Blue Ant Media, a global streamer, production studio, and rights business, has announced, at World Congress of Science & Factual Producers, the greenlight of two returning fan-favorite series, Wildlife ER Season 4 and Boss Shark: Whale Hunter (w/t). The new greenlights offer contemporary, captivating natural history stories that showcase Blue Ant Media’s expertise and storytelling in the factual space. The commissions are overseen by Alison Barrat, SVP, Head of Content, Global Channels & Streaming, who now leads Blue Ant Media’s original commissions across the company’s diverse portfolio of factual channels and is attending the conference in Rio de Janeiro this week.
The titles will premiere on Blue Ant Media’s wildlife and nature brand, Love Nature, across linear and streaming channels available in countries around the world. Blue Ant Rights oversees pre-sales and licensing outside of commissioning territories.
“The World Congress of Science & Factual Producers, a forum that fosters excellence in factual storytelling, is the ideal place to debut these greenlights,” says Alison Barrat, SVP, Head of Content, Global Channels & Streaming. “These new series show Blue Ant’s commitment to delivering a broad range of natural history, which reflects our global commissioning strategy of investing in premium factual content that resonates with audiences around the world.”
The returning, original series include:
Wildlife ER Season 4 (6 x 60’)
Producer: WildBear Entertainment
Wildlife ER season 4 follows the passionate and highly skilled team of vets, vet nurses, and volunteers at the Currumbin Wildlife Hospital on Australia’s Gold Coast. From koalas battling chlamydia and piloting a groundbreaking vaccine program, to injured marine birds and rescued reptiles fighting their way back to the wild, each episode reveals the challenges, triumphs, and heartwarming recoveries behind the hospital’s doors. This intimate, uplifting series celebrates the people on the front lines of conservation and the remarkable resilience of the animals they care for.
Boss Shark: Whale Hunter (w/t) (1 x 60’)
Producer: WildBear Entertainment
Dr. Riley Elliott is on a mission to uncover a previously unrecognized life stage of Great White sharks that sees them break free from their coastal hunting strategies to take on the largest animals on earth. Science has already established that as great whites grow, they transition through different sizes of prey. Younger and smaller great whites preferentially hunt fish, squid, and stingrays near the bottom of the water column. But as they grow larger, their energy demands multiply. They move their predatory focus onto seals and sea lions. These two life stages are well known. But Riley believes there’s a third stage – where the largest and most aggressive great whites metamorphose into whale hunters.
