Joanna Padovano Tong

LONDON: BBC Worldwide has entered into a co-production agreement with Tencent for Planet Earth II, marking the first time the company is co-producing a documentary with a video platform in China.

LONDON: Channel 4 has commissioned Lightbox, co-founded by Simon Chinn (Man on Wire) and Jonathan Chinn (American High), to produce the tentatively titled documentary War Child.

MONTREAL: Quebecor Media's Quebecor Content has acquired a variety of new lifestyle programming from Scripps Networks.

LONDON: Passion Distribution has sold the first season of the rebooted competition series Robot Wars to a number of broadcasters worldwide, bringing the show to more than 90 territories.

LOS ANGELES: Z Living is slated to premiere the lifestyle show POPSUGAR Presents: Conquered, the third project to come out of its collaboration with millennial media company POPSUGAR, early next year.

MIAMI: Next month, Fusion is due to debut The Traffickers, a new investigative documentary series about the black market that comes from the FremantleMedia International catalog.

LONDON: Sky Vision has sold the factual series The Wine Show into 99 territories across multiple broadcasters and platforms.

NEW YORK: Blue Ant International plans to present its largest slate of series and documentaries to date, including more than 600 hours of new programming, to international buyers in Cannes.

LONDON/DERRY: 360Production, an indie factual producer owned by the Rare TV group, has hired seasoned director and producer Belinda Cherrington as director of U.K. factual, a newly created position.

LONDON: Banijay Group's Zodiak Rights has sold the third season of the factual series The Supervet to a number of broadcasters worldwide.