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NEW YORK: HISTORY has launched HISTORY NOW, the channel's first-ever social media series, focused on such topics as ISIS, immigration, space and inner-city crime.

LOS ANGELES: Participant Media's network Pivot has slated the documentary CodeGirl to air later this month, marking its premiere on U.S. TV screens.

LONDON: Twofour Rights has licensed more than 80 hours of factual and factual-entertainment programming into Australia and New Zealand.

PARIS: Terranoa has closed several package deals for its factual content in Spain, Portugal and other European territories.

LOS ANGELES: ProSiebenSat.1 Group’s multichannel network Studio71 (formerly Collective Digital Studio) has appointed Rabih Gholam to the newly created position of president of unscripted television.

LONDON: Channel 4 has commissioned Boomerang to produce a fourth season of the reality series Posh Pawn and the new documentary Flat Pack Mansions.

PETALING JAYA: Primeworks Studios is working with Japan's Hokuriku Asahi Broadcasting (HAB) to produce Mad Markets Ishikawa: Japan Specials.

LONDON: ITV has commissioned STV Productions, with co-production partners GroupM Entertainment, to produce a second season of the ITV2 comedy panel show Safeword.

NEW YORK: FYI has given the go-ahead to 15 additional episodes of Kocktails with Khloé, a talk show hosted and exec produced by TV personality Khloé Kardashian.

SILVER SPRING: This spring, Destination America is set to premiere Ghost Brothers, a new supernatural-themed show featuring television's first African-American paranormal investigation team.