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Andy King, a breakout personality from the Netflix doc Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, has signed a talent deal with Wheelhouse Entertainment’s Spoke Studios.

Mentorn Scotland has added to its factual slate with three new titles headed for the BBC, including the traveling culinary show Corner Shop Cook-Off.

Lightbox, the factual production company founded by Emmy-winning producers Simon and Jonathan Chinn, has appointed Ben Samuel as the creative director of development.

The executive VP of global unscripted entertainment at National Geographic talks about the seventh edition of SharkFest.

The Story Lab has entered into a partnership with Renowned Films that includes joining forces for the brand-new factual-entertainment show You Are Not a Loan.

BBC Two has recommissioned the global travel series Race Across the World for two new eight-part seasons.

The factual indie Rare TV has named Peabody Award-winning Channel 4 vet Alexander Gardiner the company’s new CEO.

The U.K. indie Wonder is set to produce Living With Dementia (working title), a series slated to follow the everyday lives of people suffering from the condition, for BBC Two.

DRG has picked up the international rights to My Grandparents’ War, a forthcoming four-part factual series that will feature actors Kristin Scott Thomas and Mark Rylance.

Sky is going for a fourth season of Woodcut Media’s true-crime series Britain’s Most Evil Killers and its international counterpart World’s Most Evil Killers to air in the U.K. and Ireland.