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 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)
Bruno Dequen and Marie-Laure Tittley will helm programming for the next edition of the festival while Selb (pictured) takes a leave of absence.
Buttignol (pictured) will remain as president and CEO for a five-year term ending in 2020.
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 Canadian producers have two digital series in production for the U.S. net, including Tiny House Arrest.
Jennifer Bragg (pictured) will oversee content development in the factual, reality and lifestyle genres, reporting to Portfolio CEO Joy Rosen.
Warner Bros. International Television Production has acquired the worldwide TV rights excluding Asia for Food Network Canada’s Chef In Your Ear (pictured).
The Montreal International Documentary Festival and Doc Circuit Montreal have appointed Sarah Spring (pictured) as chair of the organizations’ board of directors, effective immediately.