Production and Distribution
Cineflix started production for Mayday on 13 August 2002 (2002-08-13), with a CDN$2.5 million budget, after Channel Five commissioned the six-part one-hour series. To keep the costs down most of the production was kept at Cineflix's Toronto offices in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. While in production the series was sold to France 5, Discovery Channel and Canal D. On 2 June 2003 (2003-06-02), Cineflix announced that they sold the series to TVNZ, the Seven Network and the Holland Media Group, later on 22 October 2003 (2003-10-22), a month before the airing of the first season, Cineflix announced that they secured a major international deal with National Geographic Channel to take Mayday to 144 countries and 26 languages.
On 25 January 2012, Cineflix Rights announced that they would be selling Seasons 8, 9 and 11 (23 episodes) to Smithsonian Networks.
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