London-based Fireworks International, the distribution arm of Canada’s Fireworks Entertainment, may have made its ‘first foray into the non-fiction programming market at mipcom 2000,’ but at mip-tv, the company is giving an international launch to its new strand, True Crime, a collection of doc series and specials.

Two new series and one special are in the True Crime spotlight at the market, all produced by u.s.-based Parco International. Assassins is a trio of one-hours about people made notorious by killing or trying to kill the famous, for example, Mehmet Ali Agca, who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981.

In Mugshots, producer John Parsons Peditto offers an eight x one-hour series of profiles of infamous lawbreakers. Prominent among them is the hour on Timothy McVeigh, who faces death by legal injection this spring, following his role in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. Fireworks describes Mugshots as ‘crime meets biography,’ noting that another focus is David Koresh.

Death of a Beatle spends two hours exploring the world of Mark David Chapman, who killed John Lennon 20 years ago. This examination of Chapman’s background and motivations is told by biographer Jack Jones.

Fireworks is also debuting Vanishing Peace, a three-hour special from AIM International that discusses the history of the Middle East conflict from both of the main protagonists’ points of view.

In other news, Fireworks has appointed Saralo MacGregor as vp of sales, based in the l.a. office. She will be responsible for Latin America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Israel, and worked most recently as vp of international sales at NBC International.