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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 1100 hours of programming and developed and produced the #1 show in America an astonishing 20 times and a Top 10 show over 75 times. In 2011, A. Smith & Co. joined forces with Tinopolis Group creating a transatlantic television powerhouse. In doing so, A. Smith & Co. became the leading North American television production entity within the Tinopolis organization with the ability to tap into the company's resources on a worldwide basis.

Arthur Smith and Kent Weed bring decades of experience in the development and execution of some of the most notable shows in the television industry. The company has produced programs whose budgets total well over half a billion dollars, maintaining strategic distribution partnerships with over 40 networks including FOX, to which A. Smith & Co. is the network's largest supplier of unscripted television. A. Smith & Co.'s highly rated programming and executive team have been nominated for several awards including multiple Emmy® and NAACP Image awards, a DGA Award, and a People's Choice Award. In May of 2009, the company's I Survived a Japanese Game Show was honored at the 49th annual Rose d' Or Festival and awarded the prestigious Best of 2009 Award and the Golden Rose in the category of Reality Programming. In 2011 the company's highly rated documentary series Unsung won its first NAACP Image Award for Outstanding News/Information Series.

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 Speed, G4, TLC, The Discovery Channel, truTV, BET, VERSUS, Oxygen, Spike, TV One, and Travel Channel. In 2010, A. Smith & Co. formed a co-venture with Taiyo Kikaku Co., Ltd. one of the preeminent Japanese commercial production entities to leverage their expertise in television and commercial production from their individual markets to mutually expand programming in the United States and Japan. That same year A. Smith & Co. expanded the scope of its business with the acquisition of Braverman/Bloom, a leading production and personal management organization, through which the company can employ strategies designed to maximize crossover opportunities in entertainment, sports and publishing.

A. Smith & Co.'s lineup of programming appears across numerous networks and has provided their partners with viable content that draws and retains viewers. These programs include the Emmy and People's Choice Award nominated hit show Hell's Kitchen , which is currently in its tenth 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 series include TV One's Unsung, which is now in its fifth season, tru TV's Full Throttle Saloon and Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura both of which are in thier thrid seasons, and Speed's Dumbest Stuff on Wheels. The company's sports programming includes G4's American Ninja Warrior, along with Spike's Pros vs. Joes and UFC Countdown. The company's library of product also indludes popular programming such as The World According to Paris, The Streets of America: The Search for America's Worst Driver, Ultimate Car Build Off, 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. Beyond its success in the domestic marketplace, A. Smith & Co. has also been very successful in exporting its programming abroad having sold shows like Hell's Kitchen in over 120 Territories, Full Throttle Saloon in 9 territories and completing format sales of Skating with Celebrities in a majority of the world.