Sara Alessi

Production has begun on a new season of Entertainment One’s (eOne) preschool property Peppa Pig, which has notched up additional licensing partners across the globe.

Xilam Animation has secured three new licensing agents for its flagship children’s brand Oggy & the Cockroaches across several territories.

Disney has teamed up with the all-girl music group L2M for Hyperlinked, a brand-new series that will be available through its YouTube channel as part of the Disney Digital Network and on the YouTube Kids app for YouTube Red subscribers.

PBS Kids has slated the premiere of Pinkalicious & Peterrific, a brand-new show based on Victoria Kann’s New York Times best-selling Pinkalicious book series, for February 19, 2018.

Mondo TV Iberoamerica has appointed Surge Licensing to represent licensing and merchandising for the live-action teen series Heidi, Bienvenida a Casa in the U.S. and Canada.

Acamar Films and its licensing agent CAA-GBG have signed two new partners in the U.K. for the award-winning preschool series Bing, with new products set to launch this summer.

Entertainment One (eOne) has appointed Nelvana Enterprises as the exclusive licensing and branding agent in Canada for PJ Masks as ticket presales begin for the musical production “PJ Masks Live! Time to Be a Hero!”

TV personality Vanessa Lachey and chef Curtis Stone have come on board Top Chef Junior, which will premiere on Universal Kids this October.

Netflix has ordered The Who Was? Show, a new family variety program based on Penguin Workshop’s best-selling Who Was? series.

British actor Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) is voicing a new engine in the upcoming special Thomas & Friends: Journey Beyond Sodor, which will launch on TV screens worldwide and in U.K. theaters this summer.