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Mahlon Reyes, a deckhand who appeared on Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch, has passed away at 38. According to TMZ, Reyes died in his hometown of Whitefish, MT. He was struck by a heart attack last Saturday morning. Though he survived the initial bout, he never regained consciousness after being transported to a…

EXCLUSIVE: What goes up must come down. Discovery and Science Channel will follow Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley as they become the first astronauts to land at sea since the Ford administration. Space Launch Live: Splashdown begins at 1 p.m. ET/10 PT this Sunday, August 2. The arrival comes two months after the duo began…

A marathon tribute to longtime Mythbusters co-host Grant Imahara will be held this weekend on Discovery and the Science Channel. Imahara died this week of a brain aneurysm at age 49. Imahara was part of the Mythbusters team for 10 years. The programming lineup on Discovery and Science Channel will feature some of…

Discovery has acquired the German free-to-air entertainment channel Tele5 from Leonine for an undisclosed fee. The deal also includes a “long-term” content agreement, which gives Discovery Germany access to Leonine's library of fictional content. Regulatory approval will be required for the deal to be…

Discovery’s UK and Ireland channel Quest has commissioned 161 hours of content from British producer Curve Media, which encompasses a fresh Salvage Hunters spin-off and new series Auction House (working title). The producer will make 10-part series Salvage Hunters: Design Classics for Quest, which will follow antique…

Discovery’s Hispanic division is launching Hogar de HGTV, a network whose Spanish-language programming derives from Food Network, HGTV and Discovery on Cox and Charter cable systems. The network will debut June 30 on Cox Contour and will be available to Charter Spectrum subscribers by August 1. Hogar de HGTV will join…

Comcast-owned pay-TV company Sky has signed a new carriage deal with Discovery in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Australia. The “long-term” agreement means that Discovery’s channels will continue to be available on Sky and its streamer Now TV, while in the UK and Ireland, Discovery’s streaming services such as…

Peter Faricy, a longtime Amazon veteran who joined Discovery two years ago and spearheaded its increasing focus on direct-to-consumer streaming, is leaving the company. CEO David Zaslav shared the news with employees Friday. In an internal memo obtained by Deadline, Zaslav said the move follows “a few months of…

Discovery CEO Davis Zaslav joined the chorus of media execs upbeat about the ad market saying it is significantly better than could have been anticipated during the "oh my gosh" phase when COVID-10 hit. "Cancellations in the third quarter are significantly better than we though and every week the scatter market in…

The Global numbers aren't in yet, but domestically Oprah Winfrey's two-night OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here? certainly had people taking and watching. Airing on OWN and 18 other Discovery-owned networks on June 9 and June 10, the pre-recorded wide-ranging conversation about the killing of George Floyd…

EXCLUSIVE: Discovery has set Dino Hunters, its new docuseries about the hunt for prehistoric dinosaur fossils, to premiere at 9 p.m. June 19 on Discovery Channel. The program hails from from Half Yard Productions, a Red Arrow Studios company. Dino Hunters focuses on a group of ranchers and cowboys in the badlands of…

Discovery and Science Channel soared into the ratings stratosphere on May 30 with Space Launch Live: America Returns to Space. The live special that chronicled NASA’s launch of SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, became the #1 non-prime telecast for the Discovery…