Kristin Brzoznowski

Truly Original has partnered with Vanity Fair special correspondent and best-selling author Bryan Burrough to develop and produce a true-crime documentary series chronicling Scotland Yard’s newly reopened investigations into 15 mysterious deaths linked to a Russian program.

Shiver has appointed Simone Haywood, commissioning editor at Channel 4, to the newly created position of head of factual entertainment.

Electus and Queen Latifah’s Flavor Unit Entertainment are working together to develop a docu-style travelogue about and starring women, tentatively titled Friends in Strange Places.

Passion Distribution has signed a raft of deals across Central and Eastern Europe, including three packages in Poland and sales in the Czech Republic and Russia.

Blue Ant International has sold more than 350 hours of programming, including Secret Life of the Koala, across Central and Eastern Europe.

Scooter Braun, founder of SB Projects, and JD Roth, co-founder and former CEO of 3 Ball Entertainment, have formed a new unscripted content studio, GoodStory Entertainment.

The new ITV documentary series The Manson Family: The Lost Tapes (working title), produced by Naked Entertainment and sold by FremantleMedia International, features 100 hours of previously unseen footage.

Nat Geo WILD’s SharkFest is returning this summer for an extended two-week run of shark-themed programming.

Alison Kirkham, the controller of BBC factual commissioning, has revealed a range of new nonfiction highlights set to air across the BBC channels in the coming months, touching on topics such as homeless teenagers in Britain and gun violence.

National Geographic has scheduled the new one-hour special Inside North Korea: Race to Peace to run on June 10, two days before the summit with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump.