Kristin Brzoznowski

TORONTO: Boat Rocker Rights has acquired the full factual and lifestyle programming catalog of Peace Point Rights.

Hollywood and Luff, the managing director of Scripps Networks UK & EMEA at Scripps Networks Interactive, discuss the series, which has just been greenlit for a second season.

MANHATTAN BEACH: 3 Ball Entertainment, which is behind such unscripted series as Bar Rescue and My Cat from Hell, has tapped Jeff Altrock as senior VP of current programming.

SEATTLE: The new Amazon original docuseries American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story will make use of archival footage, interviews and cinematic reenactments to tell the story of Playboy magazine’s founder.

LONDON: David Glover, the former head of specialist factual at Channel 4, and Mark Raphael, joint managing director of Dragonfly, have set up a new independent production outfit, which is backed by BBC Worldwide.

NEW YORK: Olivier Widmaier Picasso, the grandson of Pablo Picasso, and Scott Woodward, the executive VP of programming and production at Ovation TV, met with World Screen Newsflash to discuss Picasso, The Legacy and share insight into what viewers may learn from the documentary that they didn’t know before.

NEW YORK: Lucky 8 TV, producer of the A&E series 60 Days In, has aligned with the husband and wife producing duo Courtney and Audra Smith (Undercover Boss, Kids BBQ Championship) to form the joint venture Turn Card Content.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Geographic Channel has greenlit a second season of The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, which will return in 2017.

LONDON: DRG has landed its first round of deals for Race for the White House, a docuseries narrated by Kevin Spacey, including a sale to Netflix.

MUNICH/LOS ANGELES: Red Arrow Entertainment Group has purchased a 65-percent stake in the U.S.-based production company 44 Blue Productions.