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Go Button Media strikes content deal with Off the Fence, Super Channel
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Go Button Media strikes content deal with Off the Fence, Super Channel

Toronto-based prodco Go Button Media is extending its partnership with international distributor Off the Fence (OTF) and Canadian pay-TV network Super Channel with a new deal that will see Go Button deliver six further factual series over a two-year period.

The deal follows on from the success that OTF and Super Channel enjoyed with Go Button’s recent factual title, the WWII docuseries Forgotten Frontlines. Under the terms of the agreement, Go Button will produce six series (totaling 36 hours of content) across the unscripted genres that it specializes in, including history, paranormal, engineering and science.

“Super Channel has long been a supporter of Go Button’s projects, and we are elated to be making new programs for its audience on our home turf, said Go Button Media co-founder and executive producer Daniel Oron (pictured). “In addition, following a previous project, we are especially thrilled to extend and deepen our relationship with Off the Fence, creating a range of new factual content for this dynamic company to take to broadcasters and platforms around the world.”

“Forgotten Frontlines worked very well for us last year, so we are now keen to replicate and scale that success across our key content pillars of ‘Yesterday, ‘Today’ and ‘Tomorrow,” added OTF head of acquisitions Loren Baxter. “This new partnership, alongside Super Channel, will not only give us six new series to sell, but, as a commissioner, we also have a fantastic opportunity to work closely with Daniel and the team to marry Go Button’s creative ideas with our own market insights and ensure each series readily meets current international demand.”

By Andrew Tracy, Realscreen

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Canada’s Super Channel orders slate of factual content from Go Button Media
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Canada’s Super Channel orders slate of factual content from Go Button Media

Canadian pay TV network Super Channel has commissioned Toronto-based prodco Go Button Media to develop a slate of unscripted series.

The deal will see Go Button develop six series, comprising 36 hours of content from the areas of history, paranormal, engineering and science.

Go Button will produce the content – not linked to any specific titles, as yet – within a two-year period, with ZDF-owned Off the Fence handling international distribution.

It comes after Super Channel, Off the Fence and Go Button last year partnered on the six-part Second World War history series Forgotten Frontlines. More recently Super Channel aired Go Button’s six-part factual series Deadly Science.

Go Button, founded by showrunners Daniel Oron and Natasha Ryan, has been behind series such as Mysteries of the Ancient Dead, Secret Societies: In the Shadows and Secret Nazi Expeditions.

Loren Baxter, head of acquisitions at Off The Fence, said: “Forgotten Frontlines worked very well for us last year, so we are now keen to replicate and scale that success across our key content pillars of ‘yesterday,’ ‘today’ and ‘tomorrow.’

“This new partnership, alongside Super Channel, will not only give us six new series to sell but, as a commissioner, we also have a fantastic opportunity to work closely with Daniel and the team to marry Go Button’s creative ideas with our own market insights and ensure each series readily meets current international demand.”

Jackie Pardy, chief content officer at Super Channel, added: “Go Button Media has become one of our most valued suppliers of factual programming in recent years, so we had no hesitation in extending our relationship.”

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<em>Call Me Mother</em><strong>’s Dallas Dixon Dishes On Season 2 & The Power Of Drag</strong>
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Call Me Mother’s Dallas Dixon Dishes On Season 2 & The Power Of Drag

Speaking with PRIDE the host teases working with drag icons and which queen he’d like to call mother.

Hosting Call Me Mother is a perfect gig for Dallas Dixon, who has returned for the sophomore season of the drag reality TV competition series. For one thing, he’s a lifelong fan of the art of drag, who fondly recalls escaping his small town to go visit drag shows in Toronto, where he found himself fascinated by the artistry on display. But it also takes a lot of charisma and energy to stand out among a group of drag queens, but fortunately Dallas has a seemingly endless supply of both.

For those initiated with the OutTV series, up-and-coming drag queens and kings compete for the title of “First Child of Drag”, but to do so they first have to earn their spot in one of the drag houses led by three icons of drag: Peppermint (House of Dulcet), Crystal (House of Glass), and Barbada de Barbades (House of Harmonie), who each mentor the queens they select to join their families.

Read more on Pride.com.

 

Watch the First 15 Minutes of Call Me Mother Season 2
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Watch the First 15 Minutes of Call Me Mother Season 2

The first 15 min of Call Me Mother season two are here, and we couldn’t be more excited about this upcoming cycle!

Just like the first season, Call Me Mother will once again feature Crystal as the mother of the House of Glass, Barbada de Barbades as the mother of the House of Harmonie, and Peppermint as the mother of the House of Dulcet.

Crystal describes the House of Glass as “fashion, subversion, punky aesthetics. The perfect Venn diagram of hot, dangerous, and sweaty.” Barbades wants her drag children in the House of Harmonie “to become amazing superstars.” While Peppermint believes that the House of Dulcet is all about “art, activism, and compassion.”

The first step on Call Me Mother season two is the audition process, which consists of three phases: Look (where the mothers watch the contestants walk the showcase in their best drag fashion), Talent (where the contestants must perform a talent show number), and Tea (where the contestants plea their cases to the mothers and explain why they deserve a spot in the competition). During each of these phases, a few auditioners will be adopted into the three different houses on the show… but some drag artists won’t make it past this first round of the competition.

You can watch the exclusive first 15 minutes of Call Me Mother season two below.

Read more on out.com.

Deadly Science - The 2022 MIPCOM Shopper’s Guide
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Deadly Science - The 2022 MIPCOM Shopper’s Guide

Before MIPCOM kicks off in Cannes next Monday (October 17), Realscreen is presenting an all-week round-up of new non-fiction and unscripted titles that distributors will present at the French Riviera.

Deadly Science spotlights inventors, scientists and explorers throughout history who put their own lives on the line to advance human knowledge and achievement, and in some cases paid the ultimate price. Using archive, CGI, historical reenactments and expert interviews, the series profiles such “martyrs of the mind” as the 16th-century Spanish physician Michael Servetus, mountaineer George Mallory, physicist Marie Curie and ape researcher Dian Fossey.

Go Button Media and Autentic are production partners on the series, which is available in both German and English. Pre-sales have already been made to Curiosity, Superchannel and Spiegel Geschichte.

By Andrew Tracy, Realscreen

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<em>Dragula</em> winner Landon Cider joins <em>Call Me Mother</em> season 2 as permanent judge
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Dragula winner Landon Cider joins Call Me Mother season 2 as permanent judge

The drag king boards the OutTV competition’s panel alongside season 1 mentor Farra N Hyte, the mother of RuPaul’s Drag Race star Brooke Lynn Hytes.

Daddy is headed to Call Me Mother.

EW can exclusively reveal that The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula season 3 winner and world-renowned drag king Landon Cider will join the cast of the show as a permanent mentor for season 2.

Cider will advise the contestants — the full roster of which EW exclusively revealed earlier this month — alongside returning mentor Farra N Hyte, the leader of the House of Hytes and drag mother to RuPaul’s Drag Race season 11 runner-up and Canada’s Drag Race host Brooke Lynn Hytes.

Landon and Farra will oversee the drag kings, queens, and nonbinary artists as they navigate weekly challenges and performances among the houses of the show’s resident mothers: RuPaul’s Drag Race UK star Crystal, RuPaul’s Drag Race season 9 star Miss Peppermint, and drag legend Barbada de Barbades.

“As a fan of Call Me Mother season 1, I’m incredibly honored to bring a kingly perspective to the judging panel this season, and to share this experience with the beautifully talented Farra N Hyte,” Landon said in a statement. “I can’t wait for you all to see these creative artists grow on and off the competitive stage.”

Read more on Entertainment Weekly.