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DUNEDIN: Sky Vision has picked up the distribution rights for the factual series The Miracle Tiger.

LONDON: Scripps Networks Interactive’s lifestyle nets Food Network, Travel Channel and Fine Living are launching in Israel on Cellcom, marking the company’s first channel portfolio deal in the country.

LONDON: ITV Studios’s Potato has been commissioned to produce Devon and Cornwall Blues (working title), a new prime-time series following the work of the Devon and Cornwall Police Force.

LONDON: DCD Rights has appointed former Passion Distribution exec Philippa Chuter to the newly created role of senior acquisitions executive to lead the company’s drive for factual content.

ATLANTA: Turner's truTV has ordered a 26-episode sixth season of the popular hidden-camera reality series Impractical Jokers for broadcast early next year.

NEW YORK: Lucky 8 TV, producer of the A&E series 60 Days In, has aligned with the husband and wife producing duo Courtney and Audra Smith (Undercover Boss, Kids BBQ Championship) to form the joint venture Turn Card Content.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Geographic Channel has greenlit a second season of The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, which will return in 2017.

NEW YORK: U.S. network Logo has renewed its Emmy-nominated series RuPaul’s Drag Race for a ninth season, while also commissioning a docuseries from Kelly Ripa.

TEL AVIV: Endemol Shine Group has entered a multiyear international partnership with digital-solutions provider eTribez for a casting platform that will enable production companies to consider twice the amount of candidates on competition shows.

LONDON: DRG has landed its first round of deals for Race for the White House, a docuseries narrated by Kevin Spacey, including a sale to Netflix.