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Terra Mater Factual Studios and Off the Fence, a subsidiary of ZDF Enterprises, have signed a distribution agreement for the former’s content catalog.

BBC Two has commissioned a trio of new factual-entertainment series that range from the adventurous to the intellectually challenging and to complex current affairs.

Judge Romesh will return to UKTV’s Dave for an extended second season, and UKTV Original series My Greatest Dishes has been commissioned for pay-TV food channel Good Food.

Icon Films in the U.K. and Botswana’s Natural History Film Unit have been commissioned by NHK in Japan to make Okavango, an 8K documentary feature.

Director Tom Watt-Smith and Maria Ishak, VP of sales for North America at all3media international, on how the doc examines the epidemic of plastic-waste pollution in the Earth’s waters.

National Geographic has ordered Legendary Catch, a six-episode Blackfin production that explores the planet’s most storied fish with world-renowned angler Carter “Big Boy” Andrews.

Fast & the Furious star Tyrese Gibson is joining forces with Mark Burnett, chairman of Metro Goldwyn Mayer's (MGM) Worldwide Television Group, and MGM Television for Celebrity Grand Prix, a new prime-time competition series.

Discovery Channel and Science Channel have greenlit BattleBots for a sophomore season that will begin production in April and air this summer.

The China Institute for Innovation & Development Strategy (CIIDS) is looking to partner with a U.K. specialist production company on a new documentary project.

BBC Studios is set to unveil a new BBC Earth branded space on BesTV in China.