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Nat Geo was forced to shut down 77 productions, encompassing 394 hours of programming, across more than a dozen countries around the world in March when COVID-19 struck. It has been laboriously going through the process of getting many of these shows back to production and showrunners from four of its shows –  Gordon R…

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…

Captain Marvel‘s Brie Larson, Free Solo climber Alex Honnold, Dave Bautista, Armie Hammer, Cara Delevingne, Zachary Quinto and a returning Channing Tatum are among the adventurers confirmed dive into Season 5 of Running Wild With Bear Grylls. Nat Geo confirmed Tuesday the cast and that its season premiere is November…

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Silverman and Howard Owens' Propagate is set to attend MipTV next month with an expanded international distribution team and television slate following its recent acquisition of Electus. The company has also set new format sales ahead of the market that runs April 8-11 in Cannes. Led by Propagate…

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…

NBC has set pre-summer premiere dates for four of its unscripted competition series. Season 13 of America’s Got Talent will kick off at 8 PM Tuesday, May 29, followed at 10 PM by the sophomore-season bow of World of Dance. The seventh full season of American Ninja Warrior launches at 8 PM Wednesday, May 30, just ahead…

There was a little bit of history made on last night’s American Ninja Warrior (1.9/7) as Jessie Graff became the first women to finish the show's Las Vegas Stage 1 course. The stuntwomen's feat also saw the NBC competition show finish even with last week's fast-affiliate results among adults 18-49, which went up tenth…

After 16 nights dominated by Olympics coverage on NBC, the broadcast networks’ primetime returned to its normal pattern last night. NBC’s unscripted series American Ninja Warrior (1.9 among adults 18-49, 7.0 million viewers in the fast nationals) and Running Wild with Bear Grylls (1.3, 4.1 million) rode post-Olympics…

The Bachelorette is over for another season, but reality romance fans still got their shot last night with the Season 3 debut of Bachelor In Paradise (1.4/5). And it was a shot in the arm with villainous former Bachelorette cast members getting the boot, and the ABC series surging up 27% among adults 18-49 from its…

Well, there was no Republican National Convention or Democratic National Convention on Monday, but there was still a lot of love in the air with the Season 12 finale of The Bachelorette (2.5/9). JoJo Fletcher picked her man, and it helped ABC scored season highs and an overall win for the night. Easily the night’s…

NBC has set Tuesday, August 23 as the premiere for its new comedy event series Better Late Than Never and Monday, July 11 for the season debut of Running Wild with Bear Grylls. Both shows will begin at 10 PM. Based on a popular Korean format, Better Late Than Never is a fish-out-of-water show that follows Henry…

Courteney Cox, Julianne Hough, Vanessa Hudgens, Nick Jonas and Lindsey Vonn have signed on for the upcoming season of NBC's adventure series Running Wild with Bear Grylls. Friends and Cougar Town alumna Cox and Olympic gold medalist Vonn will travel to Ireland with Grylls, Hough (Grease Live, Dancing with the Stars)…