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  • 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.

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  • 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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  • Small companies, big ideas: Toronto’s Go Button Media on the benefits of “boutique”

    Small companies, big ideas: Toronto’s Go Button Media on the benefits of “boutique”

    There’s no question that the television industry is competitive, and it can be hard for a small prodco to break through the noise and find its niche. In ‘Small Companies, Big Ideas’ Realscreen chats with indies that are innovating and thriving, showing the unscripted world that sometimes the best things come in small packages

    Below, Realscreen hears from Daniel Oron and Natasha Ryan, founders and executive producers of Toronto-headquartered Go Button Media.

    Founded in 2015, the company has earned a reputation for turning “creative chaos into polished productions.” Its projects — spanning factual, lifestyle and branded content — have included Secret Nazi Bases for UKTV and Discovery, Sense Appeal and Mom vs Matchmaker for OUTtv, No Roses on a Sailor’s Grave and A World Without NASA for CuriosityStream and Documentary Channel, to name a few.

    Here, Oron and Ryan discuss the advantages (and challenges) of running a boutique production house.

    Read the interview on Realscreen.com

  • Playback’s 2018 Channel of the Year: OUTtv

    Playback’s 2018 Channel of the Year: OUTtv

    “This year established a strong proof of concept in respect to our overall strategy,” says Brad Danks.

    OUTtv greenlit 11 originals including Sense Appeal and Mom vs Matchmaker.

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  • OUTtv Announces Fall 2018 Premiere Dates

    OUTtv Announces Fall 2018 Premiere Dates

    New Series He’s Fit and Sense Appeal Arrive on the Network in October

    VANCOUVER, BC  – SEPTEMBER 27, 2018 – OUTtv, the world’s first LGBTQI+ television network, has set its Fall 2018 premiere dates, with exciting new series and returning favorites joining the schedule in October, November and December.  The line-up includes new episodes of popular OUTtv series  Knock Knock Ghost, Mom vs. Matchmaker, Never Apart and Don’t Quit Your Gay Job.  In addition, joining the schedule will be the premieres of new series He’s Fit  and Sense Appeal. 

    Below is a detailed listing of news series featured on OUTtv’s schedule.  All programming is subject to change and all times are ET/PT.

    Mom vs. Matchmaker – New Episodes – Mondays at 8:30pm, beginning October 1

    Celebrity matchmaker Carmelia Ray takes on fierce and fiery moms in the hottest competitive dating show!  The Matchmaker and Mom choose their contenders and train them in a dating boot camp on everything from wardrobe, to physical contact, culture and manners; stacking the odds for romance to blossom.

    Sense Appeal – Series Premiere – Thursdays at 10:00pm, beginning November 29

    Sense Appeal is a studio-based dating series, hosted by Patrick Orr, that tests all five senses when it comes to choosing a partner.  In each episode singles get to test the five senses on their potential matches before picking just one of them to take out on a date.

    All of the announced programming will also be available to stream online and on OUTtvGo, OUTtv’s subscription video on demand service.  Viewers can stream content on iOS, Android, Apple TV and Roku apps or at OUTtvGo.com.

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