Authors First, an AI-enabled book-to-screen studio and distribution platform, has officially launched in New York with more than US$10m in funding.

Buyers in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia have acquired Canadian firm WildBrain's Peanuts series The Snoopy Show (39x22’), Snoopy in Space (24x8’) and Camp Snoopy (13x22’).

UK factual production company Blink Films, part of Tin Roof Media, has partnered with US pubcaster PBS’s Nova strand and Arte in France and Germany on a documentary following a team of archaeologists working in Ukraine’s war zone.

Diana Unheard, a three-part docuseries about Princess Diana, leads London-based distributor Cineflix Rights' slate for Mipcom in Cannes next week.

UK public service broadcaster Channel 4 has commissioned a celebrity version of reality format Handcuffed: Last Pair Standing.

SBS in Australia, Spain’s Movistar and Germany’s RTL are among the latest buyers to acquire factual programming pitched at last year’s Development Day initiative held by UK content creation, funding and distribution company BossaNova Media.

C21 highlights 21 new shows for buyers to consider at this year’s MipJunior, ranging from inventive education series to a toon about wildlife conservation and a live-action show featuring a social media trio.

US pubcaster PBS’s member station Nine PBS, based in St Louis, Missouri, has won a nationwide competition to receive over US$11m in the first year of a five-year cycle through a new Ready to Learn funding programme.

BBC Children's and Education in the UK has revealed a slate of new commissions for CBBC and CBeebies, including a courtroom-based comedy entertainment format hosted by CBBC puppet character Hacker T Dog and a documentary in which a group of kids explore solutions to the climate crisis.

Serial Maven Studios in Canada has over 600 hours of new programming lined up for Mipcom next week, led by Prime Time Predator, a two-part documentary about Australian entertainer and convicted paedophile Rolf Harris.