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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Passion Distribution is taking the one-hour documentary The Boy Who Tried to Kill Trump global, picking up the international sales rights for the Firecracker Films production.

LONDON: Shiver has been commissioned to produce the four-part series Tales from the Coast with Robson Green for ITV.

LONDON: Cineflix Rights has acquired distribution rights for two new series, including Bizarre Murders, from L.A.-based Bellum Entertainment.

LONDON: TCB Media Rights has closed three deals for factual titles across North America, including the sale of Wicked Inventions to American Heroes Channel.

PARIS: Terranoa has inked several package deals for its factual content, including a 35-hour sale to Canal+ Poland.

VANCOUVER/TORONTO: Entertainment One is combining its unscripted TV activities in Canada, bringing together Paperny Entertainment and Force Four Entertainment.

LONDON: UKTV has commissioned two retrospective specials featuring Sir David Jason as part of Gold’s 25th birthday celebrations.

NEW YORK: A&E Network is rebooting the true-crime series Cold Case Files, this time with Danny Glover as narrator.

MAINZ: ZDF Enterprises has clinched a new round of sales for The Celts: Blood, Iron & Sacrifice, a specialist factual program produced by ZDF and BBC in association with ARTE and ZDF Enterprises.

LONDON: BRITDOC has signed on to co-fund up to four BBC documentaries a year as part of a three-year partnership with the public broadcaster.