Last week, from June 11 to June 14, was the PromaxBDA 2018 Conference at the Hilton Hotel in New York City. Learn, create and connect: it was a potpourri of attendees and represented companies including ABC, Amazon Studios, AMC Networks, A+E Networks, AT&T Entertainment Group, BBC, Bell Media, BET Networks, Bravo, CBS, CNN, Comedy Central, […]
A+E has announced a quartet of new non-scripted series in the pike (all working titles): “Many Sides of Jane,” “Lost for Life,” “The Accused” and “Employable Me.” They are described as a new series about a recent Supreme Court ruling that gives juveniles once sentenced to mandatory life in prison without parole the ability to […]
A+E has greenlit documentary series “Born This Way” for a fourth season, with an order for eight new episodes that will continue to follow the lives of an inspiring group of young men and women born with Down syndrome. Last winner’s Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Series (and a current nominee), “Born This […]
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A&E Network is partnering with filmmaker Morgan Spurlock and his company, Warrior Poets, and Time Inc.’s Entertainment Weekly to produce “Cultureshock,” an eight-hour original documentary series that looks at the untold stories behind watershed moments in pop culture that have had a lasting impact on our culture. Each episode of ‘Cultureshock’ will shed light on […]
On the heels of O.J. Simpson’s being granted parole comes word of a new two-hour special this October tentatively called “Guilt: The Conviction of O.J. Simpson.” The logline: For the first time, through previously unreleased audio tapes, never-before-seen files and exclusive interviews – including with Judge Jackie Glass and Las Vegas lead Detective Andy Caldwell […]
History has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order to the original scripted drama “Blue Book” from A+E Studios. Executive produced by Oscar winner Robert Zemeckis (“Forrest Gump,” “Back to the Future”), “Blue Book” chronicles the true top secret United States Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950’s and 1960’s known as “Project Blue Book.” […]
From Campaign US: Quiz: How do you know it’s upfront season? Simple: Despite the rise in fragmentation and the record number of new programs expected across every imaginable platform, no executive can open his or her mouth without uttering the word “growth.” And the implied message from every suit is the importance of monetizing the […]
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Anthology “Biography” is returning to A&E Networks after five years as a re-imagined global, linear and digital non-fiction franchise. Focusing on meaningful events on personalities and their impact on our culture, “Biography” will begin to roll out on A&E, History and Lifetime domestically and internationally across all platforms beginning this spring. “Groundbreaking non-fiction programming has […]
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A&E Network has greenlit the new nonfiction series “The Lowe Files” from Critical Content for this summer. The nine episode series will follow Rob Lowe and his two sons, Matthew and John Owen, as they travel through the country to explore infamous unsolved mysteries, a curiosity that Rob has had since his early childhood days […]
