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The Spanish-language streamer Pantaya has unveiled its first unscripted original series, De Viaje Con Los Derbez (Derbez Family Vacation), which follows actor and comedian Eugenio Derbez and his family as they travel through Morocco.

In its third commissioning deal with the London-based indie Bigger Bang, the factual VOD service CuriosityStream has picked up Secrets of the Solar System (working title).

Discovery Program Sales, the program licensing arm of Discovery, has acquired the worldwide media rights for the five-part series Mysterious Planet.

Industrial Media has appointed four-time Emmy nominee Devon Hammonds to the position of senior VP of development and current programming for the East Coast, leading the company’s New York and Atlanta production hubs.

HBO Max has made its first move into the unscripted space with the straight-to-series commissions of Legendary and The Greatest Space (working title).

Entertainment One (eOne) has purchased the U.S.-based producer Blackfin, which specializes in nonfiction content.

Reelz in the U.S. has inked a deal with Banijay Rights for the first and second seasons of the factual series Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer.

DocuBay has tapped The Vidya Collective to expand the company’s distribution efforts in the U.K. and EMEA.

A+E Networks UK has expanded the distribution of Crime+Investigation in Poland, launching the channel on the Play Now service.

The BBC and Quibi have struck up a new partnership to create daily international news programming targeted to millennials.