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Saloon Media is a leading factual and scripted entertainment company specializing in smart, popular, returnable series.

Saloon’s original productions have broadcast on HISTORY, AHC, National Geographic, Smithsonian Channel, Discovery ID, CMT, SBS, ZDF, Yesterday, More4, Amazon and Netflix. We’re a specialist in international co-production, working with like-minded production partners around the world to produce top-quality returning series and high-impact specials.

Our recent credits include Canada’s Drag Race — now in production for Season 4 and with nine Canadian Screen Award nominations for Season 3 — produced with Blue Ant Studios. Hotel Paranormal — narrated by the iconic Dan Aykroyd — leads us through the terrifying true stories of otherworldly hotel guests (Seasons 1 & 2; Travel Channel US, T+E). World’s Most Scenic River Journeys, narrated by Golden Globe® Award-winning actor Bill Nighy and now in its second breathtaking season, takes audiences on explorations of some of the world’s most important and beautiful rivers across Europe and North America (Channel 5, Smithsonian Channel Canada).

Saloon also produced the award-winning 9/11 Kids, a documentary about the 16 schoolchildren with President George W. Bush on the morning of September 11, 2001 (documentary Channel); the award-winning Cheating Hitler: Surviving the Holocaust, a modern-day investigation into the unanswered questions of three Holocaust survivors (HISTORY Canada); The Weather Files, an eight-part series taking viewers inside extreme monster storms and natural disasters (Cottage Life); and the Canadian version of the Emmy Award-winning series Life Below Zero (Seasons 1 & 2; Cottage Life).

The critically acclaimed Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer is available on Amazon Prime; the long-running See No Evil, now in its ninth season and co-produced with the UK’s Arrow Media, broadcasts on DISCOVERY ID US. Web of Darkness is a modern-day anthology series where spine-chilling accounts of monsters, aliens and encounters from beyond are brought to life (Travel Channel US, T+E). Encounter: UFO is an eight-part series telling the stories of the most incredible UFO sightings and abductions of the past and the modern era (T+E).

Hunting Nazi Treasure is a globe-trotting real-life investigation series featuring a team of history-minded treasure hunters, working out of the Dallas-based Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art on HISTORY Canada and More4 (UK). Deep Water Salvage is an immersive and exciting adventure in which viewers get access to the closed and sometimes secretive world of marine salvage (The Weather Channel US, Cottage Life). Searching for Secrets is a six-part documentary series and our walking tour guide through some of the world’s most iconic cities, exploring their best-kept secrets and illustrious histories (Smithsonian Channel US and Canada).

History By The Numbers is an energetic, fast-paced, 20-part series that takes a global dive into the extraordinary and often overlooked numbers that have created our world’s history and is nominated for a 2023 Canadian Screen Award.

Saloon Media is a Blue Ant Studios company.

“Our focus is on premium programs with international appeal. But beyond that, we look for stories relevant to the world we live in and inform the world we want to live in.”

Michael Kot, Managing Director