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CANNES: Beyond Distribution has placed more than 240 hours of programming, including Deadly Women, with Foxtel, and has also expanded the role of Joanne Azzopardi, who brokered the deal, to senior VP of sales and acquisitions.

ALBUQUERQUE: REELZ has renewed three original series focused on the true stories behind celebrities’ mysterious deaths, car and plane accidents involving big-name stars, and notorious crime bosses.

CANNES: German production company Autentic is extending its co-production collaboration with Japanese public broadcaster NHK.

TEL AVIV/CANNES: Dori Media Group has added to its catalogue the mentalist show Invisible, which first aired in Israel earlier this year.

CANNES: TCB Media Rights has entered into an agreement with U.K. indie Crackit Productions to represent Sex Pod and Horror Homes, bringing the number of new titles in the company’s MIPTV lineup to 20.

LONDON: BBC Worldwide Asia has inked a new licensing deal with China's Tencent that includes more than 1,000 hours of documentaries from the BBC.

CANNES: The blue-chip science feature The Living Universe, co-produced by Essential Media and Entertainment and ZED, is headed to European broadcaster ARTE and the SVOD platform CuriosityStream.

LONDON/CANNES: Woodcut Media and Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures are co-financing a new documentary, Cut from a Different Cloth, which will be repped by Content Media.

LONDON/CANNES: REELZ has come on board as the exclusive U.S. broadcaster for the new original series The Real Story of… (working title), from U.K. factual producer World Media Rights.

CANNES: Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock told MIPDoc delegates that all networks, commissioners and producers must have a digital strategy and should be looking for gaps in the marketplace to target underserved audiences.