A+E FACTUAL STUDIOS™ is an Emmy Award winning IP creation powerhouse which, through its holdings, develops and produces premium documentary films and unscripted television for the global marketplace. The studio has expertise in a broad range of genres including docuseries, true crime, competition, transformation, and lifestyle. Comprised of two specialty brands — CATEGORY 6 MEDIA™ and SIX WEST MEDIA™ — the production house delivers exceptional factual content across a number of platforms and networks including Disney+, Max, Discovery+, ID, A&E®, Lifetime®, The HISTORY® Channel, Amazon, PBS, NBC, Oxygen and Hulu.
Helmed by industry veterans Sharon Scott (President), Steve Ascher (EVP, Head of Development), Jhamal Robinson (EVP, Head of Production), and Kristy Sabat (SVP, Production), A+E FACTUAL STUDIOS™ was founded in 2018 and has since emerged as an industry leader in nonfiction storytelling. With more than 200 hours in production and 100+ projects in development, the studio’s slate ranges from long-running hit series such as A&E’s Cold Case Files® and The HISTORY Channel’s The Proof Is Out There™, to formats like Best in Snow on Disney+, History's The Unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd, and premium documentaries such as Lifetime's The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and the Emmy Award winning Variety Presents: Power of Women The Changemakers. The team regularly collaborates with top-tier talent like Leonardo DiCaprio, Peyton Manning, Michael Strahan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Billie Jean King and Kelly Ripa, to name a few.