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LONDON: Pulse Films has expanded its television division with the appointment of Ceri Aston, the BAFTA-nominated former executive producer of Dragons’ Den, to the newly created role of head of non-scripted programming.

CANNES: Travel Time with Linda is a new lifestyle-travel series that Canamedia is launching at MIPTV.

CANNES: Pop music mogul Timbaland works with aspiring young artists hoping to break through in the A+E Networks highlight The Pop Game, executive produced by Queen Latifah and Jermaine Dupri, among others.

CANNES: Women around the world who are breaking ground in male-dominated fields are the focus of Wonder Women, a highlight for Breakthrough Entertainment.

NEW YORK: Spike TV has renewed the tattoo competition series Ink Master for a tenth season and greenlit the special Ink Master Angels.

LONDON: At next month's MIPTV, Passion Distribution is slated to showcase nearly 200 hours of new factual-entertainment, documentary and entertainment programming.

NEW YORK: Travel Channel has commissioned more than 390 new hours of programming for 2017, including another show from Andrew Zimmern (Bizzare Foods).

UNIVERSAL CITY: Wilshire Studios, the unscripted production arm of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, has inked an overall development deal with Danny Salles, who is behind such reality series as Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List.

NEW YORK: Smithsonian Channel will look back at the chaotic days following the Rodney King verdict in The Lost Tapes: LA Riots.

SILVER SPRING: The Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Rory Kennedy is behind the upcoming Discovery Channel doc feature NASA: 60 Years and Beyond, which will celebrate six decades of work from the historic institution.