EXCLUSIVE: Former The Art of More star Christian Cooke and James Bloor (Dunkirk) have been cast as co-leads opposite David Thewlis in Barkskins, National Geographic's scripted drama series based on the 2016 bestselling novel of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx. The series hails from Elwood Reid, Fox 21 TV…

Anyone who followed free climber (that is, no ropes) Alex Honnold’s historic scaling of El Capitan in Nat Geo’s movie Free Solo breathed a huge sigh of relief when he finally made it to the top. While celebrating Honnold’s triumph, the team that captured the event on camera admitted at today’s Deadline’s The …

Running Wild with Bear Grylls will move to Nat Geo for its forthcoming season. The show, which ran for four seasons on NBC, sees a group of celebrity adventurers transported across remote locations in the U.S. and around the world, including the jagged cliffs of Sardinia; a massive glacier in Iceland; the deep jungles…

National Geographic has handed a series order to the adaptation of Tom Wolfe's bestselling nonfiction book The Right Stuff from Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way.

Production on the scripted series will begin this fall on the series, which tells the story of the early days of the U.S. space program. Appian Way Productions …

National Geographic and Procter & Gamble have partnered on Activate, a new multiplatform storytelling partnership and six-part documentary series co-produced by Global Citizen and RadicalMedia. The multi-platform series, which will premiere globally this fall on Nat Geo, will focus on extreme poverty, inequality and…

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson continues to be kept off National Geographic’s schedule amid an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against Tyson.

The most recent fifth season premiered November 12 and was pulled from the schedule after three weeks when new claims of inappropriate behavior against Tys…

Nat Geo is heading into space to find new stories about the bible in a big-budget documentary fronted by Lost Treasures of the Maya Snake Kings host Albert Lin.

The factual giant has ordered two-part series The Bible From Space (w/t) from All3Media-backed Caravan.

The documentary will reveal the truth behind the bigges…

Another Fox division headed to Disney, the National Geographic networks, has solidified its leadership ahead of the pending merger. Courteney Monroe has re-upped as President, National Geographic Global Networks and handed expanded roles to Geoff Daniels and Carolyn Bernstein. Daniels has been named EVP, Global…

EXCLUSIVE: Joseph Fiennes and Sir Ranulph Fiennes are teaming up to journey down the Nile in a three-part documentary series for Nat Geo.

The Handmaid's Tale and Shakespeare in Love star is teaming with the explorer, who is his cousin, in Fiennes: Return to the Nile. The pair will journey down the river in Egypt to…

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is expanding his brand once again. The Hell’s Kitchen host is partnering with National Geographic on a new series titled Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted. Production on the series is set to begin this fall and is eyeing a 2019 airdate.

The series was announced today during the network's session at …

Tim Pastore is stepping down as President of Original Programming and Production, National Geographic Channel, after four years. His last day will be Friday, June 1. National Geographic Global Networks CEO Courteney Monroe just announced Pastore’s pending departure in an internal memo.

Nat Geo veteran Geoff…

National Geographic has renewed scripted anthology series Genius for a third season and has revealed that iconic author Mary Shelley, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, will be its subject. The network made the announcement at the conclusion of its upfront Wednesday in New York…