AETN to Unveil 300-Plus Hours of Programming at MIPCOM

NEW YORK, October 2: AETN International will head to MIPCOM
this year with more than 300 new hours of nonfiction programming, led by the
“real-life” high-definition series Ice Road Truckers, which aired on The History Channel in the U.S. and
became the highest-rated original program in the network’s history.

The 13×1-hour Ice Road Truckers follows the lives of a group of men who every year
make their way through the Canadian tundra in blizzard conditions to carry
vital supplies to miners hundreds of miles away over ice roads and frozen
lakes. Produced by Original Productions for The History Channel, the series
averaged a 2.4 household rating and 3.2 million viewers.

Other “real-life” high-definition series include the
13×30-minute Paranormal State, which
follows the life of Ryan Buell and other student members of Penn State
University’s Paranormal Research Society, the first university-sanctioned
center of its kind. Each week Buell and his team are contacted for help by
outside parties who are terrified by unexplained paranormal activity in their
lives. The series is produced by Go Go Luckey Productions for A&E Network.

The 10×1-hour HD crime series Crime Scene 360, which combines crime drama, CGI and 3D photography,
will also be available at MIPCOM. Crime Scene 360 is produced by Base Productions for A&E Network.
Additionally, the 1×2-hour HD documentary special A Global Warning?, produced by Pioneer Film and TV Productions for The
History Channel, will also be available at the market. The series brings the
science of global warming to life and investigates the effects human activity
has on climate.

AETN International will also present the fourth season of 33
new half-hour episodes of the popular series Dog the Bounty Hunter, bringing the total number of available episodes to
98. Produced by Hybrid Films for A&E Network, the series looks at the home
and professional life of Dog as he balances his bounty hunting
caseload—he has caught 6,000 fugitives so far in Hawaii—alongside
his tumultuous relationships with Beth and his twelve children.