Category: Press

By in , ,

Go Button strikes slate deal with Autentic and Super Channel for new series

Toronto-based prodco Go Button Media has struck a new slate deal with factual distributor and producer Autentic and Super Channel, Go Button’s long-standing Canadian broadcast partner, for the delivery of six series, each six hours long, over the next three years.

According to a release announcing the deal, the agreement is intended to encourage cost efficiencies in production and operations while ensuring that the budget stays on screen, guaranteeing an effective and creative pipeline for all three partners. The deal will leverage Go Button’s expertise in producing science, wildlife, history and engineering content while also capitalizing on Autentic’s experience in both the editorial development and international distribution of factual content. 

The first greenlit title under the deal is Secrets of Ancient Structures (pictured, 6 x 60 min.), which examines some of the most remarkable achievements by ancient civilizations, from huge medieval fortresses to deep crypts and catacombs. The series will seek to dispel myths and unravel mysteries by piecing together clues from modern science and ancient artifacts. 

Secrets of Ancient Structures will deliver in summer 2025, with Autentic handling international distribution outside of Canada.

Read more on Realscreen

ZDF Studios, Super Channel co-order space series from Go Button
By in , ,

ZDF Studios, Super Channel co-order space series from Go Button

Factual title Into the Universe: The Secrets of the Cosmos Uncovered marks Go Button's first commission from Germany's ZDF Studios.
ZDF - Into the Universe

German prodco and distributor ZDF Studios and Super Channel have
co-commissioned the factual series Into the Universe: The Secrets of the Cosmos Uncovered from Toronto’s Go Button Media.

The 8 x 52-minute series aims to unravel the mysteries of the universe, exploring perplexing questions with the help of astronomers, engineers, astrophysicists and philosophers, and marks Go Button’s first commission from ZDF Studios.

Utilizing expert commentary, cutting-edge science and CGI, the show will delve into cosmic conundrums that have puzzled brilliant minds for decades, covering topics such as the size and shape of the universe, supernovas, the origins of life on Earth and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. The series will be produced in 4K.

Read more on playbackonline.ca

Super Channel pushes Go Button docuseries about engineering, history and revolutions
By in , , , ,

Super Channel pushes Go Button docuseries about engineering, history and revolutions

Canadian pay TV network Super Channel has greenlit three factual series under its partnership with prodco Go Button Media and distributor Off The Fence.

The three series are part of the 36-hour, six-series deal the trio made earlier this year and are now in production.

Engineering Evolved (6×60′) focuses on the transportation technology that moves ships, cars, trains and submarines around the world and Cursed History (6×60′) explores the strange histories and legends of those who lived or died by a curse.

Finally, Revolutions that Changed the World (6×60′) examines the rise and fall of selected empires, monarchs and military leaders, many of whom learned the hard way that power is far from absolute and that allegiance is always conditional. Leaders examined include Spartacus, Queen Boudicca and Louis XVI.

Read more on c21media.net.

DCD Rights closes CEE sales
By in , , ,

DCD Rights closes CEE sales

Canal+ has acquired the rock doc Music, Money, Madness… Jimi Hendrix Live in Maui (1 x 91 min.) for the Czech Republic and Slovakia, while A+E Networks EMEA has licensed Secret Societies: In the Shadows  (6 x 60 min.) for Poland, Hungary and Romania.

Finally, Poland’s TV Spektrum has sprung for a package that includes series three of Secret Nazi Bases (6 x 60 min.), series seven and eight of Aussie Gold Hunters (40 x 60 min.) and the Gold Hunters spin-off Aussie Gold Hunters: Mine SOS (6 x 60 min.).

Read more on Realscreen.com.

WWII veteran's quest to find D-Day shipwreck and build a memorial to lost shipmates
By in , ,

WWII veteran's quest to find D-Day shipwreck and build a memorial to lost shipmates

EXCLUSIVE: Seventy years after she was sunk off the French coast in the wake of D-Day, a chance encounter launched an extraordinary project to locate the wreck of a British ship… and commemorate those who went down with her.

The 158-foot-long headquarters ship, one of thousands that set forth across the Channel, was part of the first wave heading for Sword Beach in Normandy.

“I had certain qualms in my stomach, but you very quickly dismissed that because you’re busy,” Patrick Thomas, now 98, recalls.

“When we arrived there initially, we didn’t get a very friendly welcome.

“The Germans were rattling machine gun bullets on the hull. I saw the infantry running up the beach and sometimes they’d get shot and go down.”

For the next two weeks, in the heat of battle, LCH185 played a key role in defending the landing beaches and saving survivors from other Allied vessels, which were taking a fearful pounding from relentless German attacks.

Then, on June 25, Patrick’s world changed forever when LCH185 was hit by an acoustic mine. The veteran recollects that cataclysmic moment.

“I didn’t hear the explosion, but it must have lifted the stern up and driven the bow under. The next thing I knew, we were underwater.”

Read the full article on Express.co.uk.