Jamie Stalcup

Tom McDonald, executive VP of content at National Geographic, has been named the new chair for The Grierson Trust, taking over in November when Lorraine Heggessey steps down after 11 years.

Ellen Bennett, host of Kitchen Glow Up, and Patrick Weiland, president of Intuitive Content and executive producer of the series, share with World Screen Newsflash the challenges of filming season two in the aftermath of the January 2025 L.A. fires.

Espresso Media International has inked a raft of deals across Europe for space, history and art titles from its catalog.

Harry King Television has attached two new hosts to its new original series Curiosity—Izzie Balmer (Antiques Road Trip, The Travelling Auctioneers) and Bee Harford (The Travelling Auctioneers)—and signed Norse Key Studios as global distributor.

5 has launched the initiative Love Nature, with the aim of creating multiple short films spotlighting positive environmental stories from across the U.K.

The BBC and Asharq Documentary have acquired NHK’s documentary KAMIKAZE: An Untold Story from NHK Enterprises.

ZDF and ARTE have boarded WildBear Entertainment’s Fatal Conflicts, with ZDF Studios to distribute the series internationally.

South Korea’s Docu+ and Singapore’s Hazelnut Media have teamed up for August, Again, a documentary that confronts the fact that over 10 percent of Hiroshima victims were Korean.

The finalists for the 2025 edition of the Jackson Wild Media Awards have been unveiled, selected from a record-breaking number of submissions representing 48 countries across the world.

Best-selling cookbook author Coinneach MacLeod is set to make his television debut in Hebridean Baker: Nordic Islands for BBC Alba and BBC iPlayer.