NEW YORK: Spike has greenlit an all-new ninth season of the hit tattoo-competition series Ink Master.

GLENDALE: ZAG has teamed up with Action Lab Entertainment (ALE) to develop comic books and graphic novels for North America based on the hit 3D CGI show Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.

LONDON: Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) has scored the international distribution rights for the portfolio of content from 5Production, Channel 5’s in-house production arm.

SANTA MONICA: Lionsgate and actor/comedian Kevin Hart have entered into a partnership that will see the launch of a new OTT platform, Laugh Out Loud, and social adventure mobile game initiatives.

MUNICH: beIN MEDIA GROUP is rolling out beJunior, a new co-branded channel with Studio 100 Media that will broadcast in the Middle East and North African region.

CANNES: Four cows decide to leave their meadow to discover the sea in The Horn Quartet, one of Superights’s MIPTV highlights.

LONDON: The mobile app Flipped Out, based on the Cartoon Network series The Powerpuff Girls, premiering on April 25, is rolling out for Android devices this month.

BEVERLY HILLS/GLENDALE: This July, Netflix is due to debut Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh, an all-new Netflix original series based on the 2015 DreamWorks Animation (DWA) movie.

NEW YORK: NBCUniversal’s 24-hour preschool network Sprout has appointed kids’ media veteran Amy Friedman, who previously worked at Viacom, as the senior VP of programming and development, effective today.

MIAMI: The four-part special The Rise of Terrorism, produced by Mobius.Lab Productions and distributed by Cisneros Media Distribution (CMD), will be aired in the U.S. by Sinclair Broadcast Group on more than 100 affiliated stations across the country.