Bomanbridge Closes Slew of Deals Heading into MIPCOM

Bomanbridge Media has secured a raft of sales for over 300 hours of programming, including Delicacy Hunter, which is set to bow in Asia and Australia.

Nat Geo People Asia and SBS Australia have both taken further seasons of the series, a food-adventure show starring chef Jamie Wilbow that travels along the Silk Road celebrating diversity and good food. Nat Geo will premiere season two of Delicacy Hunter on November 6, and SBS is set to debut the series on December 4.

Foxtel has acquired the food and travel series Paul Goes to Hollywood—financed by Bomanbridge Media and produced by Denham productions—which is set to premiere on UKTV’s Good Food on November 25. SBS Australia and Fox Netherlands also clenched deals, both picking up the ten-parter Donal Skehan’s Asian Baking Adventures.

In Asia, BBC Worldwide will air Extraordinary Places To Eat, along with Network 18 in India. Discovery Asia and Network 18 India will bring the creative antics of Bill Bensley’s boutique hotel design to audiences in the series Designing Paradise.

Further sales announcements include Sony Animax Asia, which snatched the latest seasons of the Yokai-Watch and Yokai Watch Shadow Side franchise, both LEVEL-5 abby originals.

Lastly, Smighties, for kids aged 4 to 7 and produced by Herotainment, has seen over 30 million unique viewers on Youtube and has found a home with Korea Telecom (KT) in South Korea.

Sonia Fleck, CEO of Bomanbridge Media, said, “We are thrilled to be announcing these exciting sales from Bomanbridge’s ever-increasing content offering and look forward to the high-energy conversations around our MIPCOM slate this year. It is exciting to launch Paul Hollywood’s series Paul Goes To Hollywood, where we get to see Paul with food and motorcycles on the open roads of America, and good-spirited talks with celebrities such as Teri Hatcher (Desperate Housewives) and Lisa Kudrow (Friends). Further, not only have we felt the success of our food and travel series, but our factual and kids content have really taken off and continue to bring in more audiences.”