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Netflix and The Netherlands Film Fund have partnered on a new relief effort for film and TV productions to help the hardest-hit workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, following on the streamer's similar arrangements with organizations in Spain, the U.K., France and elsewhere.

ViacomCBS Networks International (VCNI) has greenlit two new series that are being produced remotely for its Youth & Entertainment Brands.

National Geographic Documentary Films is working with Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Imagine Documentaries on a new doc about renowned chef and humanitarian José Andrés and his nonprofit World Central Kitchen as they rebuild nations in the wake of disaster.

Exile Content Studio has signed an exclusive first-look podcast series and docuseries deal with writer-director Diego Enrique Osorno.

Joining a host of other global broadcasters and platforms, Hulu Japan will stream the One World: Together at Home special in support of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Blink Films is making the three-part docuseries X-Ray Earth for National Geographic channels around the world.

FilmRise has acquired select international streaming rights for the science entertainment show MythBusters and the true-crime series Deadly Women from Beyond Distribution.

Apple has launched Home, a new original docuseries from the team behind Jiro Dreams of Sushi and The Defiant Ones, on Apple TV+.

Channel 4 has commissioned Dragonfly Film & TV (part of Endemol Shine UK) to deliver a fast-turnaround observational documentary series, tentatively titled Pandemic: Emergency, that will capture how the West Midlands Ambulance Service is dealing with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Perry Mason, a new drama series starring Matthew Rhys (The Americans), is set to debut on HBO in June.