Spike TV has teamed with award-winning documentary maker Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost trilogy) on the eight-hour event series Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio, launching later this month.

Raw has appointed Liesel Evans as creative director of U.K. factual, marking the company’s second senior appointment following its acquisition by all3media.

UKTV has commissioned a multi-partner funded travel-culinary show, John Torode’s Asia, to air on pay-TV channel Good Food later this year.

DCD Rights has inked several deals for its factual and factual-entertainment titles, including presales for the upcoming second season of the reality series Aussie Gold Hunters.

Alex Maldini has joined Blue Ant International as the VP of international sales and acquisitions, overseeing the U.K., Scandinavia, Benelux and Italy.

Scripps Lifestyle Studios, the social and digital production division of Scripps Networks Interactive, is opening a new global talent incubation unit intended to develop the next generation of lifestyle talent and influencers across the food, travel and home categories.

Blue Ant International has inked a multiplatform agreement with Quebecor Content to provide 4K programming, including Coastal Africa, to Videotron’s Indigo, illico and Club illico platforms.

PBS has acquired the North American distribution rights for the documentary film Bill Nye: Science Guy, which follows the titular science advocate and TV personality in his mission to get Americans excited about science and science education.

Parade Media has secured a host of deals across the globe for titles from its lifestyle slate, including the culinary series Everyday Gourmet.

Travel Channel has scheduled 264 hours of prime-time programming for the next six months, with 11 new series set to premiere before the end of the year, including Caribbean Pirate Treasure.