As part of A+E Networks’ suite of upfront announcements, History said it is teaming with Sylvester Stallone to develop the drama series The Tenderloin (working title).

The show comes from A+E Studios in association with Balboa Productions. Stallone, who has seen a career resurgence in recent years thanks to the Creed…

EXCLUSIVE: Book it. A+E Studios has signed an exclusive overall deal with Swoon Reads, a crowdsourced young-adult imprint of Macmillan Publishers. Under the two-year pact, A+E Studios will develop and produce YA novels for film and TV.

"All of us at Macmillan have believed in the Swoon Reads model as a way of discoveri…

Former Timeless star Abigail Spencer is set as the lead in Hulu drama pilot Reprisal, from Warren Littlefield and A+E Studios.

Written by Josh Corbin (StartUp) and to be directed by BAFTA-nominated Jonathan Van Tulleken (Off Season), Reprisal hails from A+E Studios and The Littlefield Company. It's a hyper-kinetic…

A+E Studios and Thruline Entertainment have optioned the rights to Norman Mailer’s 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Executioner's Song and have attached White Boy Rick screenwriters Logan and Noah Miller to adapt and produce a potential limited series, now in active development.

The groundbreaking book, likely Mai…

Wednesday night’s premiere of History’s medieval drama series Knightfall drew 1.8M total viewers, tying it for the third-best cable drama launch of 2017, the network said.

The debut of the A+E Studios show trails only FX’s Feud: Bette and Joan and AMC’s The Son among the year’s biggest debuts among total viewers and…

UnReal co-creator Sarah Gertrude Shapiro has signed a multi-year overall deal with A+E Studios, the studio behind the hit Lifetime series.

Under the pact, Shapiro will continue her duties as writer and executive producer on the show. She’ll also work closely with the A+E Studios team to develop, create and produce new…

Rachel Winter and writer Craig Borten, the Oscar-nominated producer and co-writer of the AIDS-themed Dallas Buyers Club, are reteaming to tackle another epidemic that is sweeping large areas of small-town America. The hourlong drama series project is set up at A+E Studios, the in-house production arm of A+E Networks…

UnReal star Shiri Appleby has signed a multiyear overall TV production deal with A+E Studios, the studio behind the hit Lifetime series.

Under the pact, Appleby will work closely with the A+E Studios team to develop, create and produce original programming for the A+E portfolio of networks, as well as outside buyers, u…

History’s military drama series finally has a deployment date. The cable net said today that the eight-episode first season of the show that follows the members of Navy SEAL Team Six will premiere at 10 PM ET on January 18.

Vice Principals star and Justified alum Walton Goggins toplines the series, which follows the…

A&E and History president Paul Buccieri has been promoted to President of A+E Studios & A+E Networks Portfolio Group.

In his new role, Buccieri will add oversight of A+E Studios and be in charge of all business aspects for the A+E Networks’ brand portfolio, including A&E, History, Lifetime, FYI and LMN. He will continu…

Bob DeBitetto, A+E Networks’ President of Brand Strategy, Business Development and A+E Studios, will be leaving the company after 14 years. A+E Networks president and CEO Nancy Dubuc just made the announcement in an internal memo. He will remain at A+E Studios until the end of the year before embarking on a new…

BBC One has ordered an adaptation of Agatha Christie classic The Witness For The Prosecution. The two-part drama is adapted by Sarah Phelps (And Then There Were None, The Casual Vacancy), directed by Julian Jarrold (The Crown, The Girl) and co-produced by Mammoth Screen (Poldark) and Agatha Christie Productions in…