Blue Ant Unveils MIPCOM Highlights

NEW YORK: Blue Ant International plans to present its largest slate of series and documentaries to date, including more than 600 hours of new programming, to international buyers in Cannes.

Blue Ant and Anaid Productions have inked an exclusive deal that sees the distributor representing its slate of 200-plus hours. Top titles from Anaid include the long-running show The Liquidator and reality series Hail Mary. Following Blue Ant’s recent production and distribution output agreement, CMJ Productions titles include Boogeymen, Bad Trip and Home Made.

Blue Ant has also snapped up Showtime’s documentary The Mind of Mark DeFriest, produced by DeFriest Project. The company signed new distribution deals with Pyramid Productions for a slew of content that includes the feature-length docs The Salvation of Todd Bentley and Goalie: Life in the Crease. Spotlight Productions, another new producer to Blue Ant’s catalog, adds the hit food series Good Taste: Chinese and Good Taste: South Asian.

Other titles on Blue Ant’s MIPCOM slate include new UHD wildlife and nature programming from Plimsoll Productions, including the 4K series The Big Dry, Guardians of the Wild and Tales from Zambia.

“Our core priorities are to continue to partner with premium international content creators, which is evident by our robust and expanding slate launching at MIPCOM,” said Solange Attwood, the senior VP of Blue Ant International.

Additional highlights from the company include Collision Course, spotlighting the scene of a car accident involving a celebrity; How the World Ends, which examines an impending timeline to global destruction; and I’ve Got Something to Tell You, a brand-new show in which ordinary people with extraordinary stories have conversations that often involve confessions.

“These series are entertaining, relevant, relatable and highly promotable, across genres that have a track record of performing extremely well,” added Attwood. “With a mix of compelling and authentic stories of everyday people, confessional series as well as A-list celebrities in action-packed car-crash reenactments, these series all have universal appeal for our global buyers.”