BBC Magazines to launch two overseas magazines

BBC Magazines is set to launch two overseas titles in Australia and Singapore during the next month.

In the Night Garden, a monthly magazine based around the pre-school TV series, will launch in Australia at the end of this month.

It will be the third title to be published by Park Publishing, the joint venture between Australian company ACP and BBC Worldwide, which already produces Australian Good Food and Top Gear.

The kids TV series is currently shown on ABC TV in Australia and secures around 30% of the audience share, according to BBC Worldwide.

BBC Magazines has also licensed the factual magazine BBC Knowledge to Regent Media, a publisher based in Singapore, which will launch the title across Asia next month.

BBC Knowledge, which mainly features science, nature and history content, draws on the existing group of factual titles produced by BBC Magazines, including Focus, BBC History Magazine and BBC Wildlife Magazine.

The factual title is also sold in the USA and Brazil.