Blue Ant International Shores Up Sales Across AsiaPac

Blue Ant International has sold more than 600 hours of 4K and HD content across the Asia-Pacific region.

Blue Ant International licensed more than 25 hours of programming to Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific. In India, Discovery prebought the rights to the natural-history series Deadly Australians (Wildbear Productions), Wild Survivors (Plimsoll Productions), Untamed Valley (Plimsoll Productions) and the lifestyle series I’ve Got Something to Tell You (Zig Zag Productions for UKTV).

National Geographic Channels International (Asia) acquired two returning lifestyle series, including What’s for Sale? With a View (season two, Blue Ant Media). National Geographic Channels International also picked up the second season of Fish of the Day (Wild Film).

The company secured an agreement in Hong Kong with VuiTV for 100-plus hours of content. Highlights covered in this package include Cream Productions’ Murder U, a crime and investigation series depicting reenactments of grizzly crime scenes and student body slayings that scandalized campuses, as well as the documentary How We Got Gay (madHIVE Media for CBC).

In the kids’ space, the first season of MAKE IT BIG, make it small went to Mediacorp in Singapore and TVB in Hong Kong. Blue Ant International also sold the paranormal series Evil Encounters (Cream Productions for T+E) and the food competition show Home Chef to Pro Chef (Our House Media for Makeful) to TrueVisions in Thailand.

“Blue Ant International has rapidly expanded its reach across Asia Pacific by securing and effectively windowing sales for content creators across all platforms,” said Solange Attwood, the senior VP at Blue Ant International. “We’ve experienced growth in Hong Kong, India, Mainland China, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam through a diversity of deal flow, including traditional licensing, presales and output deals, with the underlying goal of delivering best-in-class customer service.”