Joel Marino

VIENNA: ORF-Enterprise has clinched several sales for its Universum brand, with broadcasters around the world signing package deals for the strand’s factual programming.

TEL AVIV/CANNES: Dori Media Group has added to its catalogue the mentalist show Invisible, which first aired in Israel earlier this year.

SILVER SPRING: Disappeared, a true-crime series about missing-persons cases, is slated to return to Investigation Discovery for a seventh season after a three-year hiatus.

NEW YORK: WE tv in the U.S. has greenlit My Life Is a Telenovela, a Miami-set docuseries following actresses and actors working within the popular genre.

LOS ANGELES/NORTH HOLLYWOOD: Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have signed on to executive produce The Runner, a reality competition show for Verizon’s go90 platform.

NEW YORK: Singer Christina Aguilera has signed on to develop a new, music-based game show due out on Spike TV as a half-hour special later this year.

LOS ANGELES: Factual entertainment and wildlife producer Plimsoll Productions has acquired a minority stake in specialist distributor Magnify Media, a partnership that grants Magnify the sole rights to distribute Plimsoll’s catalogue.

LOS ANGELES: E! Entertainment has teamed with Bunim/Murray Productions for the docuseries Mariah’s World, which will explore the private life of singer Mariah Carey.

SHERMAN OAKS: Discovery has picked up four seasons each of two GRB Entertainment-distributed series, Untold Stories of the ER and the competition cooking series BBQ Pitmasters, for its U.S. Hispanic feed and for Latin America, respectively.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Geographic Channel has partnered with several award-winning filmmakers and producers for a variety of specials, including the feature documentary Parched from Oscar winner Alex Gibney.