Blue Ant Media, the global streamer, production studio, and rights business, today announced a major new slate of original factual programming commissioned for its worldwide portfolio of Global Channels and Streaming brands.

The new and returning titles, which include productions from Blue Ant Studios, as well as leading independent production companies from around the world, will roll out across Blue Ant Media’s global channel brands, reaching audiences in more than 100 territories across PayTV and streaming platforms. The full slate is available for licensing in non-commissioning territories by Blue Ant Rights. The new programming, which spans science, mystery, space, history, wildlife and nature, includes: Space: The Ultimate Countdown, Super Humans, Season 2 of World’s Most Secret Places, Season 3 of Aussie Snake Wranglers: Deadly Pursuit, Scaling Oz, Ireland’s Wild Mountains, and Rise of the Swamp Cats.

“Our latest greenlights of new and returning series offer a variety of content genres across science, history, and wildlife, bolstering our investment in original productions for our portfolio of brands,” says Alison Barrat, SVP, Head of Content, Global Channels & Streaming, Blue Ant Media. “The lineup illustrates how we leverage Blue Ant’s integrated approach between our channels and rights businesses, allowing us to maximize the reach of our original commissions.”

The newly greenlit series include:

Space: The Ultimate Countdown (8 x 60)

Producer: Blue Ant Studios

International Rights: Blue Ant Rights

Space: The Ultimate Countdown is a high-energy series gives a top-ten ranking to organise, interrogate, and reframe the biggest stories in space. Space has always been told through milestones, missions, and moments of discovery. Each episode answers a key question about space exploration through an entertaining and interesting top ten countdown with each significant moment ranked for its scientific importance, historical consequence, or enduring mystery. A panel of astronomists, planetary scientists, engineers, and space historians argue the case for each entry, challenging established wisdom and offering new insights. Along the way, the series spans the wonders of the cosmos, the human drama and ingenuity of

the space race, and the scientific investigation of the Solar System and beyond.

Super Humans (8 x 60)

Producer: Blue Ant Studios

International Rights: Blue Ant Rights

Superhumans explores the most astonishing human achievements ever recorded. From Houdini’s impossible escapes and Evel Knievel’s death-defying jumps to Annie Edson Taylor’s plunge over Niagara Falls, Superhumans examines extraordinary individuals who pushed the limits of what the human body and mind can do and asks who pushed human limits the furthest? Through cinematic storytelling, archive, graphics, and expert analysis, the series reveals not just what happened, but how it was physically and psychologically possible. Scientists, engineers, and historians break each feat down step-by-step using physics, biomechanics, neuroscience, and survival science. Episodes explore a deeper understanding of the mechanics of human extremity such as training, physiology, instinct, environment, and sometimes pure chance.

World’s Most Secret Places Season 2 (8 x 60)

Producer: Blue Ant Studios

International Rights: Blue Ant Rights

The second season in this fascinating series unveils more hidden locations designed to operate outside of ordinary visibility and obscure political authority, classified technology, private wealth and military power. Season two of this investigative, fact-filled series will explore more of the world’s most protected places, including the Vatican’s secret archive, the Kremlin, MI6 headquarters, Air Force One. A specialized team of myth busting historians, engineers and security specialists to put together every clue they can find to reverse engineer these amazing places to sort fact from fiction and reveal  their secrets.

Aussie Snake Wranglers: Deadly Pursuit – Season 3 (12 x 30)

Producer: Breakout Productions

International Rights: Blue Ant Rights

The next installment of this fan favourite series delivers more deadly snakes, more crazy characters and even more heart-pounding captures in the deadly world of snake catching, where even the smallest mistake could have lethal consequences. Set against the backdrop of Queensland’s picturesque Sunshine Coast, a group of snake wranglers pit their wits against some of the most venomous snakes in the world. From eastern browns terrorizing suburban backyards to red-bellied black snakes infiltrating wall cavities, the fearless Aussie Snake Wranglers won’t stop until the snake is caught and relocated, even if that means putting their own lives on the line.

Scaling Oz (3 x 60)

Producer: Breakout Productions

International Rights: Blue Ant Rights

Slimy, sneaky, often deadly. The series aims to change the dubious reputation of reptiles. Episodes expose the misconceptions around Australia’s reptiles to reveal them as clever, caring and fascinating evolutionary survivors. In order to conquer Australia’s hostile habitats these resourceful creatures have evolved an astounding range of adaptations and behaviours, seen nowhere else on Earth. From caring crocodile mums, to wrestling snakes and lizards that pair up for life, this series unveils the truth about Australia’s cold-blooded creatures.

Ireland’s Wild Mountains (2 x 43’ non-hosted version; 3 x 60’ hosted version)

Producer: Crossing The Line Productions

Co-production partner: G.E.I.E. (for the version without host); RTÉ

International Rights: Blue Ant Rights

A follow-up to the award-winning series Ireland’s Wild Islands, Ireland’s Wild Mountains is a spectacular new documentary series exploring the wild secrets of the high mountains that stretch the length of Ireland’s western seaboard. From Ireland’s southern tip to its northernmost point at Malin Head, the series journeys across soaring summits, knife-edge ridges, and hidden valleys to reveal the mysterious wild worlds found throughout Ireland’s mountain realms. Folklore, history, and ancient Irish culture are woven through the stories of these remote uplands and the wild creatures that call these mountain sanctuaries home. Each episode reveals the wildlife and natural history that have shaped life in Ireland’s mountains over the last 10,000 years. Irish TV personality, Eoin Warner, returns to host the RTÉ version.

Rise of the Swamp Cats (2 x 60)

Producer: DocYard

Co-production partner: ARTE France

International Rights: Blue Ant Rights

This new beautifully shot, blue-chip series, takes viewers to a Botswanan wetland, to document a revolution in previously unseen lion behavior. Over three years, a camera team follow the lives of a huge, pioneering pride of almost 70 lions, living in a vast year-round swamp, and document cubs as young as eight months old joining the pride’s daily buffalo hunts. Eventually, the mega-pride splits, but two lion sisters, Neo and Nala, showcase their strong bond and collaborative tactics as they raise their cubs in this unprecedented swamp habitat. Amid a bounty of prey, never-before-seen footage gives viewers a ring-side seat as we see cubs turn from hapless newborns into natural born killers, younger than previously thought possible.

Blue Ant Media’s Global Channels and Streaming business owns and operates a diverse portfolio of media brands that engage audiences across all platforms — including free streaming, YouTube, AVOD, SVOD, and PayTV — delivering high-quality, evergreen content that resonates worldwide. Distributed in over 100 countries, our brands, including Love Nature, NatureTime, HauntTV, True Crime Now, Homeful, Makeful, Love Pets, Shockwave and MagellanTV, span a diverse array of universally loved genres including natural history, lifestyle, true crime, history and science, making Blue Ant a leading global provider of factual programming.