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Jay Baruchel, host of hit show LOL: Last One Laughing Canada, from Boat Rocker’s Insight Productions, is expanding his relationship with the entertainment company. The actor, writer, producer and director has closed a first-look deal with Boat Rocker to develop and produce original television, film and digital…

EXCLUSIVE: Erik McCurdy's comic strip Stuffed is set to be turned into a television series. Boat Rocker, which is involved in animated series including BBC's Danger Mouse and Nickelodeon's The Loud House, has teamed up with The Operating Room, which is behind Fox's Hawkmaster on the animated project. Stuffed centers…

A feature documentary about Le Bal des Débutantes, a Paris-set fashion event, is set to be the first project as part of a new non-fiction slate from Boat Rocker. The company, via its Maven banner, is producing and financing Le Bal Paris, a doc that goes behind the scenes at the world's most prestigious debutante…

Boat Rocker has acquired a minority equity stake in TeaTime Pictures, founded by Dakota Johnson and former Netflix executive Ro Donnelly, which has had a first-look deal with the Canadian TV studio since 2019. Under the agreement, Boat Rocker will extend its current first-look deal with TeaTime to develop and produce…

Cleve Keller and Dave Noll, creators Food Network's Chopped, has struck a first-look deal with Boat Rocker. The pair will develop and produce unscripted shows for the American Rust and Invasion producer via their Keller/Noll banner. Having previously worked for Barry Diller and his Notional production company, the…

Scott Weintrob, who has directed episodes of Apple TV+'s Home and created Netflix series Fastest Car, has signed an overall deal with Boat Rocker. The deal will see Weintrob develop and produce series for Boat Rocker via his Large Eyes production company. It comes after Weintrob recently wrote and designed creative…

Game of Thrones star Lena Headey will produce a series adaptation of Nikita Gill's The Girl and the Goddess with Boat Rocker. The Girl and the Goddess follows Paro as she embarks on the newest chapter of her life at a London university. As Paro's world opens up to new possibilities, she must also face the trauma of…

Stephanie Langhoff, exec producer of Starz' Vida and former Duplass Brothers Productions President, has launched her own production company and struck a first-look deal with Boat Rocker. Langhoff, who exec produced series including Togetherness during her time with the Duplass brothers, has set up High Tide…

Boat Rocker, the entertainment company behind American Rust, Dino Ranch, and Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry, has struck a multi-genre development deal with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, the esteemed author and scholar behind How To Be An Antiracist. The deal will help launch the bestselling author's new production…

EXCLUSIVE: Lena Headey is lining up a spooky animated adaptation of Christian McKay Heidicker's Scary Stories for Young Foxes. The Game of Thrones star is attached to voice a character in an animated miniseries adaptation of the award-winning kids' horror novel and co-produce it with Boat Rocker Studios. Her…

Orphan Black, the sci-fi hit that netted Tatiana Maslany an Emmy for her shape-shifting lead performance, is continuing with a new written and audio installment that will feature Maslany’s voice. Serial Box, a start-up that offers subscribers access to serialized stories in both e-book and audio form, is teaming up…

Serial Box, a subscription-based startup that offers serialized stories in both written and audio form, has announced a seed investment round of $1.65 million. The round was led by Boat Rocker Media, whose recent investments include CAA Creative Labs, The Outline, MarcoPolo Learning and the acquisition of Fremantle…