Corus Entertainment and L.A.-based Bento Box Entertainment, the company behind Bob’s Burgers, have partnered to launch Bento Box Canada, a Toronto-based animation production company which will focus on developing and producing series targeting the 18-to-34 demographic.

The first animated series Bento Box Canada will put into production this fall is The Pandas, created by Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler. Bento Box Canada’s board of directors will include Bento Box Entertainment CEO Scott Greenberg, Nelvana president Scott Dyer and Colin Bohm, EVP and head of Corus Kids.

The launch of Bento Box Canada comes about a year after Corus and Bento Box Entertainment signed a multi-year co-development and coproduction deal to create a slate of original series for Teletoon. As part of this ongoing deal, the two companies will continue to develop and produce a slate of primetime animated series for Corus Entertainment’s channels, with Bento Box Entertainment handling international distribution.

In other kids and animation news from MIPJunior, which ran from Oct. 3 to Oct. 4, Portfolio Entertainment announced it has inked the first set of international deals for its upcoming animated series Freaktown (52 x 11 minutes). The series, which is the first to be produced by Portfolio’s newly launched animation studio, was sold to Cartoon Network for Asia Pacific, Turner’s Kids Networks for Europe, Middle East and Africa, The Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia and ABC Australia. Freaktown was commissioned by Teletoon Canada, and will bow on the channel in 2016.

DHX Media also announced broadcast deals for for its upcoming 26 x 22 minute series, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: The Series, which it is coproducing with Sony Pictures Animation. The series has been sold to Turner Broadcasting for its kids channel Boomerang for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.