Blue Ant International Refreshes Slate, Pacts with NHNZ

Blue Ant International is unveiling a refreshed slate this spring that includes over 60 hours of new content across its tent-pole categories, including high-impact documentary series, factual entertainment and specialist factual.

Highlights of the new slate include a second season of the award-winning docuseries Prison, season two of Rich Kids Go Homeless and Malawi Wildlife Rescue. Blue Ant International has also taken over distribution activity for 70-plus hours of premium, blue-chip programming from the global natural-history and factual production house NHNZ.

The NHNZ agreement bolsters Blue Ant International’s catalog of specialist-factual content with over 70 titles, including Extreme Animals, a series that takes a look at the most extreme personalities and behaviors in the animal kingdom; Inside the Pack, an inside look at the survival skills and power struggles within wild animal packs; Siberia’s Wild Year, which reveals the challenges animals face in Siberia’s unrelenting winter; seasons one and two of China From Above, which takes viewers on an exploration of China as never seen before; seasons one and two of World’s Deadliest, which reveals the struggle that species face every day just to survive; Wild Peru: Andes Battleground, an exploration of the fascinating animals that live in the country’s diverse habitats; and Mexico Untamed, a series that follows the extreme measures animals go to survive in the rugged landscapes of Mexico.

Additional specialist-factual series Blue Ant International is debuting this spring include Pridelands: Wilderness Reborn, which follows a family as they transform a derelict farm in South Africa into a sanctuary; Amazing Animal Friends, a look at unlikely animal friendships like a rhino and a lamb and an elephant who thinks she’s a buffalo; and a tenth season of Hope For Wildlife, featuring ten new episodes that follow wildlife advocate Hope Swinimer and her staff who rescue, rehabilitate and release thousands of animals each year.

Notable new documentary series include the second season of Prison. The second season shifts its focus from a men’s U.K.-based facility to HMP Foston Hall, a women’s prison, also in the U.K. Season two highlights the unique challenges incarcerated women face. Also joining this category is Hate Crime: Uncensored, a one-hour documentary revealing disturbing accounts of religious and racist hate crimes.

Blue Ant International is also presenting a new slate of diverse factual-entertainment series, including Ultimate Supercar, a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the design and engineering of the world’s most lust-worthy, luxury cars; season three of Best Cake Wins, which sees two cake masters compete to design confectionery delights based on a child’s own colorful drawings; season two of Coolest Places to Stay, a peek inside some of the most unique and charming short-term rentals; and season two of Expat, which takes viewers to exotic and legendary locations where expatriates are creating new lives for themselves.