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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…

Discovery and Inscape, a unit of Vizio, have set a partnership for TV measurement that will yield data from 12 million smart TVs. In a measurement landscape with many moving parts, smart TV data has gained currency with many programmers and advertisers in recent years. It reflects a more comprehensive view of usage on…

Former Fixer Upper star Joanna Gaines today announced a new cookbook available for preorder, revealing some of its recipes. Magnolia Table Vol. 2 will be out in April 2020. Fans can look forward on such dishes as mushroom-gruyére quiche, chicken-pecan-asparagus casserole, zucchini-squash strata and Magnolia Press…

Discovery has predicted that there will be “carnage” in the streaming arena as the Hollywood studios prepare to launch their own services. The factual giant used its third quarter financial investor call to talk up its own niche digital platforms, including the recently launched Food Network Kitchen, and once again…

A "record-breaking" quarter for TLC helped Discovery increase revenue and net income in its third quarter. The factual giant posted a 3% increase in revenue to $2.68B and net income increased to $262M over the three months to the end of September. The financials beat expectations as international advertising increased…

EXCLUSIVE: Susanna Dinnage, Global President of Animal Planet, is to leave Discovery. Deadline understands the Brit, who has been with the factual giant for over ten years, is leaving as part of a restructure that will see Animal Planet brought under Nancy Daniels' purview. Dinnage took charge of the animal-focused…

In a throwback to the 2003 Mike Darnell boundary-pushing reality TV staple Man vs. Beast, Discovery Channel is doing Man vs. Bear, a competition series pitting humans against Grizzlies. The reality show, from Kinetic Content (Married At First Sight), a Red Arrow Studios company, has been filmed and premieres December…

Discovery is teaming up with Polish pay-TV company Cyfrowy Polsat to launch a new streaming service. The two companies have signed a joint venture agreement to create the yet-to-be-named platform, which they will roll out in Poland as well as other international markets. It will be stocked with content from Polsat and…

Discovery is launching its ad-funded streaming service Dplay in the UK and Ireland this week. The streamer will be stocked with content from Discovery’s free-to-air portfolio of channels and will feature shows including Quest Red’s Katie Price: My Crazy Life, made by ITV Studios’ MultiStory Media, and Cineflix…