Toronto-based media company WildBrain has secured the global distribution rights for Goddard/Brown’s musical preschool series Songs from the Bright Side (pictured).

In addition to handling global broadcast and streaming distribution, WildBrain will control the series’ YouTube rollout strategy and plans to release an album.

The 20 x 2.5-minute series was commissioned by WildBrain Television’s Family Channel and follows a colourful cast of singing characters. It was produced by recording artist Adam Goddard and director and animator Warren Brown for Goddard/Brown.

The duo previously created series such as ABC Singsong and Big Block Singsong.

Cutting Class Media

Toronto-based Cutting Class Media has debuted its distribution slate with 10 new and previously announced titles.

The media company, led by Joshua Bowen and Carly Sacks, is shopping its slate of animated and live-action projects at local and global markets such as Realscreen, NATPE and Prime Time.

The animated titles include the 10 x 12-minute series peopleWatching, the comedy feature Matters Beyond, the Lakeside Animation 10 x 10-minute children’s series Beastly Crimes, the adult action-comedy series Not Safe for Work and the 6 x 5-minute children’s series Oh and Go.

Also on the animation slate is a feature film coproduction between Russia’s MetraFilms and Lakeside Animation, Tied Up. It is directed by Oscar-nominated Russian animator Konstantin Bronzit and Dmitriy Vysotskiy. The film follows everyday items that have been discarded as trash that decide to seek paradise.

Rounding out Cutting Class’ animation slate is Lakeside Animation’s 10 x 5-minute The Dollop Animated Series, based on The Dollop podcast, and the 6 x 15 to 22-minute horror anthology Red Iron Road.

In its live-action slate, Cutting Class has two documentaries: The CBC-commissioned feature What We Carry and the medium-length Cutting Class original Continue Playing?, which follows a once professional gamer who overcomes homelessness and depression to become an ultra-endurance athlete.

According to the release from Cutting Class, additional details and titles are to be revealed later in the year.

GRB Media Ranch

L.A.-based GRB Media Ranch has acquired Toronto-based LaRue Entertainment’s reality docu-series True Dating Stories.

Also available as a format, True Dating Stories was acquired by GRB’s distribution and acquisition executive Liz Levenson. The series sees real people tell their most shocking dating stories, which are then brought to life through comical recreations.

GRB Media Ranch is the combined distribution arms of L.A’s GRB and Montreal-headquartered Media Ranch. The two brought their content catalogues and formats together in fall of 2023. At its inception, GRB Media Ranch boasted a portfolio of more than 5,000 hours of factual, unscripted and scripted programming, along with a number of formats across genres.

Image courtesy of WildBrain