Kristin Brzoznowski

UNIVERSAL CITY: NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment's Wilshire Studios is teaming up with BuzzFeed News to develop a crime investigation docuseries based on the mysterious death of Jessica Chambers, the Mississippi teen who was doused with gasoline and set on fire in December 2014.

LONDON: Cineflix Rights has secured the international distribution rights for two new shows, including Finestripe Productions' Inside Dior, to launch at MIPTV.

BURBANK: ABC is planning to air a two-hour prime-time event celebrating the life of Princess Diana this August, marking the 20th anniversary of her tragic death.

NEW YORK: A+E Networks and Snap Inc. have entered into a new partnership deal to develop shows for Snapchat’s Discover platform.

LONDON: Robert Redford has signed on to narrate Earth: One Amazing Day, the sequel to BBC Earth Films’ box-office hit Earth.

PARIS/LOS ANGELES: Sony Pictures Television has licensed the complete 91-episode package of Stars! celebrity segments for AXN.

NEW YORK/LONDON: A new partnership between BBC Worldwide and Snap Inc. will see an exclusive series of Planet Earth II programming being made available on Snapchat’s Discover Platform in the U.S. and Canada.

UNTERFÖHRING: ProSiebenSat.1 TV Deutschland and Scripps Networks Interactive have entered into an extensive, multiyear license agreement.

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES: There are ten new companies that have joined the Nonfiction Producers Association (NPA), boosting the overall membership to a total of 52 outfits across the U.S. and Canada.

NEW YORK: Showtime Documentary Films has unveiled American Jihad (working title), which will explore homegrown Jihadism, how young men are radicalized to commit violent acts of terrorism and what can be done to prevent it.