Orange County Register

Jennette McCurdy is one of our favorite young actresses, partly because she’s great in her role as Sam on Nickelodeon’s hit series “iCarly,” and partly because the Garden Grove teen is just as nice as can be in her life off the screen.

And so we’re always happy to update you when Jennette has a fresh project. Earlier this year it was the release of her first two singles, country pop songs that are expected to lead to a full album release next year.

This week comes word that she’ll be starting work later this week on a Nickelodeon TV movie with her “iCarly” costar Jerry Trainor. (That’s the two of them at the left in a photo from the show.)

In “Best Player,” Jennette and Jerry play rival cyber athletes, or as you and I know them,  video gamers. He’s a 30-year-old living and gaming under the name Q in his parents’ basement, who ends up needing to win the big tournament to buy their house when they decide to move to Florida.

His plan looks like it might work until Prodigy, the gamer played by McCurdy, shows up to challenge him.

Shooting starts in Vancouver, B.C. on Oct. 24, with the movie expected to premiere on Nickelodeon in 2010.

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