Who is asking
Ryan has made outdoor television since 2012, and he says he has seen a cougar in New Brunswick. Twice.
The Record
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Trekkit TV
2012
Starting in 2012, Ryan hosted and produced for Bell TV1, later renamed Fibe TV1, with adventures filmed in Iceland, Norway, the Highlands of Scotland and the Maritime provinces.
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Trekkit: the New Brunswick ATV expedition
2021
Ryan hosted this unscripted series, which follows a traverse of New Brunswick by all-terrain vehicle, more than 2,300 kilometres of it. It meant leading a field production through weeks of back-country travel, and telling the story of the province’s people and landscape along the way. The series has been seen on Wild TV.
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Maritimes from Above
2017
Ryan produced and hosted this CBC documentary, a portrait of the Maritime provinces filmed from the air.
Why this series
Phantom Prowler asks for the same work: long field productions in remote country, planned and carried through.
Ryan is not a wildlife biologist, and the series does not pretend he is. The science is left to scientists.
What he brings as well is a reason. He says he has seen a cougar in New Brunswick twice: in Charlotte County in 1984, when he was twelve, and near Mount Carleton in June 2025. That account is his to tell, and he tells it in My Story.
Trekkit Studios
Phantom Prowler is a Trekkit Studios Ltd. production. The company is based in New Brunswick.
Seen on
Ryan’s earlier productions have been seen on these channels. They are not partners in Phantom Prowler, which is under development and has no broadcaster attached.
