Joanna Padovano Tong

Nickelodeon UK & Ireland has acquired five seasons of the animated comedy Horrid Henry from Novel Entertainment for broadcast on Nicktoons.

Cristiano Ronaldo, a professional soccer player from Portugal, has teamed up with Graphic India and VMS Communications to launch a new animated superhero show called Striker Force 7.

Studio 100 Media and m4e have signed an agreement with Germany's Constantin Film, which is acquiring the distribution rights for the movies Mia and me, Quixotes: The Heirs of La Mancha and 100% Wolf.

The Netherlands' Mercis, China's Beijing WD Pictures and Italy's Orisa Produzioni are co-producing a film based on the globally popular Miffy character created by the late Dick Bruna.

TCG is slated to release a line of puzzles and board games based on WowWee's Fingerlings, a globally popular toy that is also getting its own animated series, in Canada this fall.

The Fred Rogers Company has rebranded as Fred Rogers Productions in order to better reflect its expanding catalog of programming.

Corus Entertainment's Nelvana has signed an exclusive Canadian broadcasting and licensing agreement with Sesame Workshop for the long-running hit series Sesame Street.

Production has kicked off on Coop and Cami Ask the World, a new live-action sitcom starring Dakota Lotus and Ruby Rose Turner that is due to debut on Disney Channel this autumn.

Start Licensing has been tapped to represent Sixteen South's new book-based animated show Claude in the U.K. and Ireland.

HARI International has licensed the animated series Pipas & Douglas to China's Alibaba, which will also handle the property's merchandising rights in the country, for a release on Youku.