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NEW YORK: Entertainment One (eOne) is growing the U.S. consumer-products program for the preschool property Peppa Pig with contract renewals for its major North American partners and the addition of new licensees.

LOS ANGELES/ROME: Lawless Entertainment has been appointed as the broadcast and licensing and merchandising representative in the U.S. for Mondo TV’s Sissi, the Young Empress and The Drakers.

SEATTLE: Amazon has renewed its original live-action kids' series Just Add Magic for a second season.

MUNICH: Studio 100 Media has acquired the DVD and VOD rights to Mirette Investigates and Gilbert & Allie from Cyber Group Studios for German-speaking territories, marking the first time the company is handling home entertainment for third-party properties.

LOS ANGELES: Russell Hicks has resigned as president of content development and production at Nickelodeon Group, where he has worked for nearly two decades.

LOS ANGELES: The first five episodes of the 3D animated short-form children’s series Eddie Is a Yeti have launched via the Toon Goggles platform.

SUNNYVALE/NEW YORK: PlayKids has teamed up with Sesame Workshop to bring Sesame Street content to its mobile entertainment and education platform for children.

SINGAPORE: Bomanbridge Media has placed the kids’ comedy series Odd Squad with public broadcasters across Asia.

HÖHENKIRCHEN/MUNICH: Sunrights has named m4e the brand manager for the Beyblade franchise in German-speaking territories.

MILAN: Atlantyca Entertainment is gearing up to launch its first official North American e-commerce website, Geronimo Stilton Official Merchandising, later this week.