Joanna Padovano Tong

BURBANK: Cartoon Network has given the go-ahead to the new animated series OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes, which will be complemented by an integrated console game.

Joanna Padovano Tong checks in with leading distributors about what’s new in preschool content.

ATLANTA: Time Warner's Turner and Warner Bros. have teamed up for a new standalone domestic premium video subscription service called Boomerang that is slated to become available in the U.S. this spring.

MADRID: RTVE has revealed its new HD children's channel, Clan for America, which is meant to bring the best programming and values from Spain's Clan to the Americas.

LUGANO: Mondo TV Suisse has signed a global licensing and merchandising agreement with Panini for the new animated kids' series YooHoo & Friends.

MADRID: Mondo TV Iberoamerica Group has inked a deal with Alianzas Producciones for the co-production of two additional seasons of the live-action teen series Heidi.

LONDON: BBC Worldwide's popular preschool network CBeebies is slated to premiere in Taiwan as a dual-language, localized channel later this month.

NEW YORK: Nickelodeon has unveiled a number of the channel's upcoming highlights, which include a youth-skewing Lip Sync Battle spin-off and a new animated show featuring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT).

The exec producer and supervising director discusses the animated show based on Disney's hit feature film.

BURBANK: Ahead of its season one debut, Disney XD has ordered a sophomore season of the reimagined DuckTales animated comedy adventure series.