Odd Squad adds up for BBC, Discovery

Live-action comedy maths series Odd Squad

The UK’s BBC and Discovery in Latin America are among the broadcasters to have picked up the latest series of Sinking Ship Entertainment’s live-action children’s series Odd Squad.

Brazilian broadcaster Globo’s kids’ network Gloob and Hop in Israel have also acquired season two. ABC in Australia licensed S2 at the end of last year.

TRT in Turkey and Belgian public broadcaster RTBF have taken S1 of the show, which is coproduced by Canada-based Sinking Ship and The Fred Rogers Company for PBS and TVO in Canada.

Odd Squad is a live-action comedy maths series about child agents who work for a secret government agency run by kids.

Sinking Ship’s distribution team have also sold Imagine Create Media’s preschool series Scout & the Gumboot Kids to new US SVoD service Kidstream.