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A&E Network has ordered a second season of Kids Behind Bars: Life or Parole, a docuseries which tells the stories of convicted juvenile offenders who received mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole. The new season is set to premiere this fall. Due to a recent United States Supreme Court ruling that…

A&E Network is making a big push into paranormal programming. The network has greenlit five supernatural-focused shows, including the revival of Ghost Hunters, one of the most successful paranormal series of all time. The network has also ordered reimagined versions of A+E Networks' hit series Psychic Kids and Celebrit…

A&E Network and Essential Media Group (Saving Mr. Banks, Miracle on Everest) continue to push the boundaries in the genre of high-stakes stunts on live TV with new series The Impossible Live (working title). A&E has ordered five two-hour episodes of the series, which they describe as the most ambitious live stunt…

“The reason for making this series was because Monica agreed to talk,” says The Clinton Affair EP Alex Gibney about landing Monica Lewinsky for the 6-part A&E docu-series at Deadline’s Contenders. To understand and rationalize our present, we need to know our past, and when it comes to that axiom there are many themes…

Ahead of tonight’s Season 3 premiere of Live PD, A&E has given another massive order to its flagship series, picking up an additional 150 episodes of the hit real-time reality police docuseries. Totaling 450 hours, the deal extends the series' run into 2019, with the new order bringing the number of commissioned…

In the upcoming third season of A&E's award-winning docuseries Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, Leah Remini and Mike Rinder continue to dive into the religion they were once part of — this time, there is a heavy focus on the religion’s abusive practices. During Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys event last…

A&E has picked up critically praised docuseries Born This Way for a fourth season. The series, which has received two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Series, winning in 2016, will return for eight new episodes that will continue to follow the lives of an inspiring group of young men and women…

A&E Network  has ordered Cultureshock, an eight-hour original pop culture-focused docuseries, from Morgan Spurlock and his Warrior Poets and Time Inc.’s Entertainment Weekly, for premiere in 2018. Cultureshock looks at the untold stories behind watershed moments in pop culture according to producers. Each episode will…

Building on the success of Lifetime’s Dance Moms franchise, A+E Networks has given the green light to Chloe Does It!, new short-form series starring Dance Moms‘ Chloe Lukasiak. Produced by A+E Networks' in-house digital agency 45th & Dean, the eight-episode series will run exclusively on Lifetime’s YouTube channel…

A&E is betting on Live PD in a big way. The network has ordered 100 additional three-hour live episodes of the real-time reality police docuseries, extending its run into 2018 and bringing its episode total to 142. New episodes will air every Friday and Saturday night at 9 PM ET/PT throughout the summer. Since its…

A&E Network has set 10 PM Wednesday, August 2, for the premiere of Rob Lowe’s new reality series The Lowe Files, from Critical Content. The nine-episode series follows Lowe and his two sons, Matthew and John Owen, as they travel the country exploring infamous unsolved mysteries. In each episode, Lowe and his sons seek…

A Brooklyn teen when she followed her mother into Scientology, Leah Remini spent 35 years as a high-profile member of the church before leaving in 2013. Two years later, she published a memoir, Troublemaker, that bared the experiences that led her to question her faith and got her labeled a “suppressive person.” She…