History
In November 2000, when Canadian producer and former CBC Sports executive Arthur Smith left his role as executive vice president of programming, production and news at American sports channel group Fox Sports Net following his successful run, he partnered with former W.A.V.E Productions founder Kent Weed, establishing their own American unscripted reality production company based in Los Angeles, California, entitled A. Smith & Co. Productions. Arthur Smith became chairman and CEO of the new unscripted studio, whilst Kent Weed became the new company's president.
In October 2010, A. Smith & Co. Productions had entered the management field with the acquisition of management and production firm Braverman/Bloom, which gained A.Smith & Co. Productions its own management division with Braverman/Bloom becoming a subsidiary of the while retaining the Braverman/Bloom name. Michael Braverman and Barry Bloom, founders of Braverman/Bloom continued to manage the management firm under its new parent company. [1]
In June 2011, it was announced that Welsh international TV production group Tinopolis had the company. [2] [3]
In November 2016, The company expanded its production operations into the factual and documentary programming and entertainment production genres with the establishment of its two new production divisions as had merged with Tinopolis' production subsidiary BASE Productions into forming a new factual production division within A. Smith & Co. Productions, which was named A. Smith & Co. Dox, that would produce documentary & factual programming. [4] [5]
In November 2025, it was announced that Jenny Daly had left the company as president after only six months, with Daly said to return to her "independent and entrepreneurial roots". [6]
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