Discovery Channel Latin America has picked up the crime doc series Behind Bars: The World’s Toughest Prisons.

The winners of the second MIPDrama Screenings have been announced, with this year's edition including awards in two distinct categories and from two different juries, as well as awards selected by MIPDrama Screenings buyers.

IM Global Television has partnered with Imagine Group to launch format and tape sales for the unscripted series Fit for Fashion and The Apartment.

Scripps Networks Interactive has a slew of new original lifestyle series to present to buyers at MIPTV, covering categories such as home, food and travel.

HISTORY in Canada has scheduled the national broadcast premiere of the feature documentary Searching for Vimy’s Lost Soldiers for April 9, marking the 100-year anniversary of the battle of Vimy Ridge, which is considered the country’s most famous military victory.

Jake Haelen has been appointed as head of development at Turn Card Content, the joint venture launched last year by Lucky 8 TV (60 Days In) and unscripted producers Audra and Courtney Smith.

The brand-new Cannes International Series Festival is set to take place alongside MIPTV in 2018 featuring public screenings across the city as well as a co-production forum.

BBC Worldwide has landed another format deal for The Great Bake Off, which is set for a local treatment in the Czech Republic.

TCB Media Rights has sold Diana and the Paparazzi and Royal Murder Mysteries to SBS Australia.

The animated preschool series Cleo & Cuquin, which comes from Ánima Kitchent and Televisa, is set to debut on Discovery Kids in Latin America this fall.