DRG Adds More WildBear Titles to Catalog

DRG has expanded its relationship with Australia’s WildBear Entertainment through the acquisition of six new titles, including Baby Animals and Friends, which the distributor will represent at MIPCOM this year.

The 10×60-minute wildlife program Baby Animals and Friends looks at a range of baby animals from around the world, following their lives and behavior through the changing seasons. DRG also picked up In the Wild: Horses (2×60-minutes) and In the Wild: Return of the Dingo (1×60-minutes), about two of Australia’s most iconic animals, the wild horse and the dingo.

Other titles covered in the deal include the 8×60-minute history series Impossible Peace, which examines what went wrong after the Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919. Battles Won and Lost, meanwhile, offers a contemporary take on the pivotal moments that shaped World War II. There is also Power, a series about engineering that was produced for Discovery Italy and AB Droits Audiovisuels in France. DRG struck the deal with WildBear through its agent, Edwina Thring of Wild Thring Media.

Mette Kanne-Behrendsen, the senior VP, acquisitions consultant at DRG, commented, “The WildBear Entertainment programming in our catalog always sells well, so we are naturally delighted to have acquired six more titles. WildBear’s gorgeous and accessible wildlife and its compelling history titles, told with a new perspective and packed with extraordinary archive—from the British Movietone News Archive in the case of Impossible Peace—will undoubtedly be much in demand when we officially launch them at MIPCOM this year.”

Michael Tear, the CEO at WildBear Entertainment, remarked, “DRG continues to prove itself an excellent distribution partner. We receive lots of support and advice and there is always genuine enthusiasm when we mention new titles in development. On top of all that, the company does an excellent job of selling our programming, even when we have produced it without a commissioning broadcaster. Earlier Baby Animals series, for example, have sold to the likes of Nat Geo WILD and Netflix, and DRG has been instrumental in growing this title into a very strong and successful program brand.”