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Apartment 11 Productions has optioned the children’s book Olga, written by Elise Gravel, for an upcoming animated series.

The CEO talks about the state of the kids’ distribution market, surviving a year without physical markets and tapping into the expanding opportunities in the AVOD space.

KingstOOn Animation and Film Festival and Sesame Workshop are calling on Jamaican animators to submit pitches for animated short films to be considered for Sesame Street’s 52nd season.

Mindy Kaling (The Office, The Mindy Project) has joined the voice cast of Disney+'s animated series Monsters at Work.

Disney Channel has given a pilot order to Saturdays, a single-camera comedy from 16-year-old Marsai Martin (black-ish) and Nicole Dow through Martin's production company, Genius Entertainment.

King Bert and WildBrain have been commissioned by CBBC in the U.K. and Canada's Family Channel to produce an additional 26 episodes of the live-action series Malory Towers in association with BYUtv in the U.S.

Genius Brands International has put in place the production team for the animated series Shaq’s Garage, tapping Academy Award-nominated writer Joel Cohen (Toy Story, Garfield: The Movie, Evan Almighty, Cheaper by the Dozen, Daddy Day Camp).

Genius Brands International has signed a partnership with Tankee to develop a new Roblox-themed series that will air exclusively on Kartoon Channel!

This Duckburg Life, an original scripted podcast inspired by DuckTales, is slated to debut later this month on Disney XD YouTube, DisneyNOW and Disney XD VOD.

Entertainment One (eOne) has outlined new content plans around the Peppa Pig brand, which has 104 new 5-minute episodes greenlit for production.