Sara Alessi

Nickelodeon has lined up SpongeBob SquarePants: The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom, a brand-new stop-motion animated special slated to premiere in October.

Genius Brands International’s music-driven tween YouTube series SpacePOP has been appointed as the official music provider for the Pop Warner Little Scholars Cheer and Dance program.

Planeta Junior has secured Iberian licensing partners for the preschool series Wissper following its launch in Spain and Portugal this year.

4K Media has signed a licensing agreement that will see Trends International create a new line of posters based on the original artwork from the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters and Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V series.

MarcoPolo Learning is setting up its new global headquarters in London this month following a major financing round and partnership with Boat Rocker Media and its family of companies, as well as venture capital firm Seedcamp.

KCP Loft, the new young adult imprint of Kids Can Press, has optioned world publishing rights for the award-winning Canadian digital series Carmilla.

U.K.-based animation studio Blue Zoo has secured a deal with China UK Animation Company (CU Animation) that will unlock a total of £72 million ($91 million) worth of funding to invest across new and existing IP and projects.

Nickelodeon in Brazil has slated the debut of Butch Hartman’s (The Fairly OddParents) animated series Bunsen is a Beast for next month.

A special BBC Live Lesson will be held at the McLaren Technology Centre, marking the end of the first phase of the Terrific Scientific primary science campaign in the U.K. for kids 9 to 11.

The company's partner and president of distribution discusses the film revival and why the trilogy has appealed to international partners.