Alexa Alfano

Netflix's new sports series Starting 5, providing a behind-the-scenes look at the 2023-24 NBA season through the eyes of five of the league's star players, is set to premiere on October 9.

National Geographic has begun to amp up its digital offering by expanding its portfolio of YouTube content with a new Spanish-language channel and fresh series.

Factual distributor TVF International has secured a wave of sales for its true-crime titles across North America, Europe, the Asia Pacific and MENA.

A+E Networks EMEA is set to launch five FAST channels on Plex in the U.K., featuring hit titles and series from both the U.K. and the U.S.

UKTV has commissioned Katie Piper: Locked Up in Louisiana for U&W and Guy Martin’s Proper Jobs for U&Dave.

Screen Australia has chosen 11 documentaries through the Producer Program and two through the Commissioned Program to share in A$3 million ($2.03 million) of production funding.

Channel 5 has ordered two new factual titles and a second season of the historical series Endurance, all set to premiere later this year and into 2025.

BBC Factual has commissioned America’s New Female Right, a one-off documentary exploring the rise of right-wing ideologies in American women, for BBC Three and iPlayer.

Nadine Rajabi has been named executive VP of unscripted at Blink49 Studios, effective immediately.

Jupiter Entertainment (Who Killed Robert Wone?, Snapped) has entered an overall co-production deal with veteran producer Chris Deaux and his company Two Fifteen West Entertainment.