Bomanbridge sells Dino Dana, Toad & Friends to wide-ranging Asian nets

Michela Luci in children’s series Dino Dana

Japanese public broadcaster NHK, Indonesia’s Mentari TV and Hong Kong’s PCCW have each acquired multiple seasons of Sinking Ship-produced Canadian kids’ series Dino Dana.

NHK picked up seasons two and three of the series, while Mentari TV acquired seasons one through four and PCCW licensed the first two seasons in addition to the Dino Dana movie.

These are among a raft of deals secured by Singapore-based distributor Bomanbridge Media, which handles international sales of the shows.

PCCW also acquired Toad & Friends and Cloudbabies, both produced by Hoho Entertainment, as well as season one of preschool series Odo, produced by Sixteen South, and Treehouse Detectives, which was produced by Sunwoo for Netflix.

Good TV in Taiwan and the Philippines picked up Toad & Friends, while in Thailand, True Visions picked up Odo, and TPBS picked up seasons three and four of Paw Patrol.

Elsewhere, CNN in the Philippines acquired 20-part series Box Ideas (Earth Tree), adventure series The World is Yours and animal talkshow Human Nature, while Malaysia’s Media Prima licensed Booba’s Adventures and Mentari TV also picked up 190 episodes of long-running Japanese 2D animation series Shimajiro.