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CANNES: Two three-part miniseries are at the top of Terra Mater Factual Studios’ highlights.

NEW YORK: Velocity has greenlit The Alex Vega Project (working title), an original series from Muse Entertainment that brings viewers inside the world of custom car designer Alex Vega.

VANCOUVER: Canadian producers Infinity Filmed Entertainment Group and Partners in Motion have inked a deal with Premier Exhibitions to gain exclusive access to artifacts from the wreckage of the RMS Titanic in order to produce a new series.

WASHINGTON, D.C./LONDON/DURBAN: Smithsonian Channel and Earth Touch have struck a deal to co-produce two films and a three-part series in the wildlife genre.

NEW YORK: SundanceTV has commissioned a four-part crime documentary that re-examines the 1959 murders of the Clutter family, famously documented in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.

LONDON: The Rare TV-owned factual studio 360Production has been commissioned by Channel 4 to produce a documentary that tells the story of the final Battle of the Somme, the 100th anniversary of which is being commemorated this year.

TORONTO: Breakthrough Entertainment has secured the rights for two new original unscripted shows from the SVOD platform Feeln, including Breaking Bread with Brooke Burke.

MONTREAL: Quebecor Media's Quebecor Content has acquired a variety of new lifestyle programming from Scripps Networks.

LONDON: Sky Vision has been appointed as distributor for the 6x1-hour Savage Kingdom, which comes from Icon Films and Natural History Film Unit Botswana.

LOS ANGELES: Karga Seven Pictures has strengthened its executive team with the appointment of Brett Boydstun as the senior VP of production and Michael Gara making the transition to senior VP and head of development.