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Thunderbird Entertainment’s Great Pacific Media Named to Realscreen’s Global 200 List

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Monday, April 17, 2023

Thunderbird Entertainment Group Inc. (TSXV:TBRD, OTC:THBRF) (“Thunderbird” or the “Company”), is honoured to announce that its unscripted arm, Great Pacific Media (“GPM”), has been named to Realscreen’s Global 200 list (formerly, the Global 100).

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  • Thunderbird Entertainment Group Inc. (TSXV:TBRD, OTC:THBRF) (“Thunderbird” or the “Company”), is honoured to announce that its unscripted arm, Great Pacific Media (“GPM”), has been named to Realscreen’s Global 200 list (formerly, the Global 100).
  • It is compiled with the input of broadcast and streaming executives, agents, distributors, production peers and other industry stakeholders.
  • It aims to bring diverse communities together for dialogue, debate and discussion about the global business of unscripted entertainment.
  • Their annual list of the now top 200 companies working in unscripted and non-fiction content is one of the most anticipated reports of the year.

Great Pacific Media’s Highway Thru Hell Captures Epic Disaster in Unprecedented 11th Season

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Thursday, September 22, 2022

Recently announced new series include Deadmans Curse (History, Hulu), Dr. Savannah: Wild Rose Vet (APTN, Cottage Life) and Styled (HGTV, Hulu).

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  • Recently announced new series include Deadmans Curse (History, Hulu), Dr. Savannah: Wild Rose Vet (APTN, Cottage Life) and Styled (HGTV, Hulu).
  • Thunderbird creates award-winning scripted, factual, and animated programming for the worlds leading direct-to-consumer platforms, as well as Canadian and international broadcasters.
  • The Company develops, produces, and distributes its content through its various divisions, including Thunderbird Kids & Family (Atomic Cartoons), Thunderbird Unscripted (Great Pacific Media), Thunderbird Scripted and Thunderbird Distribution.
  • Productions under the Thunderbird umbrella include The Last Kids on Earth, Molly of Denali, Highway Thru Hell, Reginald the Vampire, Strays and Kims Convenience, among others.

Great Pacific Media Forges Strategic Partnership with New Development Hub Original Content Lab

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Tuesday, May 10, 2022

This long-term partnership will be invaluable in accelerating our development pipeline and our delivery of premium factual content to the international market.

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  • This long-term partnership will be invaluable in accelerating our development pipeline and our delivery of premium factual content to the international market.
  • This partnership, with GPM and OCLs combined development and sales experience, ensures a clear path to the production of the highest-quality factual content out there.
  • Great Pacific Media (GPM) programs are seen in more than 170 countries, and the Thunderbird Entertainment Group division specializes in the financing, development, production and co-production of factual, documentary, and reality television.
  • Original Content Lab Inc (OCL) is a content-creation company launched by industry veteran Sean Connolly in May 2022.

Cottage Life's Hit Original Series Life Below Zero: Canada, Season 2 Offers Audiences Unfiltered Access to the Country's Toughest Residents

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Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Based on the seven-time Emmy-winning format, Life Below Zero, the highly anticipated new season of Life Below Zero: Canada reunites audiences with Becky Broderick (aka "the Sue Aikens of Canada"), Bentley Kakekayash, Kim Pasche and Pierre-Yves Ducfrom Season 1.

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  • Based on the seven-time Emmy-winning format, Life Below Zero, the highly anticipated new season of Life Below Zero: Canada reunites audiences with Becky Broderick (aka "the Sue Aikens of Canada"), Bentley Kakekayash, Kim Pasche and Pierre-Yves Ducfrom Season 1.
  • Life Below Zero: Canada, Season 2 premieres Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, exclusively on Cottage Life during the channel's eight-week nationwide free preview event.
  • Filmed across the Northwest Territories, Yukon, Northern Ontario and Nunavik in Northern Quebec in bone-chilling -51 C weather conditions, Life Below Zero: Canada Season 2 gives viewers unfiltered access into the day-to-day lives of Canadians who live off-the-grid in some of the most unforgiving and coldest regions on Earth.
  • Season 1 of Life Below Zero: Canada ranked #1 as the best-performing original series ever for Cottage Life.

OvareVentures Expands Outdoor Brand Portfolio with Purchase of Gull Lake Boat Works

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Thursday, October 21, 2021

Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OvareVentures adds to its portfolio of outdoor and better life brands with its investment in Toronto-based Gull Lake Boat Works , custom builder and restorer of canoes and kayaks.

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  • Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OvareVentures adds to its portfolio of outdoor and better life brands with its investment in Toronto-based Gull Lake Boat Works , custom builder and restorer of canoes and kayaks.
  • Gull Lake Boat Works was founded in 2008 by owner and operator Marc Russell.
  • Based in Toronto, Gull Lake Boat Works has been featured in Cottage Life magazine and Arts & Crafts Design, Italy.
  • OvareGroup Outdoor President Kara Anastasiadis noted, "Nothing beats the quality and craftsmanship of a handmade wooden boat and those from Gull Lake Boat Works are one-of-a-kind heirlooms.