Kristin Brzoznowski

NEW YORK: Investigation Discovery (ID) is working with People magazine on a one-hour weekly series dedicated to uncovering the truth behind some of the most infamous characters and iconic stories of crime.

TORONTO: Shaw Media is going for a fourth season of the Food Network Canada hit Chopped Canada, with a country-wide casting call already under way.

NEW YORK: Spike has greenlit an all-new ninth season of the hit tattoo-competition series Ink Master.

LOS ANGELES: Endemol Shine Beyond’s ICON Network, which is celebrating its first anniversary, is headed to multiple new global territories and across Asia in 2016.

LONDON: Endemol Shine Beyond UK has launched the food and lifestyle channel Wild Dish on YouTube.

LOS ANGELES: Entertainment One (eOne) has acquired a 65 percent interest in the unscripted production company Renegade 83, which is behind such hit shows as Naked & Afraid and Blind Date.

LONDON: Following on the 2015 one-off documentary, Rich Kids of Instagram has been commissioned as a six-episode series for the U.K.'s E4.

LOS ANGELES: Rive Gauche Television has locked in new deals for several of its titles, among them the crime series Fame Kills and Death By Gossip.

SYDNEY: Escapade Media has secured worldwide rights, outside of the U.K., for Steve Backshall: The Vertical Mile, a three-part factual series that see the naturalist climbing the north face of the Eiger.

BRISTOL: Plimsoll Productions has elevated Martha Holmes to head of wildlife, Karen Plumb to head of features and daytime and Kate Beetham to head of development and executive producer.