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One offering at MIPTV this year from Alfred Haber Distribution is Help! My House Is Haunted!, which has just been renewed for a second season by UKTV.

Distribution360 has a factual slate stocked with history fare this MIPTV, including Titanic: Stories from the Deep.

Executive producer and showrunner Josh Silberman has partnered with Fremantle, inking an overall deal with the company.

CBS Reality is set to launch two new exclusive original commissions—The Real Prime Suspect and The Profiler—later this year.

Half Yard Productions has upped Matt Ayres from director of development to VP of development, effective immediately.

On the first day of MIPDoc, April 6, BBC Studios’ Dr. Michael Gunton will sit down with World Screen’s Anna Carugati in the Grand Theatre at the JW Marriott to discuss the art and craft of factual filmmaking in the special Talent Behind the Scenes session, which will be followed by the presentation of this year’s World Screen Factual Trendsetter Award.

Orange Smarty highlighted factual series The Real Prime Suspect is led by Jackie Malton, who was the inspiration behind Helen Mirren’s character in the drama Prime Suspect.

Kew Media Distribution's lineup of factual titles it’s set to present to global clients at MIPTV includes the CNN Original series The Movies.

TCB Media Rights is heading to MIPTV with 36 new titles and 220 hours of content, including the prime-time series Banged Up (working title) and The House of Extraordinary People, with additional BriteSpark Films properties also highlighted.

GRB Studios has added to its catalog season nine of On the Case, a true-crime show that it has landed further sales on as well.