SCHEDULE WATCH – COVID STRATEGIES: Arte France is seeking a range of documentaries to challenge and engage its viewers.

SCHEDULE WATCH – COVID STRATEGIES: UKTV is mining its closer ties with parent BBC Studios as CEO Marcus Arthur seeks further growth.

SCHEDULE WATCH COVID STRATEGIES: France Télévisions’ Caroline Béhar identifies new opportunities for international documentary partnerships emerging from lockdown.

SCHEDULE WATCH – COVID STRATEGIES: The French pubcaster’s director of documentaries, Catherine Alvaresse, outlines her revamped content strategy and the opportunities ahead.

SUNNYSIDE: Arte France’s head of society and culture output has made an impassioned call for more pluralism in documentaries and is seeking to work with more diverse new talent, including non-Western voices.

SUNNYSIDE: French media group Mediawan’s thematic channel Science & Vie TV is lining up its first Chinese coproduction.

SUNNYSIDE: France Télévisions unveiled a number of landmark documentary projects from its History and Culture unit during this week's online edition of Sunnyside of the Doc.

SCHEDULE WATCH – COVID STRATEGIES: Histoire TV is enjoying strong viewer growth and is prospecting for more projects to air from 2021, including international coproductions.

SUNNYSIDE: France Télévisions has called for more projects from the international production community to fill primetime slots on France 2 and France 5, as part of its Global Doc initiative.

Turner Latin America's VP of development is keen to open up the region to coproduction and is looking across the waters to Spain and Europe for suitable scripted projects with universal stories.