Joanna Padovano Tong

Discovery, Inc. has elevated Courtney White, formerly executive VP and general manager of HGTV and Food Network, to president of Food Network.

Wilderness Productions is prepping a new original series for Animal Planet led by YouTube personality Coyote Peterson.

Martha Housden and Claire Popplewell are joining BBC Studios' Factual Entertainment & Events creative team, effective immediately.

Passion Distribution has snapped up the rights to the new BBC documentaries Darcey Bussell: Dancing to Happiness, Male Circumcision and The Island That Saved My Life from Matchlight.

BBC Two has commissioned the new six-part series Kitchen Brigade from Expectation Factual for broadcast next year.

Nat Geo is launching Starstruck: National Geographic’s Yearlong Celebration of Space, a new initiative spanning global networks, magazines, books and more that explores the past, present and future of space.

Blue Ant Media and Smithsonian Networks' Love Nature 4K has commissioned the new docuseries Malawi Wildlife Rescue from Icon Films.

Nat Geo WILD has greenlit Dead by Dawn, the first-ever horror nature series, from Skybound Entertainment (The Walking Dead) and Love Productions.

The international version of The Great Wall, a documentary from the China International Television Corporation (CITVC) catalog, has been sold to ORF in Austria and France 5.

Endemol Shine North America's 51 Minds Entertainment is collaborating with exercise physiologist Marco Borges as well as power couple Jay-Z and Beyoncé on The Greenprint, a new documentary that is part of a multiplatform initiative to promote plant-based diets.