Sara Alessi

BILLUND: Sesame Workshop and The LEGO Foundation are teaming up on two separate initiatives aimed at teaching adults how children’s play experiences can help them learn necessary life skills.

NEW YORK: 4K Media has secured a publishing agreement with Scholastic that will see the development of the definitive resource book for young fans of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters series.

LONDON: Sky has agreed to a long-term deal bringing more content from Turner’s kids’ channels Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Cartoonito to its customers, and becoming the exclusive home of on-demand box sets of The Amazing World of Gumball and Adventure Time.

LONDON: FremantleMedia Kids & Family is expanding its London-based team with a new hire and a promotion.

LONDON/ISTANBUL: Turner is launching Boomerang as its second flagship children’s channel in Turkey on the country’s National Children’s Day.

NEW YORK: Nickelodeon and VStar Entertainment Group are prepping the first-ever live stage show for the preschool series PAW Patrol.

VANCOUVER: Rainmaker Entertainment, the animation studio behind the first-ever CGI series ReBoot, has appointed seasoned executive Gregory R. Little to the newly created position of senior VP of content, marking his return to the company.

SINGAPORE: Experiential edutainment brand KidZania Singapore is launching the Nickelodeon Acting Academy and Theatre as part of the interactive kids’ city’s official opening in Sentosa today.

PARIS/LONDON/COLOGNE: CAKE and TeamTO have closed a deal with Super RTL’s consumer products department for the licensing rights in German-speaking territories for the animated series Angelo Rules.

MELBOURNE: Every Cloud Productions has begun development on a miniseries adaptation of the novel Seven Little Australians, which has received funding from the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF).