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Distributors share one way they have achieved breaking through the overly saturated wildlife genre: offering focused, single-species programs.

Unknown, a four-part documentary event from Story Syndicate that pushes the boundaries of knowledge through exploration, is slated to debut on Netflix on July 3.

Sky Arts will be capturing the 2023 Hay Festival in the three-part docuseries From Hay, which will see presenter and avid reader Simon Savidge sit down with five authors at the event.

FilmRise and Canal+ Docs have come on board Missing From Fire Trail Road, the newest documentary from Award-winning director Sabrina Van Tassel (The Silenced Walls, The State of Texas vs. Melissa).

Fremantle’s Undeniable is producing a new feature documentary tentatively titled The Second Woman, capturing Golden Globe and Olivier Award winner Ruth Wilson (Luther, His Dark Materials) in a one-off performance of the eponymous play.

Supercollider, part of Zinc Media, is working with Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures and Sabrina Elba’s Pink Towel for a doc series that explores the extent of the historical injustice suffered by the music industry’s Black artists.

More4 in the U.K. and TVNZ in New Zealand have come on board the new ob-doc series Police Rescue Australia, which is set to premiere on Channel 9 and 9Now in Australia later this month.

Fremantle has scored the global distribution rights for Bardot, a feature documentary about French actress Brigitte Bardot from Featuristic Films and TimpelPictures.

ICS Nordic is working on a 3x30-minute documentary series and 90-minute feature doc about Maila Nurmi, the American actress best known for creating the camp 1950s character Vampira.

Your Brain, a two-part miniseries delving into the human brain, has premiered on PBS as part of its science series NOVA.