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Bell Media’s Discovery Channel, Investigation Discovery, Animal Planet, Discovery Science and Discovery Velocity are being rebranded effective January 1.

7/7: The London Bombings, about the bombs that detonated on London’s transport system on July 7, 2005, is scheduled to debut across January 5 and 6 on BBC Two.

The Japanese reality show The Boyfriend has been renewed for a second season by Netflix, with hosts MEGUMI, Chiaki Horan, Thelma Aoyama, Durian Lollobrigida and Yoshimi Tokui returning.

Fremantle and the Jamie Oliver Group have signed a new five-year deal that extends the long-term partnership with the celebrity chef, which goes back more than two decades.

Netflix and Roku are among the platforms that have picked up the documentary WHAM!: Last Christmas Unwrapped, which tells the story behind the iconic song by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley’s WHAM!

ZDF Studios has secured the worldwide distribution rights to two new factual titles from the Global Doc Initiative.

First We Feast, which produces the hit online show Hot Ones, has been sold by BuzzFeed to a consortium led by an affiliate of Soros Fund Management for $82.5 million in cash.

ITV Studios has sold a raft of unscripted titles during the World Congress of Science & Factual Producers, including the documentary My Wife, My Abuser: Captured on Camera.

Notre-Dame Résurrection, a documentary following the repair of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, is set to debut on TV5MONDEplus on December 15 and on TV5MONDE USA on January 1.

Apple Original Films has lined up Deaf President Now!, a documentary about the 1988 Gallaudet University protests.