Warner Bros Discovery’s Cartoonito, HBO Max take Octonauts to Latin America

Octonauts was originally made for CBeebies in the UK

Warner Bros Discovery’s preschool channel Cartoonito and streaming platform HBO Max have secured the rights to animated series Octonauts in Latin America.

Produced by UK-based Silvergate Media, seasons one to three of Octonauts will be available to watch on Cartoonito and HBO Max in Latin Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese later this year.

Silvergate will also launch local-language Octonauts YouTube channels in the region and is planning a consumer products programme with Moose Toys for launch in Mexico in 2022, with a wider Lat Am roll-out in 2023.

Based on the books by Vicki Wong and Michael C Murphy, Octonauts follows an underwater exploring crew made up of anthropomorphic animals. It was originally produced for BBC preschool channel CBeebies.