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Emma Morgan, who recently served as executive producer of the A Very British Hotel (Inside the Mandarin Oriental) series, has been appointed as the new creative director of factual at Firecracker.

Nat Geo’s Hamish Mykura, Foxtel’s Hannah Barnes, Canal+’s Isabelle Antraygue and ORF’s Andrew Solomon weighed in on acquisition and commissioning trends in a MIPDoc session moderated by World Screen’s Anna Carugati before each receiving a Factual Trendsetter Award.

HBO has slated the premiere of the true-crime film Mommy Dead and Dearest, which explores a real murder case, for May 15.

Production has commenced on the new documentary series Evidence of Innocence for TV One, which will explore the stories of individuals who were convicted of crimes they did not commit and their struggles to get their convictions overturned.

GRB Entertainment has sold Confessions of a Superhero and several other titles from its documentary slate across the U.K., Germany and Japan.

All 4 has commissioned Burning Bright Productions to produce a new documentary focused on same-sex parenting, hosted by actor and soon-to-be father Kieron Richardson (Hollyoaks).

Love Productions has been commissioned to produce Paul Hollywood’s new baking series, A Baker’s Life (working title), for Channel 4.

ITV in the U.K. has ordered a new season of the hit game show Tenable from Endemol Shine Group's Initial.

Susan Levison, a former VH1 executive, has been named senior VP of alternative programming at CBS Television Studios.

Launching this fall through the OwnZones.com platform, 420TV is billed as the first premium 4K VOD network dedicated to news, information and entertainment programming surrounding all things cannabis.