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Beyond Distribution has landed a new round of sales for the Mythbusters franchise.

Kew Media Group has presold the paranormal series Haunted Hospitals, which comes from Julie Bristow’s Bristow Global Media (BGM), to Discovery’s Quest Red in the U.K. and Ireland.

TCB Media Rights has placed The Private Lives of the Monarchs, World’s Wildest Weather and Abandoned Engineering with broadcasters in the U.S.

Entertainment One (eOne) has acquired a majority stake in the British factual producer Whizz Kid Entertainment.

Barcroft Media and TCB Media Rights have entered into a co-production deal that sees the distributor acquire the worldwide rights to sell a new long-form TV series based on the popular digital show Extreme Love.

The winner of this year's MIPDoc International Pitch is Soora: Breaking the Silence, about four fearless feminists in Iran.

Some 350 hours of programming has been licensed by all3media international into Germany and Benelux in its latest round of deals, which sees Lion Television’s landmark three-part series The Great Fire of London: In Real Time heading to ZDF.

National Geographic’s Christian Drobnyk, CuriosityStream’s Steve Burns and France Télévisions’ Thierry Mino shared their acquisition and co-production strategies at MIPDoc this morning in a session moderated by Anna Carugati before each receiving a World Screen Factual Trendsetter Award.

Amazon has greenlit Lorena, a Prime original documentary series executive produced by Jordan Peele and produced by Monkeypaw and Sonar Entertainment.

Discovery has aligned with filmmaking heavyweights Steven Spielberg and Alex Gibney for the event series Why We Hate (working title).