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National Geographic’s Disney+ original series Animals Up Close with Bertie Gregory has been renewed for a second season.

Off The Fence (OTF) has secured a raft of deals with broadcasters in Spain and Portugal, including for the six-part series Cursed Histories.

E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin are on board a new project with National Geographic Documentary Films that tells the story of four children who survived in the Colombian jungle for 40 days after a plane crash.

ABC News Studios’ The Beauty Queen Killer: 9 Days of Terror has landed a May 16 debut on Hulu.

The Welsh public broadcaster S4C has tapped Beth Angell to serve as its new head of entertainment and factual entertainment, beginning in June.

Production has begun on the two-hour documentary Caregiving, executive produced by Bradley Cooper for PBS.

German broadcaster RTL has picked up MediaHub's docuseries Stop! Border Control.

Truly Original, a subsidiary of Banijay, has forged an overall deal with New York-based entertainment studio The Cinemart (Fyre Fraud, LuLaRich).

A&E has ordered New House No Debt, a new series from Jenny Daly’s Critical Content, for its daytime lifestyle block Home.Made.Nation.

Director Charlie Hamilton James tells World Screen Newsflash about how Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story came together and his overall vision for the documentary, and Billy and Susan Mail, subjects of the film, share what made them comfortable with inviting the world into such a personal part of their lives.