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WE TV Eyes Expansion Into Scripted Programming With Series Order To AMC’s LaGravenese/Goldwyn Drama Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday May 10, 2013 @ 12:12pm PDTTags: AMC Networks, untitled Richard LaGravenese/Tony Goldwyn, WEtv
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EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks‘ female-focused WEtv is looking to follow in the footsteps of siblings AMC, IFC and Sundance Channel by moving into original scripted series. I hear WE is getting help in its plans from AMC, whose untitled Richard LaGravenese/Tony Goldwyn drama project is eyed to become WE’s first scripted series. (The cable network also is exploring other scripted ideas.) I hear WE is considering a nine-episode order to the LaGravenese/Goldwyn project, originally ordered as a pilot by AMC last year. It is a legal thriller centered on a district attorney (Damon Gupton) who uncovers new evidence that prompts the reinvestigation of a sensational murder case. It explores race, capital punishment, personal morality and how people struggle with the shades of gray found in the absence of a simple, ordered moral universe. I hear the potential series order is contingent on finding a showrunner as David Manson, who ran the pilot at AMC, has since moved to Netflix’s House Of Cards as executive producer. LaGravenese wrote and Goldwyn directed the pilot, which the two executive produced, with Andrew Sugarman serving as a co-executive producer. Marin Ireland, Clarke Peters and Aunjanue Ellis co-star in the pilot, which didn’t get a series pickup in December alongside Low Winter Sun but was left in contention. WE, which like AMC started off airing commercial-free movies, currently has its scheduled dominated by unscripted series, led by flagship Braxton Family Values.

AMC, the first AMC Networks channel to break into original scripted programming, has been assisting its siblings in their scripted efforts. For instance, encores of Sundance’s Rectify air behind Mad Men on AMC, while repeats of AMC’s Breaking Bad air on Sundance. On WE, one of the network’s first hits, Bridezillas, is coming back this month for a 10th and final season, with spinoff series Marriage Boot Camp: Bridezillas also debuting this month.

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WE tv Greenlights Original Series ‘House Of Curves’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday April 29, 2013 @ 9:28am PDTTags: House Of Curves, WEtv

WE tv has ordered six hourlong episodes of House Of Curves, which will premiere June 13 and feature Atlanta designer Kenyatta Jones and her plus-sized fashion business. The series follows Jones, CEO of Bella René, who has designed … Read More »

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WEtv Orders Reality Series Starring Gospel Duo Mary Mary

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday November 21, 2011 @ 6:57am PSTTags: WEtv
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WE tv has greenlit an eight-episode, one-hour unscripted series starring sisters and musicians Erica and Tina Campbell of the three-time Grammy award winning Gospel duo, Mary Mary.  The series, tentatively titled Mary Mary, … Read More »

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AMC Networks Strikes Deal With Netflix For ‘The Walking Dead’ And Other Programming

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Friday October 7, 2011 @ 6:45am PDTTags: AMC Networks, IFC, Netflix, Sundance Channel, The Walking Dead, WEtv

Beverly Hills, Calif. and New York, NY, October 7, 2011–Netflix Inc. and AMC Networks Inc. have reached a multi-year licensing agreement that will make prior seasons of AMC’s critically-acclaimed original series, The Walking Dead, available exclusively to

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AMC Networks’ Stock Opens Below Expectations As Analysts Curb Enthusiasm

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Friday July 1, 2011 @ 7:48am PDTTags: AMC Networks, Cablevision, IFC, Josh Sapan, WEtv

Although analysts have high hopes for AMC Networks, the company is having a bumpy start on its first day as a public company. Shares in the owner of AMC, IFC, and We TV are selling for about … Read More »

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TCA: The Rivers’ Run Through It

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 7, 2011 @ 10:20am PSTTags: Hollywood Radio and Television Society, TCA, TV, WEtv
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From Ray Richmond, who is contributing to Deadline Hollywood’s TCA coverage:
As the first session on the TCA agenda Friday morning in Pasadena, Joan Rivers and her daughter Melissa were a little grumpy appearing before the assembled critics to promote their … Read More »

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UPDATE: Rainbow And AT&T Ink New Deal, ‘Mad Men’ Season Saved On AT&T U-Verse

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 15, 2010 @ 4:00pm PDTTags: AMC, AT&T, AT&T Rainbow Negotiations, AT&T U-verse Carriage Deal, Cable TV, Carriage Deal, Carriage Dispute, IFC, Mad Men AMC, Rainbow Media, Sundance Channel, TV, WEtv
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at&t u-verseAT&T and Rainbow Media just announced they have reached an new carriage agreement for Rainbow’s AMC, IFC and WEtv on AT&T U-verse 16 hours after their most recent extension expired and 10 days before the fourth season premiere of … Read More »

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Carriage Wars: Rainbow vs AT&T Down To Wire, ABC vs Time Warner Looming

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday July 14, 2010 @ 10:11am PDTTags: AMC Mad Men, AT&T Rainbow Negotiations, AT&T U-Verse, AT&T U-verse Carriage Deal, Cable TV, Cablevision, Cablevision Rainbow Media, Carriage Deal, Carriage Dispute, Carriage Fees, IFC, WEtv
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at&t u-verseIf you are an AT&T U-Verse subscriber, you may lose AMC, IFC and WE tv programming at midnight tonight. Hours before the extension between Cablevision-owned Rainbow Media and AT&T is set to expire, the two sides still appear at … Read More »

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