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First Day, following a transgender student as she navigates high school, leads the Australian Children’s Television Foundation’s highlights.

Halle Stanford on The Jim Henson Company’s animation development pipeline.

Paramount’s Layla Lewis, POP Channels’ Francesca Newington, Sensical’s Bethany Boles and De Agostini Editore’s Brenda Maffuchi shared their acquisition wish lists and discussed increasingly complex rights negotiations as the TV Kids Summer Festival kicked off today.

Rai Ragazzi and ICI Radio-Canada Télé have commissioned a second season of The Game Catchers, while GoldBee has secured new partnerships for season one.

Mondo TV Studios has launched the children’s animation series MeteoHeroes, co-produced by Mondo TV and Meteo Expert, in multiple Latin American and Lusophone markets, as well as in the Caribbean.

Distributor Kids First and producers Watch Next, Monello and Maga Animation Studio have secured presales across Europe and Latin America for Hello Kitty: Super Style.

PGS Entertainment has appointed DeAPlaneta Entertainment alum Paula Taborda Dos Guaranys as executive VP of acquisitions and development.

Superights has acquired the new season of Clay Time, which will now include a total of 90x3-minute and 90x1.5-minute episodes.

Banijay Kids and Family has inked an option agreement with the Canadian children’s publisher Kids Can Press to develop a preschool series based on the picture book Arnold the Super-ish Hero.

The Ottawa International Animation Festival’s Pitch THIS! event, held in partnership with Mercury Filmworks, is set to return in person this September.