How can I view a US website from outside the US?

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Pretty frustrated right now ... I use Chrome and have the ModHeaders extention, using the X-Forwarded-For header. This has always worked in the past and allowed me to watch US videos and access US-only sites from the UK. There's one website, however, which has stopped working properly for me - nickjr.com.
It's not that the extension isn't working - I can still view all my other US-only sites. But whenever I try to go to nickjr.com, I get automatically redirected to nickjr.co.uk. Strangely, it's only the NickJr website which kicks me off - nick.com works completely fine.
I've tried using hidemyass, with limited success ... although it doesn't boot me over to nickjr.co.uk, I can't access any of the videos. I click on the link, and the website loads the page except for the actual video. It doesn't say, "can't be viewed from your country" - it's just not there at all. There's no Flash widget.

Any ideas?
I'm kind of bummed because US Nick Jr is one of my special interests and that's the only website you can watch their videos from.

Thanks.

You can redirect your computer's IP using a proxy switcher whose base address is in the U.S. When you log in through that, your computer connection will be operating from American soil, so to speak.

^^ "hidemyass" is a proxy service.

@Guineapigged: There is nothing you can to on your machine which will "fix" your IP directly, because it's assigned by your ISP, not your machine.
So in this case it may just be failing because nickjr.com is now checking your incoming IP instead of X-Headers and since an IP is easily located to a country - you're redirected as appropriate.
Or, as inappropriate in this case...

Using hidemyass appears to confirm this, since you'd be accessing NickJr from a genuine American (say) IP and so it works Ok.
Unfortunately the free version of hidemyass is somewhat flaky, especially when trying to use it with media-related sites. I've never tried the paid version of that or any other proxy service, but this is likely to be your best bet.