Daniele Alcinii

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Boat Rocker inks deal for Xploration Station

Boat Rocker Rights has acquired the worldwide distribution rights for series across Fox’s Xploration Station programming block from Steve Rotfeld Productions. (Awesome Planet pictured.)

Loud, Frantic Films ink strategic deal

Loud TV has secured a strategic development and production deal with Winnipeg- and Toronto-based production outfit Frantic Films. (Pictured L-R: Loud TV’s Nick Rigg, Frantic Films’ Jamie Brown)

RIDM’s Charlotte Selb to take leave

Bruno Dequen and Marie-Laure Tittley will helm programming for the next edition of the festival while Selb (pictured) takes a leave of absence.

Knowledge Network reappoints Rudy Buttignol

Buttignol (pictured) will remain as president and CEO for a five-year term ending in 2020.

Proper Rights sends Beasts, Garage abroad

Proper has secured a raft of international deals for its factual and lifestyle titles across Iberia, New Zealand, Italy and Canada. (Beasts of the Bible pictured.)

The Scott Brothers go big with ‘tiny’ series for HGTV U.S.

The Canadian producers have two digital series in production for the U.S. net, including Tiny House Arrest.

Portfolio hires director of factual, lifestyle development

Jennifer Bragg (pictured) will oversee content development in the factual, reality and lifestyle genres, reporting to Portfolio CEO Joy Rosen.

Warner Bros. Int’l TV picks up Chef In Your Ear

Warner Bros. International Television Production has acquired the worldwide TV rights excluding Asia for Food Network Canada’s Chef In Your Ear (pictured).

Sarah Spring named board chair of RIDM, DCM

The Montreal International Documentary Festival and Doc Circuit Montreal have appointed Sarah Spring (pictured) as chair of the organizations’ board of directors, effective immediately.