Mansha Daswani

LONDON: Discovery Networks's British free-to-air factual-entertainment channel Quest will begin streaming online this week, in time for the start of the FIA World Rallycross Championship.

CANNES: Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock told MIPDoc delegates that all networks, commissioners and producers must have a digital strategy and should be looking for gaps in the marketplace to target underserved audiences.

Execs shared their programming and acquisition strategies at a MIPDoc panel moderated by World Screen’s Anna Carugati before receiving the inaugural World Screen Factual Trendsetter Awards.

NEW YORK: Smithsonian Channel is marking Sir David Attenborough’s 90th birthday with seven weeks of programming featuring the iconic naturalist.

SYDNEY: Australian streaming platform Presto has launched Morgan Spurlock's Showtime doc series 7 Deadly Sins.

NEW YORK/MIAMI: EPIX is set to premiere a documentary about inequality this fall, in the run-up to the U.S. presidential election, with Norman Lear, Common and Shonda Rhimes on board as executive producers.

Preparing for his leading role in the 2013 feature film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Idris Elba found himself immersed in many elements of South African culture, most notably the country’s music. The actor/musician was so inspired, he set out …