[ A+E Networks executive David Bank has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer. Bank, a former Wall Street analyst who previously was EVP, Chief Strategy & Corporate Development Officer at the company, is succeeding Art Vomvas. After stepping in over the past year as interim CFO, Vomvas is retiring after a nearly three-decade tenure on the A+E … Read more
[ Deborah McBride, a veteran A+E Networks corporate communications executive who previously worked at Turner Broadcasting System, has died after a short battle with brain cancer. A+E confirmed the news to employees in recent days. McBride was 45. She is survived by her husband, Brendan, and their children, Elyse, Sean and Margot. After joining A+E … Read more
[ Newly unsealed documents shed light on A+E Networks‘ successful appeal of a last-minute effort to halt the airing of the Lifetime documentary Where Is Wendy Williams? last month. A temporary guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, had sought a court order to stop the project, arguing in a lawsuit filed last month that the documentary was a … Read more
[ A temporary guardian argued in a lawsuit filed last month that Lifetime‘s documentary Where Is Wendy Williams? was a “blatant exploitation of a vulnerable woman with a serious medical condition,” and that the talk host had lacked mental capacity to enter a contract to do the show, according to newly unsealed documents. The guardian, … Read more
[ A+E Networks operates 10 linear networks, the company made sure to note Wednesday during its virtual upfront, but execs said the company’s reach goes beyond the diminishing horizons of pay-TV. President and Chairman Paul Buccieri also highlighted the company’s 50 FAST channels and teased some of the 2,000-plus hours of original programming planned for … Read more
[ UPDATED: A documentary on Wendy Williams can be aired as planned by Lifetime, a New York appeals court justice ruled today. A guardian for the talk show host sought a temporary restraining order to block A+E Networks-owned Lifetime from airing the project, scheduled for this weekend. Appellate Justice Peter Moulton wrote that a temporary … Read more
[ EXCLUSIVE: A+E Networks EMEA is to explore shocking real-life stories of disappearances — from the perspective of the missing people. Missing, Presumed Dead is a ten-part series in which people who had gone missing tell their stories through cinematically shot interviews. Family and friends, and experts in abduction, identity fraud and survival techniques will … Read more
