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Jane Latman, a Discovery veteran who most recently served as general manager of Travel Channel, has been named president of HGTV.

Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) has added to its unscripted television team led by Barry Poznick, president of unscripted television, and Mark Burnett, chairman of MGM’s Worldwide Television Group, with a trio of new hires.

Antenna Pictures, a Blue Ant Media factual production company, has teamed up with Viceland for the drama-documentary series How to Rob a Bank.

Cardiff-based indie Wildflame Productions has appointed former BBC Commissioning Editor Nick Shearman to the position of executive producer to lead its growth in factual production across the U.K. and internationally.

Müfit Umar, DocuBox’s channel manager, talks about the vast assortment of factual content available through the SPI International/FilmBox channel.

E! is set to expand its entertainment news and commentary programming with three more hours of original content on weekdays.

TLC has ordered its first original short-form wedding series for YouTube, Countdown To I Do, which will premiere exclusively on TLC UK YouTube in Q4.

Smithsonian Channel is set to premiere the new historical docuseries Private Lives of the Monarchs, which will take a closer look at five European royal households.

Gusto’s original docuseries Dog Tales Rescue is returning to the network for a second season, which will follow international rescue missions for the first time and also see the show be made available on Gusto’s YouTube channel the day after broadcast.

Showtime Documentary Films has ordered a four-part documentary series that will chronicle the history of the iconic Los Angeles club The Comedy Store.