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SHERMAN OAKS: GRB Entertainment has done a deal with Discovery for its Latin America and U.S. Hispanic channels.

LONDON: Channel 4 has purchased a minority stake in the Scottish TV company Firecrest Films.

LONDON/PARIS: Vivendi Entertainment is releasing The Real Fast & Furious, an exclusive special around the successful movie franchises.

PASADENA: Next month will see the three-network simulcast premiere of the natural-history series Planet Earth II on BBC America, AMC and SundanceTV in the U.S.

SILVER SPRING: Discovery Communications has announced several new programs across its various networks, including a docuseries from Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger for Investigation Discovery (ID).

LONDON: In a move designed to bolster its factual department, Channel 4 has added former Channel 5 exec Michelle Chappell to the documentaries commissioning team, among other appointments.

PARIS: ZDF Enterprises’ (ZDFE) natural-history series Big Pacific will have its world premiere screening at MIPDoc in April.

NEW YORK: Former Investigation Discovery (ID) executive Christina Douglas has formed a new production company, Momentum Content, which has scored an overall co-production deal with Blackfin.

LOS ANGELES: GRB Entertainment has hired Saul Goldberg, who previously worked for Covert Media, as the company's new senior VP of development.

Craig McGillivray, the VP of distribution, talks about the company’s growing factual and lifestyle catalog and trends he has been seeing in that space.