Love Drama is stacked with scripted romance, thrillers, mysteries and holiday content from Muse Entertainment’s extensive library of movies, series and mini-series
Love Drama offering is now available in Canada on LG Channels and Pluto TV and in the UK on Virgin Media and Netgem TV
(Toronto, ON – December 12, 2023) International production studio, rights business and channel operator, Blue Ant Media and independent production company, Muse Entertainment, have entered in a partnership to launch Love Drama, a new free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channel that offers a mix of scripted drama, including romance, mystery, thrillers and holiday-themed programming. The content includes 300+ hours of movies, series, and mini-series from Muse Entertainment’s vast library of scripted entertainment. The channel is now available to audiences in the UK on Virgin Media and Netgem TV and in Canada on LG Channels and Pluto TV. Love Drama will roll out across additional platforms and territories around the world in the new year.
“This partnership allows us to bring Muse Entertainment’s wealth of scripted Canadian-produced programming together with Blue Ant’s expertise in curating and operating international, genre-focused FAST channels,” says Jamie Schouela, President, Global Channels & Media, Blue Ant Media. “The depth and quality of Muse’s portfolio is perfect for creating a programming destination for entertaining, scripted programming that audiences worldwide seek out and love.”
“We are thrilled to collaborate with Blue Ant Media on this exciting initiative. Combining Muse’s 25 years of dynamic, award-winning productions with Blue Ant’s growing international presence and expertise in the FAST media ecosystem ensures Muse’s vast catalogue of premium scripted content will find new and renewed audiences worldwide; an exciting strategic step for our company with the perfect partner, says Aren Prupas, President and CEO, Muse Entertainment.”
Programming highlights available to Love Drama audiences in the UK and Canada:
All December, the channel will offer a “Love Christmas” programming event, stacked with holiday movies, including: Welcome to Christmas, which follows a resort developer who finds love when she visits the small town of Christmas, Colorado to open a new ski resort; Holidaze, the holiday journey of a corporate workaholic who wakes up in an alternate universe, married to her childhood sweetheart; Marry Me at Christmas, the story of a bridal boutique owner who is planning an exquisite Christmas wedding, when she is swept off her feet by the bride’s brother; A Rose for Christmas, following a woman who takes over the construction of a Rose Parade float after her Dad gets sick and falls for the contentious client.
Additional programming events coming to Love Drama will include “Murder Mystery Party” in January, featuring thrillers and mysteries like Mind Over Murder, a TV movie about an unhappy-in-love lawyer, who suffers a serious head injury, which gives her the psychic power to read minds and then uses it to catch a killer; and Jack of Diamonds, a thrilling crime drama about the fate of a young tennis pro teaching at an exclusive country club who crosses paths with a master jewel thief. The channel will also host a “Love Valentine” programming event in February featuring a bevy of scripted romantic movie specials, including Two For The Win, the story of a recuperating world champion skier who returns home and has to take remedial coaching from his old childhood competitor, which rekindles their friendship and more.
Additional fan favorite scripted series and movies slated to roll out on the channel in coming months include: The Kennedys (8 x 60’), a mini series about the most fabled political family in American history, told through historical events, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, to reveal the lesser known personal stories; White Hot, A Sandra Brown Mystery the story of a interior designer who returns to her small Louisiana hometown for her brother’s funeral and becomes embedded in an investigation to uncover the truth of his death; Bomb Girls (18 x 60’), a series set in the 1940s that delves into the lives of women working in a munitions factory during World War II who find themselves changed profoundly as they are liberated from their domestic and social restrictions; and This is Wonderland (39 x 60’) a series about a newly minted attorney who joins the chaotic world of criminal justice in a big city and is exposed to the backroom deals and eccentric characters that make the system work.
About Blue Ant Media’s free streaming channels:
Blue Ant Media’s suite of FAST (free, ad-supported streaming TV) channels offer audiences curated programming that is easy and free to access on platforms like The Roku Channel, Samsung TV Plus, VIZIO WatchFree+, Tubi, Freevee, and LG Channels. The company’s growing global portfolio of FAST channels include Love Nature, HauntTV, Total Crime, Homeful, HistoryTime, Love Pets and Drag Race Universe.
Blue Ant Media is a privately held, international production studio and rights business and channel operator. The company’s studio creates and distributes a premium slate of programming, in all content genres, for streaming and broadcasting platforms around the world. Blue Ant Media also operates free streaming and pay TV channels under several media brands internationally, including Love Nature, Cottage Life, Smithsonian Channel Canada, BBC Earth Canada, HauntTV, Homeful, Drag Race Universe, Total Crime, HistoryTime and Love Pets. Blue Ant Media is headquartered in Toronto, with six international offices in Los Angeles, New York, Singapore, London, Washington and Sydney. blueantmedia.com Twitter⼁Instagram⼁LinkedIn
About Muse Entertainment:
Muse Entertainment is a prolific producer and distributor of primetime dramatic series, limited series, television movies, documentaries, factual entertainment, family programs and animation. With elevated and inclusive storytelling, Muse projects have garnered broad audience recognition in over 100 territories as well as critical acclaim including over 100 international awards, 25 Emmy Awards, and over 350 award nominations. Muse Entertainment is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec with development and production operations in Los Angeles, Toronto, and Vancouver. Visit www.muse.ca for more information.