SAN FRANCISCO: Discovery Digital Networks has hired Nathan Brown, a digital and production exec, as its senior VP of development and operations.

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LONDON: Endemol Shine Beyond UK is launching a fourth season of the popular eSports entertainment franchise Legends of Gaming.

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LOS ANGELES: Endemol Shine USA, Endemol Shine North America's unscripted arm, has made a number of appointments, including naming Rob Day executive VP and head of unscripted production.

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LOS ANGELES: Entertainment production house The Company has hired Annie Gerhart, a former Sony Pictures Television and Ryan Seacrest Productions exec, as its VP of unscripted programming.

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NEW YORK: Next month, Food Network is slated to begin airing Kids BBQ Championship, a new prime-time program hosted by Camila Alves and Eddie Jackson.

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LOS ANGELES: Tara Long, the executive VP of U.S. alternative programming at Entertainment One (eOne) Television, has inked a new long-term deal with the company.

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NEW YORK: Spike has placed an order for Adam Carolla and Friends Build Stuff Live, a new interactive talk show hosted by the titular TV, radio and internet personality.

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VIENNA: At MIPTV, Terra Mater Factual Studios sold more than 100 hours of premium history, science and natural-history programming to broadcasters in such territories as the U.S., U.K., France, Italy, Russia, Australia and China.

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BURBANK: Emmy-winning exec producer Mark Burnett (Shark Tank) and TV personality Steve Harvey (Celebrity Family Feud, Little Big Shots) are partnering on a new seed-funding business series for ABC.

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CANNES: German production company Autentic is extending its co-production collaboration with Japanese public broadcaster NHK.

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