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Wildbear Entertainment has launched Chronicle, Australia’s first dedicated history documentary streamer, with a catalog that includes new original programming.

Upgrade Productions has tapped Akshay Mehta as executive VP of content strategy and business development and Vanessa Saal as executive VP of production and distribution.

Endemol Shine Brasil is set to launch MasterChef+, which marks the first local version of the hit global culinary series to feature contestants aged 60-plus, in Brazil with both Band and Discovery Home & Health.

Escapade Media has reached a new agreement with Daydreamers Worldwide Entertainment, which will be the company’s representative for Eastern and Central Europe.

Citing a deteriorating macroeconomic environment, ProSiebenSat.1 Media reported lower Q3 revenues of €921 million ($956 million), a 13 percent decline, while revenues for the first nine months of the year were relatively stable at €2.9 billion ($3 billion).

The global sports streaming service DAZN is set to debut the original documentary film Green Lions, detailing Cameroon’s Italia ’90 FIFA World Cup-winning team.

During the MIP Cancun panel Cross Border Production Alliances with the Majors, moderated by TV Latina’s Elizabeth Bowen-Tombari, Telemundo Streaming Studios/Underground Producciones’ Pablo Culell and Julia Freid spoke about the company’s creative and production initiatives for content that transcends borders and resonates with viewers around the world.

The four-part docuseries Branson, directed by Chris Smith (100 Foot Waves), is slated to debut in the U.K. exclusively on Sky Documentaries on December 4.

Viaplay has ordered a six-part adaptation of the hit crime novels The Åre Murders from best-selling Swedish author Viveca Sten.

ABC Australia and CBC/Radio-Canada have inked co-production development deals for two projects from the Kindred ABC/CBC Animation Collaboration initiative.