Category: Press

  • Powerful Fall/Winter Slate of documentaries for MIPCOM 2024

    Autentic Distribution proudly unveils its exciting new fall/winter lineup for MIPCOM, offering over 100 brand-new hours of documentaries and factual series spanning a variety of genres. The new catalogue features hard-hitting current affairs, captivating explorations of nature and wildlife, fascinating history, and in-depth arts and lifestyle stories. With several flagship productions from Autentic Studios, the new slate promises to captivate audiences worldwide. 

    History: Allure of Legendary Destinations and Social Hotspots 
    Adding to the lineup, Deadly Science II (6 × 52′), produced by Go Button Media with Autentic Studios, unearths the human costs behind major scientific breakthroughs, revealing how innovation throughout history often came at a steep price. 

    Science & Technology: Exploring Innovation and Human Perception 
    Titans of Defense (6 × 52′) produced by Go Button Media with Autentic Studios, ventures into the high-tech realm of military innovation, revealing the world’s most advanced and powerful technologies, from supersonic aircraft to state-of-the-art drones and cutting-edge defense systems. 

    Read more at Prensario International

    Cineflix Rights has unveiled its MIPCOM 2024 factual slate, spanning new lifestyle, renovation and food and travel franchises; blue-chip history and science documentaries; and new seasons of hit brands.

    Alien Corridors (Go Button Media for Super Channel and Hearst Networks) examines the world’s hotspots of intergalactic visitation.

    Read more at World Screen

  • 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

    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

  • Off the Fence Closes History Slate Sales

    Off the Fence Closes History Slate Sales

    The international distribution arm of the factual content specialist Off the Fence (OTF) has closed a string of sales with broadcasters and platforms around the world for its history-based catalog.

    ZDFinfo and Sky Germany have acquired Cursed Histories, which is the second project to be launched internationally from OTF’s six-series factual partnership with Canada’s Super Channel and Go Button Media. The series explores puzzling and unnerving locations, icons and events that are seemingly cursed.

    Read more at Worldscreen.com.

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

    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

    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.