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LONDON: Beyond Distribution has closed deals with international broadcasters for the latest installments of the Canadian series Highway Thru Hell and Fatal Vows.

BERLIN: Distributor Quintus Media has brokered a pair of presales for docuseries from German production company Maximus Film, with content sold to France and Switzerland.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Geographic Channel has partnered with Honda to produce the new adventure series Riding Morocco: Chasing the Dakar, fronted by professional racer Christophe Barriere-Varju and Aussie model-adventurer Laura Csortan.

PARIS: About Premium Content (APC) has placed its first two factual programs, including the documentary Freightened, with broadcasters worldwide.

LONDON: U.S. network REELZ has commissioned 20 new episodes of Autopsy: The Last Hours Of… from ITV Studios’s Potato.

WINNIPEG: Farpoint Films has secured a first-look deal with Rive Gauche Television to develop and produce unscripted TV projects.

LONDON: Zig Zag Productions and South Korea’s MBC have inked a co-production agreement on a new doc format that explores the future of artificial intelligence (AI).

LONDON: Sky 1 has scheduled a winter debut for the four-part documentary Inside the Freemasons.

LONDON: Ab Fab star Joanna Lumley is fronting a new three-part series for ITV, which will see the actress journey more than 2,000 miles traveling across Japan.

LONDON: On the heels of a weekend shooting spree that left 50 dead at an Orlando gay nightclub, the BBC has announced a three-part docuseries exploring U.S. hate crimes based on sexuality and race.