International production studio, rights business and channel operator, Blue Ant Media has announced, at APOS, that it has expanded its partnership with Foxtel with the launch of HauntTV and Love Pets as linear channels on iQ4 and above (IP only), plus companion across all VOD services, which are now available to Foxtel’s subscribers. The deal grows Blue Ant Media’s existing partnership with Foxtel and adds to the natural history content it provides to the platform via the NatureTime brand.
“These recent launches have significantly expanded the reach of our curated pets and paranormal programming on Love Pets and HauntTV to Foxtel’s audience,” says Jon Penn, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Blue Ant Media. “The channels and content included in this deal exemplify Blue Ant Media’s agility and solutions-based approach to offering great content for our partners across all platforms in the Asia Pacific region.”
On HauntTV, a channel dedicated to paranormal themed programming, highlights include: Haunted Case Files (13 × 60’), which follows ghost hunters and mediums as they relive their most terrifying encounters with spirits and other unknown entities; Hotel Paranormal (20 x 60’), a fan-favorite series, narrated by renowned comic actor and paranormal believer, Dan Aykroyd, about real-life stories of otherworldly run-ins at hotels; Eli Roth Presents: A Ghost Ruined my Life (16 x 60’), starring modern master of horror, Eli Roth, as he takes audiences through modern-day true stories of victims haunted and hunted by spirits; and Scariest Night of my Life (13 x 60’), which reveals some of the most terrifying stories imaginable, as ordinary people recount truly frightening supernatural encounters.
Love Pets features heartfelt stories about the animals and pets in our lives. Channel highlights on Foxtel include: The Bizarre Pet Vets (6 x 45’), about a team of Australian vets who use their expertise to treat bizarre pets, but beloved pets, of people in the community; Hope for Wildlife Seasons 1 – 10 (137 x 60’), which follows animal conservationist Hope Swinimer and her team of animal loving vets who take care and rehabilitate all kinds of wild animals from baby deer to wounded birds of prey; and Work on the Wild Side (20 x 60’) a documentary series following the highs and lows of vets and volunteers who have given up their day jobs in the UK to move to South Africa to help rescue, rehabilitate and release back into the wild iconic animals.
