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A&E's flagship series Live PD continues to be a strong ratings performer for the network. Friday’s (June 21) episode hit new series highs, drawing 2.4 million Total Viewers and and 1.2 million Adults 25-54 in Live+Same day ratings, both new records for the live series — as well as 966,000 Adults 18-49. The numbers…

A&E Network has set a four-part special on Garth Brooks under the umbrella of its mainstay Biography franchise and also greenlighted competition series Top Dog, a canine showcase from the team behind Live PD. Garth: The Road I'm On (working title) is slated to air in the fourth quarter of this year. It will highlight…

EXCLUSIVE: A&E’s Live PD is finishing 2018 as the most-viewed show of the year on OTT platforms as well as via VOD and DVR, according to a survey of smart-TV data by Inscape. A subsidiary of smart-TV maker Vizio, Inscape surveys viewing across some nine million households, spanning all demographics and geographic…

Sling TV has revealed the most popular shows, movies and live events of 2018 among the 2.4 million subscribers to its skinny-bundle TV service. Fixer Upper, the wildly popular Chip and Joanna Gaines series that has just wrapped up its run on HGTV, topped the series list. It edged The Big Bang Theory, Family Guy, House…

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…

A year ago, A&E re-calibrated its programming strategy, returning to its roots as an exclusively nonfiction brand by exiting the scripted drama arena to double down on non-scripted and largely documentary series. At the time, the network, which had fallen out of the cable Top 10 to No. 15, was showing the first signs…

Even though it airs live on Friday and Saturday nights, with a studio panel assessing police pursuits in real time, A&E’s Live PD ranked as the most DVRd show of 2017. That’s one key finding in a tally of second-by-second viewing last year in 7.7 million households across OTT, on-demand, DVR and live viewing by…

With true crime paying dividends for many media outlets of late, A+E Networks is pushing deeper into the space, investing in a new legal venture with media figure Dan Abrams. The programming partnership and investment will see a rebrand of Abrams’ website and live-streaming trial and law network, LawNewz.com, and the…

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’s Live PD was knocked off the air tonight after a power outage caused by an underground transformer explosion near A&E’s network studios. There were no injuries reported, but the studio was evacuated and the broadcast was suspended. Due to a power outage live broadcast operations for #LivePD have been…

A&E is staying on the beat, extending the freshman run of its real-time reality police docuseries Live PD with an order for 13 more episodes, bringing the Season 1 total to 21 episodes. Since its premiere in October, Live PD — which A&E's general manager Rob Sharenow described to Deadline as "unmediated, live Cops…

The work of the police has come under tremendous scrutiny in the U.S. over the past few years, with the shootings of unarmed black men by cops leading to the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement. Then came the string of killings of police officers this past summer. In an environment where tensions run high, A&E…