Louis Theroux, a BAFTA-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist and broadcaster, will be interviewed by the writer and journalist Dawn O’Porter at this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival.

Insight TV has partnered with the energy drink company Monster Energy to co-produce Jndia, The Fast Life, a documentary about the female drag-car racer Jndia Erbacher. 

Wonder, a Banijay Group company, has been commissioned to make the docuseries Billy Connolly’s Great American Trail for ITV.

Zoomin, an Amsterdam-based digital media company, has partnered with Tencent in China to produce the three-part docuseries All for Adrenaline the Realm.

Z Living Network has added 190 more hours of Gusto Worldwide Media’s original food and lifestyle programming to its lineup.

DRG has inked a raft of international deals for its new food and travel series, Remarkable Places to Eat.

Manson’s Bloodline, an original documentary series about Charles Manson from Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), is set to premiere on Viaplay next month.

TCB Media Rights has picked up Top Hat Productions’ The $50m Art Swindle, signaling the London-based rights-ownership and distribution company’s move into high-end feature-length documentaries.

Channel 4 has commissioned Frieda.TV to make Cooking Up a Fortune, a brand-new 20-part culinary competition series.

Former soccer player David Beckham is launching Studio 99, a media company that will develop nonfiction programming and serve as a creative agency for brand partners.