Media I.M., the London-based content distribution company specializing in animation and family entertainment, has licensed several of its children’s animation brands to three of Eastern Europe’s leading broadcasters, it was announced today by company co-founders Maria Ufland and Irina Nazarenko.

In Media I.M.’s latest deal, Nickelodeon Russia has taken Robodz (15 x 11 mins), Studio Atria’s animated comedy about the everyday life of a gang of robots living on Mars, for broadcast in Russia, across the CIS and Baltic territories. The four-year deal, initiated during MIPCOM in October, covers 14 countries with the series planned to be on air in February 2015.

The Pooches — Melnitsa Animation Studio’s CGI animation about a family of lively and lovable dogs that has become one of Russia’s most popular evening children’s show will see Russia’s favorite dog family launch on m2 Hungary in 2015. The Hungarian public broadcaster has also acquired Pin-Code, Petersburg Animation Studio’s animated sci-fi series about a penguin inventor called Pin, which is a spin-off of the Kikoriki series and features all main characters first introduced in Kikoriki.

Serbian pay-TV broadcaster Ultra TV, meanwhile, has licensed Kikoriki New Adventures (52 x 11 mins), Pin-Code (51 x 13 mins) and also The Pooches (52 x 4.5 mins) for Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia. All three shows are slated to launch on Ultra TV this year.