Discovery CEO David Zaslav saw his overall compensation more than triple to $129.4 million in 2018, the year the company closed its $14.6 billion acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive. Most of the total came in the form of equity options.

The package, according to a proxy statement released by the company Friday …

UPDATED with closing stock prices. The stocks of cable programmers Discovery, AMC Networks and Viacom have all dropped between 3%-4% today despite broader-market gains as investors process the news that their networks are caught in the shuffle at DirecTV Now.

After reports in recent days pointed to changes, AT&T’s…

Deadliest Catch is shoving right off again. Discovery said today that Season 15 of it Emmy-winning docuseries will launch at 9 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, featuring a new captain and storm after debilitating storm.

The new season focuses on Dutch Harbor, a maverick Alaska town that has seen its share of upheaval. But this y…

Chip and Joanna Gaines, the Waco, TX-based duo known for hosting HGTV’s Fixer Upper, will front a new direct-to-consumer streaming service, Discovery CEO David Zaslav indicated this morning on the company’s quarterly earnings call.

The offering will accompany the new linear TV partnership with Discovery that the couple…

The performance of Discovery's international networks helped the company's bottom line in 2018 as it published its first full-year accounts following its acquisition of Scripps Networks.

Revenues grew by 8% at its global channels business compared to a more modest 1% at its domestic networks. Total revenue grew by 3% o…

“You are ridiculously handsome. Were you forced into this career because modeling said ‘No! We just can’t handle it?'” Animal Planet’s hunky Evan Goes Wild host, Dr. Evan Antin, got asked on stage at TCA.

Antin – named Sexiest Veterinarian Alive by People magazine – dodged the modeling issue, and said animals have alwa…

Discovery's Travel Channel is searching for ghosts following its rebrand rather than focusing on traditional travelogues.

The network rebranded at the end of last year with a new logo – Trvl – and has launched a raft of paranormal series including Ghost Adventures, Haunted Live, specials including Chris Jericho: Monste…

America Unearthed has found a new home. The documentary series, which previously aired on A+E Networks-owned H2 has moved to Discovery's Travel Channel.

This comes after H2 was rebranded to Viceland in 2016.

Travel Channel has ordered ten episodes of the show, which is hosted by original host Scott Wolter. The show fol…

Discovery Inc President/CEO David Zaslav came to TCA to declare world domination.

"We're the media company of the future" he crowed to TCA-weary television critics and reporters.

Discovery, he claimed, sits behind only Comcast/NBCU in the U.S. in viewer time spent consuming content, is the No. 1 international media com…

Will Packer is to produce a documentary series about the murder of 29 African American children in Atlanta for Investigation Discovery.

The Girls Trip and Night School producer is making The Atlanta Child Murders for the Discovery-owned network. The three-part special will air on the cable network on March 23.

The doc …

EXCLUSIVE: As the King Tut exhibit prepares to leave Los Angeles en route to Europe, Discovery is doing a little digging of its own in Egypt. The cable net is going live in the spring with a two-hour multiplatform special hosted by adventurer and explorer Josh Gates that will search for ancient artifacts and open an…

American Idol creator Simon Fuller’s next thing?

Wildlife.

In the increasingly dog-eat-dog world of animals-in-the-wild docu-series, Discovery Channel will premiere a six-part series, Serengeti from Fuller and wildlife filmmaker John Downer.

The series, which will premiere in ’19, follows a cast of African wildlife ove…