Mansha Daswani

Asacha Media Group has picked up majority ownership of U.K.-based factual production and distribution outfit WAG Entertainment.

World Screen Newsflash explores some of the major developments in the factual business in 2020.

Discovery's new streaming platform, discovery+, has launched in the U.S. with a raft of distribution deals in place and has landed a long-term, multiplatform agreement in Europe with Vodafone.

Senior execs from Discovery, Inc. unveiled the new discovery+ platform.

Silverback Films, the production company founded by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey, has been acquired by All3Media.

Journalist Mariana van Zeller chats with World Screen Newsflash about the new National Geographic series Trafficked, in which she takes audiences along with her into black markets across the globe.

BBC Studios India is producing a sports docuseries about the Jaipur Pink Panthers competing in the Pro Kabaddi League for Amazon Prime Video.

Intuitive Content, Andrew Zimmern’s production company, has sold two new series to Magnolia Network, Discovery's joint venture with Chip and Joanna Gaines.

Jeffrey Roth's documentary feature President in Waiting, which features interviews with all six living U.S. vice presidents, has been acquired by CNN Films.

Love Nature's wildlife and nature linear channel has launched on the Mexican pay-TV platform StarTV.