Blue Ant Media has greenlit five original series and specials, in addition to renewing four unscripted titles.

The catalogue of mystery, paranormal, nature, wildlife and lifestyle series will premiere on T+E and Cottage Life in 2025, followed by Blue Ant’s global FAST channels HauntTV, Homeful, Love Pets and Declassified at a later date.

The greenlights include two one-hour specials and one six-part series to broadcast on T+E and stream on HauntTV. Hour-long documentary Ghost Lands (working title, pictured) is created, written and produced by Winnipeg-based Métis producer Jessica Landry and delves into Indigenous ghost stories.

Ghost Lands was greenlit from the request for proposals initiative launched in October 2023 in partnership with the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, the Reelworld Film Festival and Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival.

Birthplace of Hallowe’en (working title, Small Army Entertainment) is another one-hour documentary special. It features B.C.-based paranormal investigators Kelly Ireland, Corine Carey and Leanne Sallenback investigating Ireland’s most haunted locations.

The 6 x 60-minute series You Can’t Deny It (Blue Ant Studios) follows multiple interviews with people who have had paranormal experiences at the same location.

Other greenlights include the 6 x 60-minute Vet Detective (Big Time Decent), which follows the work of Vancouver veterinarian Dr. Lauren Adelman. The series will premiere on Cottage Life in the spring then stream on Love Pets.

Lastly, there’s the 8 x 60-minute Engineering from Above (Blue Ant Studios), a spinoff from the Mysteries from Above series which explores feats of engineering from around the world such as the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The series will premiere on Cottage Life in the spring, followed by a streaming release on Declassified.

Among the four renewals are two Blue Ant Studios series: a fourth season of Mysteries from Above (8 x 60 minutes), which explores unique structures via drone footage, and a second season of My Haunted Hometown (8 x 60 minutes), which investigates haunted North American homes. The former will premiere on Cottage Life in the spring and the latter on T+E in the fall.

The 8 x 60-minute Holmes on Holmes: Building a Legacy (The Holmes Group) is returning for season two in the fall on Cottage Life, then streaming on Homeful. The series sees Mike Holmes, host of the original Holmes on Holmes series, mentor his kids.

Finally, the 13 x 30-minute season two of Wild Rose Vets (Wapanatahk Media, Great Pacific Media), a Blue Ant and APTN joint venture, is scheduled to premiere in the fall on Cottage Life. The series, which follows three Indigenous veterinarians in Western Canada, will also broadcast on APTN, APTN Languages and APTN lumi, although a date was not confirmed at press time.

“Blue Ant’s unique structure enables us to invest in the production of homegrown content and share it with the world, debuting it on our Canadian specialty TV channels and later expanding its reach through a second window on our global free streaming platforms,” said Craig Junner, Blue Ant’s SVP, programming and content strategy, global media, in a statement.

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