Animal Planet’s award-winning series Pit Bulls & Parolees is returning for a tenth season with all-new episodes set to bow next month.

The Welsh label Boomerang has been commissioned by 5STAR to produce the two-part documentary Drag Kids, which will air on the channel later this fall.

The newly formed factual label Arrow Pictures has tapped Poppy Dixon for the role of development executive.

Discovery Italia has picked up a new season of Shopping Night from Magnolia, a Banijay Group company, for its Real Time channel.

Banijay Rights has inked a raft of sales for a diverse range of its youth-skewing factual programming from U.K. producers, including BBC Three’s Stacey Dooley: Face to Face with the Arms Dealers.

Canada’s Blue Ant Studios, the production arm of Blue Ant Media, has appointed Jennifer Harkness to the position of senior VP of unscripted content.

The Spanish-language streamer Pantaya has unveiled its first unscripted original series, De Viaje Con Los Derbez (Derbez Family Vacation), which follows actor and comedian Eugenio Derbez and his family as they travel through Morocco.

In its third commissioning deal with the London-based indie Bigger Bang, the factual VOD service CuriosityStream has picked up Secrets of the Solar System (working title).

Discovery Program Sales, the program licensing arm of Discovery, has acquired the worldwide media rights for the five-part series Mysterious Planet.

Industrial Media has appointed four-time Emmy nominee Devon Hammonds to the position of senior VP of development and current programming for the East Coast, leading the company’s New York and Atlanta production hubs.