Jupiter Entertainment
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Jupiter Entertainment is a TV production company
Production company
A production company provides the physical basis for works in the realms of the performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, and video.- Tasks and functions :...

 in the U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, actively engaged in creating and producing television programming for American cable networks. Established in 1996 by Stephen Land, Jupiter Entertainment provides programming to a variety of networks including Discovery
Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...

, History
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

, A&E
A&E Network
The A&E Network is a United States-based cable and satellite television network with headquarters in New York City and offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, London, Los Angeles and Stamford. A&E also airs in Canada and Latin America. Initially named the Arts & Entertainment Network, A&E launched...

, and Oxygen (TV channel)
Oxygen (TV channel)
Oxygen is an American cable television specialty channel with television programming marketed towards women, with a format similar to Lifetime.- History :...

. Their production credits include documentaries, reality series, and travel series.

List of shows produced

Jupiter has produced multiple prime-time series and specials for A&E, History Channel, Oxygen, CourtTV, and Animal Planet.
  • Human Weapon
    Human Weapon
    Human Weapon was a weekly television show on The History Channel that premiered on July 20, 2007. The hosts, Jason Chambers and Bill Duff, travel across the world studying the unique martial arts, or styles of fighting, that have origins in the region....

    - History Channel
Two martial arts adventurers go on a quest to seek out and train under the master of each martial art in the world.

  • Hands on History - History Channel
This History Channel series takes viewers on location and back in time to see how iconic American products were/are made.

  • Scrapyard Scavengers - History Channel

  • Modern Marvels
    Modern Marvels
    Modern Marvels is a documentary television series that premiered on January 1, 1995 on History. The program focuses on how technologies affect and are used in today's society....

    - History Channel
This popular series celebrates the ingenuity, invention and imagination brought to life on a grand scale through the stories of men and women who have created everyday items, technological breakthroughs and man-made wonders.

  • HowStuffWorks
    HowStuffWorks
    HowStuffWorks is a commercial edutainment website that was founded by Marshall Brain with the goal of giving its target audience an insight into the way in which many things work. The site uses various media in its effort to explain complex concepts, terminology and mechanisms, including...

    - Discovery Channel
    Discovery Channel
    Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...


  • Biography (TV series)
    Biography (TV series)
    Biography is a documentary television series. It was originally a half-hour filmed series produced for CBS by David Wolper from 1961 to 1964 and hosted by Mike Wallace. The A&E Network later re-ran it and has produced new episodes since 1987...

    - A&E
    A&E Network
    The A&E Network is a United States-based cable and satellite television network with headquarters in New York City and offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, London, Los Angeles and Stamford. A&E also airs in Canada and Latin America. Initially named the Arts & Entertainment Network, A&E launched...


  • Mansions, Monuments & Masterpieces - A&E
    A&E Network
    The A&E Network is a United States-based cable and satellite television network with headquarters in New York City and offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, London, Los Angeles and Stamford. A&E also airs in Canada and Latin America. Initially named the Arts & Entertainment Network, A&E launched...

Mansions, Monuments, and Masterpieces goes inside the gilded gates and behind the silk curtains of exclusive haunts to see where and how America's leading families lived and played. their grand estates, the incredible resorts, posh clubs and private sanctuaries - both past and present are featured.

  • America's Castles - A&E
    A&E Network
    The A&E Network is a United States-based cable and satellite television network with headquarters in New York City and offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, London, Los Angeles and Stamford. A&E also airs in Canada and Latin America. Initially named the Arts & Entertainment Network, A&E launched...

Viewers are able to explore America's greatest homes and a voyeuristic peek at the incredible lifestyles of the men and women who lived there.

  • The Competition - A&E
    A&E Network
    The A&E Network is a United States-based cable and satellite television network with headquarters in New York City and offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, London, Los Angeles and Stamford. A&E also airs in Canada and Latin America. Initially named the Arts & Entertainment Network, A&E launched...

Professional football great Terry Bradshaw takes viewers across the country to explore the fascinating characters involved in some of America's more peculiar sporting events.

  • Snapped
    Snapped
    Snapped is an American true crime television series that airs on the Oxygen Network. Snapped debuted on August 6, 2004 and is produced in conjunction with Jupiter Entertainment.-Synopsis:...

    - Oxygen
    Oxygen (TV channel)
    Oxygen is an American cable television specialty channel with television programming marketed towards women, with a format similar to Lifetime.- History :...

Oxygen’s true crime series examines the fascinating cases of women accused of murder.

  • Roller Jam - TNN
    The Nashville Network
    The Nashville Network, usually referred to as TNN, was an American country music-oriented cable television network. Programming included music videos, taped concerts, movies, syndicated programs, and numerous talk shows...

Hard hitting, larger than life characters play out a weekly soap opera on the banked roller derby track.

  • Club Dance
    Club Dance
    Club Dance was a TV show The Nashville Network aired for 7 years between 1991 and February 5, 1999 for a total of 1848 episodes, with re-runs until June 28, 1999The show was filmed in Knoxville, Tennessee set at a fictional "White Horse Cafe"...

    - TNN
    The Nashville Network
    The Nashville Network, usually referred to as TNN, was an American country music-oriented cable television network. Programming included music videos, taped concerts, movies, syndicated programs, and numerous talk shows...

This long running series first brought country dancing to to the masses. The highly rated series spawned a fan club, a home video series, and a paid newsletter to over 30,000 subscribers.

  • Hey Dude
    Hey Dude
    Hey Dude is an American Western comedy series that aired from 1989 to 1991. The show was broadcast on the Nickelodeon network, and currently airs reruns on Teen Nick...

    - Nickelodeon
    Nickelodeon (TV channel)
    Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...

Sitcom following the lives of youth who take summer jobs at the Bar-None dude ranch.

  • TravelQuest - Travel Channel
    Travel Channel
    The Travel Channel is a satellite and cable television channel that is headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, US. It features documentaries and how-to shows related to travel and leisure around the United States and throughout the world. Programming has included shows in African animal safaris,...

     / A&E
    A&E Network
    The A&E Network is a United States-based cable and satellite television network with headquarters in New York City and offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, London, Los Angeles and Stamford. A&E also airs in Canada and Latin America. Initially named the Arts & Entertainment Network, A&E launched...


  • Dominick Dunne's Power Privilege & Justice - Court TV
    Court TV
    truTV is an American cable television network owned by Turner Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Time Warner. The network launched as Court TV in 1991, changing to truTV in 2008...


  • Gearhead Gladiators - National Geographic

  • King of the Jungle - Animal Planet
    Animal Planet
    Animal Planet is an American cable tv specialty channel that launched on October 1, 1996. It is distributed by Discovery Communications. A high-definition simulcast of the channel launched on September 1, 2007.-History:...

This reality show pits twelve animal experts against each other as they compete for the opportunity to host their own Animal Planet TV special.
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