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BURBANK: ABC News and People have collaborated on a new limited-run summer series, People’s List, premiering June 11 on ABC.

LOS ANGELES: Showtime is teaming up with filmmakers R.J. Cutler (The September Issue, The World According to Dick Cheney) and John Battsek (Searching For Sugar Man, The Tillman Story) on a feature-length documentary about the life of comic legend John Belushi.

NEW YORK/PRAGUE: Big Media and KM Plus Media have racked up international sales for the Cold War documentary series M.A.D. World, placing the title into Germany and Australia, among other territories.

LONDON: Channel 4 has commissioned a new one-hour documentary from Outline Productions that looks at the popularity of the home-sharing empire Airbnb.

LONDON: All3Media is backing the new indie producer Caravan, which specializes in factual, documentaries, current affairs and popular factual series.

SILVER SPRING: Discovery Communications is relaunching its Seeker brand to target "bright, curious Millennial minds," with new online programming rolling out this month.

LONDON: Pulse Films has been commissioned by BBC Three to produce the hour-long documentary United States of Hate: Muslims Under Attack, which explores tensions between different factions in America.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Chris Albert has been elevated to the post of executive VP of global communications and talent relations for National Geographic Channels.

LONDON: ITV Studios' Potato is producing two feature-length drama documentaries for Channel 5, one on Freddie Mercury and the other spotlighting Karen Carpenter.

SANTA MONICA/VANCOUVER: Ted Bookstaver has been hired at Lionsgate in the newly created position of senior VP of alternative programming sales.