Chelsea Regan

Two Rivers Media has been commissioned by BBC Two to make a follow-up Frankie Boyle documentary for the channel.

Alchimie, a video tech content enabler, has signed a new agreement with ORF-Enterprise, marketer and distributor for the Austrian Public Broadcaster.

ARTE Distribution and France-based indie producer Le Cinquième Rêve have signed a co-production deal with Doclights for The Private Life of Sharks and presold the rights for the rest of the world, excluding France and Canada, to National Geographic.

Blue Ant International has entered into a multiyear deal with Rockhead Entertainment that will see the global distributor representing more than 140 hours of content across 11 seasons of celebrity chef David Rocco’s Dolce Vita franchise.

Channel 5 has commissioned a feature-length documentary that focuses on a British volunteer surgeon and an anesthetist deployed to a hospital facility in war-ravaged South Sudan, tentatively titled The Frontline: Doctors of War.

The ballroom competition series Legendary has been renewed by HBO Max for a second season.

Ridley Scott and Kai Hsuing, along with director Kevin Macdonald, are set to create Life in a Day 2020 for YouTube.

The BBC has revealed its new documentary commissions, which will roll out across BBC One, BBC Two and BBC Three.

FX and Hulu have teamed up to launch The New York Times Presents, a new documentary series from the team behind The Weekly.

Crime+Investigation UK is set to premiere the new docuseries Surviving Jeffrey Epstein, produced by Bungalow Media and Entertainment.