Channel 4 has commissioned the first social series for its digital sports channels, teaming with North Sails on Force of Nature, which will be produced by Finite Films & TV.

Paddy Hughes has joined U.K. indie Finite Films & TV to boost its branded content activities.

Sophia Al-Maria, whose credits include Little Birds and Sisters with Transistors, has signed on to The Many Lives of Miss K, based on Jean-Noël Liaut's biography of fashion model and WWII secret agent, Toto Koopman.