A&E
From The TV IV
| A&E | |
| Founded | February 1, 1984 |
| President | Abbe Raven |
| Company | A&E Television Networks |
| Current Popular Series | Dog the Bounty Hunter
The Glades Intervention |
A&E is an American television network.
Contents |
History
Created as a commercial-based version of PBS, A&E originally focused on biographies, art programming, British drama imports, and documentary series, with its flagship shows being Biography (spun into a separate channel in 1999) and anthology series A&E Stage, airing telecasts of stage plays and concerts. Eventually it came to broadcast several crime documentary series, including – among others – the critically acclaimed Cold Case Files (1999–2006) and The First 48 (since 2004)
Today, the art programming has vanished, being replaced mainly by reality series such as Dog the Bounty Hunter (since 2004), Intervention (since 2005) and Gene Simmons Family Jewels (since 2006). Other long-running non-scripted series are Flip This House (2005–2008), Criss Angel: Mindfreak (2005–2010) and Paranormal State (since 2007).
In the mid 1990s, A&E begun producing original movies and mini-series, and in 2001 its first two original scripted full-lenght series premiered: Sidney Lumet's legal drama 100 Centre Street, and film noir series A Nero Wolfe Mystery, based on the stories by Rex Stout, both airing for two seasons. Since 2008, when The Cleaner premiered, the network has continued to put out new original drama series.
In-Depth
- Program Listing: A complete listing of shows that aired new episodes on A&E.
Current Shows (2012)
- Scripted original series
- Breakout Kings (Season 2) (spring 2012)
- The Glades (Season 3) (summer 2012)
- Longmire (Season 1) (summer 2012)
- Non-scripted original series
- American Hoggers
- Beyond Scared Straight
- Billy the Exterminator
- Bordertown: Laredo
- Dog the Bounty Hunter
- Duck Dynasty
- The First 48
- The First 48: Missing Persons
- Flipped Off
- Gene Simmons Family Jewels
- Heavy
- Hoarders
- Intervention
- Lady Hoggers
- Last Chance Driving School
- Manhunters: Fugitive Task Force
- Monster In-Laws
- Paranormal State
- Parking Wars
- Relapse
- Sell This House
- Shipping Wars
- Steven Seagal: Lawman
- Storage Wars
- Storage Wars: Texas
Upcoming Shows
- Scripted original series
- N/A
- Non-scripted original series
- Cajun Justice (summer 2012)
- Rambug (May 2012)
- Southie Rules


