Jamie Stalcup

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has unveiled the nominees for the 45th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards, which will be presented in two ceremonies.

WaterBear Studios, Portal A and String Light Group have inked a development deal with gold medal-winning Olympian Carissa Moore to develop a surf series.

TV star, podcaster and animal welfare advocate Pete Wicks is set to front Pete Wicks: For Dogs’ Sake for UKTV’s U&W and U.

Curiosity has launched its FAST channel Curiosity Now on VIZIO WatchFree+.

Channel 4 has commissioned a new Educating Yorkshire series, ten years after the first aired as part of the Educating program.

Sunny Side of the Doc’s Mathieu Béjot, who has been director of strategy and development for the market at Doc Services since January 2020, is departing, and Aurélie Reman will take over his responsibilities.

Distributors and producers discuss the wave of documentaries taking deep dives into African stories.

Netflix has ordered an eighth season of its Emmy-nominated series Somebody Feed Phil, starring Emmy and Critics Choice Award winner Phil Rosenthal (Everybody Loves Raymond).

BBC Studios Natural History Unit has been commissioned to produce a second season of Big Cats 24/7 for BBC Two, BBC iPlayer and PBS.

French distributor Only Distrib has acquired five factual titles from Portugal’s SIC to bring to the global market.