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Investigation Discovery (ID) has extended its partnership with Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer and her production company Orit Entertainment, along with October Films, with the renewal of two true-crime docuseries.

Banijay Entertainment, Everywoman Studios and the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media (GDI) have revealed the results of the Behind the Scenes: Women’s Representation in Unscripted Television in the U.S., U.K., Brazil and France study, investigating gender parity in decision-making roles in reality TV.

The latest episode from the World Screen podcast is now available: Dawn Porter.

Distributors and producers discuss the wave of documentaries taking deep dives into African stories.

Ahead of the upcoming U.S. presidential election, PBS has slated the public affairs titles Counting the Vote: A Firing Line Special with Margaret Hoover, Deadlock and Citizen Nation for debut, among other series and specials.

Netflix has ordered an eighth season of its Emmy-nominated series Somebody Feed Phil, starring Emmy and Critics Choice Award winner Phil Rosenthal (Everybody Loves Raymond).

BBC Studios Natural History Unit has been commissioned to produce a second season of Big Cats 24/7 for BBC Two, BBC iPlayer and PBS.

Channel 4 has ordered another installment of The Jury, following the success of The Jury: Murder Trial.

The latest episode from the World Screen podcast is now available: Warner Bros. Discovery’s Kathleen Finch.

Little Dot Studios has entered into an output deal with the YouTube channel The People Profiles, starting with an initial order of 60 feature documentaries.