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Exclusive: Global docs streamer MagellanTV has struck a multi-year output deal with French producer Zed, with Amazon Women Warriors leading off the pact today.

The agreement extends an existing production partnership between the two companies forged in 2016 that’s brought MagellanTV more than 20 titles, though a spokesperson called the new pact “more significant.”

Amazon Warrior Women will join MagellanTV today and will even be available to non-subscribers until Thursday, October 12. Produced by Zed and directed by Alexandra Barbot and Véronique Préault.

Synopsis reads: “Amazon warriors have long been considered legend but following recent discoveries in Europe and Asia – including decapitated women’s skeletons and the tomb of a woman surrounded by weapons – scholars are left wondering if there is any validity to the myth of these hard-fighting, horse-riding female fighters. Amazon Women Warriors follows international experts as they embark on an archaeological expedition to uncover the truth behind the mythical figures.

Exclusive: Documentary streaming service Magellan has greenlit a new original feature titled Wild Arabia from Shark Week host Nigel Marven.

Wild Arabia is currently in production and will debut in 2024. The new feature marks the streamer’s second collaboration with Marven, following the 2023 release Wild El Salvador: In the Shadow of the Volcanoes.

In addition to today’s Marven announcement, Magellan has set its second annual Wild Week, which will run August 26 through September 4 on the streamer. For the weeklong event, Magellan has curated a playlist of nature documentary features and series, two of which – World of the Wild and World’s Wildest City: Anchorage – it will offer to all for free, including non-subscribers, for the entirety of the week. Also on the playlist are four documentaries from Marven. In addition to Wild El Salvador, this includes Marven’s previous docuseries Whale Adventures, Ten Deadliest Snakes, and Cruise Ship Adventures.

Exclusive: Veteran Shark Week host Nigel Marven has signed a deal with MagellanTV. The former BBC and ITV natural history presenter will produce and star in a documentary about volcanic activity in Central America, with three of his other docu-series comprising a key part of the global documentary streamer’s first Wild Week programming stunt.

Marven, who’s known for his no-fear approach to presenting shows such as the BBC’s Chased By Dinosaurs during a quarter-century on-screen career, is producing and starring in feature doc Wild El Salvador — In the Shadow of the Volcano with Nigel Marven. In the program, he will encounter creatures that live in the shadows of legendary volcanic regions of the Central American country.

He was host of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week for three years between 2000 and 2003 and hosted specials from the Discovery-BBC Natural History Unit series Walking with Dinosaurs.

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Documentary streaming service Magellan is to kick off its inaugural ‘War & Military Week’ tomorrow (May 26) with the premiere of its original series Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled.

Produced by Doclights for Zdf, in association with Zdf Studios and MagellanTV, Beyond the Myth will anchor a weeklong lineup of doc series and films that spotlight historic global conflicts and the military strategies and achievements that have shaped the modern world.

The series offers a detailed look into the origins, intricacies and twisted motivations of the SS (the Schutzstaffel), Nazi Germany’s paramilitary unit, which was a key architect of the Holocaust. It’s directed by Gabriele Rose, produced by Victoria Vorbroker and executive produced by Stefan Bomhof.

All six, hour-long episodes of Beyond the Myth will drop, with the first episode will also be made available to non-subscribers throughout ‘War & Military Week,’ – which debuts runs until Monday June 6, the 78th anniversary of D-Day.

Alliant Content has a new streaming service for those interested in learning more about the world around them. The online video production studio which specializes in factual content has released the documentary streaming platform XiveTV.

XiveTV (pronounced “zive) features long-form documentary pieces “for the passionate and curious.” The ad-supported streaming service was founded by production veterans Greg Diefenbach (of PBS’s Empires, National Geographic’s Explorer) and Thomas Lucas (Nova’s Monster of the Milky Way, Alliant’s SpaceRip YouTube series).

XiveTV boasts over 2,000 hours of fnon-fiction programming, including original content from Alliant like Pure History and Lucas’ SpaceRip. Non-fiction shows Tornado Chasers, and Psychic Investigators are some of the titles XiveTV’s has sourced from outside partners. The streaming service (which comes with an ad-free subscription option) also contains programming from media companies such as ITV, Sky Vision, Cineflix, Digital Rights Group, and more.

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