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MIAMI: Topping Hasbro Studios’s NATPE slate are its animated series Transformers Robots in Disguise (season two), My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (season six) and the new action series Blazing Team, based on a boys’ brand from China.

HOLLYWOOD: The Jim Henson Company has inked several deals for three of its preschool titles: Sid the Science Kid, Dinosaur Train and Pajanimals.

MIAMI: As the distribution arm of NPO in the Netherlands, NPO Sales represents content from all Dutch public broadcasters, as well as a number of independent producers, and its slate includes a wealth of youth documentary shorts and series.

MIAMI: NATPE highlights from the kids’ slate of WDR mediagroup (WDRmg) include the animated series Gigglebug, targeted at children 3 to 5, and Trude’s Flatmate, which combines modern animation technology with classic 1950s drawings.

MIAMI: Among the NATPE highlights from Mondo TV is Treasure Island, an animated series that picks up where R.L. Stevenson’s classic novel leaves off.

MEXICO CITY: The teen telenovela Grachi, which originally aired on Nickelodeon Latin America, has landed in Spain on Mediaset España’s Divinity.

BURBANK: Hasbro Studios’ Transformers: Robots in Disguise is slated to return to Cartoon Network for a second season in Q1 2016.

BURBANK: The hit animated feature film Frozen will air on Disney Channel for the first time in February.

LONDON: Macmillan Children’s Books has picked up the global publishing rights for the preschool brand Dinosaur Roar! from Nurture Rights.

LONDON: CAKE and Cheeky Little Media have appointed licensing and merchandising agents to represent the new animated property Bottersnikes and Gumbles.