Alison Skilton

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.

DocuBay has tapped The Vidya Collective to expand the company’s distribution efforts in the U.K. and EMEA.

A+E Networks UK has expanded the distribution of Crime+Investigation in Poland, launching the channel on the Play Now service.

Twofour’s Impossible Engineering is set to air 16 new episodes on UKTV’s Yesterday channel, as well as on Discovery’s Science Channel in the U.S.

The U.K.’s Channel 5 has inked a deal with the culinary presenter Gregg Wallace for the brand-new series Weekend Breaks with Gregg Wallace (working title).

The factual-entertainment channel Quest has commissioned a new season of the car show Fifth Gear from Discovery.

The BBC Earth channel is set to launch in Australia on Foxtel next month, featuring among its factual programs several titles from Sir David Attenborough.

The first round of senior strategists tapped to lead programming, research, strategy and publicity for Chip and Joanna Gaines’ joint media venture with Discovery have been unveiled.

TVF International has closed a slew of deals across Asia, including one that sees the history miniseries Empires of Silver heading to the South Korean pubcaster MBC.