Top Stories

Channel 4 has commissioned the one-hour documentary Myanmar: The Forgotten Revolution from Evan Williams Productions.

Passion Distribution has closed a raft of sales for five talent-led documentaries, including the three-part Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland.

Wildstar Films, a Bristol-based natural history producer, has appointed Doug Mackay-Hope as senior VP of development and production.

Fiona Gilroy, the former content sales and acquisitions director at Flame Media, will be working with Abacus Media Rights (AMR) following the company’s recent acquisition of Flame.

HGTV has ordered a new 12-episode season of Holmes Family Rescue, starring contractor Mike Holmes and his son and daughter, home renovation experts Michael Holmes, Jr. and Sherry Holmes.

A+E Networks UK and Sky have commissioned The Royal Mob from Nutopia for the Sky HISTORY channel.

Channel 4 has commissioned Open Mike Productions (Live at the Apollo, The Last Leg) to produce a brand-new comedy travelogue series starring comedian and reluctant traveler Chris McCausland.

In the Soop: Friendcation, a new travel reality show featuring Korean celebrities, is slated to bow on Disney+ later this month.

ZED is set to adapt the medieval novel Chasing Dragons: The Forgotten Knight of the Round Table as a documentary for TV.

ITV has commissioned a new documentary from Fremantle’s Naked about the disappearance of Australian millionaire Melissa Caddick.