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The latest episode from the World Screen podcast is now available: The View from NBCUniversal Entertainment.

National Geographic is partnering with Sir David Attenborough on a feature-length documentary special about the health of the world’s oceans.

Sunny Side of the Doc’s Mathieu Béjot, who has been director of strategy and development for the market at Doc Services since January 2020, is departing, and Aurélie Reman will take over his responsibilities.

BossaNova has sold Tsunami, the Day the Wave Hit and MH17: The Plane Crash that Shook the World to Channel 4 in the U.K.

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).