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PBS Distribution is to launch a new documentary-focused Prime Video Channel on Amazon, PBS Documentaries.

A long-running summer staple, Shark Week returns to Discovery Channel with bigger sharks and more awe-inspiring breaches on Sunday, August 9, and continues through August 16.

AMPLE Entertainment is launching a dedicated Los Angeles-based natural-history division under the label AMPLE Nature.

Oprah Winfrey has joined forces with Apple TV+ for The Oprah Conversation, a new series that will explore impactful and relevant topics with fascinating people from all over the world.

Apple has added to its slate Fireball, an original feature documentary directed by acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog and professor Clive Oppenheimer.

Big Performance—wer ist der Star im Star?, a new entertainment show from the Banijay company Brainpool, is set to launch on RTL this autumn.

Insight TV has entered into a programming partnership with StarTimes in Sub-Saharan Africa, supplying eight sports-themed series to the sports channels StarTimes Sports Focus and StarTimes Sports Lifestyle. StarTimes Sports Focus has added King of the Hammers: Ultra4 Saga, a reality series based around the U.S. off-road race competition; MTB Heroes: Trailblazers, which follows mountain biking legends on and off the trail; Extraordinary Humans, which sees biologist Thom Hunt going in search of people with real-life superpowers; seasons one and two of the competition game show THRU; and Living Stone, a competition show that follows five couples embarking on a hike through Botswana’s wilderness.

CuriosityStream has named Bakori Davis, an A+E Networks UK alum, to the newly created position of managing director and head of international.

BBC Studios has brought its BBC Lifestyle channel to the telecommunications platform LG U+ in South Korea.

Silverlining Rights, a specialist-factual and documentary distributor, has secured a slew of sales to channels around the world in the second quarter.