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Discovery has set a launch date for Magnolia, its joint venture between Discovery and Fixer Upper stars Chip and Joanna Gaines. Discovery President and CEO David Zaslav revealed that the home and lifestyle brand will launch on October 4. He made the revelation during his opening remarks at the Winter TCA press…

EXCLUSIVE: Discovery Channel has promoted company veteran Josh Kovolenko to SVP Marketing for Discovery, Animal Planet and Science Channel. In his new role, Kovolenko — who had been SVP Marketing Strategy and Operations since 2017 — will oversee all marketing efforts adding to his responsibility the creative…

Discovery is planning to launch its lifestyle channel HGTV in Italy and 11 central European countries in the first quarter of 2020. HGTV will go live in Italy as a free-to-air channel on February 2, while it will be a pay-TV proposition in 11 other European countries — including Romania, Hungary and Serbia — in Q1…

Discovery and HGTV have taken a stake in Casaza, an online design platform founded in 2018 by Drew and Jonathan Scott, better known as the Property Brothers. Terms were not revealed for the investment. The Scotts have built a robust multi-media business, with their signature reality show at the center of it. Other…

EXCLUSIVE: Science Channel has set the premiere date for Richard Hammond's Big and the Discovery-owned cable network revealed details of The Grand Tour host's global adventure. The network will premiere the nine-part series on February 12 at 10pm. This comes after the show's launch in the UK, where it will premiere on…

Discovery has given an eight episode order to Revenge Of the Nerd (working title), an hourlong hidden-camera prank show from Jimmy Kimmel and his Kimmelot banner. It will star former NASA engineer-turned-YouTube personality Mark Rober who made national headlines a year ago with his viral hidden-camera video exacting…

Discovery is expanding its golf portfolio with the acquisition of Latin American Golf, which operates Golf Channel Latin America. The 24-hour pay-TV channel has 10 million subscribers in 17 countries, along with digital platforms. Discovery acquired the property from Simple Networks and Fornaluz Productions, an…

EXCLUSIVE: Discovery and Channel 4 are teaming up to co-produce a U.S. version of the hit British documentary series 24 Hours In Police Custody. Deadline has learned that ITV Studios-owned production company The Garden Productions has been working on the show for a number of months after securing access to the Kansas…

Bless This Mess star Dax Shepard, Ballers' Rob Corddry and and motoring journalist Jethro Bovingdon have signed on to host the U.S. reboot of Top Gear for Discovery's MotorTrend. The series will launch on the subscription streaming service in spring 2020 after Discovery struck a deal with BBC Studios earlier this…

German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 will decide the fate of its production outfit Red Arrow Studios before Christmas after exploring a sale in recent months. The sale process is in the final stages following a detailed appraisal of Red Arrow by investment bank Morgan Stanley, which has overseen proceedings since…

EXCLUSIVE: Discovery has acquired global television rights to Warsaw Ghetto documentary Who Will Write Our History from the film’s distributor Abramorama. The Discovery broadcast is scheduled for January 2020 in the U.S. and several territories worldwide. Giant Pictures, Kathadin Productions, Playmount Productions and…

Discovery shares rose nearly 4% to $30.77 in mid-day trading Monday on news that the company’s largest individual shareholder, billionaire John Malone, has increased his stake in the company. An SEC filing revealed that Malone acquired more than 2.6 million in new shares, at $28.03 apiece. While that was enough to…