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Bardel Entertainment and its Italy-based parent company Rainbow have acquired the rights to the Scholastic book series The Bailey School Kids, authored by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones.

Jetpack Distribution has acquired the rights to Clangers, a preschool stop-motion animated show from Coolabi Group.

GO-N International has sealed a new raft of broadcast deals for the popular preschool show Simon.

Conrad Montgomery has joined Nickelodeon as VP of current series for animation, having previously served as senior director of current series at Cartoon Network.

Marking Federation Kids & Family’s first collaboration with TeamTO, Presto! School of Magic is based on STUDIOCANAL’s The House of Magic.

Targeted for 7- to 12-year-olds, Royals Next Door is a 2D animated series on offer from Dandelooo about a princess and her family who move to the suburbs.

Mediatoon Distribution has bolstered its slate of adventure series, with highlights that include Kid Lucky and Sardine in Outer Space.

Mondo TV is set to have its own dedicated channel on Samsung TV Plus, Samsung’s free ad-supported Smart TV video service, in Italy.

Zodiak Kids’ Super Agent Jon Le Bon! is billed as a fun and high-octane animated comedy, in which an intrepid super-agent moose has to save the day against villains and a very clumsy super-agent colleague.

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) and WildBrain have reopened the WildBrain-CMF Kids & Family Development Program to support the development of Canadian kids’ and family content.