Gigantosaurus Tops MIPJunior Most-Screened List

Cyber Group Studios' Gigantosaurus was the most-screened series from the MIPJunior 2018 library, followed by Rainbow's 44 Cats.

Gigantosaurus is based on the best-selling book by Jonny Duddle. The series follows the adventures of four young dinosaur friends as they explore their prehistoric world and the mystery of Gigantosaurus, the biggest, fiercest dinosaur of them all.
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KiKA to Co-Produce New Smurfs TV Show

KiKA has teamed up with Peyo Productions to co-produce The Smurfs, a new animated television series featuring the iconic blue characters.

KiKA will serve as co-producer and German broadcaster of the CGI show, which is aimed at kids between the ages of 5 and 10. France's TF1 and Belgium's Ketnet and OUFtivi are also on board as co-pro partners for the series, which ranked as number seven on the list of the top 30 viewed programs at MIPJunior.
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Disney Gears Up for New Season of Doc McStuffins

The fifth installment of Disney Junior's Doc McStuffins is slated to begin airing later this month, with a holiday special due to debut in December.

Season five launches on Friday, October 26, at 11 a.m on Disney Channel and the DisneyNOW app. It will include The Doc McStuffins Christmas Special, which will premiere as part of Disney|ABC Television's 25 Days of Christmas programming event on Disney Channel, ABC and Freeform.
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Tia Mowry, Loretta Devine to Star in Netflix's Family Reunion

Netflix has ordered a new multigenerational live-action comedy series, Family Reunion, created by Meg DeLoatch (Fuller House).

Tia Mowry (Sister, Sister, Instant Mom) leads the cast as Cocoa McKellan, a free-spirited mother from Seattle who travels with her football-playing husband and their four children from their home in the big city to the small town of Columbus, Georgia, for the McKellan Family Reunion. There, they get to know an extended family they didn't even realize they were missing.
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Sesame Street Puppeteer Caroll Spinney to Retire

Caroll Spinney, an Emmy-winning puppeteer on Sesame Street since the show debuted in 1969, is stepping down from the roles of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.

Moving forward, Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch will be performed by Matt Vogel and Eric Jacobson, respectively. "Big Bird brought me so many places, opened my mind and nurtured my soul," said Spinney. "And I plan to be an ambassador for Sesame Workshop for many years to come. After all, we're a family! But now it's time for two performers that I have worked with and respected—and actually hand-picked for the guardianship of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch—to take my alter-egos into their hands and continue to give them life."
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