Joanna Padovano Tong

NEW YORK: Nickelodeon has unveiled the details for two new sports-themed series from production partners Rob Dyrdek and Shane Nickerson of Superjacket Productions, among a slew of other new and returning programming for this year.

BURBANK: Disney Channel has kicked off a nationwide casting search for High School Musical 4, a fourth installment of the hit movie franchise that first premiered on the network more than a decade ago.

HOLLYWOOD: Production company Wind Dancer Films (Roseanne, Home Improvement, What Women Want) has set up a new children's television division, to be led by Principal Dete Meserve.

LONDON: Through a co-promotion deal between Zodiak Kids and Merlin Entertainments, Mister Maker arts and crafts activities will be featured in all 12 Sea Life centers across the U.K. and Ireland.

TORONTO: Starting today, DHX Television is offering a complimentary sampling of its portfolio of family-friendly networks in Canada throughout the month of March.

LONDON: Acamar Films and The Licensing Company (TLC) have appointed seven new licensees for Bing, a book-based animated preschool show that airs on CBeebies in the U.K.

LONDON: Snapper Productions has inked a deal with Abbey Home Media for the U.K. home-entertainment rights to the animated preschool show Q Pootle 5.

AMSTERDAM: Lineup Industries's social-justice format The Bully Project is slated for broadcast on ABC in Australia, where the show will be presented by Olympian and former Young Australian of the Year Ian Thorpe.

BURBANK: Talent manager Scooter Braun has become the creative executive producer for this year's Radio Disney Music Awards (RDMA), which is slated for broadcast on Disney Channel this spring.

STOCKHOLM: Sweden's Svensk Filmindustri (SF) is releasing SF Kids Play, a new SVOD service featuring a variety of classic and new children's TV series and movies from around the world.