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1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything, a new docuseries that will explore the musicians and soundtracks that shaped the culture and politics of 1971, is set to launch on Apple TV+.

Netflix has commenced production on an unscripted series that centers on the social media collective Hype House.

HBO Max has given a six-part series order to the original Take Out, a docuseries that follows journalist Lisa Ling as she learns about the lives of the people and families who run some of America’s over 45,000 Asian restaurants.

Jennifer Gatien, former head of production at WAM Media, has been appointed head of factual television and producer at Pixcom.

In celebration of Earth Day, discovery+ has unveiled discovery+ Immersions, a premium collection of exclusive and expanded long-form originals from the service’s natural-history programming library.

Apple Original Films has expanded its documentary slate with Number One on the Call Sheet, two documentary features from Jamie Foxx, Kevin Hart, Datari Turner and Dan Cogan.

The U.K. factual company Zinc Media Group has confirmed the launch of the new production label Supercollider, led by award-winning director Mike Christie.

Cornelia Street Productions, Handel Productions and Arrow Media have partnered for The Goddess and The American Girl, a feature documentary about a historical tennis match between two women, executive produced by Martina Navratilova.

Frank Sinton, president of A. Smith & Co. Dox and executive producer of Canine Intervention, talks to World Screen Newsflash about the Netflix dog training series and its charismatic host, Jas Leverette.

WarnerMedia has appointed Annelies Sitvast to the newly created role of head of unscripted production for WarnerMedia EMEA.