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Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Skyfall) is directing his first documentary, What They Found, for BBC Two and iPlayer.

ITV has commissioned the six-part series Extreme Planet Earth from Plimsoll Productions (A Year on Planet Earth, A Real Bug’s Life).

Cineflix Rights has become the exclusive worldwide distribution partner for True North’s long-running Help! We Bought a Village.

Nine in Australia and TVNZ in New Zealand have agreed to new deals with BBC Studios for its landmark natural history titles.

WTFN Group has extended its partnership with Seven Network, with WTFN’s digital business Radar taking on the management of Seven’s Great Home Ideas channels on YouTube and Facebook.

Stunning natural vistas, archive-rich history, deep-dive biographies and insightful factual entertainment feature in the latest edition of the TV Real Screenings Festival.

Wheelhouse Sports, Portal A and NBC All-Star Anthony Edwards’ Three Fifths Media have partnered for the YouTube docuseries Year Five.

Lockerbie: Our Story, a new documentary telling the personal stories of six victims of the Lockerbie bombing and plane crash, is set to air on BBC One, BBC Scotland and BBC iPlayer.

Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney has sold a majority stake in his Jigsaw Productions to philanthropist Wendy Schmidt.

KURSK: 10 Days That Shaped Putin, examining the August 2000 explosion onboard a Kursk submarine that trapped 118 Russian submariners at the bottom of the Barents Sea, is being produced for Sky HISTORY by HiddenLight Productions.