"Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" may have been off the air at Bravo for more than five years, but the cabler built their network around a show that no longer exists. "The five genres that ["Queer
Eye"] embodied -- beauty, fashion, food, design, pop culture -- those are the tenets of what we are structuring the network and basing our content on," says network general manager Frances
Berwick.
"We want to show A&E as offering engrossing, 'lean-forward' television," says Bob DeBitetto, president of A&E and Bio channels. His network has long had a hand in nonfiction
programming, but he credits their 2-year-old motto, "real life drama," as what helped the network come into focus for viewers. Conversely, fine-tuning programming from "pure documentary service" to
straight-up reality television has been part of Discovery Channel's evolution.
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