EXCLUSIVE: Here’s word on the latest natural history series out of North America.
Blue Ant Media’s Canada-based companies Love Nature and Blue Ant Studios have teamed with the U.S.’s Big Media for Wild Science, a six-parter about the super-powered adaptations of Earth’s most-remarkable predators.
The natural history series will use CGI, recorded footage and an in-depth scientific zoological perspective to tell the story of how everything from deep-sea hunters to apex-land carnivores hunt, survive and dominate their ecosystems. Producers say it will blend “cinematic visuals with scientific storytelling to deliver a tech-forward, globally appealing wildlife series revealing never-before-seen animal behavior.”
Production is underway and taking place out of Big Media’s international studios in Prague, Czech Republic, and London, UK. Love Nature and Blue Ant Studios will co-produce and manage the distribution rights, bar in certain territories.
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Big Media and Blue Ant have previously done business through licensing agreements for the former’s Canadian-owned platforms and FAST channels.
“Blue Ant has been a consistent partner and champion of our content,” said Danny Wilk, Co-Founder & President of BIG Media. “With Wild Science, we’re not just delivering premium factual content – we’re doing it through our successful co-matrix model that continues to grow and reflects where this industry is heading. It’s a stunning, visually ambitious series that we believe will resonate with audiences and buyers worldwide.”
Blue Ant, which recently listed on the Toronto Stock Market after buying the unscripted TV assets of rival Boat Rocker Studios, is known for the likes of Netflix’s Blown Away and Drink Masters; Crave’s Canada’s Drag Race and Slaycation; Hulu and Prime Video series Davey and Jonesie’s Locker; the APTN, Nat Geo and Prime Vdeo series Northwoods Survival/Hard North; CBC’s Race Against the Tide, Roku’s Doomlands (Roku) and the upcoming animated preschool series Tralala, which is for CBC and Sky NZ). The company’s recent feature-length documentary for Prime Video, Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe, was awarded the Toronto International Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award for Best Documentary.
Blue Ant’s sister streamer and pay-TV wildlife channel, Love Nature, has offices offices in Los Angeles, London and Toronto. It focuses on natural history series and documentaries.
Big Media has offices in the U.S., U.K., Czech Republic, Germany, and India, and specializes in true crime, military and intelligence, history, science, and wildlife content production. The firm’s catalog spans more than 2,000 hours of programming and its scripted division, Big Films, focuses on feature films for global audiences.