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CANNES: Taking place on Saturday, April 2, at MIPDoc, the View From the Top: What Do Buyers Want? session will see World Screen’s Anna Carugati in conversation with executives from RMC Découverte, ZDF/ZDF Enterprises, Discovery Networks CEEMEA and Smithsonian Networks.

LONDON: Zodiak Rights, the international distribution arm of Banijay Group, has secured worldwide sales for the five-part documentary SAS: Who Dares Wins while gearing up for MIPTV.

NEW YORK: WE tv in the U.S. has greenlit My Life Is a Telenovela, a Miami-set docuseries following actresses and actors working within the popular genre.

TORONTO: Distribution360, a marblemedia company, is bolstering its catalogue ahead of MIPTV with the addition of more than 200 hours of non-scripted content, including its first-ever 4K series.

LOS ANGELES/NORTH HOLLYWOOD: Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have signed on to executive produce The Runner, a reality competition show for Verizon’s go90 platform.

Courteney Monroe, National Geographic Global Networks’s CEO, presented Nat Geo's 2016-17 Upfront slate.

NEW YORK: Singer Christina Aguilera has signed on to develop a new, music-based game show due out on Spike TV as a half-hour special later this year.

LOS ANGELES: Factual entertainment and wildlife producer Plimsoll Productions has acquired a minority stake in specialist distributor Magnify Media, a partnership that grants Magnify the sole rights to distribute Plimsoll’s catalogue.

LOS ANGELES: E! Entertainment has teamed with Bunim/Murray Productions for the docuseries Mariah’s World, which will explore the private life of singer Mariah Carey.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Geographic Channel has commissioned the eight-part docuseries Miracle Hospital (working title).