Kristin Brzoznowski

Danielle Pistotnik and Lisa Filipelli, executive producers of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, talk to World Screen Newsflash about developing, packaging and selling the series to Hulu and what makes for compelling reality television.

AMC Studios and Cream Productions are working together on Acorn TV’s first unscripted original series, the Jane Seymour-led Relative Secrets.

A+E Networks EMEA, which reaches across the U.K., Europe, the Middle East and Africa, will now operate under the new name of Hearst Networks EMEA.

Viasat World is bringing its new crime-themed television channel, Viasat True Crime, to the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia this month.

Serial Maven Studios has added to its catalog the feature documentary So Surreal: Behind the Masks, about Indigenous masks and their impact on Surrealist art.

Seven.One Studios International has acquired If Pigs Could Talk, a documentary that uses advanced AI technology.

Keith Linn and Alex Hocking, co-founders of On Ten Productions and executive producers of Spiked: The Hunt for the Origin of Covid-19, talk to World Screen Newsflash about crafting the documentary, while Lilla Hurst, global head of acquisitions and content strategy at Blue Ant Studios, highlights the doc’s appeal for the international market.

Serial Maven Studios has set up a distribution division with a catalog of more than 300 hours of factual content.

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) has selected Emmy-winning journalist, anchor and author Jane Pauley and Academy Award-winning documentarian, director and producer Alex Gibney as the Lifetime Achievement honorees at the 45th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards.

BossaNova’s Paul Heaney, Off the Fence’s Bo Stehmeier, Albatross World Sales’ Anne Olzmann and ZDF Studios’ Nikolas Hülbusch discuss with World Screen Newsflash everything from the market for commissioning to the importance of library product and how AVOD and FAST are factoring into distribution strategies.