Blue Ant’s Cottage Life announces fall sked

Blue Ant Media has announced the fall schedule for its digital specialty channel Cottage Life, which it acquired last December when the company purchased Canadian lifestyle company Cottage Life Media.

The channel’s fall lineup will launch Sept. 4 with a slew of homegrown cottage-themed lifestyle, food and DIY series.

Epic, a series about extravagant cottage amenities and the people who design them, will lead off the schedule, premiering Wednesday Sept. 4 at 9 p.m., while Selling Big, which follows auctioneers the Ritchie Bros as they sell off large industrial equipment, will follow at 10 p.m.

Cottage Life’s Thursday lineup kicks off Sept. 5 with Buying Alaska, a series about the unique properties and the breathtaking surroundings of the state, premiering at 9 p.m. Meanwhile, My Retreat, which showcases iconic and quirky cottages, debuts at 9:30 p.m., followed by Compete to Eat, a cottage cook-off series, at 10 p.m.

Farm Kings, which follows the trials and tribulations of the King Family of Freedom Farms, joins the lineup Tuesdays at 9 p.m starting Sept. 10, followed by The Fabulous Beekman Boys, a series featuring former Amazing Race competitors as they learn the ropes of farming, at 10 p.m.