Joel Marino

LONDON: Beyond Distribution has closed deals with international broadcasters for the latest installments of the Canadian series Highway Thru Hell and Fatal Vows.

BERLIN: Distributor Quintus Media has brokered a pair of presales for docuseries from German production company Maximus Film, with content sold to France and Switzerland.

LONDON: U.S. network REELZ has commissioned 20 new episodes of Autopsy: The Last Hours Of… from ITV Studios’s Potato.

LONDON: On the heels of a weekend shooting spree that left 50 dead at an Orlando gay nightclub, the BBC has announced a three-part docuseries exploring U.S. hate crimes based on sexuality and race.

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TORONTO: Peace Point Rights has been named the exclusive distributor of Cisneros Media Distribution’s (CMD) unscripted titles in multiple international territories.

LONDON: NBCUniversal International has rolled out its reality SVOD service hayu for Foxtel customers in Australia.

LONDON: The U.K.’s Cineflix Rights has acquired several new factual titles, among them the hipster chef series Chuck’s World from Trio Orange.

NEW YORK: NBC News’s Peacock Productions has signed a deal with Denise Brown, sister of the late Nicole Brown Simpson, to develop a new true-crime series.

LONDON: UKTV has commissioned the factual program The Cops (working title) for its channel Really.