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In the runup to Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, which kicks off July 28, the annual programming block is getting a dedicated exhibition at the Paley Center for Media in New York. So Good You'll Scream! A Shark Week Exhibit at the Paley Center is free and open to the public, running July 20 to 28. It will feature a…

No computer-generated seals were harmed in the making of this year’s Shark Week promotion, which always whet viewers’ appetite for the cable net’s fin fatales. Shark Week is back starting Sunday, July 28, with more than 20 hours of shark programming and Rob Riggle back on board for the ultimate Shark Trip with…

Discovery Channel has ordered the series Rob Riggle: Global Investigator following the actor/comedian/retired Marine around the globe to solve some of the world's greatest mysteries. Each week, Riggle will use his self-proclaimed "extensive knowledge of everything" to explore legend that takes him on an epic adventure…

Audiences from around the world witnessed history on the Discovery show Expedition Unknown: Egypt Live, as a team of Egyptian archaeologists and explores uncovered a 2,500-year-old mummy of a high priest. The two-hour live event also uncovered antiquities, including a mysterious wax head and two other mummies. "This…

Discovery Channel will air the documentary Liberation Heroes: The Last Eyewitnesses, on Wednesday, May 1 at 7 PM ET, to coincide with the nation’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. The film draws on a collection of 55,000 testimonies of survivors and witnesses to the Holocaust and other genocidal events that is part of USC…

EXCLUSIVE: Robot-fighting series BattleBots has gotten a green light for a second season on Discovery and Science channels. Production begins in April in Long Beach, California, with premiere slated for this summer. Chris Rose and Kenny Florian will return for play-by-play and Faruq Tauheed is back as the ring…

You know what viewers don’t want to watch as President Donald Trump shuts down the government to extract their tax dollars for his Border Wall? Authorities patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border! Discovery Channel’s ambitious six-part limited series Border Live! turned into a three-parter when the network pulled the plug…

With the national debate focused on immigration, Discovery is heading to the U.S.-Mexico border for a timely live reality series, Border Live. The six-part multiplatform series hosted by CNN anchor/special correspondent Bill Weir and investigative journalist Lilia Luciano, is set to premiere December 5 at 9 PM on Disco…

Discovery Channel’s documentary Above and Beyond: NASA's Journey to Tomorrow will get a limited theatrical release ahead of its October premiere on the cable net. Watch a clip of the film above. Fathom Events has set screenings for September 29 and October 3, including a special introduction from…

Shark Week is doing quite swimmingly in its 30th year. Discovery ranked No. 1 in Live+3 among all TV networks — broadcast and cable — with its Sunday night primetime lineup of dorsal-finned shenanigans that featured Shaquille O’Neal and Ronda Rousey. The first night of Shark Week 2018 topped all primetime competition…

Only two short years after his tenure on MythBusters ended, Adam Savage was not thinking of participating in the reboot, saying that after 14 years of 40 weeks a year, he was happy to take time off. "It wasn't something that ever crossed my mind,” Savage told TV critics at TCA. But, when he got the call, he had turned…

Former Discovery Channel exec Howard Swartz is returning to the network as Senior Vice President of Production and Development. In addition, Jon Bardin has been promoted to Vice President of Documentaries and Specials at Discovery. In his new role, Swartz will head production for upcoming event programming including…