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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…

Discovery’s 30th anniversary Shark Week is just around the corner and, on July 1 the network unveils the latest promo in its clueless celebrities – or, as Discovery calls it, its “fans in all sort of high places” – campaign. This time it’s famed snowboarder Shaun White who thinks he’s been signed by the network to…

EXCLUSIVE: Discovery is doing some dangerous work this summer. The cable net has set a July 31 premiere date for Hard to Kill, a new docuseries that sees an MMA fighter/military man tackling some of the toughest job ever. Watch a promo above. The show features Tim Kennedy, an active Green Beret and Special Forces…

Discovery Channel has given the green light to a second season of docuseries Cooper’s Treasure, from Ample Entertainment and Amblin Television, set for premiere this summer. In Season 2, treasure hunter Darrell Miklos heads to the Bahamas to track down the whereabouts of 11 wreck sites that NASA astronaut Gordon…

John Walsh is set to topline a new series for Investigation Discovery. In Pursuit with John Walsh is described as a real-time investigation series that mobilizes ID's audience to actively engage in the pursuit of justice. Backed by decades of victim advocacy with a mission stemming from his own personal tragedy, In Pur…

Steven Spielberg and Alex Gibney are teaming to executive produce Why We Hate (working title), a six-part television event series the probes the human capacity for hatred and how we can overcome it. It’s slated for a 2019 premiere on Discovery Channel. Drawing on research in psychology, neuroscience, sociology, and…

Discovery has given the green light to Valley of the Kings, a docuseries which goes inside the first major excavation in Egypt in a generation. Valley Of The Kings takes place at Egypt’s famed burial ground of the pharoahs in a search for the lost tomb of an ancient royal. Led by renowned archaeologist Dr. Zahi…

Fans of souped-up monster trucks, airplane-converted survival pods, and other ingenious builds now have a television home. Backcountry builders Clint Greathouse and Todd Anderson are the team featured on the new series Last Outpost, a Discovery Channel show devoted to watching them create one-of-a-kind builds using…

The legacy and genius of Stephen Hawking will be celebrated with special encore presentations of his appearances and programs, from Discovery Channel’s Into the Universe to Syfy’s Futurama. The streaming site CuriosityStream even has a previously unreleased episode of Stephen Hawking’s Favorite Places, made…

Robot-fighting series BattleBots is making a comeback on Discovery and Science channels. "BattleBots is the perfect union between cutting-edge science and entertainment," said Marc Etkind, General Manager of Science Channel. "Having heard the call from robot fans clamoring for more action, we are thrilled to bring…

Rich Ross, Discovery Channel and Science Channel group president, announced today at the networks’ annual Sundance Film Festival reception that Oscar-winning filmmakers Fisher Stevens and Ross Kauffman will be making the upcoming documentary Taken by the Tiger.  Kauffman won an Oscar for the 2004 feature doc Born Into…

Following her uncle’s support of NASA's space mission, Rory Kennedy's Discovery Channel/Science Channel film Above and Beyond: NASA’s Journey To Tomorrow depicts the modern focus of space travel as reporting back on the health of the Earth and finding out whether we're alone in the universe. "If you look at the next…