• July 14, 2003

A new fall program on A&E will explore the romance, devastation, storytelling, wit and more that are the things of correspondence in a new one-hour weekly series The Letters. The series premieres Sunday, Oct. 19, at 10 p.m. The desire to impart information through the writing of letters spans the centuries, from Cicero's Rome to the ongoing blitz of hourly e-mail correspondence that we experience in modern life. Among the kinds of letters to be examined are: love letters, letters from prison, letters to famous people, letters to Santa, political snafus exposed in writing, historical letters, e-mail catastrophes, hate mail, lying letters, letters to the editor, chain letters, and the most dreaded correspondence of them all: Dear John letters. The Letters will use unique visual devices, interviews with psychologists and historians and celebrity readings of the prose to bring alive the written words. The Letters is produced for A&E by New Wave Entertainment. Nancy Dubuc is the A&E executive producer and Chris Harty is the executive producer for New Wave Entertainment.