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LOS ANGELES/SAN FRANCISCO: Suzanne Kolb, the former president of E! Entertainment, has been appointed as the executive VP and general manager of Discovery Digital Networks, with immediate effect.

SHERMAN OAKS: Discovery has picked up four seasons each of two GRB Entertainment-distributed series, Untold Stories of the ER and the competition cooking series BBQ Pitmasters, for its U.S. Hispanic feed and for Latin America, respectively.

LOS ANGELES: Entertainment One (eOne) has sold the natural-history docuseries David Attenborough's The Great Barrier Reef to CBC in Canada.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Geographic Channel has partnered with several award-winning filmmakers and producers for a variety of specials, including the feature documentary Parched from Oscar winner Alex Gibney.

LOS ANGELES: FOX Sports and Red Bull Media House have partnered for more than 30 hours of original programming slated to air throughout 2016.

SÃO PAULO: Brazil’s Globosat has picked up two jazz documentaries, including one shot entirely in 4K.

LONDON: TCB Media Rights has secured a number of sales for its one-off documentaries, while also adding several U.K. indie production companies as content partners, along with around 60 hours of factual-entertainment programming.

BOSTON: The latest addition to PBS's NOVA strand is Memory Hackers, a one-hour documentary that explores the secrets of human memory.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Geographic Channel's new series The Great Human Race, which follows two experts on a mission to retrace a migratory route of our ancestors, is premiering in the U.S. on February 1 and globally later this year in 171 countries and 44 languages.

NEW YORK: Smithsonian Channel and Major League Baseball (MLB) have partnered on a series that spotlights some of the sport's most legendary players, titled Major League Legends.