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A+E Networks has promoted Steve Ascher to the role of senior VP of production and development of A+E Originals.

NBCUniversal International’s hayu, an on-demand SVOD service that solely streams reality TV content, has launched in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Netflix has picked up Fyre, the documentary film from director Chris Smith (Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond) about the titular music festival that didn’t go as planned.

Dannemora Prison Break, a two-hour special about a daring effort to escape a maximum-security facility, is set to premiere on Oxygen Media later this month.

back2back Productions is making a third season of The World's Deadliest... for the U.K.’s 5Spike and Australia’s Seven Network, and a second installment of Scrap Kings for the U.K.’s Quest, Viasat World and Germany’s ProSieben.

The Paras: Men of War (working title), a new three-part ITV docuseries on the Parachute Regiment, is slated to premiere on the network next year.

Autentic Distribution’s latest round of deals includes the sale of more than 50 hours of history, people and nature programs to Czech channel Prima TV.

Gusto Worldwide Media's baking series Flour Power is headed to South Korea via a deal with UMAX announced on the first day of ATF.

ZDF Enterprises is taking on the global distribution of Anthropocene: Human Force of Nature, a three-part documentary series about man’s influence on nature.

Arrow is launching two sister labels, Arrow Media and Arrow Pictures, which will represent different areas of the factual producer's content slate.