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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.

UKTV has pre-invested in the eight-part paranormal activity series Unexplained: Caught on Camera from back2back Productions, a Brighton-based independent production company.

MY Entertainment, founded by creative leader Michael Yudin, is ringing in its 15th anniversary by inking a slate of development deals with a roster of all-star talent.

ARTE Distribution is launching a host of history, nature and arts programs at this year’s MIPDoc, including a 60-year retrospective that examines how Cuba changed world politics, Castro’s Revolution vs the World.

Red Arrow Studios International has been named the international distributor of Bandit Films’ Prisoners of the Moon, a critically acclaimed documentary about the darker side of the Apollo II lunar landings, which the company will launch at MIPTV.

Smithsonian Networks brings a slew of factual highlights to MIPTV, among them The Green Book: Guide to Freedom, a documentary that covers the same subject matter as this year’s Academy Award winner for best picture, Green Book.

Are you attending MIPDoc this weekend? Make sure to get your copy of TV Real, visit TVReal.ws, access our Twitter feed, and peruse listings of numerous new shows via our Screening Rooms.

Sky in the U.K. has commissioned a second season of The Heist, a high-stakes factual-entertainment show from Shine TV.