David Fortier


Boat Rocker Media merges content and rights divisions

Boat Rocker Media is combining its content, distribution and brands teams together under Boat Rocker Studios. The company is streamlining its corporate structure as it plans for further financial investments into original content in scripted, unscripted and kids content for the global marketplace. Jon Rutherford (pictured) will become managing director of Boat Rocker Studios, taking […]

Boat Rocker consolidates factual units

Canada-based Boat Rocker Media is bringing its factual assets together as a new unit, Crooked Horse Productions. To this point, Boat Rocker has produced unscripted programming under a Temple Street Factual moniker. However, with Temple Street primarily focused on scripted shows such as Orphan Black, Crooked Horse has been established, with VP David Lerech leading […]

Boat Rocker kids prodco buys Arc assets

In the same month it was acquired by Boat Rocker Media, Canadian toon studio Jam Filled Entertainment has bought the assets of recently closed compatriot Arc Productions. The deal, financial terms of which were not disclosed, sees service firm Arc’s principle assets and projects move over to Jam Filled, which is based in Ottawa. Arc, […]

Boat Rocker buys Loud House prodco

The expansion of Canada’s Boat Rocker Media continues apace with the firm buying compatriot family and kids producer Jam Filled Entertainment. Boat Rocker has been in acquisitive mode since it came into being in February as the new corporate identity of Orphan Black producer Temple Street Productions. Ottawa-based Jam Filled did the service work on […]

Orphan Black studio restructures as Boat Rocker

Canada’s Temple Street Productions has created a parent unit that will house an expanded group of content, rights and ventures companies. Boat Rocker Media’s creation comes after Fairfax Financial acquired Orphan Black coproducer Temple Street last year. It will be based in Toronto, with offices in New York and LA. Consolidated in the parent firm are […]

Finance group buys Orphan Black producer

The Toronto-based prodco behind BBC America sci-fi drama Orphan Black has been sold to a Canadian financial group. Fairfax Financial Holdings has acquired a majority stake in Temple Street Productions for an undisclosed amount. Among the plans for the new investment is for Temple Street to explore acquiring rival companies as it expands operations in […]