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TORONTO: Jennifer Bragg has been appointed director of factual and lifestyle development at Portfolio Entertainment, supporting the company's recent diversification strategy that includes the production of unscripted content. Bragg will lead Portfolio’s factual division, with responsibility for end-to-end content development …

CHEVY CHASE: Travel Channel is set to premiere next month a new series starring hip-hop artist and Run-DMC front man Joseph “Rev Run” Simmons. The 16×30-minute series, titled Rev Runs Around the World, is due out December 2 with back-to-back …

ATLANTA: The Hunting Ground has been slated for a November 19 debut on CNN in the U.S. with limited commercial interruption. CNN Films’ The Hunting Ground is a feature documentary about sexual assault on American college campuses. It explores the …

NEW YORK: Corentin Glutron, the head of acquisitions for RMC Découverte, spoke to TV Real's Mansha Daswani about the mix of acquired and original programming on the channel.   The factual channel RMC Découverte debuted in late 2012 and has …

LONDON: BBC Two has commissioned documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux to produce a new film about Jimmy Savile, the popular British presenter revealed to have been a predatory sex offender only after his death. The new production will be a follow-up …

LOS ANGELES: Queen Latifah and producer Jermaine Dupri are teaming up to find the next big hip-hop star with an all-new unscripted series titled The Rap Game. Queen Latifah and her partner Shakim Compere will executive produce the series under …

BOSTON: PBS International has lined up several broadcasters for the three-part Frontline series My Brother’s Bomber, within days of its U.S. premiere. BBC’s Storyville strand (U.K.), SBS (Australia), MBD/Alhurra (the Middle East), DR (Denmark) and Phoenix Satellite (Hong Kong and …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Geographic Channel has greenlit two specials for 2016, one on Pope Francis’s pre-Vatican life and another on the 30th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. Rebel Pope, a FOX Telecolombia production, will interweave scripted accounts of …

BURBANK: ABC has given the go-ahead to a second season of its BattleBots revival. The show’s second run will feature new technologies, more destructive bots and even the possibility of drones and flying battlebots. In its first season, the competition …

LONDON: Channel 4 has commissioned Oxford Scientific Films (OSF), in association with Manchester’s North West Film Archive and the Imperial War Museums, to produce the special Calling Blighty (working title), honoring Britain’s servicemen fighting in Burma during World War II. …