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LONDON: Entertainment One (eOne) has secured an additional broadcast partner and several new licensees for the animated preschool series PJ Masks in the U.K.

LOS ANGELES: MarVista Entertainment has licensed the broadcast rights for season two of Yo-Kai Watch to Disney XD Latin America, which also picked up the rights to Yo-Kai Watch: The Movie.

CULVER CITY: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has taken an equity stake in Genius Brands International (GBI) and will become the company's global distributor.

BARCELONA: Planeta Junior has revealed that licensing programs for Miraculous Ladybug, an animated series from ZAG, Method Animation, Toei Animation and SAMG, are expanding in a number of European territories.

NEW YORK: Deirdre Brennan, a former ABC TV exec who joined Corus Entertainment early last year, has been appointed general manager of Sprout and will relocate from Toronto to New York next month.

EL SEGUNDO: Margaret "Margo" H. Georgiadis has been appointed as the new CEO of Mattel, effective February 8.

LONDON: Zodiak Kids has licensed more than 100 hours of programming to Amazon Prime Video in India, including the animated series Horrid Henry.

LOS ANGELES: Shout! Factory and Toei Animation have signed a new multi-picture agreement to bring the hit action/adventure anime film series Digimon Adventure tri to the home-entertainment marketplace.

DUBLIN: 9 Story Media Group's 9 Story Distribution International is partnering with Funwood Media on Monica Chef, a new live-action musical series for tweens.

TORONTO: 9 Story Media Group has licensed an additional 13 episodes of the animated comedy series Camp Lakebottom to Disney Channel in Latin America.