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The battle between Live PD and On Patrol: Live producer Big Fish Entertainment and A&E Television Networks is heating up. The Amazon/MGM-owned Big Fish has hit back at the lawsuit filed by the cable networks group in August, calling it "meritless" and laying out the reasons why in a motion to dismiss…

Production has wrapped on The Blind, a biopic of Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson with a theatrical release date slated for Sept. 22, 2023 as distribution plans are being finalized. Set in the 1960s Deep South and shot on location in Louisiana, The Blind shares never-before-revealed aspects of…

Ashley Tropez, who was featured on the A&E show Beyond Scared Straight, was found dead in her home last week in Victorville, CA. She was 24. According to a press release from the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department, the Victorville Police Department responded to a report of a dead body inside a home August 26. Hollywoo…

(UPDATED with Reelz statement) More than two years after pulling the plug on Live PD, A&E now wants to lock up and throw away the key on the revival series On Patrol: Live. “Without any authorization from AETN, Big Fish [the show's former producer] created a clone of Live PD featuring the same primary hosts, content…

A&E is heading to court, live. The cable network has ordered Court Night Live, a reality series that will bring live trials to television. The series comes from Big Fish Entertainment, the company behind controversial series Live PD. Although it will air on Wednesday nights at 9pm, starting August 10, rather than on…

A&E and the WWE have announced details of their 9-week joint programming venture, which kicks off July 10. Among the highlights of the new programming block is the second season of Biography: WWE Legends (watch a promo for it above). The Sunday night lineup will also feature new series WWE Rivals and new after show…

Pop superstar Janet Jackson reveals much more of herself than she's ever done before in the Lifetime-A&E documentary series aptly titled Janet Jackson. The singer-actress discloses why her first marriage, to James DeBarge, failed (his drug use); her dream as a young woman (to pursue business law, not music); and why…

A&E and WWE are expanding their original programming partnership in a multi-year deal calling for more wrestler-themed episodes of Biography as well as new series WWE Rivals. In all, more than 130 new hours of programming are expected to result from the teaming. For both parties, it extends a mutually beneficial…

Mick Jagger and Questlove are exec producing a four-part docuseries about “I Got You (I Feel Good)” star James Brown for A&E. The cable network has ordered James Brown: Say It Loud (w/t), directed by The Legacy of Black Wall Street helmer Deborah Riley Draper. It is the latest doc on the Godfather of Soul after Alex…

The A&E reality series Adults Adopting Adults has been abruptly pulled from the network and its streaming outlets. The show was last seen on Feb. 14 and had another show set for Feb. 21, but the latter didn’t air. Speculation as to why the show was suddenly pulled is churning up all sorts of rumors, most of them…

The two-part documentary Janet Jackson averaged 3.1 million total viewers for its premiere ratings last week on Lifetime and A&E, the networks said Tuesday, marking the best nonfiction debut in viewership and ratings on cable since ESPN’s Michael Jordan docuseries The Last Dance. The networks said today that the doc…

A&E Network is taking a deep dive into the life of R&B legend Bobby Brown with a two-night Biography event special and new docuseries. A&E will premiere Biography: Bobby Brown, a two-night event which follows the ups and downs of Brown’s journey to pop culture fame, on May 30 and May 31 at 8 PM. Following at 10 PM May…