Nancy Dubuc
President & General Manager, A & E Networks
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Nancy Dubuc was appointed Senior Vice President, Programming, A&E Network in January 2005. Dubuc joined A&E Network in March 2003 as Vice President, Non-Fiction & Alternative Programming. An award-winning executive producer, Dubuc supervises the development for all of A&E's non-fiction programming including the network's signature real-life series; critically-acclaimed documentary series and marquee specials.

Under Dubuc's leadership, A&E entered the reality genre under the banner Real-Life series, which has led the network to double digit growth in its target demographic 25-54 and 18-49. This past year, Dubuc spearheaded the development of several water cooler series, including Airline, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Caesars 24/7, Family Plots, Growing Up Gotti and The First 48. Currently, she is in development on a slate of new real-life series, including Intervention, Knievel's Wild Ride and Family Forensics, and is in production on new series including Inked and RollerGirls. In addition, Dubuc oversees the documentary unit which produced Who Killed Laci Peterson, Saving Private Lynch, A Twisted Mind: The Andrew Luster Story and the upcoming Barbara Kopple documentary Bearing Witness, a powerful documentary on women journalists in combat zones. Also under her banner are the highly successful series, Cold Case Files, City Confidential and American Justice. In 2004, Dubuc created and developed the A&E Lifestyle block of programming, which includes such series as Sell This House, Makeover Mamas, All Year Round with Katie Brown and Find & Design.

Most recently, Ms. Dubuc launched A&E IndieFilms, a new programming umbrella featuring the best in new independent feature documentaries. Under A&E IndieFilms, under Ms. Dubuc's purview, established a grant for outstanding documentaries in progress and is increasing its Film Festival presence and co-branding of selected theatrical releases, including feature docs acquired for airing following their theatrical runs. Some of the first releases under A&E IndieFilms have already generated acclaim: Murderball was selected for the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Documentary Competition, and Rock School was featured as a special screening at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.

Prior to A&E, Ms. Dubuc was Director, Historical Programming for The History Channel. During that time, Ms. Dubuc's contributions were key to the creation and supervision of many of The History Channel's acclaimed series and specials, including the piloting and execution of the weekly series This Week in History. She was also the executive in charge of Egypt Beyond The Pyramids, a major programming event that garnered the first Emmy nomination for the network. Additional series credits for Ms. Dubuc include History IQ, The Color of War, Teddy Roosevelt: an American Lion and Relics from the Rubble.

Previously, Ms. Dubuc worked for the Emmy-nominated series Discover Magazine on The Discovery Channel as Series Producer. From 1992 to 1995, Dubuc was employed at the PBS affiliate WGBH in Boston where her experience ranged from the Peabody Award-winning History of Rock & Roll to the Emmy Award-winning This Old House. Ms. Dubuc worked in various production capacities on several other PBS projects including Victory Garden & New Yankee Workshop and The Windsors, A Royal Family. She began her career in the newsroom at World Monitor, which at the time was a live, nightly broadcast on The Discovery Channel and was produced by The Christian Science Monitor.

Ms. Dubuc is a graduate of Boston University and currently resides in New York City with her husband Michael and their son Jackson.