Breakthrough Inks Deals in the Asia Pacific

TORONTO: Breakthrough Entertainment has closed deals for more than 260 half-hours of programming, including the kids’ series Dino Dan and Think Big, throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific licensed the Breakthrough Entertainment children’s series Dino Dan and Think Big. Greatest Tank Battles secured new license deals with Discovery Japan and Creo Content in Korea. The factual-entertainment series The Re-Inventors was sold to RTB in Brunei. The one-hour documentary special Crackberry’d: The Truth About Information Overload sold to TVB in Hong Kong, and the animated series My Big Big Friend went to KTV in Korea.

Vietnam Television picked up the documentary series Future Revealed and Future Medicine. Breakthrough also licensed programs to True Vision in Thailand, including the one-hour documentaries Parkour Takes Vegas, China A Century of Humiliation and the Hollywood profile series Big Screen Top 10, Books Into Film, as well as Crackberry’d: The Truth About Information Overload, My Big Big Friend, The Mooh Brothers and The Truth About Shoplifting.

“Breakthrough Entertainment’s programming continues to resonate with buyers throughout Asia,” said Nat Abraham, the president of distribution at Breakthrough Entertainment. “We look forward to a successful ATF where we will have the opportunity to meet new broadcasters throughout the region.”