Speaking at the Citi Global Consumer Conference earlier today in New York City, WWE’s Chief Financial Officer George Barrios provided an update on the programming plans for the WWE Network.

“The program grid for the network will center around our monthly pay-per-view, so those will become the culminating events of storylines and so on. We are also going to create retrospective content from our library, so that’s not just running library footage, that’s creating kind of compelling stories around past areas of WWE.

For example, one of the series that we’ve created is called The Monday Night Wars, which taks a look back at both what’s happened inside the ring and outside the ring when Vince McMahon and Ted Turner were battling in the late 90’s. That will be a 15 episode series thereabouts and it’s tested really well. That’s an example of content of mining our library. We are also going to do original content, I mean for example, we announced a reality series with E! recently called Total Divas, which is anchored around our Divas. You would see things like that on the network, it will be a different flavour than WWE RAW and WWE SmackDown, which will be our anchored program and broadcast.

The network will be for those hard core and casual fans and the maybe fans to get that little bit extra at a price we think is just a lot more interesting than the monthly pay-per-view price, which is tougher for the big player to consume.”