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PARIS/LOS ANGELES: Sony Pictures Television has licensed the complete 91-episode package of Stars! celebrity segments for AXN.

LONDON: Naked Entertainment has been commissioned by Channel 4 to produce The Greatest Kids' Films Ever Made, a tentatively titled documentary on how some of the most successful children's movies were made.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Nat Geo WILD is kicking off its seventh annual Big Cat Week with the premiere of Battle for the Pride on Monday, February 20.

SHERMAN OAKS: GRB Entertainment has licensed a number of family-themed docuseries and lifestyle shows to Star Times and Azam TV for broadcast in Tanzania and Uganda, among other African territories.

Tony Iffland, the company's general manager of content sales, speaks about the international appeal of factual programming.

LONDON: Arrow Media has named Sam Starbuck to the role of executive producer and has been commissioned by Investigation Discovery (ID) to produce additional seasons of See No Evil and American Monster.

NEW YORK/LONDON: A new partnership between BBC Worldwide and Snap Inc. will see an exclusive series of Planet Earth II programming being made available on Snapchat’s Discover Platform in the U.S. and Canada.

LONDON: ITV has ordered a third season of Raw’s documentary series Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest Airport.

UNTERFÖHRING: ProSiebenSat.1 TV Deutschland and Scripps Networks Interactive have entered into an extensive, multiyear license agreement.

SYDNEY: ABC TV has appointed Josie Mason-Campbell to the role of head of non-scripted production.