EXCLUSIVE: A+E Networks is undergoing a round of layoffs today that has seen cuts across Lifetime and History‘s programming teams.
Deadline understands that Amy Savitsky, SVP Unscripted Development and Programming at Lifetime, as well as VPs Kim Chessler and Cat Rodriguez are out as part of the cuts.
There also are cuts across History and A&E with Zach Behr, VP Unscripted Programming, History, and A&E’s Peter Tarshis, who has worked for the company for over 30 years, also departing.
It comes on the same day that Paramount began laying off around 15% of its staff, a move that saw the shuttering of Paramount TV Studios. “This is like Red Wedding week for television,” one source told Deadline.
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