World Screen

The Cream Productions series History Erased has earned a sophomore run on HISTORY Canada. 

TLC has ordered its first original short-form wedding series for YouTube, Countdown To I Do, which will premiere exclusively on TLC UK YouTube in Q4.

The team behind Gusto TV—home to shows such as Flour Power, DNA Dinners and One World Kitchen—will be at APOS looking for strategic partnerships for the linear channel and SVOD service.

Travel Channel’s new series about real-life horror stories of yesteryear, the tentatively titled Shadows of History, will be hosted by Robert Englund, the actor best known for playing Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street films.

GRB Studios is highlighting a slew of factual series at this year’s MIPTV, including Untold Stories of the ER.

Smithsonian Networks brings a slew of factual highlights to MIPTV, among them The Green Book: Guide to Freedom, a documentary that covers the same subject matter as this year’s Academy Award winner for best picture, Green Book.

Are you attending MIPDoc this weekend? Make sure to get your copy of TV Real, visit TVReal.ws, access our Twitter feed, and peruse listings of numerous new shows via our Screening Rooms.

One offering at MIPTV this year from Alfred Haber Distribution is Help! My House Is Haunted!, which has just been renewed for a second season by UKTV.

Distribution360 has a factual slate stocked with history fare this MIPTV, including Titanic: Stories from the Deep.

On the first day of MIPDoc, April 6, BBC Studios’ Dr. Michael Gunton will sit down with World Screen’s Anna Carugati in the Grand Theatre at the JW Marriott to discuss the art and craft of factual filmmaking in the special Talent Behind the Scenes session, which will be followed by the presentation of this year’s World Screen Factual Trendsetter Award.