Joanna Padovano Tong

LONDON: BBC Worldwide Asia has inked a new licensing deal with China's Tencent that includes more than 1,000 hours of documentaries from the BBC.

LONDON: BBC Worldwide has sold Joe & Caspar Hit the Road to E4 in the U.K., where the feature-length film will broadcast next month.

TORONTO: At next week's MIPTV, Corus Entertainment plans to present the new unscripted lifestyle series My Baby's Having a Baby and Worst to First, both of which recently joined the company's catalogue.

SILVER SPRING: Investigation Discovery (ID) has greenlit the new original true-crime series I Am Homicide, which has begun production for broadcast on the channel later this year.

SILVER SPRING: Next month, Discovery Channel is due to debut Sherpa, a film focused on the massive avalanche that killed 16 Sherpas on Mount Everest on April 18, 2014.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Undercover Angel, a ten-part series from RDF Television, marks the first-ever commission made by Nat Geo People.

LONDON: 7 Wonder has been commissioned by BBC Four to produce the hour-long special Skinhead, led by the U.K.’s Don Letts.

LOS ANGELES: Entertainment One (eOne) has signed an overall first-look agreement with reality TV producer Chris Deaux and his new company Two Fifteen West Entertainment.

SILVER SPRING: Investigation Discovery (ID) is slated to begin airing Deadly Demands, a new show focused on the dangerous world of hostage negotiations, later this month.

MIAMI: HBO has licensed the ten-part series Outpost and hour-long special Hate in America with Jorge Ramos from Fusion.