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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…

(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…

On Patrol: Live, the follow-up to reality hit series Live PD, opened strongly on Friday night despite a technical glitch. The police-action series, which airs on Reelz channel, having previously been a hit for A&E, was the number one show on cable on Friday in the 25-54 demo with 397,000 viewers between these…

Live PD is making a return to TV. The hit reality show is coming back with a new name and network. On Patrol: Live (w/t), from the producers of Live PD, will premiere this summer, live, Friday and Saturday nights from 9 pm to 12 am ET on Reelz, with Dan Abrams back as host. Per Reelz, following live news-gathering…

A+E Networks officially kicked off its retooled upfront ad sales efforts with a virtual pitch to ad buyers. The parent company of cable networks like A&E, History Channel and Lifetime, a privately held joint venture between Hearst Corp. and Disney, announced a raft of more than 2,500 hours of new programming. The…

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…

Veteran journalists know that the public mood is quirky, so it's always risky to report “a consensus.” A few days ago, for example, there seemed a “consensus” that Americans had lost confidence in their neighborhood cops. Further, their expectations about cops had been distorted by movies and television. But then…

Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany was finishing up her briefing with reporters on Friday when she criticized so-called “cancel” culture, citing decisions to drop shows like Cops and Live PD in the wake of protests over the death of George Floyd. She also included on the list PAW Patrol, the popular cartoon franchise…

ViacomCBS’ Entertainment & Youth Group is ending the relationship with one of its most prolific suppliers of unscripted series, Big Fish Entertainment, which has been facing scrutiny over its just-canceled A&E series Live PD. "We have decided to end our relationship with Big Fish Entertainment and will be producing…

Dan Abrams, host and exec producer of the just-canceled A&E show Live PD, just spoke his mind about why his show did nothing with footage its crew shot as cops manhandled, tasered and broke the finger of an unarmed black man — Javier Ambler — in March 2019, despite his pleas that he was unable to follow the orders of…

A day after the cancellation of A&E’s Live PD, host and executive producer Dan Abrams is speaking out about the controversy over video footage captured by the show of the death of Javier Ambler in police custody last year and his frustration over the series’ cancellation. Answering questions posed by himself on his Law…