Doha, Qatar – Al Jazeera Children’s Channel (JCC) has acquired the rights to a selection of Disney’s popular kids and family content, including Disney and Disney/Pixar movies as well as Disney Channels’ live action and animated series. The Disney films and TV shows will offer audiences in the Middle East and North Africa a wide range of exciting entertainment. This new free TV agreement is in line with the company’s new content strategy and follows JCC’s recent children’s programming agreement with BBC Worldwide.

Through this deal, JCC will telecast popular acclaimed television shows like Phineas and Ferb, Kim Possible, Lilo and Stitch and Zeke and Luther. Baraem TV, JCC’s preschoolers channel, will feature popular titles like Handy Manny, Little Einsteins, and Jojo’s Circus. JCC will also feature popular animated films from Disney including A Bug’s Life, Toy Story, Cars and Tangled among others. All programmes will be dubbed into classical Arabic and will roll out in the coming months.

“Through this agreement, we at JCC look forward to enriching the first Arab children’s channel with a wide range of entertaining shows for our audience. In line with our child-centric strategy, we will continue to address the needs of Arab children and households by creating or acquiring content that is entertaining, culturally appropriate and supports their learning and development,” said Haya bint Khalifa Al Nassr, JCC’s Board Member, Acting Executive General Manager.