Boat Rocker Media Inc. is a Canadian entertainment company based in Toronto, Ontario. The company owns Boat Rocker Studios, which incorporates Temple Street Productions. Its majority shareholder is Fairfax Financial. Boat Rocker is led by co-executive chairs David Fortier and Ivan Schneeberg and CEO John Young.^[1]

Boat Rocker produces and distributes a wide range of scripted and unscripted television shows, animation and family content, such as Invasion,^[2][3] American Rust,^[2] Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry,^[4] Orphan Black,^[2] and Dino Ranch.^[2]

Boat Rocker owns other entertainment properties, including Jam Filled Entertainment, Insight Productions, Matador Content,^[5] and Platform One Media,^[6] and does talent management^[7] and venture investing.^[8]

Boat Rocker Media was established in 2003 by Ivan Schneeberg and David Fortier.^[4][9] Its largest division, Boat Rocker Studios, encompasses Temple Street Productions, which was acquired by Schneeberg and Fortier in 2006.^[10][11] The company's other divisions were Boat Rocker Animation, Boat Rocker Ventures, and Boat Rocker Rights.^[10]

Boat Rocker Rights' first outside distribution deal was with the pick-up of international rights to Steve Rotfeld Productions' Xploration Station block's programs in late February 2016.^[12] Then in June 2016, the unit acquired Mountain Road Productions library distribution rights plus a first look deal with the company.^[13]

In 2016, Boat Rocker purchased Radical Sheep Productions, which continued operating as Boat Rocker's family and children's media unit.^[14] In early August 2016, Boat Rocker purchased Jam Filled Entertainment, which was to continuing operating with current management and name.^[15] Boat Rocker through Jam Filled purchased Arc Productions' main assets on August 22, 2016, and reopened Arc's Toronto office.^[16]

In January 2018, Boat Rocker acquired FremantleMedia's Kids & Family Entertainment division, which includes the children's programming library of Thames Television.^[17]

In November 2018, Boat Rocker acquired Matador Content, producers of the Paramount Network series Lip Sync Battle and its spinoff Lip Sync Battle Shorties on sister network Nickelodeon.^[18]

In March 2019, Boat Rocker invested in Untitled Entertainment, a talent management and production company.^[7] It has also made investments in Realm Media,^[19] the Toronto Arrows,^[20] CAA Creative Labs,^[21] and MarcoPolo Learning.^[22]

In September 2019, Boat Rocker acquired Platform One Media, a Los Angeles-based television production and sales company operated by television producer Katie O’Connell Marsh, whose credits include Hannibal and Narcos. Marsh stayed on after the acquisition.^[19][23]

In December 2020, Temple Street was incorporated into Boat Rocker Studios, Scripted.^[24]

Boat Rocker signed first-look deals with Lena Headey’s Peephole Productions^[25] and Dakota Johnson's TeaTime Pictures.^[26] In March 2021, it partnered with television executive Jessica Sebastian-Dayeh to create Maven, which focuses on female-led stories.^[27][28]

Most recently, on December 20, 2021, Boat Rocker had bought out a minority stake in the TeaTime Pictures production company.^[29]

• Boat Rocker Brands^[30]
• Boat Rocker Rights^[31]
• Boat Rocker Ventures^[32]
• Boat Rocker Studios, Scripted^[33]
• Boat Rocker Studios, Unscripted^[33]
  • Matador Content
  • Maven
  • Insight Productions
  • Proper Television
• Boat Rocker Studios, Kids and Family^[33]
  • Industrial Brothers (minority stake)^[34][1]
  • Jam Filled Entertainment^[15]