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LOS ANGELES: Rive Gauche Television has locked in new deals for several of its titles, among them the crime series Fame Kills and Death By Gossip.

SYDNEY: Escapade Media has secured worldwide rights, outside of the U.K., for Steve Backshall: The Vertical Mile, a three-part factual series that see the naturalist climbing the north face of the Eiger.

NEW YORK: Smithsonian Channel is marking Sir David Attenborough’s 90th birthday with seven weeks of programming featuring the iconic naturalist.

BRISTOL: Plimsoll Productions has elevated Martha Holmes to head of wildlife, Karen Plumb to head of features and daytime and Kate Beetham to head of development and executive producer.

SHERMAN OAKS: Ecuadorian journalist and filmmaker Jeanette Hinostroza, who is behind GRB Entertainment's factual crime documentary Nelson Serrano: I’m Innocent, will be a featured speaker at MIPDoc.

LONDON: Hat Trick International has secured deals with a host of global broadcasters for true-crime titles such as The Mafia with Trevor McDonald.

GLASGOW: STV Productions has produced a new documentary to mark the 80th anniversary of the legendary ocean liner the RMS Queen Mary's maiden voyage, in a co-production for BBC Scotland, BBC Four and Smithsonian Channel.

LONDON: TCB Media Rights has closed presales on Definitive Guides: Extreme Sea Monsters, New Mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle and Inside Secret Societies.

SILVER SPRING: Disappeared, a true-crime series about missing-persons cases, is slated to return to Investigation Discovery for a seventh season after a three-year hiatus.

CANNES: Taking place on Saturday, April 2, at MIPDoc, the View From the Top: What Do Buyers Want? session will see World Screen’s Anna Carugati in conversation with executives from RMC Découverte, ZDF/ZDF Enterprises, Discovery Networks CEEMEA and Smithsonian Networks.