- Bomanbridge Media has sold Sinking Ship Entertainment’s live-action preschool series Dino Dex (13 x 22 minutes) and Odd Squad UK (12 x 22 minutes) to key broadcasters in Asia. Japan’s NHK and Hong Kong SVOD NOW TV have bought both series, while Chinese streamer Youku and Thai PBS have picked up just Dino Dex.
- Omens Studios’ Leo the Wildlife Ranger season three (80 x seven minutes) has been acquired by beIN Media Group (Middle East and North Africa), Globo (Brazil) and AMC Networks’ preschool channel JimJam (Central and Northern Europe). Plus beIN has picked up a second season of Paula & Pals (65 x seven minutes) and seasons five, six and seven of Counting with Paula (100 x 11 minutes).
- The Pokémon Company has partnered with Japan’s Boy Scouts branch to launch a training program that will span the country’s 47 prefectures. Running until June 2026, “Aim to Be a Pokémon Trainer!” takes participants through six outdoor missions, from foraging for berries, to making paths in the wilderness, to rescuing several Pokémon that are stuck on a cliff.