LOS ANGELES: Showtime is teaming up with filmmakers R.J. Cutler (The September Issue, The World According to Dick Cheney) and John Battsek (Searching For Sugar Man, The Tillman Story) on a feature-length documentary about the life of comic legend John Belushi.

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LONDON: Channel 4 has commissioned a new one-hour documentary from Outline Productions that looks at the popularity of the home-sharing empire Airbnb.

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LONDON: All3Media is backing the new indie producer Caravan, which specializes in factual, documentaries, current affairs and popular factual series.

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SILVER SPRING: Discovery Communications is relaunching its Seeker brand to target "bright, curious Millennial minds," with new online programming rolling out this month.

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LONDON: Pulse Films has been commissioned by BBC Three to produce the hour-long documentary United States of Hate: Muslims Under Attack, which explores tensions between different factions in America.

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LONDON: ITV Studios' Potato is producing two feature-length drama documentaries for Channel 5, one on Freddie Mercury and the other spotlighting Karen Carpenter.

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SANTA MONICA/VANCOUVER: Ted Bookstaver has been hired at Lionsgate in the newly created position of senior VP of alternative programming sales.

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NEW YORK: Ecuadorian journalist and filmmaker Jeanette Hinostroza talks to World Screen Newsflash about the documentary Nelson Serrano: I’m Innocent, as well as her quest to find justice and balance the need to both entertain and inform.

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NEW YORK: AMC is developing a new documentary series that will explore the stories, people and events that have transformed the world of comic books.

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LONDON: BBC Worldwide is working with online talents Samantha and Nicola Chapman, a.k.a. Pixiwoo, for Pixiwoo Presents Painted Ladies: Icons (working title), a feature-length authored documentary.

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