EXCLUSIVE: ARTE France has ordered a feature doc about the role of Jewish ghettos during the Holocaust.

Paris-based Pernel Media has appointed former Mediawan senior executive Jean-Marc Rouhette to the newly created role of chief operating officer.

Paris-headquartered Pernel Media has been commissioned to produce Rise of the Vikings, a docudrama series for Canal+ channels Planète+ and C8.

NEWS BRIEF: Germany’s ZDF Studios has picked up the international distribution rights to French documentary series Mysteries of the Bible.

Pernel Media is proud to be in the Global 100 Realscreen’s annual list of the best production companies in the non-fiction and unscripted visual content industry four years in a row.

La 16e édition du Top 100 des sociétés de production de documentaire/factual (« The Global 100 ») reste largement dominée par les Anglo-Saxons, plus précisément par les Etats-Unis, le Canada anglophone et le Royaume-Uni : ces territoires ne laissent que douze places au « reste du monde », selon le classement du magazine Realscreen, publié mardi 5 avril.

French broadcaster Planete Plus has commissioned factual political thriller “Munich: Of Games and Blood” from Pernel Media to mark the 50th anniversary of the hostage crisis that rocked the Munich Olympic Games on September 5, 1972.

Pernel Media (Samuel Kissous) a annoncé vendredi 1er avril la production de la série documentaire Les Mayas : du mystère des origines à la chute (4 x 60′), pour RMC Découverte (Altice).

Pernel Media has been commissioned by France’s Arte G.E.I.E. to produce a new nature and science documentary miniseries and a blue-chip one-off about the extraordinary abilities of the butterfly.