Tag: engineering

  • Autentic, Go Button team for “Animal Within”

    Autentic, Go Button team for “Animal Within”

    Go Button Media secures Autentic commission 

    Germany’s Autentic has commissioned Toronto-headquartered indie Go Button Media to produce The Animal Within for its Spiegel TV Wissen channel.

    The 6 x 60-minute natural history series (pictured) investigates how animals can outperform “our wildest engineering dreams,” featuring CGI and interviews with experts such as engineers and biologists.

    Slated to premiere in December, The Animal Within is executive produced by Daniel Oron and Natasha Ryan for Go Button Media and Alexandra Böhm, head of international co-production at Autentic. It will premiere later this fall and will be distributed internationally (excluding in Canada) by Autentic Distribution.

    Read more on Realscreen.com

  • Go Button gets the go-ahead for The Animal Within

    Go Button gets the go-ahead for The Animal Within

    The six-part series signals the Toronto prodco’s first natural history title and commission for Germany’s Autentic.

    Toronto-based boutique production company Go Button Media has received its first natural history commission from German factual entertainment label Autentic.

    The Animal Within (6 x 60 minutes) is executive produced by the company’s leads Daniel Oron and Natasha Ryan alongside Autentic head of international co-production Alexandra Böhm.

    “The Animal Within travels the world to bring new insights to unexpected species that nature has been busy perfecting over the ages – from hippo chemists who manufacture their own sunscreen to ant architects who create complex structures. As humans, we think we have all the answers, but we will electrifyingly demonstrate that nature so often has the upper hand and can serve as the most experienced of teachers,” said executive producer and director Oron in a statement.

    Shot in 4K, the series blends natural history with CGI and science, examining how evolution has created “over-achievers in the animal world” and questions such as what biological “tech” enabled some species to survive massive extinction events.

    Experts featured include Robert Sparling, Kristin Rodrigo, Andrew Lewin, Emily Rondel, Peter Soroye and Jeremy McNeil.

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  • Phantom Signals premieres on Science Channel in October 2020

    Phantom Signals premieres on Science Channel in October 2020

    It’s time to understand the mysteries in frequency glitches on Phantom Signals

    A blip on the screen, Gremlins in the phone line. Most of the time, we ignore the signals around us that keep us connected, but what happens when there’s a glitch? That’s something the new Science Channel series Phantom Signals is going to explore.

    The new series premieres during the scariest month of the year, on Thursday, Oct. 8. It’s certainly a fitting time to discover the mysteries surrounding technological glitches. Could the glitches be a sign that there is life elsewhere?

    Read More on Hidden Remote.

  • Secret Nazi Bases secures second season, global sales

    Secret Nazi Bases secures second season, global sales

    U.K.’s DCD Rights has secured a number of global sales for the Go Button Media-produced factual series, co-commissioned by CBC’s documentary Channel and UKTV.

    CBC’s documentary Channel and UKTV have renewed Go Button Media’s factual series Secret Nazi Bases for a second season.

    The 8 x 60-minute docuseries explores the ruins of old Nazi bunkers, bases and hidden tunnels to find old uncovered documents from the Third Reich. It executive produced by Daniel Oron and Natasha Ryan from the Toronto-based prodco Go Button Media and is expected to premiere in 2021 on documentary Channel in Canada and UKTV’s Yesterday channel.

    Season two of Secret Nazi Bases has been sold to a number of territories by U.K. distributor DCD Rights, including A+E Networks for Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe and Discovery for Spain, Andora and Benelux. Both seasons were picked up by French network Planete for French-speaking Europe and Africa, as well as Mediaset in Italy. UKTV acquisitions manager Daniel Thomas brokered a pre-investment deal for the second season.

    Read more on Playback

  • Yesterday: Four ‘Secret’ Bases You Can Still Visit Today.

    Yesterday: Four ‘Secret’ Bases You Can Still Visit Today.

    Yesterday’s exclusive series “Secret Nazi Bases” takes us into some of the most striking strongholds created by Hitler’s regime – here are just four you can still visit today.

    Read more on Yesterday Channel