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Pernel Media has appointed Celine Payot Lehmann to the company’s senior management team in the role of international executive producer.

Blue Ant International has licensed more than 650 hours of programming to the free streaming service Pluto TV.

Howard Swartz, senior VP of production and development at Discovery Channel, talks about this summer's Shark Week.

Globo has launched the Globoplay original docuseries The Evandro Case: A Devilish Plot to the international market.

BBC Studios Factual Productions has confirmed the appointment of Naomi Benson as head of development for The Documentary Unit.

Kin, a creator of unscripted entertainment franchises aimed at women aged 25 to 40, has hired ViacomCBS alum Zaina Sesay as director of talent and development.

National Geographic is set to premiere 9/11: One Day in America, a six-part documentary series that will chronicle the events of that day through first-person narratives from first responders and survivors.

HBO Max has greenlit the true-crime documentary series Dolores: The Truth About the Wanninkhof Case.

Discovery has acquired Last Exit: Space, a new documentary exploring mankind’s push to colonize space from filmmaker Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Encounters at the End of the World, Into the Inferno, Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds).

Beyond Rights has concluded deals with A+E Networks UK in Europe for the documentary series Curse of Akakor, retitled as Curse of the Lost Amazon Gold.