Latest in National Geographic

EXCLUSIVE: Kaley Ronayne (Gotham) is set for a key recurring role opposite Jake McDorman in Nat Geo’s upcoming scripted series The Right Stuff, based on Tom Wolfe's best-selling nonfiction book. The Right Stuff, from Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way and Warner Horizon Scripted Television, looks at what would become…

A reporter with National Geographic was shot in the leg when an interview in Juárez, Mexico turned violent. The shooting occurred Friday night while the unidentified male journalist was interviewing a suspected drug dealer, the Chihuahua state attorney general's office said in a statement on its website. The reporter…

Nat Geo and Imagine have found their Queen of Soul. Tony-, Emmy- and Grammy-winning artist and actress Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, The Color Purple) has been tapped to star as Aretha Franklin in the next installment of Nat Geo’s Emmy-winning global anthology series Genius: Aretha, from Imagine Television and Fox 21 TV…

UPDATED with talks extended: Disney and Dish have extended talks over a new contract for Disney’s FX and National Geographic Channel, avoiding a blackout that could have taken effect after a 9 PM PT deadline tonight. A source close to the discussions over a new deal referred to the talks this evening as “productive,&#8221…

To Guillermo Navarro, executive producer of the National Geographic documentary series Hostile Planet, there’s no doubt global warming is dangerously real. "We've made sure to turn the oven a little hotter and things are cooking quicker," Navarro comments ruefully. "In these last 50 years the planet has evolved more…

For esteemed composer Benjamin Wallfisch, National Geographic’s Hostile Planet was "one of those opportunities which I wasn't expecting to get." Having never before worked on a docuseries, Wallfisch was captivated by the project—a brutally realistic nature series, which depicts animals struggling to survive in…

EXCLUSIVE: Kaniehtiio Horn (Letterkenny, Man in the High Castle, Mohawk), Zahn McClarnon (Dr. Sleep, Westworld, Fargo), Lily Sullivan (Picnic At Hanging Rock, Mental, Jungle) and David Wilmot (The Alienist, Calvary, Genius: Picasso) are set as series regulars opposite David Thewlis in Barkskins, National Geographic's…

National Geographic and deep-sea explorer Dr. Robert Ballard has announced an expedition to solve the mystery of famed aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. The project, which will result in a two-hour special to air on Nat Geo this fall, was announced today during TCA. In a scientific expedition jointly funded by National…

National Geographic unveiled a new James Cameron ocean exploration docuseries and several specials as parts of its presentation Tuesday at TCA in Beverly Hills. Nat Geo has ordered Mission OceanX (working title) a six-episode ocean exploration series and cross-platform event with James Cameron. Mission OceanX will…

EXCLUSIVE: Nat Geo has recast one of the three leads in its upcoming scripted series The Right Stuff, based on Tom Wolfe's best-selling nonfiction book. Former Once Upon a Time star Colin O’Donoghue will portray Lt. Gordon Cooper opposite Patrick J. Adams and Jake McDorman, taking over for Joe Dempsie, who had to exit…

After six years on ER, playing Carol Hathaway in NBC's hit medical drama, Julianna Margulies made a vow to stay away from roles that involved delivering complex scientific jargon. She was so strict with herself that, when Scott Free first approached her with The Hot Zone, a six-part tale about the origins of the Ebola…

Free Solo's path to likely Emmy nominations has been paved with gold—the Oscar kind. The film about mountain climber Alex Honnold's breathtaking ascent of Yosemite's El Capitan—without ropes—won the Academy Award in February for Best Documentary Feature. It's now on Emmy nomination ballots in multiple nonfiction…