BBC Studios has taken a minority stake in UK-based Samphire Films, the production company founded last year by Sophie Leonard and David Hodgkinson, to support its rapid growth and global expansion.
Sky History in the UK is gearing up to air factual series Kursk: 10 Days that Shaped Putin, about the Russian submarine disaster which resulted in the death of 118 people.
Australian public broadcaster ABC has picked up the rights to High Hoops, the forthcoming live-action kids' comedy produced by Can Can Productions for CBBC in the UK.