A  raft of Canadian titles have been added to Blue Ant International’s 180-hour programming slate at MIPTV next month.

The Blue Ant Media-owned distributor has acquired five lifestyle titles from Toronto prodco General Purpose Entertainment to bring to the April 4 to 6 market in Cannes, France.

The series are Shotgun Reno (13 x 30 minutes), which follows home renovations taking place during major life events, such as pending births and weddings; The Fix (26 x 20 minutes), which is a prank home makeover series; Dining INNvasion (13 x 30 minute), a renovation show about resort dining areas; Making House (13 x 30 minutes), which follows an interior designer and contractor as they renovate their forever home; and The Heat with Mark McEwan (39 x 30 minutes), which features the titular celebrity chef.

The distributor has also acquired two Canadian documentaries, Coextinction (Coexistence Films; pictured), directed by Gloria Pancrazi and Elena Jean, and The Orchard (1 x 60 minutes), produced by Halifax’s Arcadia Entertainment. The 94-minute Coextinction, which had its Canadian premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival, weaves a story about a mother Orca carrying her dead calf for more than two weeks with the current global environmental crisis injustices against Indigenous peoples. The Orchard follows the life cycle of an apple orchard from spring to its autumn harvest.

Two-part documentary special The Lost Colony of Roanoke: New Evidence (2 x 60 minutes; 1 x 120 minutes), co-produced by Saloon Media and BriteSpark Films, has also been added to the slate, which shares more theories on the 400-year-old mystery of the old American colony that went missing in 1587.

Among the previously announced Canadian documentary titles are Blue Ant Studios’ Evil By Design: Surviving Nygard (3 x 60 minutes), commissioned by CBC; season three of Ice Vikings (8 x 60 minutes; Farpoint Films); season eight of See No Evil (20 x 60 minutes; Arrow Media and Saloon Media); season two of Battle of the Alphas (12 x 30 minutes; Yap Films); and Mysteries From Above (10 x 60 minutes; Saloon Media).

The distributor will also bring two Canadian kids and family series, including Leo’s Pollinators (26 x 11 minutes; Fifth Ground Entertainment) and season three of Detention Adventure (31 x 11 minutes; LoCo Motion Pictures and Broken Compass Films).