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Screen Australia has chosen 11 documentaries through the Producer Program and two through the Commissioned Program to share in A$3 million ($2.03 million) of production funding.

BBC Factual has commissioned the docuseries Signs for Living with Rose Ayling-Ellis (w.t.) from Rogan Productions (ABBA: Against the Odds, Becoming Frida Kahlo).

On Ten Productions’ Spiked: The Hunt for the Origin of Covid-19 is to have its TV Real Premiere on August 27 at 9 a.m. EDT.

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) has selected Emmy-winning journalist, anchor and author Jane Pauley and Academy Award-winning documentarian, director and producer Alex Gibney as the Lifetime Achievement honorees at the 45th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards.

Channel 5 has ordered two new factual titles and a second season of the historical series Endurance, all set to premiere later this year and into 2025.

Netflix has unveiled five upcoming documentary titles, including series about Victoria Beckham, Gordon Ramsay and the boy band Take That.

Cineverse’s Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan FAST channel has become available on VIZIO WatchFree+.

The latest episode from the World Screen podcast is now available: Time to Go FAST?

BossaNova’s Paul Heaney, Off the Fence’s Bo Stehmeier, Albatross World Sales’ Anne Olzmann and ZDF Studios’ Nikolas Hülbusch discuss with World Screen Newsflash everything from the market for commissioning to the importance of library product and how AVOD and FAST are factoring into distribution strategies.

BBC Factual has commissioned America’s New Female Right, a one-off documentary exploring the rise of right-wing ideologies in American women, for BBC Three and iPlayer.