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LONDON: The BBC has rolled out the brand-new CBeebies Playtime Island app for preschoolers, co-designed by the channel’s audiences and the BBC Children’s app team in Salford.

MEXICO CITY/BUENOS AIRES/PARIS: Televisa, Pol-ka Producciones and Federation Kids & Family have started production on the music-infused daily teen drama Love, Divina.

LONDON: Winx Fashion Fiesta, based on Rainbow's hit girls' property Winx Club, launched today at Sunway Putra Mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

TORONTO: Bejuba! Entertainment has appointed seasoned executive Emilie Pasquet as its new director of sales as the company expands into Europe.

LONDON: Entertainment One (eOne) has appointed Katie Rollings as the head of U.K. licensing for eOne Family and eOne Licensing, effective tomorrow.

NEW YORK: m4e CEO Hans Ulrich Stoef tells World Screen Newsflash about the company’s current production and development pipeline and shares insight into what retailers are looking for in the competitive L&M space.

NEW YORK: The animated preschool series Super Wings has begun streaming on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S.

MILAN/LOS ANGELES: Team Entertainment has inked a global distribution deal with Multicom Entertainment Group (MEG) for the animated volleyball series Spike Team.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Geographic Kids is prepping the multiplatform launch of Weird But True!, the magazine’s most popular fun-facts feature and book series, via syndicated TV and SiriusXM radio this fall.

QUÉBEC: The animated slapstick series Cracké, created and produced by Squeeze, is scheduled to begin airing on French broadcaster CANAL+ this fall.