Mansha Daswani

SINGAPORE: Silver Wolf International is working with EnMedia to launch a food channel, and has inked a new co-pro and co-investment pact with FiTA Studios.

The demand for factual content, from lifestyle fare to high-end docs, remains high across Asia.

The company's CEO talks about some of the changes under way in Asia’s factual business.

NEW YORK: Oxygen Media has announced three new development projects, including one following influential social media millennials.

TORONTO: Banger Films has begun production on a 4K documentary chronicling this year's cross-Canadian concert tour by The Tragically Hip for launch on multiple Bell Media platforms in 2017.

NEW YORK: SundanceTV has commissioned a four-part crime documentary that re-examines the 1959 murders of the Clutter family, famously documented in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.

MUNICH: A new production company, 7Stories, has launched as part of the Red Arrow Entertainment Group to create factual series and branded-entertainment programs for ProSiebenSat.1 Group as well as for broadcasters and platforms around the world.

Jana Bennett joined A+E Networks in 2013 to lead FYI and LMN, and moved over to take the reins at HISTORY last year; she talks about how she’s building on the platform’s success.

The president and CEO talks about the platform’s progress thus far and its plans for the future.

LONDON: Broadcasters in Australia and across Europe have picked up the eight-part historical docudrama The West, produced by Stephen David Entertainment and executive produced by Robert Redford, Stephen David and Laura Michalchyshyn.