Chelsea Regan

Hosted by Kellie Pickler and Emmy Award-winning journalist Ben Aaron, NATPE’s fifth annual Unscripted Breakthrough Awards honored six winners at the event held yesterday at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach.

Smithsonian Channel will premiere Humboldt: Epic Explorer, a docu-drama that follows Alexander von Humboldt’s journey across South America, in Latin America later this year.

Blue Ant International has clinched a number of new sales, including placing Lakefront Luxury with Bravo in the U.S. and landing a handful of deals for Prison. 

Ovation’s streaming service Journy is partnering with Save Your Day Films and executive producer Stephen Friedman to co-produce the second season of Chasing the Sun.

HISPASAT, a Spanish telecommunications satellite operator, and telecommunications services provider Media Broadcast Satellite have signed a five-year deal to distribute FunBox UHD in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (EMEA).

Showtime Documentary Films has acquired the North American rights to the docuseries Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men.

The Giant Beast That is the Global Economy, a new docuseries from Academy Award-winning director Adam McKay, is slated to premiere on Amazon Prime Video next month.

BTK: A Killer Among Us, a two-hour true-crime special from Cream Productions, is slated to premiere on Investigation Discovery next month.

Autentic Distribution is starting the new year with the sale of a number of new package deals across the globe.

44 Blue Productions, a Red Arrow Studios production house, has hired a new senior VP of production and a new VP of development.