Octonauts re-embark at BBC

The BBC has picked up a fourth season of preschool series Octonauts from UK-based Silvergate Media to air on its CBeebies channel.

The latest season of the undersea adventure toon, set to air in 2015, will consist of 24×11’ episodes and two specials.

The BBC was the first broadcaster to air Octonauts, launching the first series on preschool channel CBeebies in October 2010. The show has been broadcast continuously on the network since then, frequently topping the CBeebies ratings and the BBC iPlayer chart.

Octonauts was one of four brands chosen by CBeebies to feature on the channel’s first mobile app, CBeebies Playtime. Playtime launched in August 2013 and was downloaded over a million times during the first six weeks of release.

The show has so far been broadcast in more than 100 countries and was taken into Central and Eastern Europe and South Korea last October.