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A+E Networks: history, crime, and strong realities

**Steve MacDonald**, President of Global Content Sales & International

A+E Networks Global Media, which produces nearly 2,000 hours of original content annually across a broad range of genres, is attending MIPCOM 2025 with a diverse content slate for international distribution. The company, whose portfolio includes nearly 70,000 assets worldwide, is represented at the market by executives including President of Global Content Sales & International, Steve MacDonald, and Group Managing Director – International, Patrick Vien.

The network’s strategy involves leveraging its strength in history, crime, and reality to reach a wide global audience. The lineup for the market features several high-profile factual and procedural series.

In the history genre, the series WWII with Tom Hanks (20×60) stands out, offering a comprehensive view of the war through new scholarship and rarely seen archive footage. It tackles pivotal moments and the human experience from a global perspective. Complementing this is the special Life After People (1×120), a documentary that uses expert knowledge from various fields to predict how Earth would look in the distant future after humanity’s disappearance. A lighter historical offering is Hazardous History with Henry Winkler (8×60), which looks back at the dangerous toys and playground antics of past generations.

The slate also includes several titles focused on investigations and crime. Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny (10×60) features the actor investigating government secrets, black ops, and deadly cover-ups using evidence from newly declassified files. The procedural drama Homicide Squad New Orleans (15×60) follows a dedicated team of native detectives in the New Orleans Police Department as they work to reclaim their community.

Reality and competition formats also feature prominently. Dr. Pimple Popper: Breaking Out (20×60) follows Dr. Sandra Lee as she expands her dermatology practice, with the new season incorporating intimate, self-shot footage of her life outside the office. The series The Chrisleys: Back to Reality (8×60) promises to expose the «raw truth» of the Chrisley family’s lives. For long-running reality, the extensive 12-season, 152-episode library of Ice Road Truckers remains available. A competition format, Top Dog, is also being offered for international adaptation, featuring teams of dogs and owners completing obstacle courses that test speed, agility, and teamwork.

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The Chrisleys: Back to Reality

Reality Entertainment 8x60

The Chrisleys: Back to Reality exposes the raw truth of the Chrisley’s lives—past and present—and the reality is far different from what audiences have seen before.

Dr. Pimple Popper: Breaking Out

Reality Entertainment 20x60

Dr. Sandra Lee, also known as Dr. Pimple Popper, is the most famous dermatological surgeon in the world and an internationally beloved personality. She has dedicated her life to sharing her incredible skills with her huge audience, as she helps hundreds of suffering patients who are unable or unwilling to find treatment for their painful, oozing cysts, fatty tumours, and infinitely complex, life-affecting dermatological issues. Now, Dr. Lee is ready to take her practice to the next level. The doctor has made modern additions to her main office which include an entire new wing of patient rooms, and many new staff and doctors. For the first time, Dr. Lee will also be providing intimate self-shot footage of her life outside the office.

Hazardous History with Henry Winkler

History 8x60

Remember when childhood came with a side of danger? Think back to the outrageous toys and daredevil playground antics that once defined growing up, as we uncover (literally) explosive science kits, high-flying kite tubes, and more. It’s a jaw-dropping blast from the past that’ll have you laughing, gasping, and maybe even missing the chaos.

Homicide Squad New Orleans

Crime & Investigation 15x60

To safeguard their streets, New Orleans Police Department boasts a dedicated team of homicide detectives, many of whom are natives of this legendary city. HOMICIDE SQUAD NEW ORLEANS chronicles the harrowing, procedural drama of this dedicated group of men and women united against the odds to reclaim their community… their city… their home

Ice Road Truckers

Original Character 12 Seasons / 152 Episodes

Truckers with nerves of steel take their lives in their hands driving heavily loaded vehicles across frozen lakes to deliver supplies to remote locations in Canada and Alaska. Whether they’re bringing supplies to Canadian diamond mines, supplying offshore oil rigs in Alaska or even charting new territory driving over frozen swamps and rivers to bring much-needed supplies to small towns, these extreme truckers face troubles from their machines and from Mother Nature.

Life After People

History 1x120

This two-hour special relies on experts’ knowledge and understanding of history in order to predict the future. Experts from the fields of engineering, botany, ecology, biology, geology, climatology, and archeology will paint a picture of what Earth will look like in the days, weeks, months, years and millennia after humans are gone. Looking farther into the future, and using analyses based on the past, we see how nature will reclaim New York City as realized through striking graphics. Eventually glass buildings topple, stone buildings crumble, successive freezing and thawing turn streets and sidewalks to rubble, ground water rises, subways flood, sewers crack and lightning ignites overgrown grass in Central Park, engulfing the city in flames. What kind of species will survive? Will humans ever return? Will man begin the cycle again, excavating our ruins and trying to imagine what life was like before?

Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny

Mystery 10x60

From black ops and bizarre experiments to deadly cover-ups and nefarious gadgets, David Duchovny pulls the curtain back on all the government secrets in modern history we always suspected but were never given the answers to. Through the strange and shocking things countries, and those who work for them, have done in the name of national interest, we’ll investigate the explosive evidence from newly declassified files that will finally shine a new light on what’s really going on deep in the shadows.

Top Dog - Format

Competition (26 x 120) or (24x60)

Top Dog is a prime time, entertainment competition, studio format where teams of dogs and their owners compete by completing a series of challenges on a giant obstacle course that tests them on speed, agility, communication and teamwork. Along with amazing physical feats the show is filled with heart-warming moments and stories about the teams. The winners of each episode go to the finale – getting the chance to compete for the title of Top Dog.

WWII with Tom Hanks

History 20x60

With Tom Hanks as guide, this gripping and definitive series offers a comprehensive view of World War II thanks to new scholarship and rarely seen archive that illuminates both the causes and pivotal moments of the war, one of the largest and most deadly in human history. Approaching the war from a fresh and truly global perspective, the series will tackle topics ranging from the invasion of the Soviet Union to the bloody and brutal battles in the Pacific to Hitler’s response to Pearl Harbor and D-day. Sharing vivid accounts of the human experience, the series also includes the realities of racism in the US Armed Forces and the horrors of the Holocaust

A+E Global Media

A+E Global Media | Tel: +1-212-210-1400 | e-mail: intl.sales@aegm.com | website: sales.aegm.com

A+E Global Media™ is a global content company comprised of some of the most popular and culturally relevant brands in media, including A&E®, Lifetime®, The HISTORY® Channel, LMN®, FYI,® and VICE TV®. A+E Global Media’s portfolio extends across platforms and genres with a scripted production division, A+E Studios™; unscripted productions, A+E Factual Studio™; and independent film unit, A&E IndieFilms®. A+E Global Media Digital™ includes watch apps, games, FAST channels, AVOD, and SVOD products Crime 360; Lifetime Movie Club® and HISTORY Vault®; and podcasts such as History This Week™; and A+E Global Media Global Content Sales division which includes branded channels around the world; a robust content licensing business; and international scripted/unscripted co-productions. A+E Global Media’s content reaches across more than 200 territories in 40 languages. Follow us on X at x.com/AE_GlobalMedia and Facebook at facebook.com/aegm.

Contacts

Jasmine Rezai

LATAM Content Sales Consultant

+1-310-663-1188

Steve MacDonald; President, Global Content Sales & International
Patrick Vien; Group Managing Director – International
Mark Garner; EVP, Head of Global FAST Channels
Deborah Bradley; EVP, Global Content Sales
Brian Weiss; EVP, Strategy & Business Development
Melissa Madden; SVP, International Marketing
Liz Soriano EVP, Global Content Sales and International Programming
Youngsun Soh; SVP and Managing Director, A+E Korea
John Flanagan; Managing Director, Japan and SE Asia
Jasmine Rezai; Head of Content Sales LATAM
Chris Brooks; SVP, Global Content Sales