Portfolio Entertainment has closed deals in Russia and the U.S. for lifestyle and children’s programming including Cowboy Country, Know Limits and Groundling Marsh.

The Toronto company has passed four titles to Russia’s Red Media Group, which took Cowboy Country and Know Limits along with the lifestyles Chef at Home (53 x 30) and French Food at Home (26 x 30).

In the U.S., digicaster Lifeskool has bought the on-demand rights for Spellz — a 52 x 15 about magic tricks from GAPC Entertainment — and Ruffus the Dog (26 x 15), a preschool puppet show from Radical Sheep Productions. Meanwhile, regional cable outfit Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters has picked up Ruffus along with Radical Sheep’s Panda Bear Daycare (26 x 15) and YTV popular favorite Groundling Marsh (65 x 30).