Blue Ant tells secrets at Mipcom

Blue Ant International is gearing up for Mipcom with an expanded acquisition slate of more than 90 hours of HD and 4K factual entertainment, lifestyle and wildlife programming.

Amanda Holden

The distribution arm of Canada’s Blue Ant Media is heading to Cannes with six-part series I’ve Got Something To Tell You (6×60’ HD), from UKTV and produced by Zig Zag Productions.

The series, hosted by UK TV presenter Amanda Holden, is set in a purpose-built contemporary tea room rigged with cameras to capture ordinary people with extraordinary life stories.

Other primetime series include Collision Course (6×60’ HD Reelz) from Muse Entertainment, How The World Ends (6×60’ HD American Heroes Channel & T+E) from CMJ Productions II and National Parks Secrets and Legends (12×30’HD – Travel Channel US & T+E) from Galafilm.

Also making debuts are native UHD originals Wild Rockies (5×60’ 4K), Reef Wrecks (5×60’ 4K), Africa’s Underwater Wonders (5×60’ 4K) and four returning series, Great Blue Wild (8×60’ 4K), Hope For Wildlife (13×60’ 4K), Africa’s Wild Horizons (5×60’ 4K) and Wildlife Icons (6×60’4K).

Blue Ant International has also secured the latest originals slate from US television network FidoTV. Among the titles acquired are Which Woof’s For Me? (6×30’ HD) and Wolf Daddy (6×30’ HD). Factual entertainment series Make It Big, Make It Small (7×30’ HD) also joins the catalogue.