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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 offices in Toronto, 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

This Great Pacific Media documentary TV series launched in 2012. With several top-rated seasons and more than 120 episodes, it follows heavy vehicle rescue and recovery towing company Jamie David Towing as the crew works hard to save lives.

Heavy Rescue is the last line of defense on some of the most treacherous highways in North America, including the dreaded Coquihalla. At any hour, in any conditions, they are ready when police and highway crews call. Highway Thru Hell documents their intense and heroic work.

11
Seasons
2
Successful spinoffs
100%
owned by GPM
100%
ownership of equipment & facilities
Developed by:
Great Pacific Television
Network
Discovery Channel Canada
Recent Awards
2022 Leo Award - Best Direction in a Information, Lifestyle or Reality Program or Series
2022 SOCAN Award - Domestic Television Music Award - Non-Fiction Programming
Nominee: 2022 Canadian Screen Award - Best Factual Series
Nominee: 2022 Canadian Screen Music Award - Best Original Score for a Non-Fiction Series or Limited Series

The Last Kids On Earth

Based on author Max Brallier’s New York Times bestselling book series The Last Kids on Earth, the series is produced by Atomic Cartoons for Netflix, and follows Jack Sullivan and a group of zombie-fighting middle schoolers who live in a treehouse filled with video games and candy. This hilarious, action-packed, coming-of-age story is the winner of four Leo Awards and a Daytime Emmy Award!

The animated series is written and executive produced by author Max Brallier, alongside Atomic’s Jennifer Twiner McCarron, Matthew Berkowitz, and Scott Peterson who also acts as showrunner. The impressive cast also features the voice talents of household names including Nick Wolfhard, Mark Hamill, Catherine O’Hara, Bruce Campbell, and more.  

2019
Premiered
3
Seasons
2020
Fall toyline
2021
Video game
100%
Owned by Atomic
Created by
Max Brallier
Developed by
Atomic Cartoons
Network
Netflix
Recent Awards
2022 Kidscreen Award Nominee: Best Alternative Game
2021 Leo Award - Best Musical Score in an Animation Series
2020 Daytime Emmy Award - Outstanding Special Class Animated Program

Kim’s Convenience

This multi-award-winning series features the lives of a Korean-Canadian family who run a convenience store in Toronto. The series is based on Kim’s Convenience by Ins Choi

The first season holds a 100% rating from Rotten Tomatoes and it has met critical international acclaim. Funny, heartfelt and authentic, Kim’s Convenience premiered on CBC then was picked up by Netflix.

100%
TV rights ownership
17+
Awards won
5
Seasons
Created by
Ins Choi, Kevin White
Developed by
Thunderbird Entertainment
Networks
Netflix, CBC
Recent Awards
ACTRA Awards (2017)
Canadian Screen Awards (2017)
WGC Screenwriting Awards (2017)
Canadian Screen Awards (2018)
Seoul International Drama Awards (2019)
Canadian Screen Awards (2020)

Heavy Rescue: 401

Launched in 2017 on Discovery Canada, Heavy Rescue 401 follows several tow operators, maintenance and rescue crews along North America’s most intense stretch of highway, the 401.

From Greater Toronto through to southern Ontario, these crews fight to keep the country’s most vital trade route to the USA from breaking down through brutal storms, disastrous multi-truck pileups, horrific spills and more.

3.5
million viewers
Top 5
Discovery’s most-watched shows year-over-year
6
Seasons and counting
Developed by:
Great Pacific Media
Network
Discovery Channel Canada

Molly of Denali

Since its 2019 premiere, award-winning Molly of Denali has been recognized as the first nationally distributed children’s series in the United States to feature an Indigenous lead character.

Molly of Denali follows curious, resourceful Molly Mabray as she and her friends explore their epic surroundings and rich Native culture. Molly helps her parents run the Denali Trading Post in interior Alaska. The show has two 11-minute animated segments with a live-action segment in between. Educational, funny and fascinating, Molly from Denali also has online games, videos, activities and a podcast.

4
Seasons
2019
Premiered
50
minute special created
Created by
Dorothea Gillim / Kathy Waugh
Developed by
Atomic Cartoons and WGBH Kids
Networks
CBC, PBS Kids
Recent Awards
2022 Leo Award - Best Performance in an Animation Series
2022 NAMIC Vision Award
Nominee: 2022 Emmy Award - Outstanding Preschool Animated Series & Outstanding Writing for a Preschool Animated Program
2022 BC Reconciliation Award
2021 Kidscreen Award - Best Inclusivity
2021 Youth Media Alliance Awards of Excellence
2020 Television Critics Association Award - Outstanding Achievement in Youth Programming
2020 Peabody Award - Children & Youth
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Who We Are

What We Create

We develop and produce a diversified portfolio of animated, factual and scripted content through Atomic Cartoons and Great Pacific Media for broadcasters, OTT platforms and cable channels worldwide. Our award-winning productions speak to our deep commitment to crafting, producing and partnering on compelling, quality programming.

Our Story

The Bottom Line

We produce fresh, vibrant and successful programming, and there is much more to come. The Thunderbird Entertainment story is only getting bigger and better. Let’s connect and explore opportunities with you.

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