Rebranded A+E Global Media sets 2025/26 slate, development pact with Tyler Perry and Pantheon
A+E Global Media, the newly rebranded US-based cable, production and studio group, has unveiled its 2025/26 slate, including more than 100 hours of programming for its lifestyle block Home.Made.Nation, titles from the likes of David Duchovny and Ashley Judd and a development deal with Tyler Perry Studios and Pantheon Media Group.
Tyler Perry (photo: AMFM Studios via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tyler_Perry_Interview_2016.jpg">CC</a>)
New titles greenlit by History Channel include Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny, a 10-part series revealing some of the latest evidence behind the government’s most secretive and strange activities, and Hazardous History with Henry Winkler, an eight-parter uncovering some of America’s most reckless and dangerous pastimes and products.
There’s also History’s Greatest Picks with Mike Wolfe, an hour-long series hosted and exec produced by American Pickers’ Wolfe, and History’s Deadliest with Ving Rhames, which reveals new truths about some of history’s most prolific killers.
In addition, History Channel has commissioned Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, a two-hour doc about two heavyweight boxing champions, and the previously announced Jim Thorpe: Lit by Lightning, which follows the US’s first Native American Olympic gold medalist.
Lifetime, meanwhile, has unveiled a multi-series development deal with Tyler Perry Studios and Pantheon Media Group (fka Asylum Entertaiment Group). Under the deal, the companies will team on a slate of cross-genre unscripted projects for Lifetime and A&E.
Lifetime has also greenlit documentary The Judd Family: Truth Be Told, about the renowned country music family, and TV movies Give Me Back My Daughter and Not My Family: The Monique Smith Story.
A&E channel has given season two renewals to WWE LFG (Legends & Future Greats) and WWE’s Greatest Moments, and a further renewal to Storage Wars, which will return in an expanded one-hour format.
Elsewhere, Home.Made.Nation, the programming block that appears across A&E and FYI, has commissioned more than 100 hours of new content, including new series Million Dollar Zombie Flips, Instant Italian, Beer Budget Reno, The Mother Flip and Willing to Flip, plus returners Rachael Ray in Tuscany, Rachael Ray’s Meals in Minutes, Jake Makes it Easy, Global Soul Kitchen, The Chef’s Garden, Oceanfront Property Hunt and Lakefront Luxury.
A+E Global Media, which was previously known as A+E Networks, showcased its new slate of titles during a virtual upfront presentation on Wednesday.
In addition to its cable channels A&E, History Channel, Lifetime and FYI, A+E Global Media’s portfolio of assets includes production entities A+E Studios and A+E Factual Studios, around 60 FAST channels, its digital arm (consisting of YouTube channels and streaming platforms A&E Crime Central, History Vault and Lifetime Movie Club) and stakes in Range Media Partners and Propagate Content.
