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NEW YORK: Smithsonian Networks has introduced a new SVOD service, Smithsonian Earth, featuring original nature and wildlife content. The stand-alone offering is available in both HD and 4K resolution with compatible devices and television. The array of new originals will …

TORONTO: Shaw Media’s female-skewing channel Slice has picked up Tricon Films & Television’s docuseries Après Ski. The original series is co-produced by Tricon and Bravo Media with Andrea Gorfolova, Jeff Hevert, Jameel Bharmal and Kevin Lee serving as executive producers. Après …

NEW YORK: Syfy has ordered 13-episode new seasons of the popular supernatural unscripted series Ghost Hunters and Paranormal Witness. The 11th season of Ghost Hunters will look on as The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS) founder Jason Hawes leads investigations at …

LONDON: Channel 4 has commissioned a one-off exclusive documentary about the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express.  Titled The World’s Most Famous Train, the hour-long documentary will examine the importance of the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express in a time when conventional travel is dwindling. The special …

TORONTO: Bell Media has lined up the exclusive North American television and streaming premiere of Jerry Rothwell's How to Change the World, a documentary focused on the birth of the modern green movement and the creation of Greenpeace. How to …

SILVER SPRING: Discovery Communications has launched a new global initiative focused on species conservation tied to the upcoming Discovery Channel documentary Racing Extinction. In collaboration with Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions and the Oceanic Preservation Society, the campaign will launch …

LONDON: BBC Worldwide has secured a slew of international presales for the upcoming hour-long special Adele: Live in London. The special was recorded on November 2 and is set to air tomorrow on BBC as Adele: Live at the BBC. …

DUBLIN/LONDON: UKTV has picked up two prime-time factual series from RTÉ Global, The High Hopes Choir and Rachel Allen’s Coastal Cooking. Tyrone Productions' The High Hopes Choir is a series about Ireland’s first choir of homeless people. The 3×52-minute series was …

LOS ANGELES: WWE's John Cena has signed up to lead the all-new competition series American Grit, which has been given a ten-episode order from FOX for 2016. The show will see 16 men and women from across the U.S. split …

LONDON: Vaudeville Productions and Crook Productions are co-producing a magic-based competition show for ITV, The Next Great Magician. The series will feature the world’s best magicians performing their greatest tricks, many of them for the first time ever on television, …