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EXCLUSIVE: Discovery's long-running motoring format Fifth Gear is to relaunch as an electric vehicle (EV) show and has installed former Top Gear host Rory Reid to present. Fifth Gear: Recharged will air episodes weekly on streamer Discovery+ in the UK and Quest later this year as All3Media-owned producer North One…

Discovery+, which has launched in the UK, Europe and the U.S., will light up in Canada on October 19. The streaming service will join an increasingly crowded marketplace in a nation with 38 million residents. Disney+ and Apple TV+ are among the recent entrants competing with entrenched incumbents Netflix and Amazon…

EXCLUSIVE: Roo Powell, child advocate and founder of the non-profit Safe from Online Sex Abuse, will help law enforcement identify some of the internet’s most dangerous child predators in Discovery+’s new docuseries, Undercover Underage. Executive produced by Ron Simon, Undercover Underage follows the SOSA team in…

Hungary Selects Oscar Entry Hungary has selected Péter Bergendy's Post Mortem as its official entry for the International Oscar race this year. The period horror tells the supernatural story of a post mortem photographer and a little girl confronting ghosts in a haunted village after the First World War. The film…

EXCLUSIVE: Discovery+ is ramping up its feature doc slate with a range of new titles including a documentary about Michael Brody Jr., a hippie-millionaire and heir to a margarine fortune who publicly offered his $25-million inheritance to anyone in need in 1970. The streamer has acquired the rights to Dear Mr. Brody…

"I would far prefer this adventure to go on for 10, 20 years, but that's not the way corporate America works," outgoing WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar admitted Tuesday. "The last year and a half have been among the most fulfilling of my professional life," Kilar, who invoked Hollywood's wrath with his decision late last y…

Discovery+ has ordered a second helping of Naked And Afraid Of Love, the romance-focused spinoff of the Discovery channel hit Naked and Afraid. The competition series, which premiered on Discorvery+ on Sunday, August 22, follows 16 naked strangers ready to find love as they strip down and bare it all in the ultimate…

AT&T CEO John Stankey sees a period of “less uncertainty” ahead for the telecom giant as Covid-19 gradually eases and the spinoff of WarnerMedia is completed. “If I think about where I sat last year, and maybe some of the anxiety and the pieces that had to be put in place,” he said during an online appearance at…

Discovery CEO David Zaslav tried to drum up enthusiasm for the company's upcoming merger with WarnerMedia, a deal that needs a little love given the ho-hum stock prices of both companies involved since it was announced last May with a very long lead time — not expected to close until the middle of next year. He…

Discovery has come on board as the global broadcast partner for Prince William’s The Earthshot Prize. The deal includes a five-part series featuring Prince William and David Attenborough, The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet, in early October and will culminate in the Earthshot Prize Ceremony on October 17. The E…

Executives on both sides of the $43-billion WarnerMedia-Discovery merger again confirmed the deal is on track to close by the middle of next year but details otherwise remain scarce on the combination that will reshape the media industry. In presentations at a media conference yesterday and today, Discovery CFO Gunnar…

Poland's Senate today voted against passing a controversial new bill that could see non-European companies forced to relinquish majority stakes in Polish media companies. Discovery, which owns the nation's largest independent broadcasting group and news network, was one U.S. company to celebrate today’s decision. "The…