(La Rochelle, France – June 23, 2025) – Blue Ant Studios today announced a slate of original commissions from global wildlife and nature brand, Love Nature, that it will be representing at Sunny Side of the Doc. Blue Ant Studios will manage international licensing and pre-sales for a number of recently greenlit, premium natural history series that exemplify the diverse array of wildlife and nature content in Love Nature’s curated programming line-up. Created by prominent natural history producers, the new original Love Nature titles include: Animal Crowds (3 x 60’) from Bonne Pioche; The Philippines (2 x 60’) from Terra Mater; and two distinct titles from WildBear Entertainment, Boss Shark: Battle of the Sexes (1 x 60’) and Planet Weird Season 2 (6 x 60’).
“Blue Ant Studios is once again unveiling a strong slate of entertaining and compelling natural history content at Sunny Side of the Doc in partnership with our colleagues at Love Nature,” says Mark Bishop, Co-President, Blue Ant Studios. “Our company’s overall presence at Sunny Side is a great example of how Blue Ant collaborates across its production, distribution and global channels businesses.”
“These newly announced greenlights reflect the wide spectrum of modern wildlife production that Love Nature has become known for over the last decade,” says Alison Barrat, SVP, Head of Content, Love Nature. “Now celebrating ten years, Love Nature is enjoyed by hundreds of millions of people around the globe. Our line-up of premium-quality wildlife programming is created by some of the most celebrated and respected natural history producers from around the world.”
Blue Ant Studios and Love Nature have a combined presence at Sunny Side of the Doc that includes co-sponsoring and moderating the Wildlife & Conservation Pitch and moderating the “New Routes to Wildlife Storytelling” panel. Blue Ant Studios and Love Nature are at Stand B14.
The new original Love Nature titles will premiere on Love Nature worldwide and will roll out on Sky Nature in the UK, Italy, and Germany in addition to premieres across co-commissioning territories. Blue Ant Studios oversees licensing opportunities for new titles outside of commissioning territories. The new titles include:
Animal Crowds (3 x 60’)
Producer: Bonne Pioche Télévision
Co-Production partner: ARTE GEIE
This fascinating three-part series examines the phenomenon of wildlife that gathers, lives, and moves about in groups by the hundreds and even thousands. Whether it be herds, flocks, shoals, swarms, or colonies, everywhere on Earth animals form communities driven by the need to reproduce, adapt to climatic conditions, feed and protect themselves, or any combination of the above. The series goes one step further to reflect on the human tendency to get close together in large groups and how our societies and territorial urges might be dictated by animal instinct. Incredible footage of animals points to the study of behaviour and whether our social habits are the legacy of an evolution, to which we remain oblivious. From the producers of the legacy natural history documentary, The March of the Penguins, Animal Crowds promises breathtaking footage combined with compelling insight.
The Philippines (2 x 60’)
Producer: Terra Mater
Production partners: Catkin Media Production and Doclights
This stunning two-part series takes audiences on an incredible journey into the varied natural landscape of the Philippines. Formed by Earth’s powerful forces over millions of years, the geological landscape of this extraordinary group of islands is shaped by volcanic eruptions and deep trenches. Oceans, seas, volcanos and the diverse marine life at the edge of the Coral Triangle make these islands a truly unique natural paradise on the Pacific Ring of Fire. This program will take us there to discover the beauty of The Philippines. Episodes explore the wild animals and marine life who inhabit the rainforests, mountains, beaches and reefs of the Philippines.
Boss Shark: Battle of the Sexes (1 x 60’)
Producer: WildBear Entertainment
Co-Production partner: Discovery
In the world of great white sharks, males are bolder and more aggressive, but females are bigger. The first Boss Shark identified an alpha male in a congregation of male great white sharks. This new one-hour documentary uses a playful team-based competition spin to discover whether male or female sharks are more dominant. Through a series of jumping, strength, and boldness challenges, shark experts, Doctor Riley Elliott and Kori Burkhardt, evaluate the male and female sharks, to see which dominates the ecosystem and along the way, offering thrilling footage of sharks in action.
Planet Weird Season 2 (6 x 60’)
Producer: WildBear Entertainment
This second instalment of Planet Weird continues to explore bizarre outliers in the animal kingdom. With cheeky wit and a unique visual style, this eclectic series plays with pop culture, humor and graphics to make the absolute extremities of nature leap right off the screen and into the modern world. With the help of celebrity comic narrator, Ross Noble, the episodes deliver an experience that’s funny, irreverent and honest, revealing amazing creatures that can be as failable and deluded as people are.
Love Nature, headquartered in Washington D.C. with offices in Los Angeles, London and Toronto is a premium global natural history brand that delivers high-quality, captivating stories about wildlife and nature on all its platforms. Love Nature is a destination for award-winning natural history series and documentaries. It is available on top-tier pay-TV platforms and streamers countries around the world. Engage with us at lovenature.com / Facebook / YouTube / Instagram
Blue Ant Studios is an international production studio and rights business with operations in Toronto, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, London, Singapore and Sydney. The company’s diverse production slate spans scripted comedy and drama, unscripted entertainment, formats, high-impact documentaries, live-action kids + family, and animation.The studio is anchored in original storytelling, with award-winning content, with standout titles including Blown Away (Netflix), Canada’s Drag Race (Crave), Davey and Jonesie’s Locker (Hulu and Prime Video), Slaycation (Crave), Northwoods Survival/Hard North (APTN, Nat Geo, Prime Video), Drink Masters (Netflix), Race Against the Tide (CBC), Doomlands (Roku), and the upcoming animated preschool series Tralala (CBC, Sky NZ). The company’s recent feature-length documentary, Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe (Prime Video), was awarded the Toronto International Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award for Best Documentary. Blue Ant Studios’ distribution arm has a vast catalogue of nearly 8000 hours of premium programming from the studio and third-party, top-tier producers around the world. Blue Ant Studios is a subsidiary of the global media company, Blue Ant Media. blueantmedia.com⼁Instagram⼁LinkedIn