Canadian conglomerate, Blue Ant Media has scored sales of some 550 hours of programming to Asia Pacific broadcasters, it was revealed at Singapore’s Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF). Content was sourced from across Blue Ant’s portfolio companies.
In Southeast Asia, Taiwan and Hong Kong, Warner Bros. Discovery picked up Hudson Yang’s food show, “Order Up!” (8 x 60’; Beach House Pictures) for Asian Food Network and bridal shop-based “Bollywed” (10 x 30’; HeartHat Entertainment) for Discovery Asia channel.
In India, Warner Bros. Discovery has licensed natural history content for Animal Planet, including “Chasing the Rains” (4 x 60’; Maramedia); “Africa’s Wild Year” (4 x 60’; Merx International); “New Kids in the Wild” (5 x 60’; Season 1; Off the Fence); and “Big Cat Country” (6 x 60’; Plimsoll Productions). Also licensing natural history programming was Korean Broadcasting System including “Woodpeckers: The Hole Story” (1 x 60’; Coneflower Studios); “Great Elephant Tale” (1 x 60’; Merx International); and “Baboons: Rules of the Troop” (1 x 60’; Merx International).
TrueVisions in Thailand has picked up factual entertainment and history series including “Ice Vikings” (8 x 60’; Farpoint Films); “Deep Water Salvage” (10 x 60; Season 1; Renowned Films and Saloon Media); and “Searching for Secrets” (6 x 60’; Bigger Bang and Saloon Media). PCCW Media, from Hong Kong, will air two seasons of “All-Round Champion” (22 x 60’; Season 3 and 4; marblemedia).
Singapore’s Mediacorp picked up “Uptown Otters” (6 x 60’; Beach House Pictures); “World’s Deadliest Weather” (6×60’; back2back); as well as “Order Up!”
SBS in Australia will air some 60 hours of content including “Order Up!”; travel adventure series “Scotland’s Scenic Railways” (6 x 60’; Flint TV); “Britain’s Most Luxurious Train Journeys” (4 x 60; Candour Productions); and three seasons of “Flat Out Food” (19 x 30; Seasons 1-3; HalterMedia).
The Foxtel Group picked up more than 75 hours of programming including documentary “Born to Be King” (1 x 60’; Touchdown Films); and “World’s Deadliest Weather.” Nine Network Australia licensed Seasons 6 to 9 of “See No Evil” (80 x 60’; Arrow Media and Saloon Media).
Television New Zealand will air docu-series “Casey Anthony: Where the Truth Lies” (3 x 60’; Blue Ant Studios); Seasons 1 and 2 of “Deep Water Salvage”; and three seasons of “Gone Fishing” (18 x 30’; Owl Power TV).
Whakaata Māori, New Zealand’s national indigenous broadcaster, has licensed more than 55 hours of programming including “Into the Blue: The Wonders of the Coral Triangle” (8 x 60’; Zona Mixta); “Merchants of the Wild” (13 x 30; Season 4, Buck Productions and Little Bear, Big Wolf Pictures); “Anyone’s Game” (6 x 30’; BestCrosses Media & Game Seven Media); and Season 1 of “Cracking the Code” (8 x 60; Blink Films).
Donovan Chan, co-chief and creative director of Blue Ant Media’s Singapore-based Beach House Pictures recently spoke with PvNew about Asian TV production.
