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Investigation Discovery (ID) and discovery+ have signed Academy Award-winning actor and producer Octavia Spencer and her production company, Orit Entertainment, and October Films to develop and produce multiple projects.

Amcomri Entertainment has acquired the assets of Flame Media, home to some 2,200 hours and more than 500 titles of high-end factual programming.

REELZ has ordered the new series On Patrol: Live (w.t.), from the producers of Live PD, which will document the work of police officers on patrol from diverse departments across the U.S. in real time.

Magilla Entertainment (Moonshiners, Beachfront Bargain Hunt, Rooms We Love) is developing a new food and travel series starring former Goop editor and farm-to-table entrepreneur Ana Hito.

ABC News Studios has partnered with Imagine Documentaries and Vermilion Films to investigate the Boy Scouts of America’s (BSA) century-long abuse cover-up in Leave No Trace.

Twenty Six 03 has been commissioned by the BBC for a pair of factual titles, including Emergency Vets (w.t.) for BBC One Daytime and BBC England.

Love Nature has unveiled a slate of new original natural-history series and documentaries, including Planet Shark.

BBC Studios and Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) in South Korea have renewed their long-term partnership with a multiyear factual content deal.

Ben Clarke, head of commercial and business development at the BBC Studios Natural History Unit, on how the global challenges of the modern age are serving to raise the value and importance of factual content.

Courtney White, formerly president of Food Network and general manager of HGTV and Food, has formed a joint venture with Wheelhouse focused on food, home and lifestyle content.