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EXCLUSIVE: Game Of Thrones and Project Blue Book actor Aidan Gillen is to front an ambitious genre-bending dramatized documentary series for Discovery’s Science Channel in which he plays a detective examining dangerous phenomena in the universe. Deadline understands that the six-part series is being produced by Warner…

UPDATED, 1:57 PM: Saturday’s planned SpaceX/NASA mission launch has been scrubbed and rescheduled for a day later due to a bad weather forecast. Discovery and Science Channel now will begin their live coverage at 2 p.m. PT on Sunday. EXCLUSIVE, November 11: SpaceX and NASA are reteaming to make some more history…

Discovery's plans for an aggregated DTC offering "have come into clear focus" and it will share more details about the long-gestating initiative in early December, CEO David Zaslav promised Thursday. He didn't announce a date, but dangled a lot. "We are going to go into real detail and an extensive discussion. We will…

Discovery is rebranding its ad-funded streamer Dplay as Discovery+ in the UK and Ireland, and is enhancing the service with subscription access to its full array of content. Discovery+’s subscription tier will be priced at £4.99 a month and will include access to the TV giant’s 13 channels; 30-day catch-up; originals…

CuriosityStream ended its first day of trading on the Nasdaq on Thursday at $11.20 a share, up 11% in its initial public offering. Founded by Discovery founder John Hendricks in 2015, the company runs a streaming service focused on factual programming, including shows about nature and history. In August…

Billy Leroy, the star of Travel Channel’s Baggage Battles, is to front a global series for Discovery in which he opens a vintage, antiques, and collectibles store in Brooklyn, New York. Billy Buys Brooklyn (working title) is produced by MY Entertainment and will stream on dplay, as well as play on linear channels…

Discovery has acquired U.S. rights to two history documentaries from eOne – Lost Worlds and Hidden Treasures and Lost Relics of the Knights Templar. The factual broadcaster has taken U.S. broadcast and SVOD rights to the two series. Three-part series Lost Worlds and Hidden Treasures, which was commissioned by the BBC…

EXCLUSIVE: Discovery and Liberty Global’s production group All3Media posted record sales and earnings in 2019, but has warned that the coronavirus pandemic poses a “significant risk” to its future health. The Fleabag, Gogglebox and Don't F*ck With Cats production empire’s revenue swelled to an all-time high of £745M…

ITV Studios hit Love Island is to get its 18th international remake after Discovery commissioned an Italian version of the reality show. Fremantle will adapt the show for Discovery and it will premiere next year. It follows the likes of CBS in the U.S. remaking the BAFTA-winning dating format, in which singletons pair…

Discovery is getting into the news game in the UK by backing a new right-leaning, 24-hour news channel, which will be led by BBC presenter and ferocious political interrogator Andrew Neil. Named GB News, the channel will launch in Britain next year with the ambition of providing an alternative voice to market…

The top media analyst at big credit ratings agency Moody's said the SVOD world is splitting into two tiers and that smaller players like Discovery, AMC Networks and Lionsgate are "probably going to  need to partner up in some fashion or be acquired … to achieve the girth necessary." If not, said Moody's Neil Begley…

Christopher Scott Ellis, a mechanic known for appearing in Discovery’s Street Outlaws has died. Ellis, who was also known as “Kentucky” on the street racing show, was 39. Ellis passed away at his Oklahoma home on Wednesday Sept. 9, an obituary from a Kentucky funeral home confirms. TMZ reported that the TV mechanic…