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UPDATE: A+E Networks UK has decided to take Sky History reality competition series The Chop off-air amid claims that contestant, Darren Lumsden, has white supremacist tattoos on his face. Here’s the latest statement: “While we investigate the nature, and meaning, of Darren's tattoos, we have removed the video…

A+E Networks has appointed former longtime Fox exec Matthew Glotzer as EVP, Strategy and Business Development, a newly created post in New York. Glotzer will develop distribution and sales strategies for A+E library content, support programming, acquisitions and productions for A+E channels outside the U.S., and help…

EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has announced the star-studded lineup for its annual “Stop Breast Cancer For Life” campaign to kick off National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Joining the network’s annual PSA this year are Kelly Rowland, Vanessa Lachey, Melissa Joan Hart and Ali Stoker. Stop Breast Cancer For Life, which is now…

EXCLUSIVE: OZY Media has set a border immigration television movie at Lifetime as part of its Ripped From The Headlines strand. The drama is the first scripted project to emerge from the company's first-look deal at A+E Networks signed earlier this year. OZY Media was set up in 2013 by former CNN and MSNBC anchor…

A+E Networks has launched Voices Magnified, a cross-platform campaign that will spotlight and amplify the voices of those making changes in their communities for the greater good. The A+E Networks initiative will create specials and a series of short form videos that give a national spotlight to conversations on…

In June, A&E canceled its flagship series Live PD in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent protests against police brutality. The cancelation came a month after the network renewed the show for an additional 160 episodes. Live PD, which aired Friday and Saturday nights from 9 PM-12 AM, was one of…

As Project Blue Book, Knightfall and Vikings all come to an end, History is looking to recalibrate its scripted strategy towards limited dramas and mini-series. Rob Sharenow, President of Programming at A+E Networks, called returnable scripted series a "fraught path" for the company given the competitive nature of the…

EXCLUSIVE: In the latest of what is likely to be a raft of landmark TV projects to mark 20 years since 9/11, Inside Obama’s White House producer Brook Lapping will make a feature-length film driven entirely by video and audio material from the day itself. British broadcaster ITV and France Televisions have teamed to…

EXCLUSIVE: OZY Media has assembled a programming slate under the first-look production agreement it struck with A+E Networks in January. Under the pact, OZY has set up The Science of Dating (wt), a dating show to be produced by A+E Networks' Six West Media, which is in development at Lifetime, along with two scripted…

Peter Olsen, president of Ad Sales at A+E Networks, is optimistic about the company’s prospects and progress in the advertising market given its programming mix and a continued belief in the potency of television. “We’re seeing that a lot of our partners still are very much believers in the power of television as a…

A+E Networks is to remain in the high-end scripted market and is looking for its next Hatfields & McCoys. This comes after it emerged that two of History's big-ticket dramas, Project Blue Book, and Knightfall, which marked Mark Hamill's entry into live-action series television, would not return, coming as its flagship…

History is doubling down on Presidential programming with two new miniseries centered on Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. Lincoln (working title) and Theodore Roosevelt (working title) are both exec produced by Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, while Leonardo DiCaprio and his Appian Way Productions…