Audience (TV network)

The channel launched on November 25, 1999, as Freeview, a service on DirecTV channel 103 carrying a continuous loop of concerts and other events.{{cite web|title=DirecTV Announces DirecTV Freeview Series of Special Programming Events; Exclusive Series Offered Free of Charge to Customers.|publisher=Business Wire|access-date=February 15, 2014|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/DIRECTV+Announces+DIRECTV+FREEVIEW+Series+of+Special+Programming...-a057630217|date=November 18, 1999|archive-date=February 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222151726/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/DIRECTV+Announces+DIRECTV+FREEVIEW+Series+of+Special+Programming...-a057630217|url-status=dead}} Freeview was part of all of the satellite provider's subscription packages, starting with the Total Choice tier. In 2005, it was moved to channel 101 and was rebranded as The 101 Network. Following the rebrand, the channel's schedule began to expand to include original programs. It also presented its very first original, CD US, which was announced on November 1, 2005.{{Cite web|last=Dempsey|first=John|date=2005-11-02|title=DirecTV gets original with music show|url=https://variety.com/2005/music/news/directv-gets-original-with-music-show-1117932095/|access-date=2021-12-06|website=Variety|language=en-US}}

The channel was rebranded as Audience Network on June 1, 2011.{{cite press release|title=DirecTV's The 101 Network Becomes The Audience Network on June 1|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2011/05/16/directvs-the-101-network-becomes-the-audience-network-on-june-1-678301/20110516directv01/|work=The Futon Critic|publisher=DirecTV|access-date=February 15, 2014|date=May 16, 2011}} In 2015, the channel was added to AT&T U-verse after DirecTV was acquired by AT&T.{{cite web|url=http://www.multichannel.com/news/content/att-launch-directv-s-audience-network/394197|title=AT&T to Launch DirecTV's Audience Network|last=Umstead|first=Thomas|work=MultiChannel News|date=September 30, 2015|access-date=December 18, 2015}} In June 2018, AT&T announced its discount streaming service, WatchTV, which would carry Audience.{{cite news |last1=Perez |first1=Sarah |title=AT&T launches a low-cost live TV streaming service, WatchTV |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/att-launches-a-low-cost-live-tv-streaming-service-watchtv/?guccounter=1 |access-date=May 13, 2019 |work=TechCrunch}}

On January 8, 2020, it was announced by parent company AT&T that Audience would end operations in its current format and transition to a barker channel for HBO Max, a service which launched on May 27.{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2020/01/att-audience-network-to-end-will-transition-to-hbo-max-1202825243/|title=AT&T Audience Network To End; Will Transition To HBO Max Preview Channel|last=Petski|first=Denise|date=2020-01-09|website=Deadline|language=en|access-date=2020-01-09}} Rich Eisen later confirmed in a statement regarding the future of his daily radio show (which had maintained a longtime video simulcast on Audience) that the network would go off the air on February 29 (his show ended the day before on Audience, and ended on radio on April 7).{{cite news|url=https://barrettsportsmedia.com/2020/01/17/end-of-audience-network-spells-uncertainty-for-eisen/|title=END OF AUDIENCE NETWORK SPELLS UNCERTAINTY FOR EISEN|last=Contes|first=Brandon|date=17 January 2020|publisher=Barrett Sports Media|access-date=18 January 2020}}{{cite news|url=https://awfulannouncing.com/radio/after-audience-dan-patrick-fox-sports-radio-rich-eisen.html|title=After Audience Network, The Dan Patrick Show sticks with Fox Sports Radio, but The Rich Eisen Show's future is less clear|last=Bucholtz|first=Andrew|date=2 March 2020|publisher=Awful Announcing|access-date=3 March 2020}} AT&T itself would not confirm the actual end date for the network at the time and it did continue for two months after with previous programming, though simulcasts of Eisen's show and The Dan Patrick Show both ceased on February 28, and the network's website became merely a redirect to the generic DirecTV network listing. Eisen later found a new television home on NBCSN and YouTube, with Patrick also utilizing a YouTube live stream during the COVID-19 pandemic, before both ultimately ended up at Comcast-owned streaming service Peacock. In mid-April 2020, AT&T notified customers the network would officially sunset at 12:00 am Pacific on May 22, 2020.{{Cite web |url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/atandt-to-shutter-audience-network-on-may-22 |title=AT&T to Shutter Audience Network on May 22 |last=Frankel |first=Daniel |date=2020-04-20 |website=NextTV |access-date=2020-04-21}}{{cite press release|title=AT&T monthly carriage and sunsetting notice|publisher=Paid advertisement in USA Today|url=https://www.att.com/ecms/dam/att/consumer/help/pdf/USA-Today-April.pdf|access-date=23 April 2020}}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The network closed as scheduled after an airing of the documentary Black Sabbath: The End of The End, after which the channel space created by Freeview in 1999 folded.{{cite web |last1=Nunn |first1=E |title=The End of Audience (May 23, 2020) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYlQZ8_zg1g |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/BYlQZ8_zg1g |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|website=YouTube |access-date=18 July 2020}}{{cbignore}}

{{main|List of programs broadcast by Audience}}

Starting in January 2009, the channel aired Wonderland, a controversial drama series that had briefly aired on ABC in the spring of 2000.{{cite press release |url=http://dtv.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=353798 |date=December 10, 2008 |publisher=DirectTV|title=DirecTV's The 101(R) Network Brings Back the Controversial and Critically Acclaimed Television Series Wonderland, Including Six Never-Before-Seen Episodes Beginning Jan. 14 |access-date=May 16, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090528022155/http://dtv.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=353798 |archive-date=May 28, 2009 |url-status=dead }} The run included all eight episodes of the series, six of which were not originally aired during the program's ABC run.

DirecTV and NBC Universal Television Studio announced on April 25, 2007, that new episodes of the soap opera Passions would begin airing exclusively on the channel on September 17, 2007,{{cite news|url=http://www.nbc.com/Passions/news/dtv.shtml|website=NBC|title=NBC’S Passions to work its magic on DirecTV viewers with all new episodes beginning September 17|date=April 25, 2007|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120907042354/http://www.nbc.com/Passions/news/dtv.shtml|archive-date=7 September 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://www.tvpredictions.com/dpassions042507.htm|website=TVPredictions.com|date=April 25, 2007|title=DirecTV Unsure On Passions In HDTV|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820121001/http://www.tvpredictions.com/dpassions042507.htm |archive-date=August 20, 2008 }} retaining its 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time timeslot that it held during its NBC run, with reruns airing on weekends. The series had aired on NBC since July 1999, however in early 2007, the network announced they were not renewing the series as a result of replacing the series by a fourth hour of Today and very soon DirecTV bought exclusive Broadcasting rights from NBC to continue airing the series and the final NBC episode was aired on September 7, 2007, concluding its eight-year broadcast on NBC and then the new episodes began airing exclusively on DirecTV starting September 17, 2007. Although Passions had left NBC and moved to DirecTV, NBC continued to maintain the series official website on NBC.com due to the fact that their parent company NBCUniversal maintained Ownership and production rights to the series, however the free streaming service of the new episodes of Passions on NBC.com and the option to purchase the episodes for download on iTunes, which had started in the final NBC season of 2006-07 were completely discontinued once DirecTV began exclusively airing the new episodes. Initially the DirecTV episodes were only supposed to be available on their own network, but DirecTV later announced an agreement to allow NBC to rebroadcast the DirecTV episodes of Passions only as a paid subscription internet streaming content on NBC.com with a monthly subscription fee as an alternative for viewers who were unable to subscribe to DirecTV after the series left terrestrial television; this began in October 2007.{{cite press release|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20070927005842/en/DIRECTV-All-Access-Pass-Passions-New-Online-Feature|title=DIRECTV Provides All-Access Pass to Passions with New Online Feature Starting October 1|publisher=Business Wire|date=September 27, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180829212025/https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20070927005842/en/DIRECTV-All-Access-Pass-Passions-New-Online-Feature|archive-date=August 29, 2018}} In December 2007, DirecTV announced that it would not pick up Passions from NBCU for a tenth season,{{cite web|url=http://tvseriesfinale.com/articles/passions-directv-cancellation-confirmed/|website=TVSeriesFinale.com|title=Passions: DirecTV Cancellation Confirmed|archive-url=https://archive.today/20080205145644/http://tvseriesfinale.com/articles/passions-directv-cancellation-confirmed/ |archive-date=February 5, 2008 }} the series finale aired on August 7, 2008.

DirecTV, NBC, and Universal Media Studios announced a deal on April 2, 2008, in which The 101 would carry the 13-episode third season of Friday Night Lights beginning on October 1.{{cite press release|url=http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global/contentPage.jsp?assetId=P4560014 |title=NBC, Universal Media Studios and DirecTV Form Bold Partnership to Renew Friday Night Lights for a Third Season|publisher=DirecTV.com|date=April 2, 2008|access-date=May 16, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080408012613/http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global/contentPage.jsp?assetId=P4560014|archive-date=April 8, 2008}}{{cite web|url=http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment_old/ci_8784137 |title=Friday Night Lights lives |first=Joanne |last=Ostrow |publisher=DenverPost.com |date=April 2, 2008 |access-date=May 16, 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415024933/http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment_old/ci_8784137| archive-date= April 15, 2009 | url-status=live}} Through the deal, after the season ended on The 101, the drama series' third season aired in second-run form on NBC (with some scenes edited) starting on January 16, 2009. On March 31, 2009, NBC and DirecTV announced that they had renewed Friday Night Lights for two additional seasons, again to be broadcast first on DirecTV and then on NBC.{{cite press release|url=http://www.nbc.com/news/2009/03/31/nbc-universal-and-directv-team-up-again-to-renew-friday-night-lights-for-26-episodes-over-two-additi/ |title=NBC Universal and DirecTV Team Up Again to Renew Friday Night Lights for 26 Episodes Over Two Additional Seasons |date=March 31, 2009 |access-date=May 16, 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090409080450/http://www.nbc.com/news/2009/03/31/nbc-universal-and-directv-team-up-again-to-renew-friday-night-lights-for-26-episodes-over-two-additi/| archive-date= April 9, 2009}}

On July 19, 2010, DirecTV announced it had acquired the rights to the former FX drama Damages, and renewed the series for two additional seasons. The 101 began airing reruns of its first three seasons on January 5, 2011. Season 4 premiered on the rebranded Audience Network on July 13, 2011, and the fifth and final season premiered on July 11, 2012.{{cite news|url=http://www.multichannel.com/article/454976-DirecTV_Sony_To_Air_Fourth_Fifth_Seasons_Of_Damages_.php|title=DirecTV, Sony To Air Fourth, Fifth Seasons Of 'Damages'|work=Multichannel News|date=July 19, 2010|archive-url=https://archive.today/20100723105406/http://www.multichannel.com/article/454976-DirecTV_Sony_To_Air_Fourth_Fifth_Seasons_Of_Damages_.php|archive-date=July 23, 2010}}

The channel aired repeat episodes of SoapNet's original soap opera limited series, General Hospital: Night Shift throughout the series' run from July to October 2008.{{cite web |url=http://www.soaps.com/generalhospital/news/2639/General_Hospital_Night_Shift_Spoilers_For_October_ |publisher=Soaps.com |title=General Hospital: Night Shift Spoilers for October 14, 2008 |date=October 9, 2008 |access-date=May 16, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703181516/http://www.soaps.com/generalhospital/news/2639/General_Hospital_Night_Shift_Spoilers_For_October_ |archive-date=July 3, 2009 |url-status=dead }}

The channel broadcast the Nat Geo Adventure's documentary travel/adventure series Odyssey: Driving Around the World starting in June 2008.

The short-lived ABC drama The Nine began airing on the channel on May 27, 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.monstersandcritics.com/smallscreen/news/article_1468618.php/DirecTV_channel_101_brings_back_Smith_The_Nine_and_Eyes_ |title=DirecTV channel 101 brings back Smith, The Nine and Eyes |first=April |last=MacIntyre |publisher=MonstersAndCritics.com (M&C) |date=April 3, 2009 |access-date=June 8, 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090615074518/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/smallscreen/news/article_1468618.php/DirecTV_channel_101_brings_back_Smith_The_Nine_and_Eyes_| archive-date= June 15, 2009 | url-status=live}}

The channel also aired reruns of the 2005–06 Showtime drama series Sleeper Cell.{{cite web|url=http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global/article.jsp?assetId=P5580028|website=DirecTV|title=Sleeper Cell on The 101|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730001653/http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global/article.jsp?assetId=P5580028|archive-date=30 July 2012}}

On April 21, 2009, it was announced that DirecTV picked up the syndication rights to HBO's Oz and Deadwood.{{cite press release|url=http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global/article.jsp?assetId=P5680008|publisher=DirecTV|date=April 21, 2009|title=Deadwood and Oz coming to The 101 Network, compliments of DIRECTV|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120728133758/http://news.directv.com/2009/04/21/deadwood-and-oz-coming-to-the-101-network-compliments-of-directv/|archive-date=July 28, 2012}}{{cite news |last1=Reynolds |first1=Mike |title=DirectTV 101's Fresh New Look |url=http://www.multichannel.com/article/277507-DirecTV_101_s_Fresh_Look.php |work=MultiChannel News |date=June 1, 2009 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20090601135254/http://www.multichannel.com/article/277507-DirecTV_101_s_Fresh_Look.php |archive-date=June 1, 2009}}

The channel began airing the CBS drama Smith on April 8, 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global/article.jsp?assetId=P5590064|website=DirecTV|title=Smith, only on The 101|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090407103207/http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global/article.jsp?assetId=P5590064|archive-date=April 7, 2009}} It also began a general agreement with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution to air Eyes onto the channel also in 2009.{{Cite web|last=Schneider|first=Michael|date=2009-03-23|title=DirecTV mines cancellations|url=https://variety.com/2009/scene/markets-festivals/directv-mines-cancellations-1118001506/|access-date=2021-12-06|website=Variety|language=en-US}}

DirecTV aired repeats of the HBO drama series The Wire starting on July 18, 2010.{{cite press release|url=http://dtv.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=458086|title=DirecTV Takes It Down to The Wire(R) with the Debut of the Acclaimed Series on the 101 Network|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716052758/http://dtv.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=458086 |archive-date=July 16, 2011|publisher=DirecTV|date=April 12, 2010}}

In recent years, DirecTV began acquiring exclusive US broadcast rights to series from fellow English-speaking countries UK, Canada and Australia.

The 101 began airing the Canadian comedy series Trailer Park Boys on February 5, 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.trailerparkboys.com/site_news_detail.php?news=6 |title=DirecTV Cultivates More Comedy On The 101 Network With Trailer Park Boys |publisher=TrailerParkBoys.com |date=February 4, 2009 |access-date=May 16, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422013308/http://www.trailerparkboys.com/site_news_detail.php?news=6 |archive-date=April 22, 2009 |url-status=dead }}

On September 17, 2009, DirecTV announced that The 101 had picked up rights to the Australian miniseries Underbelly, which began airing on February 3, 2010.{{cite press release|url=http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global/article.jsp?assetId=P6300238|publisher=DirecTV|date=September 17, 2009|title=DirecTV Takes Viewers Deep Into the "Underbelly" of the Australian Crime World|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729112430/http://news.directv.com/2009/09/17/directv-takes-viewers-deep-into-the-underbelly-of-the-australian-crime-world/|archive-date=July 29, 2012}}

On September 28, 2010, DirecTV acquired rights to the British shows No Heroics, How Not to Live Your Life and Mutual Friends, which premiered on The 101 in November 2010.{{cite press release|url=http://investor.directv.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=511865|title=BBC Worldwide and DirecTV Announce Heroic Deal – British Comedy Award Nominees "No Heroics," "How Not to Live Your Life" and "Mutual Friends" to Make Exclusive US Debut on The 101 Network|publisher=DirecTV|date=September 28, 2010|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709120150/http://investor.directv.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=511865|archive-date=July 9, 2012}}

On February 10, 2011, DirecTV acquired rights to the Canadian series Call Me Fitz, which premiered on the network on April 21, 2011.{{cite news|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2011/02/10/critically-acclaimed-series-call-me-fitz-heads-for-directvs-the-101-network-518211/20110210directv01/|title=Critically-Acclaimed Series "Call Me Fitz" Heads for DirecTV's The 101 Network|work=Futon Critic|date=February 10, 2011}}

In the spring of 2011, DirecTV acquired the rights to the Australian series Rake.[https://www.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110513-715689.html DirecTV Delves Deeper Into Content With New Audience Network]{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Wall Street Journal May 13, 2011

In the fall of 2011, DirecTV acquired rights to the Canadian sitcom Less Than Kind{{cite press release|url=http://dtv.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=606867|title=Canada's Funniest Dysfunctional Family Finds a Home on DirecTV; Hit Comedy 'Less Than Kind' Makes U.S. Debut Exclusively on the Audience Network|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120518141535/http://dtv.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=606867 |archive-date=May 18, 2012|publisher=DirecTV|date=September 20, 2011}} and the British drama Hit & Miss, the latter of which premiered on June 27, 2012, with a sneak preview, with the first full episode airing on July 11, 2012.{{cite press release|url=http://dtv.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=616866|title=DirecTV Brings Highly Anticipated Paul Abbott Drama Series Hit and Miss to Audience Network|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120518141552/http://dtv.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=616866 |archive-date=May 18, 2012|publisher=DirecTV|date=October 21, 2011}}

DirecTV picked up the rights to the Australian series The Slap and the British series The Shadow Line, which started airing on Audience Network in February 2012.{{cite web |title=DirecTV's Audience Network Acquires The Slap and The Shadow Line|url=http://www.tvwise.co.uk/2012/02/directvs-audience-network-acquires-the-slap-and-the-shadow-line/|work=TVWise|first=Patrick |last=Munn |date=February 1, 2012 |access-date=February 1, 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130114023330/http://www.tvwise.co.uk/2012/02/directvs-audience-network-acquires-the-slap-and-the-shadow-line/|archive-date=January 14, 2013}}

Celebrity Beach Bowl – Since 2007, during Super Bowl week, DirecTV has held an annual celebrity flag football game, which promotes DirecTV's exclusive sports package NFL Sunday Ticket. A concert follows the game, which is simulcast on Chicago television station WGN-TV, its sister network WGN America, Now known as NewsNation, and in 2013, NBC Sports Network.

Bracket Breakdown was an exclusive NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship pre-game show with several college basketball analysts and insiders, including the University of Louisville's Rick Pitino, the University of Kentucky's John Calipari, the University of Oklahoma's Jeff Capel, the University of Tennessee's Bruce Pearl and the University of Washington's Lorenzo Romar and former UCLA player and current sports talk radio show host Sean Farnham.{{cite press release|url=http://dtv.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=368848|publisher=DirecTV|date=March 4, 2009|title=DirecTV'sExclusive 'Bracket Breakdown' is College Hoops' Ultimate Meeting of the Minds|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312041251/http://dtv.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=368848 |archive-date=March 12, 2009 }} It served as supplemental coverage to DirecTV's exclusive (now defunct) Mega March Madness package.

SXSW – the channel exclusively carried the 2009 South by Southwest Festival concert live.{{cite press release|url=http://dtv.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=369084|title=DirecTV Announces Lineup For SXSW Live, The Only Live Television Broadcast From The Trendsetting Music Festival, Airing March 20–21 On DirecTV's The 101(R) Network|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090313052152/http://dtv.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=369084 |archive-date=March 13, 2009 }}

Farm Aid 25: Growing Hope for America aired exclusively on DirecTV.{{cite press release|url=http://dtv.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=507918|title=Farm Aid 25: Growing Hope for America Concert to be Broadcast Live in HD and Commercial Free Exclusively on DirecTV's The 101 Network|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716053120/http://dtv.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=507918 |archive-date=July 16, 2011|publisher=DirecTV|date=September 15, 2010}}

On February 13, 2012, Audience Network premiered the original documentary More Than a Dream, about the Civil Rights Movement, narrated by Martin Sheen.{{cite press release|url=http://dtv.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=648251|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707210505/http://dtv.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=648251|archive-date=July 7, 2012|title=Original Documentary More Than A Dream Premieres Feb. 13th on DirecTV's Audience Network|publisher=DirecTV|date=February 13, 2012}}

In October 2006, to mark Halloween, Audience Network aired several horror-themed movies, including The Toxic Avenger.

On February 23 and 24, 2007, Audience Network aired a preview of Chiller, a then-recently launched cable channel owned by NBC Universal dedicated to horror programming that launched on DirecTV channel 257 on March 1, 2007. Programming featured during this preview included the two-hour pilot episode of Twin Peaks, the pilot episode of American Gothic, episodes of Monsters, Tales from the Crypt, Night Gallery, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Friday the 13th: The Series, and various horror movies.

Audience Network aired a number of dramatic series a few days before their scheduled premieres on Showtime including The Tudors in March 2007 and Nurse Jackie in June 2009, as well as the Starz series Party Down on April 22, 2010.

On August 24, 2007, Audience Network aired an exclusive high-definition broadcast of High School Musical 2, one week after its premiere on the Disney Channel (Disney Channel did not launch a high definition simulcast feed until April 2, 2008).{{cite news|url=http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6470642.html|work=Multichannel News|date=August 21, 2007|title=DirecTV airs High School Musical 2 in HD|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120904020452/http://www.multichannel.com/article/130191-DirecTV_to_Debut_Disney_Channel_HD.php|archive-date=September 4, 2012}}

On November 11, 2017, Audience Network premiered the first part of the two-part documentary The Volunteers.{{Cite web|url=http://start.att.net/exclusive/audience/the-volunteers|title=The Volunteers {{!}} 2-Part Documentary on AUDIENCE Network|website=Show Experience|language=en|access-date=2018-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180222131239/http://start.att.net/exclusive/audience/the-volunteers|archive-date=2018-02-22}} This is a documentary about volunteers taking up arms against ISIS in Syria.{{Cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2017/10/the-volunteers-trailer-ricky-schroder-audience-network-documentary-war-isis-syria-1202187121/|title='The Volunteers' Trailer: Ricky Schroder's Syrian War Documentary Is On Front Lines Of War Against ISIS|last=Petski|first=Denise|date=2017-10-12|work=Deadline|access-date=2018-02-22|language=en-US}} Ricky Schroder is the executive producer.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-documentarian-volunteers-to-become-part-of-his-own-syria-set-isis-documentary|title=A Documentarian Volunteers to Become Part Of His Own Syria-Set ISIS Documentary|date=2017-10-10|work=The Daily Beast|access-date=2018-02-22|language=en}}

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