Moonbug Entertainment To Debut New Hello Kitty & Cocomelon Crossover Series

Hello Kitty owner Sanrio has struck a multi-year deal with CoComelon outfit Moonbug Entertainment including a new show with characters from both hit franchises.

The deal will span content and consumer initiatives featuring a crossover series with Sanrio and CoComelon characters, with Hello Kitty, Cinnamoroll and other popular Sanrio characters joining JJ and pals from CoComelon. The series will debut in 2026 and Moonbug will lead global distribution.

Moonbug has teamed up with a number of brands across Asia but this is the first Sanrio-Moonbug tie-up, coming soon after a high profile deal that will see Moonbug’s hit CoComelon series move from Netflix to Disney+.

“This collaboration brings together two powerful global brands with generations of fans,” said Mayer. “We’re excited to create fresh experiences that blend the heart and humor of CoComelon with Sanrio’s beloved characters in ways that will delight families around the world. This is the start of a creative partnership with huge potential, and we can’t wait to share more later this year.”

More information, including character line-ups, launch platforms, and future initiatives, will be shared in the coming months.

July 2025 On Nickelodeon, Nick Jr. And Nicktoons Across Europe And Africa | Channel Premiere: Dora And The Search Of Sol Dorado | Returning Shows Including The Thundermans: Undercover | More

Nickelodeon

A brand new episode of The Thundermans: Undercover:

- 2025-07-11 18:40 1x11 Tide and Prejudice

"The Thundermans: Undercover" is locally titled "A Thunderman család: Beépített küldetés" in Hungary, "Familia Thunderman: sub acoperire" in Romania, "Die Thundermans: Undercover" in Austria and Switzerland, and "Grzmotomocni: Tajniacy" in Poland.

-- Brand new episodes of The Patrick Star Show season four:

- 2025-07-01 10:00 4x02a The Dated Game

- 2025-07-02 10:00 4x02b Ice Cream Headache

- 2025-07-03 10:00 4x03a A Tinkle in Time

- 2025-07-04 10:00 4x03b TV or Not TV

- 2025-07-07 10:00 4x04a Two Pests in a Teapot

- 2025-07-08 10:00 4x04b Partial Recall

- 2025-07-09 10:00 4x05a The Haunting of Flim Flam House

- 2025-07-10 10:00 4x05b Rube Tube

"The Patrick Star Show" is locally titled "Csillag Patrik műsora" in Hungary, "Un show cu Patrick Stea" in Romania, "Patrick Super Star" in France, "Patryk Rozgwiazda Show" in Poland, and "Die Patrick Star Show" in Austria and Switzerland.

-- The brand new movie Dora and the Search For Sol Dorado:

- 2025-07-05 12:00 - premiere

- 2025-07-05 17:00 - encore

- 2025-07-06 18:00 - replay

- 2025-07-27 12:00 - repeat

"Dora and the Search For Sol Dorado" is locally titled "Dóra a Sol Dorado nyomában" in Hungary, "Dora și legenda Sol Dorado" in Romania, "Dora à la recherche du Sol Dorado" in France, "[tba]" in Poland, and "Dora auf der Suche nach Sol Dorado" in Austria and Switzerland.

-- Brand new episodes of The Smurfs season three and season four:

- 2025-07-14 10:00 3x09 The Tour / Smurfing a Masterpiece (A túra / Egy törpös műremek)

- 2025-07-15 10:00 3x10 Monster in the Village / Granny's Doll (Szörny jár Aprajafalván / Nagyi babája)

- 2025-07-16 10:00 3x11 The Battle of the Sitters / Let's Smurf To Mars (A babysitter tusa / Törpöljünk a Marsra!)

- 2025-07-17 10:00 3x12 What the bear said / Parallel Worlds (Figyelj a medvére! / Párhuzamos világok)

- 2025-07-18 10:00 3x13 Wobbly Tooth / The Darkest Night (Fogas kérdés / A legsötétebb éjszaka) - season three finale

- 2025-07-21 10:00 4x01 The Thirteenth Dessert / Slithering Smurfs (A 13. desszert / Csúszós törpök) - season four premiere

- 2025-07-22 10:00 4x02 Fire Brigade on Foot / The Prettiest Pebble in the World (Gyalogos tűzoltók / A világ legszebb kavicsa)

- 2025-07-23 10:00 4x03 Smurfalicious Catfood / Waffle Thief (A fantörpikus macskakaja / A gofritolvaj)

- 2025-07-24 10:00 4x04 Disco Smurf / Dwayne's New Toy (Diszkótörp / Drazsé új játéka)

- 2025-07-25 10:00 4x05 Gargamel's Doggy / Drummer Girl (Hókuszpók kutyusa / A dobos lány)

"The Smurfs" is locally titled "Hupikék törpikék" in Hungary, "Ştrumfii" in Romania, "Les Schtroumpfs" in France, "Smerfy" in Poland, and "Die Schlümpfe" in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

-- The brand new show Super Duper Bunny League (channel premiere):

- 2025-07-28 10:00 1x01 Super Duper Bunnies! / Ye Olde Sourbreath! - series premiere

- 2025-07-29 10:00 1x02 Lizard Lips! / Space Pirates! (Gyíkszáj / Űrkalózok)

- 2025-07-30 10:00 1x04 Auntie Freeze! / Goin' Camping! (Fagy néni / Kempingezés)

- 2025-07-31 10:00 1x05 Awesome Guy! / Cheese Zombies! (Szupersrác / Sajtzombik)

"Super Duper Bunny League" is locally titled "Szipiszupi Nyuszi Liga" in Hungary, "Liga Agilă Iepurilă" in Romania, "La Ligue des Super Lapins" in France, "Super Chruper Króliki" in Poland, and "Super-Duper-Hasen-Liga" in Austria and Switzerland.

-- A selection of Nickelodeon Original Movies:

- 2025-07-05 12:00/17:00 Dora and the Search For Sol Dorado

- 2025-07-06 12:00 Legends of the Hidden Temple

- 2025-07-06 18:00 Dora and the Search For Sol Dorado

- 2025-07-12 12:00 The Fairly OddParents: A Fairly Odd Summer

- 2025-07-13 12:00 Jinxed

- 2025-07-19 12:00 One Crazy Cruise

- 2025-07-20 12:00 The Thundermans Return

- 2025-07-26 12:00 Henry Danger: The Movie

- 2025-07-27 12:00 Dora and the Search For Sol Dorado

-- Returning series:

- The Thundermans:

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Nick Jr.

DORA season three:

- 2025-07-07 11:00 3x01a Ratoncito Perez (Ratocinto Perez) - season 3 premiere

- 2025-07-08 11:00 3x01b The Berry Hungry Caterpillar (A bogyóra vágyó hernyó)

- 2025-07-09 11:00 3x02a Unicornasaurus (Egyszarvaszaurusz)

- 2025-07-10 11:00 3x02b The Grumple Games (A Morcilimpia)

- 2025-07-11 11:00 3x03a Little Dora's Big Adventure (A kis Dóra nagy kalandja)

- 2025-07-14 11:00 3x03b Bye Bye Balloon (Légy jó, léghajó!)

- 2025-07-15 11:00 3x04a Singin' in the Tub (Ének a kádban)

- 2025-07-16 11:00 3x04b Show and Share (Kiselőadás)

- 2025-07-17 11:00 3x05a Dora's Birthday Surprise (Dóra szülinapi meglepetése)

- 2025-07-18 11:00 3x05b Moonlight Fiesta (Holdfény party)

"DORA" is locally titled "Dóra" in Hungary.

-- Brand new episodes of Peppa Pig:

- 2025-07-07 10:05 7x01-04 Castle / Parachute Jump / Gerald Giraffe / Miss Rabbit's Taxi - season seven premiere

- 2025-07-08 10:05 7x05-08 Playing Pretend / Scooters / Pumpkin Competition / Move To Music

- 2025-07-09 10:05 7x09-12 London / Simple Science / Easter Bunny / School Project

- 2025-07-10 10:05 7x13-16 The Police / Mummy Pig's Book / The Zoo / Nursery Rhymes

- 2025-07-11 10:05 7x17-20 The Outback / Surfing / The Great Barrier Reef / The Boomerang

- 2025-07-12 10:05 7x21-24 Digger World / Dolls Hospital / Wendy Wolf's Birthday / George's Wooly Hat

- 2025-07-13 10:05 7x25-28 Canal Boat / Grandpa Pig's Greenhouse / Sailing Boat / Masks

- 2025-07-14 10:05 7x29-32 Molly Mole / Soft Play / The Market / Peppa Goes to Paris

- 2025-07-15 10:05 7x33-36 George's New Clothes / Madame Gazelle's House / Grandpa Pig's Pond / Tiny Land

- 2025-07-16 10:05 7x37-40 Long Train Journey / Once Upon a Time / Police Station / Suzy Sheep Goes Away

- 2025-07-17 10:05 7x41-44 Stamps / When I grow up / The Carnival / The Ambulance

- 2025-07-18 10:05 7x45-48 Doctors / Mr. Bull's New Road / Caves / Super Potato

- 2025-07-19 10:05 7x49-52 Grampy Rabbit's Hovercraft / Grandpa's Toy Plane / Playgroup Star / Pumpkin Party

- 2025-07-20 10:05 7x54 Father Christmas - Christmas special; season 7 finale

- 2025-07-20 10:10 8x01-03 The Panda Twins / Chinese New Year / Lots of Muddy Puddles - Chinese New Year special; season eight premiere

- 2025-07-21 10:05 8x04-07 Mandy Mouse / Recorders / Miss Rabbit's Relaxation Class / Parking Ticket

- 2025-07-22 10:05 8x08-11 Father's Day / Funny Music / Buttercups, Daisies and Dandelions / The Marble Run - Father's Day special

- 2025-07-23 10:05 8x12-15 Grandpa Pig's Metal Detector / World Book Day / Children's Festival / Muddy Festival

- 2025-07-24 10:05 8x16-19 Strawberries / Grandpa Pig's Birthday / The Petting Farm / Pizza! Pizza!

- 2025-07-25 10:05 8x20-23 TV Land / Roman Day / Bird Spotting / Super Potato Movie

- 2025-07-26 10:05 8x24-27 Bat and Ball / Buried Treasure / Christmas at the Hospital / Valentine's Day - Christmas special; Valentine's Day special

- 2025-07-27 10:05 8x28-31 The Perfect Day / Breakfast Club / The Botanical Gardens / Mr Potato's Fruit & Vegetable Quiz

- 2025-07-28 10:05 8x32-35 Viking Day / Made Up Musical Instruments / In The Future / Doctor Hamster's Big Present

- 2025-07-29 10:05 8x36-39 Butterflies / Grampy Rabbit's Jetpack / Detective Potato / The Electric Car

- 2025-07-30 10:05 8x40-43 Stone Age Granny / Space Adventure! / Fire Station Practice / Mr Bull the Teacher

- 2025-07-31 10:05 8x44-46 Looking for Things / Poems / Please and Thank You

Note: For Hungarian views, season seven will be a channel premiere, whilst season eight will be a country premiere.

"Peppa Pig" is locally titled "Peppa malac" in Hungary, "Purcelușa Peppa" in Romania, "Swinka Peppa" in Poland, and "Peppa" in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.

Nicktoons

The brand new show Sonic Prime:

- 2025-07-21 16:00 1x01 Shattered - series premiere

- 2025-07-22 16:00 1x02 The Yoke's on You

- 2025-07-23 16:00 1x03 Escape from New Yoke

- 2025-07-24 16:00 1x04 Unwelcome to the Jungle

- 2025-07-25 16:00 1x05 Barking Up the Wrong Tree

- 2025-07-28 16:00 1x06 Situation: Grim

- 2025-07-29 16:00 1x07 It Takes One to No Place

- 2025-07-30 16:00 1x08 There's no ARRGH in "Team"

- 2025-07-31 16:00 1x09 Avoid the Void

-- Brand new episodes of Super Duper Bunny League:

- 2025-07-01 14:00 1x02 Lizard Lips! / Space Pirates! (Gyíkszáj / Űrkalózok)

- 2025-07-02 14:00 1x04 Auntie Freeze! / Goin' Camping! (Fagy néni / Kempingezés)

- 2025-07-03 14:00 1x05a Awesome Guy! (Szupersrác)

- 2025-07-04 14:00 1x05b Cheese Zombies! (Sajtzombik)

- 2025-07-07 14:00 1x06b Bad Hair Day! (Hajbaj)

- 2025-07-08 14:00 1x06a Kanga Ruiner! (Kengu-romboló)

- 2025-07-09 14:00 1x07b The Stank Monster!

- 2025-07-10 14:00 1x07a Space Tacos!

- 2025-07-11 14:00 1x08a Chocolate Bunnies!

- 2025-07-14 14:00 1x08b Clock-A-Doodle-Doo!

- 2025-07-15 14:00 1x09a Awesome Possum!

- 2025-07-16 14:00 1x09b Baby Yoyo!

- 2025-07-17 14:00 1x10a Dust Bunnies!

- 2025-07-18 14:00 1x10b Mrs. Fuzzleglove!

"Super Duper Bunny League" is locally titled "Szipiszupi Nyuszi Liga" in Hungary, "Liga Agilă Iepurilă" in Romania, "La Ligue des Super Lapins" in France, "Super Chruper Króliki" in Poland, and "Super-Duper-Hasen-Liga" in Austria and Switzerland.

These feeds is available in Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Servia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Africa and Turkey.

This article was originally published by NickALive!

Recap To The Year: Guild Becomes New Home Of GINX TV For 25% Stake In Gaming Content Business

Guild Esports and Gaming has entered into a partnership agreement with GINX TV, a long-standing gaming video content, Digital, Web and TV broadcaster, that will see the company relocate all operations to Guild’s HQ, the Sky Guild Gaming Centre in Shoreditch, London, establishing a permanent live studio and gallery within the 15,000-square-foot venue.

The partnership will also provide an expansion of both businesses distribution network and provide opportunities for new, upcoming and established gaming creators to create and produce content.

Guild will collaborate with GINX TV to provide services and distribute content for partners, sponsors, and wider audiences. As part of the deal, rental of studio and office space will act as consideration for a convertible loan between Guild and GINX, equivalent to 25% ownership of GINX by Guild, if actioned.

The relocation of GINX TV from its previous home at Tileyard Studios in Kings Cross will take place immediately. This move further strengthens the position of Guild’s 15,000-square-foot HQ in Shoreditch, the Sky Guild Gaming Centre, as the UK’s premier gaming hub. This announcement comes just weeks after the launch of Drive Lounge at the same site, a public Sim Racing facility developed in partnership with Guild’s Sim Racing division, boasting 20 pro-level sim rigs and digital motorsport event space.

GINX TV, via its established linear/digital and social media distribution, provides its always-available live access to 20 million homes worldwide with over 35 million views of original content in 2024. Guild’s exclusively socially distributed content received 250m impressions across 2024. This partnership will see both parties be able to tap into learnings, audiences and networks to distribute partner content.

Nick Westwood, Chief Creative Officer of Guild Esports and Gaming, comments on the partnership:

“Following the first two years of our life as the Sky Guild Gaming Centre, where we welcomed thousands of guests across a variety of events, it was our desire this year to work with partners to fully maximise the space. With Drive Lounge, we have opened the doors to the public, and with GINX TV, we will now focus on utilising the venue to communicate outwardly to gamers through a variety of channels. We see a rapid shift in content distribution, both away from linear TV but also away from traditional ‘gaming’ channels to new, owned and operated channels. This partnership also provides our existing and future partners with turnkey broadcast solutions married to our turnkey esports and gaming venue offering, a real step forward for us, and GINX TV, as we build out propositions for brands, studios, streamers and publishers.”

Peter Einstein, Executive Chairman and CEO of GINX TV comments on the partnership:

“We are delighted to partner with Guild Esports and Gaming to create a strong and attractive engagement opportunity for brands to access the diverse gaming community. Our move to the Sky Guild Gaming Centre is a perfect way to collaborate and expand the gaming opportunity all under “one roof”. We are excited to bring our unique gaming and esports content publishing business to Shoreditch, where we will continue our provision of outstanding content to our international audience with the support of new partners.”

By leveraging the facilities and connectivity at the Sky Guild Gaming Centre, both organizations aim to drive innovation and expand their reach to global gaming audiences.

Canal+ To Launch Streaming Service MyCanal In Eastern Europe By The End Of 2026 Followed By Asia, Could It Replace DStv Stream And Showmax In Africa?

Canal+ is currently in the process of completing it's acquisition of MultiChoice after recieving a recommendation from the Competition Commission. Now the deal sits with the Competition Tribunal and Independent Communications Authority Of South Africa (ICASA) for further analysis. 

Reports going around is that MyCanal which is basically international version of DStv Stream and rival to Pluto TV from Paramount Global is looking to launch in Eastern Europe by the end of 2026 with Asia likely to follow in the first half of 2027.

The app combines a package of live content, replay and subscription video on demand. In addition to Canal’s own original content, it has also aggregated the platforms of Netflix, Apple TV+, HBO Max, Paramount+, BeIN, Eurosport and Dailymotion.

MyCanal currently operates in Africa namely Ghana, Liberia, Rwanda and Niger basically regions in which it pay-tv service resides. What was interesting about this report is that it mentioned Canal+ plans to rollout MyCanal in regions in which it operates.

With Canal+ currently pursuing MultiChoice who own Showmax and DStv Stream with VIU also operating in South Africa these could as well be potential candidates for its streaming endeavours.

After acquiring Netherland's SPI International, FilmBox+ serves as European equivalent of MyCanal with K+ in Vietnam so the idea of Showmax and DStv Stream fitting under this umbrella wouldn't seem far fetched a stretch.

Following the relaunch of Showmax with NBCUniversal, MultiChoice had mentioned that the number of activations had increased which indicates that the streamer has plenty of scale. This is where DStv Stream lacks as it serves as a companion app to the DStv satellite.

Some consumers have felt that DStv had become expensive even with its OTT counterpart having reduced rates for its dishless consumers. With the price of DStv Premium, consumers can pay for 5 streaming services making DStv Stream a liability.

Merging Showmax and DStv Stream would make it easier to market rather than splitting consumers and alienating them from content. DStv has a batch of channels whose content is not on Showmax and vice versa - merging could reduce those expenses.

Integrating these services could face various delays one being licensing agreements which MultiChoice could have extended for several years. Another has to do with NBCUniversal as they retain 30% in Showmax preventing full integration.

Canal+ could buy back the shares but NBCUniversal could prioritize it's streaming endeavours or want more money as seen with Hulu.

Showmax has been viewed as a direct competitor to DStv so Canal+ could look to reduce its investment perhaps by selling more shares. They do have this whole thing going on with VIU and I'd imagine them keeping a percentage in Showmax in order to tap the rest of Africa which VIU remains nonexistent.

But if I'm being rational, they could as well look to merge the two that's what happened when WarnerMedia and Discovery merged. They removed a ton of content (mainly animation) from Max and focused on adult programming while licensing it's other content to rival platforms.

MultiChoice Opens Up Canal+'s Channels To More DStv Customers In Africa

Canal+ is currently in the process of completing it's acquisition of MultiChoice after recieving a recommendation from the Competition Commission. Now the deal sits with the Competition Tribunal and Independent Communications Authority Of South Africa (ICASA) for further analysis. 

Amidst this endeavours, MultiChoice Africa (particularly Ghana) had decided to open up Canal+ Pop, Canal+ Cinema, Canal+ Action, Canal+ Sport 1, Nollywood TV, Novelas TV and A+ to DStv consumers from 19 June to 21 July.

For those who are unaware, MultiChoice and Canal+ have a bit of an overlap in certain African markets particularly Ghana, Liberia, Niger and Rwanda. In these markets, MultiChoice caters for English audiences and relied on Canal+ to serve the French as part of an add-on.

Think of DStv Indian and Portuguese packages in South Africa that's what Canal+'s offering comprise of within DStv. Of course, the reasoning of this transaction remains anonymous and if I had to guess it likely has to do Canal+'s ongoing transaction for MultiChoice.

If Canal+ is able to gobble up MultiChoice, I can imagine some of the local content seen on these brands particularly with A+ surface on Africa Magic. For sometime, Canal+ had been dubbing and distributing content from M-Net to audiences in Francophone Africa.