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A+E Networks™

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Summary: 

A+E Networks™ is an award-winning, global media content company offering consumers a diverse communications environment ranging from television networks to websites, DVDs to gaming and educational software, reaching more than 300 million households.

Profile: 

A+E Networks™ is an award-winning, global media content company offering consumers a diverse communications environment ranging from television networks to websites, DVDs to gaming and educational software, reaching more than 300 million households. Led by three iconic brands A&E Network®, HISTORY®, and Lifetime®, A+E Networks also includes Lifetime Movie Network, BIO™, History International™, Lifetime Real Women®, Military History™, History en Español™, Crime & Investigation Network™ and A&E IndieFilms®.

Production: 

A+E Networks’ joint venture, AETN All Asia Networks, commissioned several original series that are produced locally in Asia, including Hidden Cities, Partners in Crime and Crime Investigation Asia. A number of other series and specials are in production. Specials that have worked well are Biography® episodes of Asian icons, disaster programmes covering the last 30 years, and historical events/wars from this region.

Genres
Movies, crime, lifestyle, entertainment, competition reality, history, real-life, formats, biography, paranormal and unexplained, conflict, technology and engineering

Rights:
Worldwide, including all rights for wireless/digital

Online sales/marketing:
www.AETNinternational.com

Outlook: 

A+E Networks’ biggest growth potential is in China, South Korea, Thailand and the Philippines. There has been an increased appetite for entertainment and 3D programming as well as local productions from AETN All Asia Networks. Offerings include Vietnam Lost Films, Biography episodes with Asian subjects, and Hidden Cities. Buyers are also interested in digital media rights alongside TV rights.

HD/3D:
A+E Networks produces almost all its programmes in HD, covering all genres, resulting in interest even from players outside the traditional media industry. Among the 3D programming on offer are new episodes of The Universe, and two new specials, History of the World in Two Hours and WWII in 3D.

Top shows are...: 

Picker Sisters
Tanya McQueen and Tracy Hutson (Extreme Home Makeover) criss-cross the U.S. looking in every nook and cranny for great bargains and cool items to fill their new LA-based home store. They’re going to beg, borrow, and buy their way across the country, finding furniture and antiques that their customers will die for. Episodes/ length: 5x30 mins and 3x60 mins

Raising the Titanic
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in April 2012, Raising the Titanic seeks to discover how and why the ship was mortally wounded, sank and broke apart. In an exclusive underwater expedition, producers partner with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and RMS Titanic, Inc. to conduct the most extensive exploration and imaging of Titanic’s wreck site ever undertaken. Episodes/length: 1x120 mins

Hunt for the I-5 Killer
Hunt for the I-5 Killer, starring John Corbett (United States of Tara) and Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries), is a dramatisation based on the haunting true story of the year-long manhunt for a killer suspected of murdering 14 victims and committing numerous sexual assaults up and down the I-5 highway corridor through California, Washington and Oregon. Episodes/length: 1x120 mins

Who's who: 

Alan Hodges
Managing Director, Asia
T: +65 6837 8927
E: alan.hodges@aetn.com
Ling-Sze Gan
Senior Director, International Content
Sales, Asia Pacific
T: +65-6837-8926
E: lingsze.gan@aetn.com
Joanne Lim
International Content Sales Executive,
Asia Pacific
T: +65-6837-8924
E: joanne.lim@aetn.com

Address: 

235 East 45th Street
New York, NY 10017
T: +1 212 210 1400
F: +1 212 907 9476
W: www.AETNinternational.com