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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.

PASADENA: PBS has officially launched its PBS KIDS channel as a 24-hour service across the U.S.

MIAMI: On offer from Toei Animation is Dragon Ball Super, which reunites the franchise’s iconic characters and follows the aftermath of Goku’s fierce battle with Majin Buu as he attempts to maintain Earth’s fragile peace.

MIAMI: Created by the Argentine writer Marcela Citterio and inspired by Johanna Spyri’s 1880 novel, Heidi, Bienvenida a Casa is a live-action series being presented by Mondo TV Iberoamerica.