Boat Rocker Media

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Boat Rocker Media Inc.
Company type Public
TSX:  BRMI
IndustryMedia
Entertainment
Founded2016;8 years ago (2016)
Founders
  • David Fortier
  • Ivan Schneeberg
Headquarters Toronto, Ontario,
Canada
Key people
John Young (CEO)
Owner Fairfax Financial (51%)
Divisions Boat Rocker Studios
Subsidiaries
Website www.boatrocker.com

Boat Rocker Media Inc. is a Canadian entertainment company based in Toronto, Ontario. The company owns Boat Rocker Studios, which incorporates Temple Street Productions. Its majority shareholder is Fairfax Financial. Boat Rocker is led by co-executive chairs David Fortier and Ivan Schneeberg and CEO John Young. [1]

Contents

Boat Rocker produces and distributes a wide range of scripted and unscripted television shows, animation and family content, such as Invasion , [2] [3] American Rust , [2] Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry , [4] Orphan Black , [2] and Dino Ranch . [2]

Boat Rocker owns other entertainment properties, including Jam Filled Entertainment, Insight Productions, Matador Content, [5] and Platform One Media, [6] and does talent management [7] and venture investing. [8]

History

Boat Rocker Media had their beginnings in June 2013 when Temple Street Productions announced that they've launched digital studio Boat Rocker Studios as a digital division of Temple Street Media Ventures in order to focus on original digital content.

Four years later in February 2016, following Fairfax Financial acquisition of a majority stake in film and television production company Temple Street Productions along with their Boat Rocker Studios brand Temple Street Productions and their owners Ivan Schneeberg and David Fortier announced that they're expanding their operations and their restructing their business were being consolidated and reorganized their company Temple Street Productions along with their new rights, ventures, animation and brand businesses under one group which was rebranded as Boat Rocker Media with Scheeberg and Fortier becoming CEO of the new group. Their production company Temple Street Productions which they acquried ten years ago were now being operating alongside Boat Rocker Digital under Boat Rocker Media new largest division named Boat Rocker Studios along with Boat Rocker Digital. Temple Street's distribution arm Temple Street Distribution was rebranded and renamed as Boat Rocker Rights along with launching an in-house animation studio named Boat Rocker Animation. [4] [9] [10] [11]

Boat Rocker Rights' first outside distribution deal was with the pick-up of international rights to Steve Rotfeld Productions' Xploration Station block's programs in late February 2016. [12] Then in June 2016, the unit acquired Mountain Road Productions library distribution rights plus a first look deal with the company. [13]

In March 2016, Boat Rocker Media announced that they've purchased Canuck-based television production company and animation outfit Radical Sheep Productions to expand their kids and family operations with Radical Sheep becoming Boat Rocker Media's original kids and family media content arm with Temple Street's kids productions such as The Next Step being moved to their acquired company while Radical Sheep continued operating as Boat Rocker's family and children's media unit. [14] [15]

In early August 2016, Boat Rocker Media announced that they've adding another animation studio by purchasing Owatta-based animation studio Jam Filled Entertainment, which was to continuing operating with current management and name alongside their founders with Boat Rocker Media expanding further their kids and family operations and their acquired company Jam Filled Entertainment joining Boat Rocker's acquired company Radical Sheep and their in-house animation studio Boat Rocker Animation. [16] [17] Boat Rocker through Jam Filled purchased Arc Productions' main assets on August 22, 2016, and reopened Arc's Toronto office. [18]

In May 2017, Boat Rocker Media announced that they've restricting their unscripted assets and unveiled that their bringing them together as a new factual division dedicated to the company's factual and unscripted projects named Crooked Horse Productions and will sit within the Boat Rocker Studios division. [19]

In September 2017, Boat Rocker Media announced that they brought unscripted television production company Proper Television along with Proper Rights, thrust extending Boat Rocker Media's unscripted operations with Proper Television continued to operate as a independent label within Boat Rocker. Proper Rights the distribution arm of Proper was folded into Boat Rocker's existing distribution division Boat Rocker Rights. [20]

In January 2018, Boat Rocker acquired FremantleMedia's Kids & Family Entertainment division, which includes the children's programming library of Thames Television. [21]

In November 2018, Boat Rocker acquired Matador Content, producers of the Paramount Network series Lip Sync Battle and its spinoff Lip Sync Battle Shorties on sister network Nickelodeon. [22]

In March 2019, Boat Rocker invested in Untitled Entertainment, a talent management and production company. [7] It has also made investments in Realm Media, [23] the Toronto Arrows, [24] CAA Creative Labs, [25] and MarcoPolo Learning. [26]

In September 2019, Boat Rocker acquired Platform One Media, a Los Angeles-based television production and sales company operated by television producer Katie O’Connell Marsh, whose credits include Hannibal and Narcos . Marsh stayed on after the acquisition. [23] [27]

In December 2020, Temple Street was incorporated into Boat Rocker Studios, Scripted. [28]

Boat Rocker signed first-look deals with Lena Headey’s Peephole Productions [29] and Dakota Johnson's TeaTime Pictures. [30] In March 2021, it partnered with television executive Jessica Sebastian-Dayeh to create Maven, which focuses on female-led stories. [31] [32]

Most recently, on December 20, 2021, Boat Rocker had bought out a minority stake in the TeaTime Pictures production company. [33]

Units

Filmography

Animation

RunTitleCo-production withClientNotesRef.
2015–2019 Danger Mouse Boulder Media, CBBC Production, Windmill Lane Studios CBBC Production services in 2018
Distribution services from 2018 to 2019
2016–2017 Fangbone! Radical Sheep Productions, DHX Media Family Chrgd
The Bagel and Becky Show Radical Sheep Productions, Jam Filled Entertainment Teletoon+ [16]
2016–2019 Dot. Industrial Brothers, The Jim Henson Company CBC Kids
2016–present The Loud House Nickelodeon Animation Studio, Jam Filled Entertainment Nickelodeon Animation services [16]
2017–2019 Ollie! The Boy Who Became What He Ate Radical Sheep ProductionsCBC Kids
2017–2020 Top Wing Industrial Brothers, 9 Story Media Group Treehouse TV
2018–2020 Bitz & Bob BBC Children's Productions, Boat Rocker Rights CBeebies
2019–2020 Kingdom Force Industrial Brothers, Boat Rocker StudiosCBC Kids
2020–present Love Monster BBC Children's Productions, Boat Rocker StudiosCBeebies
2020 Remy & Boo Industrial Brothers, Boat Rocker Studios Universal Kids
2021–present Dino Ranch Industrial Brothers, Boat Rocker Studios Disney Junior [39]
2021 A Tale Dark & Grimm Netflix Animation, Novo Media Group, Astro-Nomical Entertainment Netflix Animation services by Jam Filled Entertainment [40]
2022–2023 Daniel Spellbound Industrial Brothers, Boat Rocker StudiosNetflixMerchandise distribution services [41]

Live-action

RunTitleCo-production withClientNotesRef.
2011–present Top Chef Canada Insight Productions Food Network Canada
2013–present The Amazing Race Canada Insight Productions, Bell Media CTV
2013–present Big Brother Canada Insight Productions Global
2013–2023 The Next Step Family Channel
2014–present MasterChef Canada Proper TelevisionCTV
2015–present Lip Sync Battle Matador Content, Eight Million Plus, Sunday Night, Four Eyes Entertainment, Casey Patterson Entertainment Paramount Network [42]
2015–2019 Killjoys Temple Street Productions, Mendacity Pictures, Universal Cable Productions CTV Sci-Fi Channel
2017 Boy Band Matador Content ABC
2017–present The Great Canadian Baking Show Proper Television CBC
2017 What Would Diplo Do? Matador Content Viceland
2019 Cavendish Temple Street Productions, Holdfast Pictures, Bridge Burner Entertainment, Somebody Stop ProductionsCBC
2019–2020 Mary's Kitchen Crush Proper TelevisionCTV
2020 The Impossible Row Matador Content Discovery Channel Documentary
2020–2023 Dear... Matador Content Apple TV+
2020–present Junior Chef Showdown Proper TelevisionFood Network Canada [43]
2021 Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry Matador ContentApple TV+
2021–2024 American Rust Showtime/Amazon Prime Video [44] [45]
2021–present Go-Big Show Matador Content TBS
2021–present Invasion Apple Studios (season 2)Apple TV+
2021 The Kids Tonight Show Broadway Video, Electric Hot Dog, Matador Content Peacock [46]
2022 LOL: Last One Laughing Canada Insight Productions Amazon Prime Video [47]
2023 Beacon 23 Peephole Productions, Platform One Media, Spectrum Originals, Studio 8 Television MGM+ [48]
2024 Orphan Black: Echoes You Say Potato, AMC Studios AMC

Upcoming

TitleCo-production withClientNotesRef.
Mating Season Matador Content Discovery Channel [49]
Who Wants to Be an Astronaut?Matador ContentDiscovery Channel [50] [51]
Scary Stories for Young FoxesPeephole Productions [52]
Bad Kitty [53]

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