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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.

BURBANK: Production has kicked off in Salt Lake City on Andi Mack, a new live-action series that is slated to premiere on Disney Channel next year.

TORONTO: Corus Entertainment has revamped its Treehouse app, which offers users more than 1,500 episodes from the Canadian preschool network’s content library.

TORONTO: South Africa's The Flying Circus has inked a distribution deal with Canada's Breakthrough Entertainment that will introduce the animated comedy Silly Seasons to North American viewers.

TORONTO: Bejuba! Entertainment has licensed the exclusive U.S. SVOD rights for the animated preschool series Sydney Sailboat to Hulu, where the show is slated to begin streaming later this month.