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IWC, a Banijay Group company, has been commissioned to produce the three-part documentary series World’s Greatest War Ships for the U.K.'s Channel 5, scheduled for broadcast later this year.

Smithsonian Channel has lined up a pair of films that explore volcanic eruptions and their aftermath—Volcanoes: Dual Destruction and Islands of Fire.

I Am a Killer, a true-crime series from Znak & Co, has been renewed for a second season by the A+E Networks UK channel Crime+Investigation (CI), with a second window on Netflix.

HISTORY is set to debut a brand-new two-hour documentary remembering the events of September 11, 9/11: Inside Air Force One.

The managing director talks about the ways in which the company is working with digital players and public broadcasters alike.

Australia’s LGI Media, formerly Looking Glass International, has secured a raft of international presales for its brand-new factual-entertainment series Spiky Gold Hunters.

Investigation Discovery (ID) in the U.S. has ordered new seasons of a trio of factual programs from Arrow Media’s slate.

Plimsoll Productions, behind such factual hits as National Geographic's Hostile Planet with Bear Grylls, has received an investment from the private equity firm LDC, in a deal valuing the company at around $100 million.

Crime+Investigation has ordered a ten-episode second season of the U.K. crime series Murdertown after the show’s first run became the channel’s highest-rated commission ever.

The Scottish indie Two Rivers Media has appointed Channel 4 alum Lizi Wootton to the position of head of popular factual.