Mansha Daswani

Singapore's Mediacorp is launching The Big Spark, a new business reality show for CNA in which startup teams from across Southeast Asia pitch breakthrough ideas as they vie for seed funding.

Tracking the biggest factual developments out of MIPCOM.

A pair of documentaries about the recent Hamas attacks in Israel made headlines in Cannes.

Award-winning Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion is prepping a 45-minute special, One Day in October, about the Hamas attack on the music festival in Israel on October 7, with the film set to air on ZDF and ARTE within the next two weeks, filmmakers Duki Dror and Reinhardt Beetz tell World Screen Newsflash.

U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 has rolled out its first international channels, bringing the FAST services 4 Adventure and 4 Emergency to Tubi, Plex and Xumo Play.

Football Must Go On, chronicling the journey of Ukrainian soccer club Shakhtar Donetsk as they competed in the 2022-2023 UEFA Champions League season, is slated to premiere on Paramount+ in September.

Delivering this year's MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival, documentarian Louis Theroux weighed in on the importance of risk-taking and the "atmosphere of anxiety" in the media business.

ZED has acquired all the assets of doc producer Point du Jour—Les Films du Balibari, which includes a library of 900-plus hours.

Autentic’s Patrick Hörl, Blue Ant International’s Solange Attwood and Albatross World Sales’ Lisa Schelhas weighed in on the new opportunities the AVOD sector is presenting to factual content distributors at the FAST Festival.

Endeavor has made a minority investment in Velvet Hammer Media (VHM), the non-scripted production company co-founded by former HBO Max execs Jennifer O’Connell and Rebecca Quinn.