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We are a creative-driven, pure play content production studio that creates and owns global, award-winning scripted, factual and animated programming.

With a focus on diversity and inclusivity, we strive to make the world a better place by creating content that is award-winning, entertaining & made with integrity.

Our Global Partners

World class projects. World class partners. Based in Vancouver, with teams in Ottawa and Los Angeles, we build global brands with these leading over-the-top platforms and international broadcasters

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Highway Thru Hell

With several top-rated seasons and more than 200 episodes, Highway Thru Hell follows heavy vehicle rescue and recovery towing companies, as the heroic crews work hard to save lives on the most inhospitable trucking routes in North America, including the dreaded Coquihalla in British Columbia, one of the most dangerous transport corridors on the West Coast. At any hour, in any conditions, they are ready when police and highway crews call.

Launched in 2012, Highway Thru Hell is one of the longest-running series of its kind, and also one of the most successful independently owned unscripted brands in the world. Highway Thru Hell is produced by GPM in partnership with Bell Media. The Thunderbird owned-IP series is available in more than 180 territories around the world, including on The Weather Channel in the US, and there is a dedicated Highway Thru Hell FAST channel in the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines. Banijay Rights distributes the series internationally.

15
Seasons
100%
owned by Great Pacific Media
100%
ownership of equipment and facilities
Developed by:
Great Pacific Television
Networks
USA Network (Canada), formerly Discovery Canada, The Weather Channel (US), CTV Gridlock, Highway Thru Hell FAST channel (Banijay Rights)
Recent Awards
2024 LEO Award - Best Overall Sound in an Information, Lifestyle or Reality Program or Series
2024 LEO Award - Best Picture Editing in an Information, Lifestyle or Reality Series
2024 LEO Award - Best Information, Lifestyle or Reality Program or Series
2024 LEO Award - Best Screenwriting in an Information, Lifestyle or Reality Series
2023 LEO Award - Best Picture Editing in an Information, Lifestyle or Reality Series
2022 Leo Award - Best Direction in a Information, Lifestyle or Reality Program or Series
2020 LEO Award - Best Musical Score Documentary Series
2022 SOCAN Award - Domestic Television Music Award - Non-Fiction Programming

Mermicorno: Starfall

Inspired by tokidoki’s hit Mermicorno character family, Mermicorno: Starfall is a smart and fun adventure-comedy for kids that takes place in a magical undersea world, where a team of Mermicornos (enchanting unicorn-mermaids) band together to save the ocean from an evil threat. The show follows heroes – led by Astra, the most powerful Mermicorno – as they explore the magic of creative self-expression and forge deep friendships, all while searching for the best bowl of ramen in the sea. Showcasing the wonders of the natural world, this is the first animated series to bring tokidoki’s underwater universe to life.

Created and produced by Atomic in partnership with tokidoki, the series first premiered in January 2025 in the US on HBO Max, and ranked #11 in the Kids and Family category of the streamer shortly thereafter. The series also premiered on YTV and STACKTV’s Teletoon+ (Canada), Max and Discovery Kids (LATAM), POP (UK), and Cartoon Network in Southeast Asia, and ejunior has licensed the series in the Middle East. 

Along with distribution deals, tokidoki launched the Mermicorno: Starfall game on Roblox in collaboration with Space Junk Studios. In addition, Thunderbird Brands has partnered with Jazwares as the global master toy licensee for Mermicorno: Starfall, and together, unveiled an exclusive Mermicorno: Starfall 12” Powered Up Astra Collector Edition plush at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2025. Thunderbird Brands has also appointed Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana, a renowned international producer, distributor, and licensor of children’s animated and live-action content to represent the brand Mermicorno: Starfall in the Canadian market, covering all major categories outside of toys and publishing.

26
episodes
1
Roblox game
Created and produced by:
Atomic Cartoons in partnership with tokidoki
Developed by:
Atomic Cartoons and tokidoki
Networks
HBO Max (USA), YTV and STACKTV’s Teletoon+ (Canada), Max and Discovery Kids (LATAM), POP (UK), Cartoon Network (SE Asia), ejunior (Middle East)

Kim’s Convenience

This multi-award-winning series features the lives of a Korean-Canadian family who run a convenience store in Toronto, while dealing with the evolving world around them. The series is based on Kim’s Convenience by Ins Choi’s 2011 play of the same name. 

Thunderbird developed and sold IP for Kim’s Convenience to CBC, with the first season premiering in 2016 and the series running for a total of five seasons. In 2018, the series made its international debut when it was picked up by Netflix. In 2022, FilmRise acquired the FAST rights to Kim’s Convenience. In addition, the series also sparked a spin-off: Strays aired on CBC from 2021-2022. 

Praised for being funny, heartfelt and authentic, Kim’s Convenience continues to attract new audiences and critical acclaim to this day, with the first season holding a 100% rating on the review aggregator, Rotten Tomatoes.

100%
TV rights ownership
17+
Awards won
5
Seasons
Created by
Ins Choi, Kevin White
Developed by
Thunderbird Entertainment
Networks
Netflix, CBC
Recent Awards
2 x ACTRA Awards
10 x LEO Awards
17 x Canadian Screen Awards
WGC Screenwriting Awards (2018)
Seoul International Drama Awards (2019)

Molly of Denali

Since its 2019 premiere, Molly of Denali has been recognized as the first nationally distributed children’s series in the United States to feature an Indigenous lead character. The series follows the resourceful Molly Mabray, who has cultural heritage from three Athabascan groups: the Gwich’in, Koyukon and Dena’ina, as she helps her parents run the Denali Trading Post in interior Alaska. She and her friends explore the epic surroundings and rich Native culture that is home.

Molly of Denali encourages positive representation both onscreen and offscreen. More than 100 Alaska Native and Indigenous people have contributed to the PBS KIDS series as writers, producers, actors, musicians, advisors and animators – breaking new ground by changing the production model from tokenism to true collaboration.

Each episode includes two 11-minute animated segments with a live-action segment in between. In the United States, Molly of Denali airs on PBS KIDS and is also available on the PBS KIDS Video App. In Canada, it airs Wednesday and Saturday mornings on CBC and is also available on the free CBC Gem streaming service.

Educational, funny and fascinating, Molly of Denali also has online games, videos, activities and a podcast.

5
Seasons, along with multiple specials and shorts
2019
Premiered
Created by
Dorothea Gillim / Kathy Waugh
Developed by
Atomic Cartoons and WGBH Kids
Networks
CBC, PBS Kids, Knowledge Kids, TVO Kids, Apple TV
Recent Awards
2025 Children’s and Family Emmy Awards – Outstanding Writing or a Preschool Animated Series
2022 LEO Award – Best Voice Performance in an Animation Series
2022 Kidscreen Award - Best Web/App Series (Awesome Alaskan Kids)
2022 NAMIC Vision Award – Animation Category
2022 BC Reconciliation Award (Atomic Cartoons in partnership with GBH)
2021 Kidscreen Award - Best Inclusivity
2021 Youth Media Alliance Award of Excellence – Best Program, Animation (Ages 6-9 and 9+)
2020 Peabody Award - Children & Youth
2020 Television Critics Association Award - Outstanding Achievement in Youth Programming

Deadman’s Curse

Deadman’s Curse follows four treasure hunters as they seek to solve the mystery of Slumach’s lost gold mine in the rugged train of the Pacific Northwest. Featured in the series are former MMA fighter and prospector Kru Williams, young Indigenous explorer Taylor Starr, along with her father and master carver Don Froese, as well as seasoned legend hunter and mountaineer Adam Palmer.

Season 1 of Deadman’s Curse premiered on HISTORY in 2022, with the second season debuting in 2024. In 2023, the series launched on Hulu in the US. That same year, GPM launched the companion podcast, Deadman’s Curse: Slumach’s Gold. The podcast hit #1 on Apple’s History charts, won three 2023 Signal Awards, and was named one of the Best Podcasts of the Year by Amazon Music. Season 2 of the podcast, titled Deadman’s Curse: Volcanic Gold, premiered the following year and won a Gold 2024 Signal Award. Season 3 of Deadman’s Curse is airing on HISTORY Fall 2025.

3
Seasons
1
Podcast
100%
Owned by Great Pacific Media
Developed by:
Great Pacific Media
Networks
History Channel, Hulu
Recent Awards
2025 LEO Award - Best Program
2025 LEO Award - Best Screenwriting
2025 LEO Award - Best Cinematography
2025 LEO Award - Best Picture Editing
2025 LEO Award - Best Sound
2024 LEO Award – Best Direction - Information Lifestyle or Reality Series
2024 Signal Award – History Series (Gold)
2024 LEO Award – Best Cinematography - Information Lifestyle or Reality Series
2023 Signal Award – Listeners’ Choice for Writing – Unscripted
2023 Signal Award – History Series (Gold)
2023 Signal Award – Writing – Unscripted (Silver)

Sidelined: The QB and Me

Sidelined: The QB and Me is a Tubi Original film based on the smash hit Wattpad novel “The QB Bad Boy and Me” by Tay Marley. The movie follows Dallas (Siena Agudong), a burdened but headstrong dancer, who is determined to get into the best dance school in the country — her late mother’s alma mater. Her dream is suddenly derailed when the cheeky yet secretly grieving football star, Drayton (Noah Beck), crashes into her life with a unique story of his own. James Van Der Beek, Drew Ray Tanner, Deborah Cox, and Jake Foy also star in the movie.

Following its premiere in November 2024, Sidelined: The QB and Me quickly rose to the top of the charts. The movie ranked as the #1 title on Tubi in the US and Canada, and drew the largest number of viewers of any title on the platform in its first week. Sidelined: The QB and Me continues to attract audiences around the world with the UK and France (hitting #1 on Prime) among the additional markets that have released the movie.

The sequel, Sidelined 2: Intercepted, is set to premiere on Tubi on November 27th, 2025.

1
Sequel
Directed by:
Justin Wu
Produced and financed by:
GPM for Tubi
Sold internationally by:
Blue Fox Entertainment
Network
Tubi
Recent Awards
2025 LEO Award - Best Cinematography (Also nominated for Program, Make-Up, and Choreography)

Super Team Canada

Created by Canadian Emmy®-winning writers, and brothers, Robert Cohen (HBO’s Somebody, Somewhere, The Big Bang Theory) and Joel H. Cohen (The Simpsons), animated comedy Super Team Canada focuses on the exploits of six, little-known Canadian superheroes trying to save the world from evil giant robots, an unemployed octopus, and needy hardware store clerks. The stakes are high for these stereotypically underdog Canadian super-unknowns, who are called in as Earth’s last resort when all the other superheroes have been destroyed. The series stars an all-Canadian cast including Will Arnett, Cobie Smulders, Kevin McDonald, Charles Demers, Brian Drummond, Ceara Morgana, Veena Sood, and guest star Jay Baruchel. Bryan Adams performs the theme song.

Super Team Canada is Atomic Cartoons’ first adult original animated series, produced with Will Arnett’s Electric Avenue, in association with Bell Media’s Crave. The series premiered in May 2025 on Crave and is also available on Tubi in the US and on ITVX in the UK. Season 2 of Super Team Canada has also been announced.

Thunderbird Distribution and Brands oversee global media and consumer products rights for the series.

2
Seasons
Created by:
Canadian Emmy®-winning writers Robert Cohen and Joel H. Cohen
Produced by:
Atomic Cartoons and Electric Avenue, in association with Bell Media’s Crave
Networks
Crave, Tubi, ITVX
Recent Awards
2025 LEO Award – Best Animation Series
2025 LEO Award – Best Voice Performance, Animation Series (Brian Drummond)
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