BBC Worldwide in partnership with Regional Wine Taster,  Bike Odyssey and Ramapithecus Corp has sold On Hannibal’s Trail to the National Geographic channel. The series will be aired on National Geographic’s Asia, Middle East and Oceania feeds which broadcast to these countries:

 

Australia

Bahrain

Gaza Strip (not recognized)

Egypt

Hong Kong

India

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Iraqi Kurdistan (not fully sovereign)

Israel

Jordan

Kuwait

Lebanon

Macau

Malaysia

New Zealand

Northern Cyprus (not recognized)

Oman

Pakistan

Palestinian Authority (not fully sovereign)

Philippines

Qatar

Singapore

Saudi Arabia

Sri Lanka

Syria

Taiwan

Thailand

Turkey

United Arab Emirates

Yemen

 

A potential audience of well over 2 billion – although nowhere near that many have access to the National Geographic channel of course.

 

We have no scheduling information as yet but will post that as soon as we find out.

 

Well done to Manoj and his team at Optimum, we look forward to another wave of rude emails but from outside the UK this time at least!