Mansha Daswani

Discovery and BBC Studios have agreed to split the UKTV business and are teaming up for a global SVOD platform featuring the pubcaster's natural-history content.

The chairman of National Geographic Partners (NGP) on leading the multifaceted group through its next big transition while remaining focused on the brand’s commitment to science, conservation and education.

The president and CEO of CuriosityStream talks about how the factual SVOD platform's recently-announced capital injection will be used.

The doc and current-affairs streaming platform iwonder, which has been available through the iflix service across Southeast Asia, Africa and the Middle East since last year, has launched a direct-to-consumer offering in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.

SVOD platform CuriosityStream has commissioned Arrow Media to produce the four-episode Speed, exploring the breakthroughs that transformed transportation.

The BBC has announced a raft of new natural-history programs, including Frozen Planet II in 2021 and Planet Earth III in 2022.

Smithsonian Channel is launching in the U.K. on Virgin Media, Sky, Freesat and Freeview.

Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz are leaving Magical Elves, the production company they founded that produces such shows as Top Chef and Project Runway.

Chris Knight talks about exporting the Gusto channel brand around the world.

Ralf Blasius, a former doc commissioning editor at ZDF and producer at Off the Fence, passed away unexpectedly in Mainz, Germany, earlier this month.