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Electus International has inked a deal to distribute Carlito’s Cooking Adventures, featuring Asian fusion chef Carlos Cham, on the global market.

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 summer.

Charlotte Desai has been named documentaries commissioning editor at the U.K.’s Channel 4.

BBC One has commissioned the historical-crime series My Grandad Was Innocent from Chalkboard TV for a launch in early 2018.

The 28th edition of Sunny Side of the Doc has wrapped in La Rochelle, where seven pitching competitions were held and winners selected.

Drive has secured a number of presales from broadcasters around the world for an as-yet-untitled documentary focused on the life and work of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Channel 4 has ordered a second 30x30-minute season of the hit daytime series Extreme Cake Makers from Boomerang.

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

Walter Köhler, the CEO of Terra Mater Factual Studios, and Sabine Holzer, the company’s head of TV, discuss the importance of investing in 4K, the prospects for VR in the factual space and the increasing role of SVOD and OTT players as significant partners for this kind of programming.

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.