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PARIS: ZDF Enterprises’ (ZDFE) natural-history series Big Pacific will have its world premiere screening at MIPDoc in April.

NEW YORK: Former Investigation Discovery (ID) executive Christina Douglas has formed a new production company, Momentum Content, which has scored an overall co-production deal with Blackfin.

LOS ANGELES: GRB Entertainment has hired Saul Goldberg, who previously worked for Covert Media, as the company's new senior VP of development.

Craig McGillivray, the VP of distribution, talks about the company’s growing factual and lifestyle catalog and trends he has been seeing in that space.

MIAMI: Parade has a wealth of factual content in its catalog that CEO Matthew Ashcroft believes will appeal to buyers from the U.S. and LatAm.

LONDON: Channel 4 has recommissioned the competitive cooking series My Kitchen Rules UK, which 7 Wonder will be producing new episodes of.

NEW YORK/SILVER SPRING: Investigation Discovery (ID) has renewed the series People Magazine Investigates for a ten-episode second season.

LONDON: Atlantic Productions, in a co-production with Alucia Productions, is prepping the three-part landmark series Mission Galapagos for BBC One.

SILVER SPRING: Discovery Communications has elevated Gabriel Sauerhoff, a seven-year veteran of the company, to senior VP of digital distribution, based in New York.

LONDON: UKTV's entertainment channel Dave has ordered an eight-episode fifth season of the popular talk show Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled.