This thread will discuss the schedule updates for the Blue Ant Media Specialty Channels for the 2019-20 broadcast year, including A.Side, BBC Earth, Cottage Life, HIFI, Love Nature, Makeful TV, Smithsonian Channel and T+E.
I post schedule updates, series premieres and specials based on press releases as well as series renewals and cancellations as they are announced. I don't usually post on-going episode information, repeats, program descriptions or "PR-speak," so if you want more info, you can click on the associated link in the post.
New Original Series
Hotel Paranormal (8×60’; HD) (spring 2020) (world broadcast premiere)
The Witches of Salem (4×60’; HD) (October 2019) (Canadian broadcast premiere)
New Original Series
Life Below Zero: Canada (8×60’; HD) (spring 2020) (world broadcast premiere)
Cottage Coach (digital series; 6×7’) (fall 2019) (world premiere)
Returning Series
Hope For Wildlife (season 10; 10×60’; HD) (summer 2020) (world broadcast premiere)
The Weather Files (season two; 8×60’; HD) (spring 2020) (world broadcast premiere)
SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL
New Original Series
Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan (6×60’; HD) (winter 2020) (Canadian broadcast premiere)
High Maintenance (8×60’; HD) (winter 2020) (Canadian broadcast premiere)
MAKEFUL
New Original Series
Landscape Artist of the Year Canada (4×60’; HD) (winter 2020) (world broadcast premiere)
Love Nature 4K announces the greenlight and start of production of the new blue-chip natural history series Stormborn (working title) (3 x 50’; 4K and HD). Stormborn will have its world broadcast premiere on Love Nature 4K’s linear and streaming video platforms internationally in 2020. Production of the series will continue from now until November 2019 in various locations including Norway, Iceland, and the Shetland Islands, Scotland.
BBC AMERICA announced its first original series greenlight from BBC Studios' Natural History Unit, a six-part series, Eden (w/t), along with the Sir David Attenborough-fronted Seven Worlds, One Planet in early 2020, Frozen Planet II, Planet Earth III and more. Blue Planet Now, a follow up to Blue Planet II is expected in Q4 2019. (Source)
BBC Earth Canada showed the Planet Earth and Blue Planet series in the past.
Curfew (Canadian premiere, season one)
Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT, starting October 3
Witches of Salem (Canadian premiere, season one)
Sundays at 8 p.m. ET/PT, starting October 6
The War of the Worlds (North American premiere, season one)
Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT, starting October 6
Paranormal: Caught on Camera (Canadian premiere, season one)
Fridays at 8 p.m. ET/PT, starting October 11
A Haunting (Canadian premiere, season ten)
Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT, starting October 15
RESURRECTED SERIES AIRING ALL MONTH LONG
Haunted Hospitals
Fridays at 10 p.m. ET/PT
Help! My House is Haunted
Saturdays at 8 p.m. ET, 5 p.m. PT
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Love After Lockup - back to back episodes at 9 ET/PT beginning Monday, September 2. (T+E website)
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Smithsonian Channel Canada will air two new hour-long specials Sundays at 10 PM ET, ISLANDS OF FIRE on September 8 and VOLCANOES: DUAL DESTRUCTION on September 15. (Smithsonian U.S. Press Release)
A new season of The Graham Norton Show premieres Friday, October 4 on BBC AMERICA. (Source) HIFI shows the current season on Saturdays in Canada, with older episodes on BBC Canada.
Love Nature 4K announces natural history projects America’s Wild Seasons (4×60’), set to launch in Canada in November, and America’s Wild Border (1×60’) in summer 2020. See the press release for program details.
Cottage Life announces the Canadian premiere of the high-intensity cooperative adventure series The Brigade: Race to the Hudson (8×60). The eight-part series premieres Tuesday, October 29 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, exclusively in Canada on Cottage Life, with new episodes airing weekly into mid-December. (Full Press Release)
Orangutan Jungle School season two airs Sundays at 8 pm ET/PT starting Dec. 1 on Love Nature during the channel’s eight-week free preview event running from Nov. 4 to Jan. 5, 2020 across Canada. (Full Press Release)
WE tv renewed Love After Lockup for Season 3 and Spinoff Life After Lockup for Season 2. (Source) Love After Lockup Season 2 airs on T+E and Season 1 is on A.Side.
Seven Worlds, One Planet (Canadian Premiere) airs Saturdays at 9 pm ET/PT starting January 18, 2020, exclusively on BBC Earth. Weekly episodes will also be available to channel subscribers on-demand via cable and satellite platforms after each episode airs. The channel will be available in free preview from Feb. 3 to Apr. 5, 2020 across Canada and the full series will re-air during that period. (Press Release)
The world broadcast premiere of Landscape Artist of the Year Canada airs Sundays at 9 pm ET/PT, starting February 16, exclusively on Makeful during the channel’s eight-week free preview event running from Feb. 3 to April 5 across Canada. (Press Release)
Love Nature 4K announces the greenlight of its new natural history series, Wild Pacific Rescue (6×60’;4K). The series will premiere on Cottage Life in Canada in Spring of 2021 and roll out across select Love Nature linear and streaming video platforms internationally. (Press Release)
Life Below Zero: Canada (8 x 60’) airs Tuesdays at 9 pm ET/PT, starting March 17, exclusively on Cottage Life during the channel’s eight-week free preview event running from March 2 to May 3 across 10 million Canadian households. (Press Release)
Blue Ant International announced their 2020 spring slate. Some of the following programs may be distributed internationally and are not necessarily scheduled for their Canadian TV channels. The press release doesn't mention any Canadian TV channels, but some programs were shown here.
Prison Season 2 (3 x 60’; HD; Spring Films)
Hate Crime: Uncensored (1 x 60’; HD; Zeppelin Films) .
Rich Kids Go Homeless Season 2 (6 x 60’; HD; Zeppelin Films)
Ultimate Supercar (6 x 60’; HD; Cry Havoc Productions)
Best Cake Wins Season 3 (10 x 30’; HD; Architect Films)
Coolest Places to Stay Season 2 (6 x 30’; HD; Architect Films)
Expat Season 2 (12 x 60’; HD; Authentique Productions)
Pridelands: Wilderness Reborn (1 x 60’; 4K & HDR; Alleycats)
Amazing Animal Friends (6 x 60’; 4K & HDR; Oxford Scientific Films)
Malawi Wildlife Rescue (6 x 60’; 4K & HDR; Icon Films)
Hope For Wildlife Season 10 (10 x 60’; 4K & HDR; Arcadia)
The 10th season of Hope for Wildlife (10×60’) premieres Friday, April 24 at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT on Cottage Life, during the channel’s nationwide free preview event running until May 3 across 10 million Canadian households. (Press Release)
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