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In a MIPDoc session hosted by Patrick Vien, A+E Networks’ executive co-managing director of international, A&E’s Elaine Frontain Bryant and History’s Mary Donahue outlined their programming remits, highlighting The Clinton Affair and Jesus: His Life, respectively.

Season two of the reality series Log Cabin Fever has been presold to Foxtel in Australia and Nat Geo People for MENA and Southeast Asia, among other broadcasters.

French TV production company Pernel Media has brought in Fabrice Frank, who joins from Elephant, as executive producer.

Factual indie Barcroft Studios has been commissioned by Channel 5 in the U.K. to produce a documentary film that follows the story of a U.S. marine who underwent a bilateral arm transplant.

PBS International has entered into a distribution partnership with HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, the production company behind The Serengeti Rules.

Science Channel is set to launch Skyscrapers: Engineering the Future, a new series about the gravity-defying designs that stand out in city skylines.

UKTV is bringing the brand-new six-episode series The Wedding Fixer to its entertainment channel W later this year.

Dr. Michael Gunton, creative director of the Natural History Unit and factual at BBC Studios, talked about working with David Attenborough and immersive wildlife filmmaking with World Screen's Anna Carugati at MIPDoc today before being presented with the World Screen Factual Trendsetter Award.

The Employables, a new eight-part docuseries that follows job seekers with conditions such as autism and Tourette syndrome on the hunt for meaningful employment, is slated to premiere on A&E Network in May.

GRB Studios is highlighting a slew of factual series at this year’s MIPTV, including Untold Stories of the ER.