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Nat Geo talked up feature doc The Cave, Aretha Franklin's Genius drama and reality competition series Race to the Center of the Earth today at TCA. The Disney-owned broadcaster also had a busy day of announcements with a new science series fronted by Chris Hemsworth, a short-form digital doc series from Wonder Woman…

As The Amazing Race co-creators and executive producers Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri are making Race To the Center of the Earth, NatGeo's first global competition series, they're incorporating the same type of efficiency and organization as they plan the complicated routes four teams will take in the…

“Aretha not only makes art that is timeless that runs through the fabric of our lives and endures through time, but she does what genius also should be doing and does do. She's inclusive and ignites the genius in each and every one of us,” said Suzan-Lori Parks, executive producer and showrunner of Nat Geo’s Genius: Ar…

Thor star Chris Hemsworth is to front a science series for Nat Geo from the producers behind One Strange Rock. The actor will host Limitless from Jane Root's Nutopia and Darren Aronofsky's Protozoa Pictures. The series will ask questions such as what if aging is not inevitable or what if it's a disease that can be…

The Cave director Feras Fayyad, who earned an Oscar nomination for 2017’s Last Men in Aleppo, had been scheduled to appear at Nat Geo's TCA session today, but his chair was left empty. The State Department granted Fayyad permission to enter the U.S. for three months in September, an opportunity the Syria-born…

Gal Gadot is to exec produce a short-form documentary series for Nat Geo. The Wonder Woman star is behind #impact, a six-part digital series that follows the stories of young women around the world who overcome obstacles and do extraordinary things. Produced by eOne, Pilot Wave Motion Pictures and RPC Films, the order…

Nat Geo said at its TCA session today that it has picked up new seasons of the Keegan-Michael Key-hosted Brain Games and adventure docuseries Running Wild with Bear Grylls. "Brain Games [and] Running Wild with Bear Grylls are emblematic of our unscripted programming strategy – highly entertaining, personality-driven…

Nat Geo is braving the Alaskan wildnerness again with a new Life Below Zero spinoff as well as a multiple season renewal for the original show. The factual broadcaster has handed BBC Studios a three-season deal that includes two additional seasons of Life Below Zero and an additional season of Life Below Zero: Port Pro…

EXCLUSIVE: Nat Geo is rounding out its cast for Genius: Aretha, the next installment of its popular anthology from Imagine Television and Fox 21 TV Studios that stars Cynthia Erivo as the Queen of Soul. Newcomer Shaian Jordan is set as a series regular in a recasting. Additionally, Dear White People‘s Marque…

Courtney B. Vance, an Emmy winner for his performance as Johnnie Cochran in FX's The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, is set to star opposite Cynthia Erivo in Genius: Aretha, the next installment of Nat Geo's popular anthology series, from Imagine Television and Fox 21 TV Studios. Billed as the…

EXCLUSIVE: Malcolm Barrett (Timeless, Preacher), Patrice Covington (The Color Purple), Kimberly Hébert Gregory (Vice Principals), Rebecca Naomi Jones (The Big Sick) and Sanai Victoria (Black-ish) are set to co-star opposite Cynthia Erivo in Genius: Aretha, the next installment of Nat Geo's popular anthology series…

National Geographic has struck a first-look deal with Free Solo directors Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin and their company Little Monster Films. The deal will see the pair develop unscripted series and specials for the Disney-owned factual network as well as feature documentaries. It marks the first time the pair, who…