A+E Networks UK Orders Woodcut’s Combat Machines

A+E Networks UK has commissioned Woodcut Media to produce the new factual series Combat Machines for HISTORY.

Combat Machines, which will broadcast on HISTORY in the U.K. in 2018, is the third series in the Combat franchise, following on the heels of Combat Ships and Combat Trains. The new 8×1-hour series showcases feats in military engineering, including inventions such as Hiram Maxim’s machine gun through to current armored vehicles.

It focuses on the definitive machines and weapons of both World Wars, as well as the Cold War. Themes covered in the series include The Desert Rats, Machines of WW1, Vehicles of WW2, Electronic Warfare, Battlefield Engineering, Vietnam War, Mechanized Infantry and The Arms Race.

The series was ordered by Dan Korn, the VP of programming for HISTORY at A+E Networks UK. Combat Machines will be distributed internationally by TCB Media Rights.

Woodcut Media’s executive producer for the series, Adam Jacobs, said, “With the demand for military and history content still going strong, we are delighted to be producing Combat Machines as we evolve this informative and entertaining franchise.”

A+E Networks UK’s Korn added, “HISTORY viewers have an enduring fascination with how things are made and the ‘great leaps forward’ in mechanization which occur in the midst of conflict. Combat Machines is the perfect opportunity to examine those moments of engineering ingenuity which, in many cases, made the difference between triumph and disaster.”

Paul Heaney, the CEO of TCB Media Rights, commented, “This isn’t just the latest in a franchise; it’s a contemporary series that is responding to many platforms’ needs around the world. Woodcut will tell the stories of each of the machines from a historical context along with a strong informative engineering reference.”