Joanna Padovano Tong

Dino Dana, an Emmy-nominated television show from the Sinking Ship Entertainment catalog, is getting its own feature-length family film.

Beyond Distribution has inked format and finished program deals for the soccer-themed Footy Pups, a partially animated preschool series.

BBC News has premiered a weekly show, titled What's New?, for viewers between the ages of 11 and 16 in Africa.

Nevision has optioned the rights for M.G. Leonard's Beetle trilogy, which includes the best-selling children's books Beetle Boy (2016), Beetle Queen (2017) and Battle of the Beetles (2018).

Rai Ragazzi has unveiled the L’ora di Tuffarsi (It’s Time to Dive) initiative geared toward animation/audiovisual students or recent graduates living in Italy who have an original and unpublished animation project for TV or film.

Hopster has launched a new game called Coding Safari that aims to teach preschoolers the basics of coding, including decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction and algorithms.

NBCUniversal International Networks' kids' and family entertainment channel DreamWorks has launched on i-CABLE in Hong Kong.

Apple has given a multi-series order to Sesame Workshop for a slate of children's programming, marking the first original kids' content for Apple.

Toonix, Turner EMEA's first direct-to-consumer service for children, is launching in the Nordic region on iOS, Android and smart TVs.

As John Lasseter exits Disney, Jennifer Lee (Frozen) and Pete Docter (Up) become chief creative officers at Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios, respectively.