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For NatGeo’s Free Solo, co-directors and producers E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, it was all about chronicling the first-ever free solo climb of El Capitan at Yosemite National Park and they did it in a way that was both breathtaking and suspenseful. But to get the cameras next to rock climber Alex Honnold without…

EXCLUSIVE:  Emmy and Golden Globe-winning The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel actress Rachel Brosnahan will narrate Bloomberg Philanthropies/RadicalMedia's upcoming climate change documentary Paris to Pittsburgh, which will premiere on National Geographic Wednesday, Dec. 12th at 9PM ET/PT. Paris to Pittsburgh follows the…

Morgan Freeman stopped by the TCA summer press tour to talk about his upcoming six-part docuseries The Story of Us, premiering in the fall on the National Geographic Channel. The series follows Freeman’s global journey to uncover the fundamental forces that keep our societies together, while revealing the common…

For heavyweight filmmaker Ron Howard, a two-hour movie chronicling the life of Albert Einstein, one of the greatest minds in history, wasn’t something that would have “served the character in the right way.” Speaking to a packed house at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys event last month, Howard said he hoped 10…

National Geographic Channel announced this afternoon that Katie Couric Media, along with National Geographic Studios, are joining forces on two-hour documentary Gender Revolution (working title), billed as an “unflinching look at the role of genetics, brain chemistry and modern culture” on “gender fluidity.” The docu…

National Geographic Channel has closed a drama series script development deal with Amblin Television, Sony Pictures Television and CrichtonSun for a global limited series based on the soon-to-be-published Michael Crichton manuscript Dragon Teeth. Crichton, who died in 2008, wrote the novel during his most prolific…

TV critics seemed a lot more dubious about NatGeo’s adaptation of Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s Killing Jesus than they were about the network’s adaptations of  the duo’s Killing Kennedy or Killing Lincoln. They did not ask producers of the Kennedy and Lincoln projects to defend theirs against the glut of other…

Newest late night TV host? Neil deGrasse Tyson. National Geographic Channel announced this afternoon Tyson’s popular podcast Star Talk is coming to the network’s late night. “This is low risk for National Geographic because it exists as a thriving podcast — it was selected by iTunes as one of Top 10 podcasts of 2014,&#8221…

National Geographic Channel today tossed bits of its Monica Lewinsky interview to plug its new three-part docu, The 90s: The Last Great Decade. NBC News Today show, for instance, aired an “exclusive first look” at Monica Lewinsky’s interview that just happened to also include a snippet of Brian Williams weighing in…

UPDATED: National Geographic Channel is working on an add to Thursday’s episode of Alaska State Troopers to pay tribute to the two troopers killed this week in a confrontation in a remote Alaska village. Sgt. Patrick Johnson and Trooper Gabriel Rich, who have been featured in the show in the past, were not with a film…