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German financier-distributor Night Train Media has bought factual indie Curve Media, the prolific UK producer behind Discovery’s Salvage Hunters and Line of Duty star Vicky McClure’s BBC doc series Our Dementia Choir. Night Train was a number of interested investors after Deadline revealed over the su…

The show is expected to go on for Discovery’s Deadliest Catch, despite the decision by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game last week to cancel the winter snow and red king crab seasons due to dwindling populations. In a statement provided to Deadline, Deadliest Catch Executive Producer Arom…

EXCLUSIVE: Sustainability-focused network EarthxTV has new management. EarthX Media, which operates the channel, has upped Executive Vice President of Content and Strategy Dan Russell to CEO, with former Digi Media Global CEO Rajan Singh joining as Head of Global Distribution. EarthxTV has…

A trio of senior international execs are taking their new Asia content-focused company to Mipcom Cannes. Former Endemol Shine International and Fremantle boss Fotini Paraskakis, ex-Discovery Asia Pacific and EMEA President Arthur Bastings and Japanese media exec Shigero ‘Cindy’ Chino have joined…

Street Outlaws: Fastest In America star Ryan Fellows has died in a fiery crash while filming the Discovery show, Deadline has confirmed. Fellows was racing another driver early Sunday morning outside Las Vegas in a scheduled race for the night of the show when he lost control near the finish line, TMZ reports citing a…

EXCLUSIVE: CNN will broadcast the Shark Week documentary Great White Open Ocean on Saturday, July 30, marking the first time the channel has participated in Shark Week.  It comes almost four months after the merger was completed between Discovery, whose flagship cable channel carries Shark Week, and…

Melanie Rauscher, who appeared on two versions of Discovery Channel's Naked and Afraid reality show, was found dead on July 17 in Prescott, Ariz., according to reports. She was 35. Corey Kasun, a rep for the Prescott Police Department, confirmed to TMZ that the reality star was dog sitting in the city while the…

When Donald Trump is asked about the January 6th attack on the Capitol in Alex Holder’s Discovery+ docuseries Unprecedented, he both downplays the insurrection and affirms the mob’s madness. “Well, it was a sad day, but it was a day with great anger in our country,” Trump says, a couple months after the attack. In…

UPDATED with latest: Alex Holder, who gave a deposition to the January 6th Committee on Thursday over the Discovery+ documentary he made about Donald Trump, said that he interviewed the president twice after the attack on the Capitol. “The first time, he did come across as quite irate and quite depressed and…

When he went to interview to be the showrunner of Getaway Driver, Adam Vetri was immediately into the concept. While it started out with a simple high-speed chase concept, the show evolved when they came up with the idea for a “post-apocalyptic world.” With that in mind, Vetri and his crew searched for interesting…

Ted Sarandos To Be Named Entertainment Person Of The Year At Cannes Lions Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos is to be named the 2022 Entertainment Person of the Year at French advertising get together Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The award, presented in recognition of the role entertainment plays in…

The streaming landscape is changing at a rate of knots. The biggest U.S. players are looking for new revenue streams and growth areas, and, in 2022 much of that that growth is coming from European TV. These platforms’ activity in the continent was all anyone could talk about at this year’s European TV markets, and each…