Banijay Rights adds Balamory reboot to catalogue

Balamory is produced by Lion Television Scotland

NEWS BRIEF: Banijay Rights has acquired global distribution rights to BBC children’s series Balamory, which was rebooted earlier this year and recently renewed for two more seasons.

Under the deal, struck ahead of this week ’s Brand Licensing Europe in London, the company will handle licensing programme for consumer products, live events and digital exploitation, in addition to taking finished programme rights. The rebooted version is produced for BBC by Lion Television Scotland, part of Banijay Entertainment.