20th Television 
ITV Studios 
A+E Networks 
“Live ‘Cops.’ ”That was the shorthand pitch-in-the-hallway that intrigued A+E Networks executive Paul Buccieri enough to respond with an immediate yes.At the time, Buccieri, 53, was about two years away from being promoted to the top job at A+E Networks, the cable programming group jointly owned by Disney and Hearst. He didn’t know then that “Live PD” would be the show to turn around the fortunes of A&E Network, one of the three pillars of the company that’s also home...
A+E Networks
Paul
Buccieri
President
Buccieri first boarded A+E Networks in 2015 as head of A&E and History channel, later overseeing A+E Studios and A+E Networks Portfolio Group. As current president of A+E Networks Group, his purview includes A&E, Lifetime, History, Lifetime Movies, FYI and Viceland, as well as digital content and distribution, its international, scripted and unscripted divisions. Under his tenure, A&E in June hit its largest quarterly audience in five years, ranking No. 1 with adults 25-54, and the experienced exec oversaw the debut of Lifetime documentary “Surviving R. Kelly,” which spurred renewed investigation into the musician’s alleged sexual misconduct. Previously, he headed ITV studios’ U.S. and global entertainment divisions, headed programming, production and development at Fox Twentieth Television and served as exec producer at Endemol.
