Tag: forgotten frontlines

  • Realscreen: German distributor Autentic orders new factual series from Go Button Media

    German distributor and prodco Autentic has commissioned four factual series from Toronto’s Go Button Media, expanding their existing partnership.

    The Munich-based company will help finance the series and trigger additional funding as the commissioner. Autentic will, in turn, hold exclusive territory rights and worldwide distribution rights.

    The four titles are Deadly Science (6 x 52 min.; pictured), about scientists who have died in the pursuit of knowledge, such as Marie Curie; Mapping Disaster (6 x 52 min.), which explores how catastrophes might be avoided in the future; Spies that Mapped the World (4 x 47 min.), about conspiracies around the Cold War; and a second season of Colossal Machines (6 x 45 min.), which looks at the inner workings of large-scale machinery. All four series will be produced this year.

    The first season of Colossal Machines was acquired by Super Channel for broadcast in Canada. The channel has also served as a commissioner for Go Button Media, ordering original series such as Secret Nazi Expeditions and Forgotten Frontlines.

    “The cooperation with Go Button is one of the best examples for our content strategy, as it confirms how valuable it is for us to build long-term partnerships for our channel business as well as our production and distribution activities,” said Alexandra Böhm, Autentic’s head of international coproduction, in a statement.

    “Our continued expanding relationship with Autentic not only strengthens our global business, it also fuels our creative output by challenging us to develop and produce exciting new angles on high demand genres,” added Go Button Media executive producer Daniel Oron.

    By Kelly Townsend, Playback Media

    Read more on realscreen.com

  • Super Channel adding four new factual series from Go Button Media

    Super Channel adding four new factual series from Go Button Media

    EDMONTON — Super Channel announced today it is extending its partnership with Go Button Media to bring four new factual series from the Toronto-based production company to Super Channel Fuse.

    “The deal includes two new acquisitions, The Animal Within (6×44) premiering this month and Colossal Machines (6×44, above) premiering in January, as well as two new Super Channel Originals, Mysteries of the Ancient Dead and Secret Societies: In the Shadows, coming later in 2022,” reads a press release.

    In total, seven factual series from Go Button Media have been acquired or commissioned by Super Channel to date. These include Phantom Signals, which premiered in 2020, and Secret Nazi Expeditions and Forgotten Frontlines, both Super Channel original productions announced by Go Button Media earlier this year and slated to premiere in 2022.

    Read more on cartt.ca

  • C21Media: Off the Fence gets its facts right

    C21Media: Off the Fence gets its facts right

    Classic history content also remains a high priority for international broadcasters, according to Baxter. As a result, the exec has selected Go Button Media’s new series Forgotten Frontlines (6×60’), which launches at the end of the year. “It takes us through the lesser-known stories of the war with insightful tales that give us a better understanding as to how these events impacted the overall efforts of WWII as we know it,” Baxter says.

    Read more on C21Media.net.

    ABOUT FORGOTTEN FRONTLINES

    Since the Allied victory, historians have chronicled the heroism and plight of ground troops, navy, and airmen – their wins, losses, and their sacrifices for victory. These stories defined the greatest generation, but it’s not the whole story. From conspiracies to covert ops, some pieces of the narrative seem to have slipped through the cracks of our collective memory. In this series, we fill in the gaps between those well-known and well-documented events. Unearthed research, expert interviews, archive, and CGI will bring to life the war efforts you’ve never heard of to reveal the truth behind WWII’s forgotten frontlines.