The animated preschool series “Peg + Cat” will premiere Monday, October 7 on PBS Kids.

DMCI partners with Nick Jr. for a new short form musical series, “Play Along with Sam,” featuring ex-Wiggle Sam Moran.

The Hollywood Post Alliance issues a call for entries for the 8th Annual HPA Awards, taking place November 7th at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, CA.

The live-action/animated feature film, “Cody the Robosapien,” heads to DVD June 25 from Anchor Bay Entertainment.

Cartoon Network announces an all new DVD, “Ben 10 Omniverse: Heroes Rise,” available July 9.

Evolution creates a licensing program for Metro Train Melbourne’s “Dumb Ways to Die.”

RODEO FX appoints Audrey Boivin to the position of advertising department producer.

Virgin Produced teams up with Overbook Entertainment to support the “After Earth” franchise.

The Annecy International Animation Festival announces this year’s lineup of professional conference panels.

Twentieth Century Fox releases a new teaser trailer for the highly-anticipated “Rio 2.”

Saban Brands appoints Jack Sorsen president of The Playforge, the company’s San Francisco-based mobile social games division.

“Sofia the First” season premiere June 10 kicks off Disney Junior’s multi-platform summer event, Pirate and Princess Programming.

Blacklist director, Flying V, wins ADC Gold Award for Havas Worldwide’s new title sequence.

Imagineer Systems teams up with CoreMelt to release SliceX powered by mocha, a new Final Cut Pro X masking plug-in.

Right Stuf signs a DVD distribution deal with Sunrise for “Mobile Suit Gundam UC (Unicorn).”

oston FIG announces Robin Hunicke, executive producer of the award-winning downloadable game Journey on Sony’s PlayStation Network, as the keynote speaker.

Psyop partners with David and Goliath to create the imaginative campaign, “More Luck For Your Buck” for the California Lottery’s Fortune 55 Scratchers game.

e-on announces the availability of LumenRT 4.1 Studio, which features extended capabilities for large microstation models and Revit.

Universal Pictures debuts the first trailer for “Riddick,” the upcoming epic action-adventure starring Vin Diesel and written and directed by David Twohy.

Chaos Group announces the open beta for V-Ray 1.6 for SketchUp with significant enhancements to rendering speed, workflow, visualization and lighting features.