The Ambassador starring Samantha Bee joins Blue Ant scripted slate – Blue Ant Media has acquired international licensing rights to The Ambassador, a new workplace comedy starring Samantha Bee, and will offer the series to buyers at MIPCOM ahead of its planned 2027 premiere.
The 10-part, half-hour comedy is produced by Amaze Film & Television and commissioned by Canada’s CBC. Blue Ant is handling international pre-sales; the announcement does not name an Australian broadcaster or streaming service. For local viewers, that distinction matters: inclusion in a sales catalogue is not yet an Australian release announcement.
At the same market, Blue Ant is introducing the Iceland-set thriller Signals. Together, the two acquisitions broaden a scripted portfolio that already includes established comedies, young-adult titles and crime dramas, giving buyers a mix of new productions and completed series.
Samantha Bee leads The Ambassador
The Ambassador takes place in a small Canadian embassy in Bulgaria. Bee plays Olivia Winters, a former actor who becomes an unconventional diplomat. Allana Harkin plays her childhood friend Andrea Taylor, the embassy’s policy-focused Deputy Head of Mission. Sent to develop business opportunities far from the usual diplomatic centres, they must work with limited resources while their decisions attract close scrutiny.
Emily Andras, whose credits include Wynonna Earp and Lost Girl, is showrunner and executive producer. Bee and Harkin also executive produce. Teza Lawrence and Michael Souther are executive producers for Amaze Film & Television. The series was commissioned by CBC for a 2027 premiere, while its sale to broadcasters elsewhere remains in progress.
Blue Ant Rights & Streaming executive Mark Bishop said the acquisition was part of a wider push into scripted programming:
Coming off the international success of the hit series Crew Girl, produced by Blue Ant Studios for Netflix, we’re seeing real momentum across our entire scripted business.
Mark Bishop, Chief Monetization Officer, Blue Ant Rights & Streaming
Bishop said the comedy’s fish-out-of-water premise and Bee’s style were central to the company’s international pitch. Blue Ant is taking the project to MIPCOM while it is still available for pre-sale, rather than announcing completed deals for individual territories.
Signals brings an Icelandic thriller to the line-up
The other new title, Signals, is an eight-part, 45-minute English-language thriller set in Iceland. Police officer Magnea and her partner Sonia, a journalist, separately investigate an unidentified extremist group as cyberattacks and acts of terrorism push the country towards crisis. Because of professional secrecy, neither can fully share what she knows, placing their relationship under strain.
The series was commissioned by Iceland’s Síminn, SkyShowtime and Canal+ Poland. Sagafilm is producing it, and the project is in post-production for an expected early-2027 transmission. Its creators are Margrét Örnólfsdóttir, Sjón, Jóhann Ævar Grímsson and Óskar Jónasson; Jónasson also directs.
What else is in Blue Ant’s scripted catalogue?
The two new series sit beside all five seasons of the Canadian comedy Kim’s Convenience and both seasons of its animal-shelter spin-off Strays. Blue Ant says Kim’s Convenience has recently been licensed to Peacock in the United States.
Its third-party acquisitions include In the Pines, a six-part crime drama set inside a criminal enterprise; Elkhorn, an 18-part Western about a young Theodore Roosevelt; and Suspect, two feature-length factual dramas built around police interrogations from high-profile cases. The wider mix spans comedy, animation, young-adult programming, crime and period drama.
Blue Ant’s international sales work has also touched Australian productions. The company handled overseas sales for The Kimberley, the Australian natural-history series made for the ABC. That does not establish an Australian home for The Ambassador or Signals; neither has one announced in this release.
For an Australian example of Blue Ant’s distribution work, read TV Central’s coverage of The Kimberley, and visit Blue Ant Media’s public website for company information.