Kristin Brzoznowski

Formula 1 and Netflix have entered into a season-long collaboration, which will culminate in an original docuseries about the 2018 FIA Formula One World Championship.

The new Smithsonian Channel documentary Waco: The Longest Siege, which looks at unexplored facets of the Waco story, has been slated for an April 9 premiere.

Woodcut Media has finalized a deal to produce a third season of the true-crime series Britain’s Most Evil Killers and its international counterpart World’s Most Evil Killers.

Bristow Global Media (BGM) has named Sean Connolly to the new position of VP of development for the company’s unscripted content.

44 Blue Productions, behind such hits as Pit Bulls & Parolees and Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry, has hired Elyse Delmore as senior director of development.

Netflix has lined up the new original documentary series Bobby Kennedy for President to launch globally on April 27.

Sky Vision Productions is being closed, and Danny Tipping, the unit's director of programming and development, is taking up a new post as head of factual at Znak & Co.

Simon Knight, the CEO of Maverick TV and an executive producer on Escape, tells World Screen Newsflash about the challenges of producing a show like this, the experts that helped to craft the scenarios and the factors that are crucial to its casting.

Banijay Group has acquired the factual indie producer 7Wonder, marking its first U.K. non-scripted acquisition.

Sir David Attenborough is on board to present Dynasty (working title), a new landmark series from BBC Studios’ Natural History Unit (NHU), co-produced with BBC America and France Télévisions, to air later this year on BBC One.