Kristin Brzoznowski

Kew Media Distribution has taken on the international sales rights, excluding the U.K. and U.S., for the documentary Leaving Neverland.

Discovery Inc. has promoted lifestyle programmers Loren Ruch, Betsy Ayala and Lynn Sadofsky within its HGTV and Food Network brands.

Lifestyle programming specialist Dorsey Pictures, a Red Arrow Studios company, is expanding its development and production slate to include a number of true-crime series, documentary specials and pilots.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, which originally ran for nine seasons on ABC in the U.S., has been ordered for ten all-new episodes by HGTV.

Bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman is getting a new series on WGN America, Dog's Most Wanted, which marks the first unscripted show for the network in more than five years.

Blue Ant Media's Saloon Media is behind the new feature-length documentary 9/11 Kids, which spotlights the 16 schoolchildren who were with U.S. President George W. Bush on the morning of September 11, 2001.

Channel 4 and HBO have co-produced Leaving Neverland, a two-part documentary about two men who recount their experiences of being sexually abused by Michael Jackson.

DRG and NENT Group Norway have launched a co-commissioning drive for non-scripted content.

The company's co-CEO, partner and executive producer talks about what’s guiding the company's overall factual strategy, the types of unscripted shows that are in demand in the premium space and what’s new for OTT and digital platforms.

ZDF Enterprises has purchased a 100 percent ownership stake in the Dutch nonfiction content company Off the Fence.