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National Geographic Documentary Films has partnered with the two-time Academy Award-nominated director Liz Garbus (What Happened, Miss Simone?) and the Oscar-winning producers Dan Cogan (Icarus) and Evan Hayes (Free Solo) for a documentary feature about Jacques Cousteau, the famed ocean explorer.

World’s Greatest Palaces, a new factual series from Woodcut Media, is set to air on the UKTV factual channel Yesterday.

CNN Films has partnered with Trilogy Films and Color Farm Media to develop a documentary feature about civil rights icon and Georgia Congressman John Robert Lewis.

Marquee.TV, a new on-demand streaming platform dedicated to live arts and culture, has launched in the U.S., the U.K. and Canada.

Oxygen Media is expanding its slate of true-crime originals with six new greenlights and five series in development, including new projects from household names such as Kim Kardashian, Mark Wahlberg, Ice-T and Nancy Grace.

Paramount Network is growing its Ink Master franchise across multiple platforms, with a two-season renewal of the original tattoo competition series leading the expansion.

BBC Studios' Natural History Unit has won an Apple commission for Prehistoric Planet, a docuseries about the last days of the dinosaurs from Jon Favreau (Iron Man, The Lion King) and Mike Gunton (Planet Earth II).

Matchbox Pictures has appointed Dan Munday as head of unscripted at the Australian production house.

Sheila Nevins, who won dozens of Emmy and Peabody Awards as president of HBO Documentary Films, has been tapped to launch MTV Documentary Films.

Diane Rankin, Distribution360’s senior VP of international sales and acquisitions, tells World Screen Newsflash what viewers can look forward to from the company’s varied lineup of history-infused highlights.