Blue Ant Media Reveals 550 Hours of Asia Pacific Sales at ATF

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.

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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 Variety about Asian TV production.

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