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Adventure awaits as Nickelodeon’s brand-new music-filled podcast, Dora’s Aventuras, launches today, Monday, Sept. 23. Preschoolers and their families can join iconic Latina heroine, Dora, and her best monkey pal, Boots, as they follow the sounds of the rainforest toward adventure, with help from familiar friends along the way. Featuring audio-based minigames, playful puzzles and catchy songs in both English and Spanish, Dora’s Aventuras follows Dora’s Recipe for Adventure as the second podcast based on the all-new CG-animated series, Dora.

Adapted from the fan-favorite Nick Jr. YouTube series, Dora’s Aventuras (10 episodes) will continue to roll out with one new episode each week following its premiere, wherever listeners get their podcasts, available in the Dora's Amazing Adventures feed. With more than 3 million views, Dora’s Aventuras is also a YouTube series on the “Dora & Friends” YouTube channel, home to 1.7 million subscribers.

The first two seasons of Dora are streaming now on Paramount+,...

Dora's age varied in different series, starting as a 7-year-old in the original and aging up to 10 in the sequel. Dora's height is a mystery, with speculations from a meme placing her between 5'1'' to 5'2'', but likely around 4 feet tall. In the live-action movie, Dora ages up to a teenager at 16 years old and is portrayed taller than in the cartoons.

Dora The Explorer is one of Nickelodeons best-loved shows, but the question of "how tall and how old is Dora" isn't easy to answer. Co-created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes, and Eric Weiner, the long-running series began back in 2000 when the original Dora The Explorer cartoon started airing on Nickelodeon. Since then, its spawned video games and books, a number of toy lines and several international versions alongside a sequel series and a live-action movie that have seen young Dora age somewhat.

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The upcoming live-action Dora the Explorer movie, Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado, will be released exclusively to stream on Paramount+. The first live-action Dora the Explorer movie, Dora and the Lost City Of Gold, was released in theaters in 2019 and made $120.5 million at the box office. Releasing the new live-action Dora movie exclusively on Paramount+ is a questionable move given the box office success of the first live-action movie.

The newest live-action Dora the Explorer movie is already making one big mistake based on the Nickelodeon franchise's 2019 box office hit. Per The Hollywood Reporter, a new live-action film adaptation of the beloved animated Nickelodeon series, Dora the Explorer, is in development under the working title, Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado. The film will follow Dora, played by You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah star Samantha Lorraine, and her cousin Diego as they search...

Exclusive: Tom Toumazis, a former Disney and Endemol Shine executive, is to become the non-executive chair of Snipple Group, the Philippines-based animation studio that has worked on series including Where’s Waldo? and Dora And Friends: Into the City!.

Toumazis’ appointment follows Deadline revealing in January that Snipple is launching an originals unit in the UK with £6M ($8.3M) of backing from investment firm Bgf. It already has a number of shows ready to take to market, including children’s titles Peeled Prawn & Shaved Sheep and comedy-action road trip series Trippin’.

Toumazis worked as the EVP and managing director for Emea and Canada of Disney ABC ESPN Television between 2001 and 2009, before going on to become the chief commercial officer of Endemol for more than two years. Other roles have taken him to Yahoo and LadBible. Toumazis is now a founder investor and chair of four start-ups from a variety of industries including TV data analytics,...

Exclusive: ICM Partners has signed Valerie Walsh Valdes and Leslie Valdes and will represent the couple, who co-created and executive produce Nick Jr.’s Santiago of the Seas, in all areas.

Valerie is most known for co-creating and executive producing Nickelodeon’s iconic children series Dora The Explorer. She has also served to co-create and executive produce spinoffs Go, Diego, Go and Dora And Friends. She is currently developing a reboot of Dora the Explorer.

As a showrunner, Valerie has produced more than 300 half hours of animated television, seen in over 150 countries, and translated into 30 languages. Additionally, she has won a Peabody Award for Outstanding Children’s Programming, multiple NAACP Image Awards, Imagen Awards and Parent’s Choice Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards.

Leslie kicked off his television professional career as a staff writer for Dora the Explorer. He also served as the head writer and producer of Disney Junior’s The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

Exclusive: Snipple, the Philippines-based animation studio that has worked on series including Where’s Waldo? and Dora And Friends: Into the City!, is launching an originals unit in the UK with £6M ($8M) of backing from investment firm Bgf.

London-based CEO Kaine Patel quietly hatched Snipple Originals last year, hiring veteran Karina Stanford-Smith as animation development director. Vincent James was brought on as creative director. The unit is now ready to announce itself to the world, with Bgf taking a minority stake.

Patel founded Snipple more than a decade ago and the move into originals represents the realization of a plan that he first mapped out in 2012. He has a long-standing relationship with former Zodiak Kids and Beano Studios producer Stanford-Smith, who has been engaged on a freelance basis by Snipple over the years.

“Animation is having a real moment and that has a lot to do with people being at home,...