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Some 1,500 executives from the global kids’ industry descended on the JW Marriott in Cannes on the weekend before MIPCOM, as 600 buyers perused a screenings library with about 1,300 programs and projects from around the world.

Primeworks Studios’ Ejen Ali the Movie, the first feature film from the animated franchise, is set for theatrical release in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei.

Sulphur Springs, a live-action mystery series from writer and executive producer Tracey Thomson (The Young and the Restless), has been greenlit by Disney Channel.

Members of the original award-winning Broadway company of The SpongeBob Musical: Live on Stage! are set to reunite to film the show in front of a live theater audience for a special that is slated to air on Nickelodeon.

Production has started on The Chicken Squad, a new Disney Junior animated preschool series slated to debut in 2020.

CHF Media Group’s animated preschool series Pip Ahoy! is now airing daily on Cartoonito.

HBO Max has greenlit four new one-hour Adventure Time specials, titled Adventure Time: Distant Lands, which will premiere exclusively on the streamer, with the first two coming in 2020. 

Entertainment One (eOne) has signed a deal with the free-to-air broadcaster EBS that sees the series Peppa Pig headed to South Korea.

BAFTA’s annual ceremony celebrating the best in global children’s media, the British Academy Children’s Awards, has confirmed the nominations for the 2019 event.

Coolabi Group has partnered with the Chinese animation studio Fantawild to bring its preschool property Clangers to China.