Kristin Brzoznowski

SYDNEY: ABC Commercial has announced a range of new deals for the Australian children's entertainers The Wiggles, extending the reach for the franchise into a further 190 countries.

LOS ANGELES/ROME: Lawless Entertainment has been appointed as the broadcast and licensing and merchandising representative in the U.S. for Mondo TV’s Sissi, the Young Empress and The Drakers.

SEATTLE: Amazon has renewed its original live-action kids' series Just Add Magic for a second season.

CEO Claude Schmit talks about how Super RTL is staying competitive and positioning itself to reclaim its market-leading position in 2016.

LOS ANGELES: A new partnership between Shout! Factory and Legacy Classics will see the production and distribution of a slate of new family movies based on best-selling classic and contemporary children's book series.

DUBLIN: Brown Bag Films has opened its new 30,000-square-foot animation studio in Smithfield, Dublin, as it plans to expand its team to 255 creative and production staff by 2018.

SAN FRANCISCO: VIZ Media has acquired the rights to develop an original animated series based on the Japanese children's brand Gakkimals, which features a mash-up of musical instruments and animals.

NEW YORK: Claude Schmit, the CEO of Super RTL, speaks to World Screen Newsflash about how the children's channel is staying competitive in the German kids' TV landscape.

VICTORIA: Australian Children's Television Foundation (ACTF) has licensed the live-action teen drama Ready For This into Germany, where the show will air on KiKA.

DUBLIN: Kavaleer Productions and WDR mediagroup (WDRmg) are collaborating on a new action-comedy series for 6- to 11-year-olds, Dougie Noir.