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It is due to debut on Universal Kids when the channel rebrands from Sprout in September 2017.<\/p>\n<p><em>Little Lunch<\/em> has already been snapped up by Netflix in the U.S. and U.K., SVT in Sweden, RTE in Ireland and TVO in Canada, among many other broadcasters. 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