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EXCLUSIVE: National Geographic Documentary Films, Neon and Participant have dropped the trailer for The First Wave, the latest film from Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning director Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land, A Private War). Heineman produced the Covid-themed feature-length doc under his Our Time Projects banner…

The first series in the franchise to have an African-American and a woman as its marquee player, NatGeo's Genius: Aretha is, like the title of its opening episode and the Queen of Soul herself, all about "Respect." Penned by Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks, the pandemic-delayed premiere picks up with the Cynthia…

Spring is almost officially here with heroes, icons and mysteries both fictional and real booming on the small screen this weekend. Of course, only one of them will be the show you have to watch this week – as you can discover in the video review above. Chronologically, there's The Falcon and The Winter Soldier first…

In between working on his Avatar sequels, James Cameron has taken on another huge project: a 4-part documentary series on some of the ocean's most awesome inhabitants. Cameron is the executive producer of Secrets of the Whales, a National Geographic series that will premiere on the Disney+ streaming platform on Earth…

National Geographic and Fox 21 Television Studios will release a first-look, national teaser promo for Genius: Aretha during this Sunday's Oscars telecast airing on ABC, a sister network of NatGeo, which is also owned by Disney. Cynthia Erivo, a 2020 Academy Awards nominee, stars as Aretha Franklin in the third season…

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…