The History Channel’s How Disney Built America dives into the history of the Disney brand and its impact on generations of fans. The six-episode nonfiction series is set to premiere April 28, 2024 at 10pm Et/Pt, with new episodes arriving on Sundays.
Produced by A+E Factual Studios group, the new addition to the network’s That Built franchise is executive produced by Sharon Scott, Steve Ascher, Matthew Pearl, Kristy Sabat, and Andy Seestedt. The History Channel’s Mary E. Donahue, Jim Pasquarella, and Alex Hicks also serve as executive producers.
The network released this lengthy description of the six-part series:
“How Disney Built America is a nostalgia-filled ride that paints a vivid picture of the world of Walt Disney and the history-making empire he and his brother Roy Disney built. Each hour-long episode focuses on a different example of game-changing brilliance in Disney’s history including creating the world’s most recognizable characters,...
Produced by A+E Factual Studios group, the new addition to the network’s That Built franchise is executive produced by Sharon Scott, Steve Ascher, Matthew Pearl, Kristy Sabat, and Andy Seestedt. The History Channel’s Mary E. Donahue, Jim Pasquarella, and Alex Hicks also serve as executive producers.
The network released this lengthy description of the six-part series:
“How Disney Built America is a nostalgia-filled ride that paints a vivid picture of the world of Walt Disney and the history-making empire he and his brother Roy Disney built. Each hour-long episode focuses on a different example of game-changing brilliance in Disney’s history including creating the world’s most recognizable characters,...
- 4/10/2024
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
The History Channel’s set a December 1, 2023 premiere date for The Unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd, a one-hour nonfiction series that explores bizarre events in human history. As Aykroyd says in the trailer, “Just below the surface of the world you thought you knew, well that’s where all the good stuff is hiding.”
New episodes air on Fridays at 10pm Et/Pt.
Dan Aykroyd hosts and serves as an executive producer on the 10-episode season. John Brimhall guides the series as showrunner. Additional executive producers include Steve Ascher, Matt Pearl, Kristy Sabat, and The History Channel’s Brooke Townsend and Mary E. Donahue.
“This wildly entertaining, smart series digs up a bizarro barrage of the weirdest people, places, objects, and events in human history and delivers stories in a way that only Aykroyd can. From Boston’s Great Molasses Flood of 1919, when a 25-foot tidal wave of syrup demolished an...
New episodes air on Fridays at 10pm Et/Pt.
Dan Aykroyd hosts and serves as an executive producer on the 10-episode season. John Brimhall guides the series as showrunner. Additional executive producers include Steve Ascher, Matt Pearl, Kristy Sabat, and The History Channel’s Brooke Townsend and Mary E. Donahue.
“This wildly entertaining, smart series digs up a bizarro barrage of the weirdest people, places, objects, and events in human history and delivers stories in a way that only Aykroyd can. From Boston’s Great Molasses Flood of 1919, when a 25-foot tidal wave of syrup demolished an...
- 11/14/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
The History Channel has greenlit a range of new docuseries and documentaries that are produced by Hollywood stars like Morgan Freeman, Bradley Cooper, and Kevin Costner.
The announcements were made as part of a larger A+E Networks slate reveal ahead of its 2023-2024 upfronts presentation. Additional projects hail from producers Michael Imperioli and Dan Aykroyd.
“Our goal within this media evolution is to meet audiences wherever and however they consume content, by working with great worldwide storytellers to develop and execute their vision,” said Paul Buccieri, president and Chairman of A+E Networks Group. “Over the last four years, we have been on a journey to expand our production capabilities in both scripted and factual, and we’ve established key relationships in the talent management space as well as continued creating compelling content across our brands to further meet the needs of our valued partners and viewers.”
Costner will host...
The announcements were made as part of a larger A+E Networks slate reveal ahead of its 2023-2024 upfronts presentation. Additional projects hail from producers Michael Imperioli and Dan Aykroyd.
“Our goal within this media evolution is to meet audiences wherever and however they consume content, by working with great worldwide storytellers to develop and execute their vision,” said Paul Buccieri, president and Chairman of A+E Networks Group. “Over the last four years, we have been on a journey to expand our production capabilities in both scripted and factual, and we’ve established key relationships in the talent management space as well as continued creating compelling content across our brands to further meet the needs of our valued partners and viewers.”
Costner will host...
- 3/8/2023
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
The History Channel has unveiled its latest programming slate, featuring documentaries from top talent including Kevin Costner and Bradley Cooper.
The network has ordered five new projects as part of an initiative to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States in 2026.
These include Kevin Costner’s The West, Fdr from Cooper, Black Patriots: The 761st Battalion from Freeman, Five Families from Imperioli and The Unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd.
It comes as parent company A+E Networks is hosting its annual Upfronts event to advertisers. These projects join a slew of series at Lifetime and A&e.
Kevin Costner’s The West (w/t) is an eight-part series hosted by the Yellowstone star. It will explore the American frontier from the literal trailblazers to the law enforcers and the bloody battles for both land and freedom as well as explore how the stories of The West continue to impact the nation today.
The network has ordered five new projects as part of an initiative to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States in 2026.
These include Kevin Costner’s The West, Fdr from Cooper, Black Patriots: The 761st Battalion from Freeman, Five Families from Imperioli and The Unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd.
It comes as parent company A+E Networks is hosting its annual Upfronts event to advertisers. These projects join a slew of series at Lifetime and A&e.
Kevin Costner’s The West (w/t) is an eight-part series hosted by the Yellowstone star. It will explore the American frontier from the literal trailblazers to the law enforcers and the bloody battles for both land and freedom as well as explore how the stories of The West continue to impact the nation today.
- 3/8/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Jane Root’s Nutopia is doubling down on the life of Jesus – this time for History.
The One Strange Rock producer, which previously made Finding Jesus for CNN, has been commissioned by the A+E Networks cabler to make eight-part event Jesus: His Life, which will explore the story of Jesus Christ through the people in his life who were closest to him.
Each of the eight chapters, which will begin airing on Monday March 25 and run for the four weeks to Easter, is told from the perspective of different biblical figures including Joseph, John the Baptist, Mary Mother of Jesus, Caiaphas, Judas Iscariot, Pontius Pilate, Mary Magdalene and Peter.
Utilizing some of the world’s most respected Biblical scholars, historians, faith leaders and theologians, including Robert Cargill, Christena Cleveland and Simon Sebag Montefiore, the series weaves together the canonical Gospels, historical sources and cultural context to create a portrait of...
The One Strange Rock producer, which previously made Finding Jesus for CNN, has been commissioned by the A+E Networks cabler to make eight-part event Jesus: His Life, which will explore the story of Jesus Christ through the people in his life who were closest to him.
Each of the eight chapters, which will begin airing on Monday March 25 and run for the four weeks to Easter, is told from the perspective of different biblical figures including Joseph, John the Baptist, Mary Mother of Jesus, Caiaphas, Judas Iscariot, Pontius Pilate, Mary Magdalene and Peter.
Utilizing some of the world’s most respected Biblical scholars, historians, faith leaders and theologians, including Robert Cargill, Christena Cleveland and Simon Sebag Montefiore, the series weaves together the canonical Gospels, historical sources and cultural context to create a portrait of...
- 1/18/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Who do you think you are, “Evel Live” — Travis Pastrana? The three-hour live TV tribute to the daring motorcycle jumps of Evel Knievel just soared to some huge heights for History channel.
The Sunday stunt spectacular landed 3.5 million total viewers, per Nielsen’s Live + Same Day ratings. That made it the No. 1 cable special of 2018, excluding news and sports.
Among adults 25-54, the special steered in 1.6 million viewers. “Evel Live” drew 1.2 million viewers 18-49.
Also Read: 'Evel Live': Travis Pastrana Lands Evel Knievel's Iconic Caesar's Palace Fountain Jump (Video)
“Evel Live” also went big on Twitter: The TV event was the No. 2 most social show of the evening, sitting just behind TLC’s hit series, “90 Day Fiance.”
Riding an Indian Scout Ftr 750 with a V Twin engine, Pastrana first cleared the 52 crushed cars and later 16 Greyhound buses in the Las Vegas heat. He then successfully jumped the fountain in front of Caesars Palace.
The Sunday stunt spectacular landed 3.5 million total viewers, per Nielsen’s Live + Same Day ratings. That made it the No. 1 cable special of 2018, excluding news and sports.
Among adults 25-54, the special steered in 1.6 million viewers. “Evel Live” drew 1.2 million viewers 18-49.
Also Read: 'Evel Live': Travis Pastrana Lands Evel Knievel's Iconic Caesar's Palace Fountain Jump (Video)
“Evel Live” also went big on Twitter: The TV event was the No. 2 most social show of the evening, sitting just behind TLC’s hit series, “90 Day Fiance.”
Riding an Indian Scout Ftr 750 with a V Twin engine, Pastrana first cleared the 52 crushed cars and later 16 Greyhound buses in the Las Vegas heat. He then successfully jumped the fountain in front of Caesars Palace.
- 7/9/2018
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
History’s new head of programming, Evp Eli Lehrer, has rounded out his senior executive team. Mary Donahue has been named Svp, Development and Programming. Donahue, who rejoins History from sister A+E network Lifetime, will oversee current for all nonfiction programs. She joins Dolores Gavin, Senior Executive, Development and Programming, who will oversee all nonfiction development, and Arturo Interian, Svp Scripted Programming, who is in charge of scripted. All…...
- 10/11/2017
- Deadline TV
Veteran reality TV exec Mariana Flynn has been promoted to Svp Unscripted Development and Programming for Lifetime. Flynn joined the network in 2013 as VP to develop and oversee production of nonfiction projects. Based in Los Angeles, she reports to Liz Gateley, Evp and Head of Programming for the network. Her appointment rounds out Gateley's core programming team that includes Svp Scripted Development Joanna Klein, Svp Unscripted Development and Programming Mary Donahue…...
- 9/26/2016
- Deadline TV
Think you have the brightest child in the U.S.? You may have a chance to find out. Lifetime has ordered eight episodes of new competition docuseries Child Genius, for premiere later this year. Based on the popular UK format, Child Genius centers on some of America’s most extraordinary and gifted children and their families as they prepare for a national intelligence competition. In cooperation with American Mensa, the competition will take place over several weeks this summer and will test America’s best young minds on their knowledge of logic, current affairs, history, memory, science, spelling, math and debate. At the end, one amazing kid will be named Child Genius 2014. Nationwide casting is currently underway. Child Genius is produced by Shed Media Us. Pam Healey, John Hesling and Dan Snook serve as executive producers, along with Lifetime’s Eli Lehrer, Mary Donahue and David Hillman.
- 5/2/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
The life of a nun is something few people really understand, but Lifetime is looking to change that.
EW has confirmed that Lifetime has ordered six hour-long episodes of The Sisterhood, a new unscripted series that will follow five woman who have to decide whether they want to become nuns.
For The Sisterhood, cameras will be allowed inside a Catholic convent, where each woman will work and live before making her decision. Cameras have been granted access to the women in both the “discernment phase” and the “accelerated program,” which, according to the network, “will truly test their devotion.” Will they take vows of chastity,...
EW has confirmed that Lifetime has ordered six hour-long episodes of The Sisterhood, a new unscripted series that will follow five woman who have to decide whether they want to become nuns.
For The Sisterhood, cameras will be allowed inside a Catholic convent, where each woman will work and live before making her decision. Cameras have been granted access to the women in both the “discernment phase” and the “accelerated program,” which, according to the network, “will truly test their devotion.” Will they take vows of chastity,...
- 4/24/2014
- by Samantha Highfill
- EW - Inside TV
Pageant coach Kim Gravel stars in Lifetime‘s Kim Of Queens. The reality series focuses on Gravel’s mission to find talented young girls who might be passed over at first glance and transform them, with tough love and humor, into confident young women. Kim Of Queens will debut at 10 Pm on January 1 with subsequent episodes airing at 10 Pm on Tuesdays following Dance Moms. Kim Of Queens is produced by Relativity Television and executive produced by Tom Forman (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition), Brad Bishop and Bryan O’Donnell, along with Lifetime’s Colleen Conway Grogan, Mary Donahue and Eli Lehrer. A+E Networks will handle global sales.
- 11/21/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
"Under the Gunn" will debut in January and feature "Project Runway" favorites Mondo Guerra, Anya Ayoung-Chee and Nick Verreos.
Lifetime is expanding its fashion empire.
The female-skewing cable network has picked up Under the Gunn, a new fashion competition series hosted by Emmy winner Tim Gunn.
The series, which will premiere Jan. 16 at 9 p.m., will feature Project Runway alums Mondo Guerra, Anya Ayoung-Chee and Nick Verreos mentoring and managing a fashion empire with 15 up-and-coming designers. Each of the three mentors will have a team of designers to manage, coach, cheerlead and nurture with tough love.
The aspiring contestants will be critiqued by designer Rachel Roy, stylist Jen Rade and TV fashion correspondent Zanna Roberts Rassi.
Under the Gunn hails from The Weinstein Co., Bunim/Murray Productions and the producers behind Emmy-nominated Project Runway. TWC's Bob and Harvey Weinstein, Meryl Poster and Barbara Schneeweiss will executive produce alongside Bunim/Murray's Jonathan Murray,...
Lifetime is expanding its fashion empire.
The female-skewing cable network has picked up Under the Gunn, a new fashion competition series hosted by Emmy winner Tim Gunn.
The series, which will premiere Jan. 16 at 9 p.m., will feature Project Runway alums Mondo Guerra, Anya Ayoung-Chee and Nick Verreos mentoring and managing a fashion empire with 15 up-and-coming designers. Each of the three mentors will have a team of designers to manage, coach, cheerlead and nurture with tough love.
The aspiring contestants will be critiqued by designer Rachel Roy, stylist Jen Rade and TV fashion correspondent Zanna Roberts Rassi.
Under the Gunn hails from The Weinstein Co., Bunim/Murray Productions and the producers behind Emmy-nominated Project Runway. TWC's Bob and Harvey Weinstein, Meryl Poster and Barbara Schneeweiss will executive produce alongside Bunim/Murray's Jonathan Murray,...
- 11/13/2013
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Two months after newly minted A+E Networks president and CEO Nancy Dubuc set her top management team, with new responsibilities for Bob DeBitetto, David McKillop,Dirk Hoogstra and Robert Sharenow and the appointment of Jana Bennett to run Lmn and Bio, the company is promoting four more programming executives. Elaine Frontain Bryant, most recently Svp Non-Fiction & Alternative Programming at A&E, has been named Svp, Development and Programming for History, reporting to Hoogstra. She oversaw A&E mega-hit Duck Dynasty. Paul Cabana, who has led H2 for the past 18 months during which period the network has grown more than 60% to become the No.1 emerging ad-supported cable network, has been named to Svp and Head of Programming. Mary Donahue, previously VP Programming & Development at History, has been upped to Svp, Non-Fiction Programming, Lifetime. She was part of the team that developed and launched hit Pawn Stars. Donahue will replace Gena McCarthy...
- 8/12/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
The "Pawn Stars" cast is facing a major lawsuit.
Cast members Richard B. Harrison, Richard K. Harrison, Richard C. Harrison and Austen Russell are among the subjects of a $5 million dollar filed by Venture Iab Inc. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday, claims that History channel executives Nancy Dubuc and Mary Donahue convinced the reality stars to hire Venture Iab rival Michael Camacho of UTA as their agent. The talent agency says that as a result they lost $5 million in commissions.
Venture Iab reportedly signed the "Pawn Stars" cast to written contracts back in 2007 and claim Camacho "stole" their clients in 2010, less than a year after the series launched.
In response to the lawsuit, Camacho told Deadline: “I was in charge of unscripted television at UTA when his agency signed several of the principal characters of Pawn Stars. I have never met or spoken...
Cast members Richard B. Harrison, Richard K. Harrison, Richard C. Harrison and Austen Russell are among the subjects of a $5 million dollar filed by Venture Iab Inc. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday, claims that History channel executives Nancy Dubuc and Mary Donahue convinced the reality stars to hire Venture Iab rival Michael Camacho of UTA as their agent. The talent agency says that as a result they lost $5 million in commissions.
Venture Iab reportedly signed the "Pawn Stars" cast to written contracts back in 2007 and claim Camacho "stole" their clients in 2010, less than a year after the series launched.
In response to the lawsuit, Camacho told Deadline: “I was in charge of unscripted television at UTA when his agency signed several of the principal characters of Pawn Stars. I have never met or spoken...
- 12/12/2012
- by Leigh Weingus
- Huffington Post
The "Pawn Stars" cast is facing a major lawsuit.
Cast members Richard B. Harrison, Richard K. Harrison, Richard C. Harrison and Austen Russell are among the subjects of a $5 million dollar filed by Venture Iab Inc. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday, claims that History channel executives Nancy Dubuc and Mary Donahue convinced the reality stars to hire Venture Iab rival Michael Camacho of UTA as their agent. The talent agency says that as a result they lost $5 million in commissions.
Venture Iab reportedly signed the "Pawn Stars" cast to written contracts back in 2007 and claim Camacho "stole" their clients in 2010, less than a year after the series launched.
In response to the lawsuit, Camacho told Deadline: “I was in charge of unscripted television at UTA when his agency signed several of the principal characters of Pawn Stars. I have never met or spoken...
Cast members Richard B. Harrison, Richard K. Harrison, Richard C. Harrison and Austen Russell are among the subjects of a $5 million dollar filed by Venture Iab Inc. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday, claims that History channel executives Nancy Dubuc and Mary Donahue convinced the reality stars to hire Venture Iab rival Michael Camacho of UTA as their agent. The talent agency says that as a result they lost $5 million in commissions.
Venture Iab reportedly signed the "Pawn Stars" cast to written contracts back in 2007 and claim Camacho "stole" their clients in 2010, less than a year after the series launched.
In response to the lawsuit, Camacho told Deadline: “I was in charge of unscripted television at UTA when his agency signed several of the principal characters of Pawn Stars. I have never met or spoken...
- 12/12/2012
- by Leigh Weingus
- Aol TV.
Update: In response, Michael Camacho tells Deadline: “I was in charge of unscripted television at UTA when his agency signed several of the principal characters of Pawn Stars. I have never met or spoken to the former agents or the clients and was unaware of any claim.” The former agents of the stars of History’s Pawn Stars today sued the network, executives Nancy Dubac and Mary Donahue, A&E and former UTA agent Michael Camacho for allegedly poaching their clients. Citing $5 million in lost commissions and damages (read complaint here), Venture Iab claims that it set up Pawn Stars’ Richard B. Harrison, Richard K. Harrison, Richard C. Harrison and Austen Russell on the reality show. The agents say they signed the group as clients in 2007 and again in 2009. Pawn Stars debuted on History on July 19, 2009. It was not long after that things started to go sour between the...
- 12/12/2012
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
The guys from "Pawn Stars" struck it rich with their hit show -- and then turned their backs on the agents who brokered their initial contracts ... that according to a new lawsuit filed by the jilted talent agency. The suit, filed by Venture Iab in L.A. County Superior Court ... claims all 3 Harrisons and Chumlee inked deals in 2007 and 2009 for the agency to represent them -- before "Pawn Stars" started airing on The History Channel.
- 12/12/2012
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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