Chelsea Regan

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.

Lionsgate’s Pilgrim Media Group and the World Surf League’s (WSL) newly established studio arm, WSL Studios, have partnered for a co-development deal to produce surf-centric sport and lifestyle content across all formats and platforms.

Andy King, a breakout personality from the Netflix doc Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, has signed a talent deal with Wheelhouse Entertainment’s Spoke Studios.

The Story Lab has entered into a partnership with Renowned Films that includes joining forces for the brand-new factual-entertainment show You Are Not a Loan.

BBC Two has recommissioned the global travel series Race Across the World for two new eight-part seasons.

DRG has picked up the international rights to My Grandparents’ War, a forthcoming four-part factual series that will feature actors Kristin Scott Thomas and Mark Rylance.

Discovery is launching the all-new series Undercover Billionaire, which will feature the self-made billionaire Glenn Stearns attempting to make a million-dollar company in 90 days.

The Bust, a tentatively titled crime series from BBC Studios' Unscripted Productions, has been commissioned by Channel 5.