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NEW YORK: Big Media has begun production on the fourth season of its automotive series Enginuity.

LOS ANGELES: Production has started on the second season of Endemol Beyond USA's popular eSports show Legends of Gaming, which will be hosted by the YouTube sensation known as Syndicate.

LONDON: NBCUniversal International has unveiled hayu, an SVOD service dedicated to reality programming, set to launch in March in the U.K., Ireland and Australia.

NEW YORK: Four additional presenters, including German racing driver Sabine Schmitz, are joining Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc for the return of Top Gear.

NEW YORK: A&E Network is premiering this spring the new original docuseries 60 Days In, set in the Clark County Jail in Indiana.

LONDON: Richard Klein, who has been serving as ITV's director of factual, is leaving the broadcaster after two and a half years.

LONDON/NEW YORK: Dogwoof has secured international rights (excluding North America) for the film Author: The JT LeRoy Story from A&E IndieFilms and RatPac Documentary Films.

Warren Sevel, the sales manager for Australia, New Zealand and the Americas, discusses trends in the factual world.

LONDON: October Films has been commissioned by Discovery Channel in the U.S. to produce Trailblazers, a new six-part survival show.

PARIS: francetv distribution has picked up the international distribution rights for a trio of 52-minute historical documentaries focused on World War II: Varian Fry’s List, I Betrayed Hitler and Drancy 1943, the Big Escape.