Kristin Brzoznowski

Zinc Media Group, which is home to five factual TV production brands, has completed a £4 million ($5.2 million) fundraising round to help propel its growth.

Jim Casey, CEO of Painless Productions, on Travel Channel's The Holzer Files.

Stories about real people continue to fascinate, and there is a truly eclectic mix in this In-Demand report: all3media international's Grayson Perry's Big American Road Trip, GRB Studios' Turquoise Fever, Terranoa's Salman Rushdie, Death on a Trail, Rive Gauche Television's Very Scary People and Boat Rocker Studios' Relative Race.

Bill Gates has been tapped to deliver a keynote address at the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers (WCSFP), which will take place online from December 8 to 10.

World of Wonder is expanding its business with the formation of a new documentary division, WOW Docs.

Investigation Discovery (ID) has added a new series to its roster, Killer in Question, which launches November 1.

The HISTORY channel has greenlit the new nonfiction series Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman (working title).

Ahead of MIPCOM Online+, Cineflix Rights has revealed the highlights of its new factual slate, including Who Was the Real Neanderthal? and Ambulance: Code Red.

Rive Gauche Television has secured the international distribution rights for the series The Killer Truth, produced by Catalina Content as an HLN original series.  

Ruptly is showcasing an expanded slate of documentaries at MIPCOM Online+ focusing on unexplored communities and confronting some of society’s biggest issues, from climate change and race relations to media freedoms and gender inequality.