Alison Skilton

Peacock, NBCUniversal’s new streaming service, has signed a licensing deal with A+E Networks that is set to make hundreds of hours of episodes of hit series from A&E and HISTORY, including Pawn Stars, available to stream after the platform launches later this year.

PBS is gearing up to premiere the new documentary Climate Change—The Facts, presenting scientific evidence of the impact of global warming, on Earth Day.

Insight TV has commissioned an adventurous new documentary filmed entirely in 8K UHD HDR titled Sandboarding on Dragon Hill.

Lightbox, the production company co-founded by Emmy-winning producers Simon and Jonathan Chinn, has appointed Nicole Laufer as VP of development.

Desert Vet, a factual series from indie Australian production house Projucer and cinematographer Tim Small that aired on the Nine Network, has been renewed for a second season to bow later this year.

FilmRise has secured the North American distribution rights to the documentary Rewind, which premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival.

Discovery has upped Emmy winner Scott Lewers to the role of executive VP of multiplatform programming for factual and head of content for Science Channel.

Fourteen years after the final Monster Machine was built, Jesse James is returning to Discovery Channel in a brand-new season of Monster Garage, produced by Fremantle’s Original Productions.

In time for International Women’s Day, YouTube and the Global Fund for Women are set to launch Fundamental. Gender Justice. No Exceptions, a new docuseries exploring human rights around the world.

The year-old factual indie Zeppelin Films, founded by former Love Productions executive and BBC Commissioning Editor Elliot Reed, has secured two further commissions from 5STAR.