Tag: off the fence

  • OTF sales to Spain

    The international distribution arm of factual content specialist Off the Fence (OTF) has closed deals with a pair of Spanish broadcasters following last month’s MIPCOM content market. 

    AMC Networks International Southern Europe (AMCNISE) has acquired more than 40 hours of premium factual programming, including such highlights of OTF’s MIPCOM slate as Pharaohs: Rise and Fall (6 x 60 min.), produced by RFP1 Productions for Go Button Media and OTF Studios.

    The AMCNISE package also features several other Go ButtonMedia/OTF Studios productions, including To Kill a Dictator (6 x 60 min.), which exposes the plans and conspiracies that aimed to rid the world of some of history’s most ruthless dictators; season two of Cursed Histories, which explores locations, icons and events that are seemingly cursed; and Engineering Evolved, which looks at the transportation tech set to the move the world.

    Read more at Realscreen.com

  • 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.

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

    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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  • 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.