film fails, Balcells and his colleagues take over. Their role ranges from bringing in the smallest details that are difficult to film to creating full-length videos in 3D. Balcells allows me to look over the shoulder of several employees where really amazing things are happening. “Actually, the technical term ‘technological effects’ does not adequately reflect what we do. If the viewer realizes where technology replaces the film, we have...
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  • Adventures of the girl with the pink hair (2006)

    Adventures of the girl with the pink hair (2006)

    Who is the cheerful girl with the pink wig who plays Stephanie in LazyTown and was recently nominated for an Emmy Award? Sigríður Víðis Jónsdóttir visited Julianna Rose Mauriello from the USA, who lived in Iceland for almost a year when the first episodes of LazyTown were being filmed. She has now arrived in Iceland for the next season.

    Most of the time, she is referred to as Stephanie, but her real name is Julianna Rose Mauriello and she does not have pink hair, but dark brown....
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  • The adventures around the corner (2005)

    The adventures around the corner (2005)

    LazyTown has received market rights. The phenomenon is no longer the brainchild of one visionary, and is well on its way to becoming a powerhouse in international children’s television. Where there are no lazy people in LazyTown Entertainment; Merchandise, a traveling show and a movie are among the things currently on the drawing board. – Helgi Mar Árnason walked around in LazyTown.

    The TV programs about the lazy inhabitants of LazyTown, in which the cunning Sportacus manages to avert...
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  • Alice enters LazyTown

    Alice enters LazyTown

    Written by Dagny Kristjánsdóttir
    Paper, October 12, 2006 Kimberley Reynolds, a leading British scholar in the field of children´s literature, says that people’s attitudes toward childhood can be grouped into four main categories. First, there is nostalgia for the traditional childhood; then a tendency to view children as victims; next, as the opposite, or devils; and finally, simply as a market phenomenon. The phenomenon of Latibær (LazyTown) unites all these views in a particularly intriguing way....
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  • LazyTown Live in Manchester UK-2006

    LazyTown Live in Manchester UK-2006

    Written by John Scheerhout
    Greater Manchester News, August 14th, 2006 DOZENS of children were at the popular stage show during the Sky festival that took over the city center this long weekend (11-13 August, 2006) Huge queues snaked around a fenced-off stage at Cathedral Gardens in the city center before a live version of the phenomenally successful kids TV show LazyTown, featuring superhero Sportacus. Those who had managed to get their hands on the free tickets queued on one side and ...
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  • Pretty in pink

    Pretty in pink

    Written by Jon Barrett
    Tony Kids, July 1st, 2006

    New Yorker Julianna Rose Mauriello, 14, star of Nickelodeon's LazyTown, talks with TONY Kids about her hit show, working in Iceland and her recent Emmy nomination.


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  • Exclusive Interview with Julianna Rose Mauriello (Stephanie of LazyTown)

    Exclusive Interview with Julianna Rose Mauriello (Stephanie of LazyTown)

    Nicksplat, March 20th, 2006



    1. How old are you? You surely must be older than the 8-year-old character you play on the show? Do you have any difficulties playing a 8 year old?
    I am 14, and turning 15 on May 26th. Sometimes it is difficult being a teenager and playing a child...
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  • Exclusive Interview with Magnus Scheving

    Exclusive Interview with Magnus Scheving

    Nicksplat, March 13th, 2006

    1. How do you manage to juggle it all – medal-winning athlete, TV producer, writer? Do you focus on different things at different times? What is your motivation? To be honest, I don’t always manage to juggle it all because there is so much to do! But one of the strengths that I think I have is to have a really strong focus on one thing that I am doing, and then quickly switch my focus to another task, and then switch back again. I try to do only...
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  • Ambassador Visits Set of Popular Children´s Show

    Ambassador Visits Set of Popular Children´s Show

    Garðabær. March 2, 2006

    US Ambassador Carol van Voorst was a special guest at the studio headquarters of the children's show, LazyTown, March 2. The Ambassador met with Americans and Icelanders who work on the show, including Magnús Scheving, the show´s creator, who plays the program´s super-hero, Sportacus, and US actress, Julianna Rose Mauriello, who plays Stephanie, another main character on the show....
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  • LazyTown’s Bing Bang (Time To Dance) sold 100,000 singles in the UK (2006)
    by LazyPooky
    Musician Máni Svavarsson has achieved the great success of having sold 100,000 singles with his song Bing Bang from LazyTown, and the song has thus become a gold record seller on the British charts. The song has just entered the list and ranks in fourth place on the list behind the artists Take That, Booty Luv and Eminem and ahead of Nelly Furtado, Justin Timberlake and Beyonce. Máni says in an interview with Morgunblaðið that he received congratulations from his publishing company last Sunday...
    28 March 2023, 14:40
  • Invisible special effects in LazyTown
    by LazyPooky
    LazyTown’s film world is complex and when the dynamic film fails, Balcells and his colleagues take over. Their role ranges from bringing in the smallest details that are difficult to film to creating full-length videos in 3D. Balcells allows me to look over the shoulder of several employees where really amazing things are happening. “Actually, the technical term ‘technological effects’ does not adequately reflect what we do. If the viewer realizes where technology replaces the film, we have...
    27 March 2023, 13:41
  • Adventures of the girl with the pink hair (2006)
    by LazyPooky
    Who is the cheerful girl with the pink wig who plays Stephanie in LazyTown and was recently nominated for an Emmy Award? Sigríður Víðis Jónsdóttir visited Julianna Rose Mauriello from the USA, who lived in Iceland for almost a year when the first episodes of LazyTown were being filmed. She has now arrived in Iceland for the next season.

    Most of the time, she is referred to as Stephanie, but her real name is Julianna Rose Mauriello and she does not have pink hair, but dark brown....
    4 March 2023, 19:47
  • The adventures around the corner (2005)
    by LazyPooky
    LazyTown has received market rights. The phenomenon is no longer the brainchild of one visionary, and is well on its way to becoming a powerhouse in international children’s television. Where there are no lazy people in LazyTown Entertainment; Merchandise, a traveling show and a movie are among the things currently on the drawing board. – Helgi Mar Árnason walked around in LazyTown.

    The TV programs about the lazy inhabitants of LazyTown, in which the cunning Sportacus manages to avert...
    6 February 2023, 11:27
  • LazyTown Live in Manchester UK-2006
    by LazyTown
    Written by John Scheerhout
    Greater Manchester News, August 14th, 2006 DOZENS of children were at the popular stage show during the Sky festival that took over the city center this long weekend (11-13 August, 2006) Huge queues snaked around a fenced-off stage at Cathedral Gardens in the city center before a live version of the phenomenally successful kids TV show LazyTown, featuring superhero Sportacus. Those who had managed to get their hands on the free tickets queued on one side and ...
    4 August 2019, 10:21
  • An interview with Örn Árnason (The Lazy Genie)
    by LazyTown
    December 5, 2005
    Words by Sveinn Birkir Björnsson


    The most popular comedy program in the country, the comedy troupe behind the show Spaugstofan recently celebrated 20 years working together. Founding member, and former Grapevine cover boy, Örn Árnason sat down and explained the appeal of his program.


    Örn Árnason
    Photographed by Gúndi


    After 20 years in the business, is Spaugstofan still funny? Do you ever feel like it’s hard to stay...
    11 July 2019, 00:20
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