October Films’ Emmy-nominated three-part series for Investigation Discovery and Max, narrated and executive produced by Octavia Spencer, begins with the disappearance of 13-year-old Rachanda Pickle and uncovers a decades-long trail of missing and murdered women along a desolate stretch of Oregon’s Highway 20, leading to a killer hiding in plain sight.

Wall to Wall’s four-part series for ITV, narrated by Davina McCall, follows donor-conceived people as they use DNA testing and online detective work to track down anonymous sperm donors and discover siblings they never knew existed. From the team behind Long Lost Family, the series arrived as UK law changes began lifting donor anonymity for the first time.

October Films’ three-part series for ITVX unravels the web of lies spun by William Allen Jordan, a serial bigamist who convinced his wife Mary Turner Thomson he was a CIA agent while conning her out of £200,000 and fathering children across multiple secret relationships. At its centre is a real-time manhunt led by a retired US Marshal to track him down.

Nutopia’s ten-part series for National Geographic and Disney+ revisits the decade that ushered in the new millennium, with celebrities and eyewitnesses including AJ McLean, Julia Stiles, Ice-T and Lucy Lawless reliving the cultural forces that shaped the 1990s. From Y2K to Tupac, Titanic to The Simpsons, each episode takes a thematic rather than chronological approach, uncovering what made the familiar feel new.

Passion Planet’s five-part natural history series for Love Nature, PBS and ARTE reveals how wildlife at the front lines of climate change is adapting, migrating and even evolving in accelerated, unexpected ways. Shot in extreme locations across five landscapes, from ice to grasslands, the series tells hopeful stories of resilience and ingenuity with a fresh, podcast-style narration.

October Films’ BAFTA-nominated three-part series for Channel 5 sends Ben Fogle and Dwayne Fields to Antarctica to relive the deadly early 20th century race to the South Pole, wearing the same Edwardian clothing, eating the same rations and hauling the same wooden sleds as Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen. A story of triumph, tragedy and obsession.

Twenty Twenty Television’s BAFTA-winning dating series for Channel 4, hosted by maître d’ Fred Sirieix, has been one of the UK’s most loved shows since 2013. Real singletons are paired up for blind dates in a working restaurant, with 42 cameras capturing every nervous moment. Over 22 series the format has sparked engagements, marriages and babies, and been adapted in more than 20 countries.

Like A Shot’s six-part series for UKTV sends Sir Tony Robinson around the world to meet the most jaw-dropping machines on the planet, from jet-powered flying suits and hydrogen-powered cars to the engineering marvels at NASA and CERN. With behind-the-scenes access to factories and workshops, and Tony occasionally having a go himself.

October Films’ three-part series for BBC Two sees Laura Kuenssberg, the BBC’s former political editor, go behind the scenes of the most turbulent period in modern British politics. From the Brexit referendum to the downfall of Liz Truss, the series features candid interviews with cabinet ministers, senior civil servants and Number 10 staffers, many speaking publicly for the first time.

October Films’ three-part series for Channel 4 follows explorer Levison Wood as he tracks down some of the planet’s most iconic endangered animals, trekking to Borneo for orangutans, Namibia for desert lions and East Greenland for polar bears. Living alongside indigenous guides, he enters their worlds on foot to understand how these species are surviving against worsening odds.