Joanna Padovano Tong

NEW YORK: Deirdre Brennan, a former ABC TV exec who joined Corus Entertainment early last year, has been appointed general manager of Sprout and will relocate from Toronto to New York next month.

EL SEGUNDO: Margaret "Margo" H. Georgiadis has been appointed as the new CEO of Mattel, effective February 8.

LONDON: Zodiak Kids has licensed more than 100 hours of programming to Amazon Prime Video in India, including the animated series Horrid Henry.

LOS ANGELES: Shout! Factory and Toei Animation have signed a new multi-picture agreement to bring the hit action/adventure anime film series Digimon Adventure tri to the home-entertainment marketplace.

DUBLIN: 9 Story Media Group's 9 Story Distribution International is partnering with Funwood Media on Monica Chef, a new live-action musical series for tweens.

Rob LaDuca, exec producer on Mickey and the Roadster Racers, and Mark Seidenberg, co-EP and supervising story editor, discuss the new show.

LONDON: Coolabi Group has revealed that a second season of the hit animated preschool series Clangers is in production for broadcast on CBeebies in the U.K. later this year.

BURBANK: Nickelodeon has officially opened its new state-of-the-art facility in Burbank, California, that houses 700-plus employees and more than 20 show productions.

LONDON: Turner has teamed up with AzamTV to increase the reach of Boing Africa, a cartoon-based entertainment channel aimed at children between the ages of 7 and 14.

NEW YORK: Nick Jr. has bolstered its 2017 lineup with a new animated series and season-two pickups for a trio of shows, including the Teletubbies reboot.