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Nelvana’s Esme & Roy picked up in Latin America


TORONTO — Corus Entertainment’s kids content producer, Nelvana, announced Tuesday the first season of its Esme & Roy animated series co-produced with Sesame Workshop has been picked up by Discovery Kids in Latin America. Distributed by Nelvana, the Emmy-nominated preschool series (52 x 11 minutes) was created by TV veterans Dustin Ferrer and Amy Steinberg. With season two currently in production, Esme & Roy first premiered on Treehouse in Canada and HBO in the United States in August 2018. It has since launched in Germany, Southeast Asia, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Israel, and Middle East and North Africa. Nelvana holds...