Welcome to A. Smith & Co. Productions

A. SMITH & CO. PRODUCTIONS

A. Smith & Co. Productions generates some of the most innovative, highly-rated and high quality programming for the domestic and international television marketplace. Since its launch in 2000 by founders Arthur Smith and Kent Weed, the company has created over 700 hours of programming and developed and produced the #1 show in America an astonishing twelve times and a Top 5 show over fifty times. A. Smith & Co.'s highly rated programming and executive team have been nominated for several awards including a DGA Award and an NAACP Image Award. In May of 2009, the company's I Survived a Japanese Game Show was honored with the prestigious Best of 2009 Award and the Golden Rose in the category of Reality Programming during the final evening of the 49 th annual Rose d'Or Festival. A. Smith & Co.'s principals bring decades of experience in the conception and execution of some of the most notable shows in the business of television.

In its short history, A. Smith has produced properties whose budgets total nearly half a billion dollars, maintaining strategic distribution partnerships with over 25 networks including FOX, to which A. Smith is the network's largest supplier of unscripted television. In 2006, the company expanded its business by forming A. Smith & Co. Properties, a division geared to serve the rapidly expanding cable market, developing and producing series for TLC, The Discovery Channel, truTV, BET, VERSUS, Oxygen, Spike, TV One, and Travel Channel.

A. Smith & Co.'s current lineup of programming appears across numerous networks and has provided their partners with viable content that draws and retains viewers. These programs include Emmy® nominated hit show Hell's Kitchen now in production for its eighth season, Kitchen Nightmares , and Cookalong Live with Gordon Ramsay for FOX as well as ABC's reality competition series I Survived a Japanese Game Show and Crash Course. A. Smith & Co's current docu-series include TV One's Unsung now in its third season as well as three new series on truTV's including Full Throttle Saloon , Surprise Inspections and Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura which premiered with 1,635,000 viewers, truTV's biggest audience ever for a new series launch . The company's sports programming includes Spike's returning series Pros vs. Joes and UFC Countdown. A. Smith & Co. will premiere two new competition series in 2010 including Travel Channel's The Streets of America: The Search for America's Worst Driver and Discovery's Ultimate Car Build Off . The company's library of product also includes popular programming such as American Gangster, Trading Spaces, The Swan, Skating With Celebrities, Paradise Hotel, Celebrity Duets, A Hero's Welcome, Come Home Alive, You Gotta See This, I'm Still Alive and Mad Mad House.

Already an established production power-house in the states, the company is rapidly expanding its footprint in the international television arena via strategic relationships with some of industry's biggest players. The company maintains working relationships with ITV Studios, RDF, Mentorn, and Fremantle among others. A. Smith & Co. has also been very successful in exporting its programming abroad having sold shows like Hell's Kitchen in over 100 territories and completing format sales of its Skating with Celebrities in a majority of the world. Its original competition series Crash Course will air on Nine Australia Network in 2010 and is also being distributed internationally by Fremantle Media . The company's ground breaking docu-series Full Throttle Saloon and relationship series I Married a Stranger are both distributed internationally by RDF Rights.