German producer, distributor and FAST channel operator Autentic and Canada’s Super Channel have commissioned a factual series called Colossal Weapons from Toronto-based Go Button Media, in addition to a second season of Deadly Science.
Colossal Weapons is a six-part series exploring the technological developments that have propelled wartime success. Using exclusive archival footage, 4K CGI and expert interviews, the series travels the world to explore its most striking weaponry, war machines and combat technology, observing the engineering found under the hood and how it measures up against competition in the field.
Deadly Science, meanwhile, explores the work of the innovators and incredible minds that have pursued progress, at any price. Each episode brings together three stories of people in a similar field, who lost their lives in the name of scientific advancement.
The second 6×60’ season features Rosalind Franklin, who discovered DNA’s double helix and used X-ray diffraction to capture it on camera, but then later succumbed to ovarian cancer from the radiation; Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who discovered seven new chemical elements, unaware that some, like cyanide and arsenic, came with deadly side effects; and American industrialist William Bullock, who died of gangrene after having his legs crushed by the machine that made the mass printing of newspapers possible for the very first time.
Both series will deliver in 2024, with international distribution, excluding Canada, handled by Autentic Distribution.
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