Kristin Brzoznowski

LONDON: After joining the company 23 years ago, Kirstie McLure is stepping down as managing director of Pioneer Productions to explore other projects.

NEW YORK: A&E Network has greenlit a new unscripted series, tentatively titled Little Funny, which comes from executive producer Ellen DeGeneres.

The CEO and president of Gusto Worldwide Media talks about his plans for the production of even more original content and for taking the Gusto TV channel into new markets.

TORONTO: The Canada Media Fund (CMF) and the Italian Directorate General for Cinema of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Activities and Tourism (DGC - MiBACT) have put together a financing package of C$200,000 ($153,000) for six co-productions under the Canada-Italy co-development incentive for documentary projects.

LONDON: Channel 4 will become the new home of The Great British Bake Off, signing a three-year agreement with series producers Love Productions.

MAINZ: ZDF Enterprises has teamed up with independent doc producer Jasper James, founder of the U.K. production company Screen Glue, to create three new documentary productions.

LONDON/AMSTERDAM: NBCUniversal International’s reality SVOD service hayu has launched offline viewing, allowing users to access content without the internet.

LOS ANGELES: Entertainment One (eOne) has entered into a first-look deal for unscripted programming with filmmaker, producer and show creator Datari Turner under his Datari Turner Productions banner.

PARIS: Nevision has signed a multiyear deal to invest in a slate of new documentary series currently in development at the French factual label Terminal 9 F, founded by former France Télévisions and Endemol executive Claude Lacaze.

PARIS: Two exclusive first-episode showings of brand-new factual series have been slated as part of the MIPCOM Screenings program: National Geographic’s MARS presented by FOX Networks Group Content Distribution, and Planet Earth II from BBC Worldwide.