Fremantle’s Original Productions (OP) has brought in Jeff Stepp, formerly with Karga 7 Pictures, as its new VP of development.

Extreme angler Cyril Chauquet, who serves as host, director and producer on Chasing Monsters, met with World Screen Newsflash to discuss the new season and how challenging himself personally ensures that the series is bigger and more extreme with each installment.

The two-hour documentary Making the Mars Rover has been picked up by Science Channel and the streaming platform SCIgo in the U.S.

Critical Content has closed a transaction to acquire the assets of T Group Productions, which has produced such series as Ozzy & Jack's World Detour, Very Cavalleri and Storage Hunters.

ZDF Enterprises is co-producing the documentary series WW II: Battles for Europe and will also handle global distribution for the eight-parter.

Expectation Factual has appointed Maverick TV alum Emily Dollman as head of development, a newly created role.

Channel 4 Factual has commissioned the hour-long documentary Training Teachers to Kill from Sundog Pictures.

Bomanbridge Media has licensed Delicacy Hunter: On the Silk Road, which features British chef Jamie Bilbow, to National Geographic Asia.

Producer Dov Freedman (The Trouble with Dad, An Hour to Save Your Life) and director Charlie Russell (Chris Packham: Asperger’s and Me, The Trouble with Dad, Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die) are launching a new independent production company, Curious Films.

ZDF Enterprises (ZDFE) has sold the 4K production The Spying Game: Tales from the Cold War to a host of broadcasters, among them Foxtel in Australia.