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EXCLUSIVE: A+E Networks is undergoing a round of layoffs today that has seen cuts across Lifetime and History’s programming teams. Deadline understands that Amy Savitsky, SVP Unscripted Development and Programming at Lifetime, as well as VPs Kim Chessler and Cat Rodriguez are out as part of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Critical Content, the production company run by Jenny Daly, has landed a new show at A&E. The company has scored a series order for New House No Debt from A&E's daytime lifestyle block Home.Made.Nation. The series follows the personal and emotional journeys of homeowners from across…

EXCLUSIVE: Brad Holcman, who has exec produced series including 60 Days In and Intervention, is leaving A&E. Deadline understands that Holcman is exiting the company after joining in 2012 as Senior Director of Non-Fiction and Alternative Programming. In addition to overseeing series such as Booke…

A&E is expanding its “Secrets Of” franchise with two new docuseries — Secrets of the Hells Angels and Houses of Horror: Secrets of College Greek Life. Both series examine the organizations’ control and power over their members with an in-depth look into secretive worlds through those closest to…

Hello, and welcome to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast! I am Valerie Complex, an associate editor and film writer at Deadline. Today I'm chatting with award-winning filmmaker and advertising agency veteran Deborah Riley Draper. Draper is getting set to premiere her newest project, James Brown: Say It Loud…

A&E has given a green light to The Chicano Squad (working title), a four-hour docuseries chronicling U.S.’s first all-Latin homicide unit dedicated to tackling Houston's soaring Latino homicide rate in 1979. It’s slated for premiere sometime in 2024. The Chicano Squad (wt) is produced by Jupiter…

Prince Andrew's secrets are set to be uncovered, again, this time on A&E. The network is launching Secrets of Prince Andrew, from Fulwell 73's Bitachon365 and Candle Media, on August 21. The documentary special will explore the British Royals' scandal-plagued life, including the disastrous BBC…

Ever wonder how Public Enemy’s Flavor Flav started wearing those clocks around his neck — or whatever happened to the original one? A&E has a docuseries for you. Hip Hop Treasures follows rap icons and longtime TV stars LL Cool J and Ice T as they hunt for hip hop’s most sought-after memorabilia…

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…

Production has wrapped on The Blind, a biopic of Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson with a theatrical release date slated for Sept. 22, 2023 as distribution plans are being finalized. Set in the 1960s Deep South and shot on location in Louisiana, The Blind shares never-before-revealed aspects of…

Ashley Tropez, who was featured on the A&E show Beyond Scared Straight, was found dead in her home last week in Victorville, CA. She was 24. According to a press release from the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department, the Victorville Police Department responded to a report of a dead body inside a home August 26. Hollywoo…

(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…