World Screen

KNOXVILLE: Scripps Networks Interactive has set up a new division, Scripps Lifestyle Studios, which will produce content for multiple platforms, including social media, apps, websites and third-party digital outlets. In addition to working with teams within Scripps Networks Interactive’s lifestyle …

GENEVA: Eurovision and Sunny Side of the Doc are teaming up to support European documentaries at the June 2016 event in La Rochelle. For the first time, Eurovision's Documentary Group and Science & Knowledge Group will both attend Sunny Side …

LOS ANGELES: Discovery Channel has lined up its first-ever true-crime series, Killing Fields, which takes viewers inside of an active criminal investigation as it unfolds. The series is shot in real time to follow the hunt for the killer. It …

BURBANK: ABC Family, which becomes Freeform next month, has given the go-ahead to The Letter, a new original reality show from Leftfield Entertainment's Sirens Media. The Letter will spotlight friends helping each other become better versions of themselves by using …

LONDON: Channel 5 has recommissioned Brinkworth Films to produce an extended fourth season of the documentary series Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away as the production company launches an international division. Production has begun on the latest season of Can’t …

CANBERRA: Australian factual producer WildBear Entertainment has partnered with Nat Geo WILD for the co-production of ten hours of wildlife programming, including four hours of 4K content. Among the titles included in the pact is The Wildest River in the …

NEW YORK: Animal Planet has renewed its series Pit Bulls & Parolees for an eighth season, with the show set to mark its 100th episode next month. The title’s ten-episode eighth run is slated to premiere in fall 2016. The …

SANTA MONICA: Discovery Channel has lined up a January debut for the new season of the survivalist show Dual Survival. Produced for the network by Original Media, the series will see new co-hosts Grady Powell and Bill McConnell dropped into …

LOS ANGELES: Discovery Communications has revealed that Sandy Varo Jarrell has become the senior VP of creative at in-house production arm Discovery Studios, while Howard Lee is taking on an expanded role at TLC. In her newly created position, Varo …

TORONTO/NEW YORK: Blue Ant Media and Smithsonian Networks are partnering on a new joint venture, Blue Skye Entertainment, which will develop and distribute 4K natural-history and wildlife content. Operating out of London, the venture will distribute the 4K content globally …