TORONTO – Blue Ant International has sold over 600 hours of 4K and HD programming to several broadcasters in the Asia-Pacific region ahead of Asia Television Forum (ATF).
The distributor has licensed over 25 hours of programming to Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific. In India, Discovery pre-bought the rights to natural history series Deadly Australians, (4×60’4K + HD; Wildbear Productions), Wild Survivors (3×60’4K+HD; Plimsoll Productions), Untamed Valley (3×60’ 4K+HD; Plimsoll Productions – pictured) and lifestyle series I’ve Got Something To Tell You (6×60’HD; Zig Zag Productions for UKTV).
National Geographic Channels International (Asia) acquired returning lifestyle series What’s For Sale? With A View, Season 2 (13×30’HD; Blue Ant Media) and the second season of Fish of the Day (8×30’4K & HD; Wild Film Ltd), a series hosted by Clarke Gayford where he turns unique catch into enticing culinary creations.
Blue Ant International also finalized a deal in Hong Kong with VuiTV for over 100 hours of content including Cream Productions’ Murder U (6X60’HD) and high impact doc How We Got Gay (1×60’HD), produced by madHIVE Media for CBC.
In the kids category, the first season of MAKE IT BIG, make it small (7×60’HD) was sold to Mediacorp in Singapore and TVB in Hong Kong.
Rounding out key sales highlights in the Asia-Pacific market includes a deal made in Thailand to True Vision for paranormal series Evil Encounters (12×60’HD; Cream Productions for T+E) and food competition show Home Chef to Pro Chef (14×30’HD; Our House Media for Makeful).
“Blue Ant International has rapidly expanded its reach across Asia-Pacific by securing and effectively windowing sales for content creators across all platforms,” said SVP Solange Attwood, in the news release. “We’ve experienced growth in Hong Kong, India, Mainland China, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam through a diversity of deal flow including traditional licensing, pre-sales and output deals with the underlying goal of delivering best-in-class customer service.”
