John Cena has been tapped as this year’s host of Shark Week, Discovery Channel’s annual summer celebration of All Things Shark. The week-long event kicks off on Sunday, July 7. The announcement was made Wednesday during Warner Bros. Discovery’s upfront in New York City.
The week will include Part 2…
Discovery Channel has set September 23 for the premiere of Ellen DeGeneres’ Saving The Gorillas: Ellen’s Next Adventure two-hour special. The documentary will air at 8 PM ET/PT on Discovery Channel and, in honor of World Gorilla Day, will be followed with an encore presentation on Sunday, September 24 at…
Marvin "Jim Tom" Hedrick, the colorful master distiller from Discovery’s Moonshiners, passed away this morning, according to his co-stars Eric “Digger” Manes and Mark Ramsey. He was 82.
Hedrick was on Moonshiners almost since the show’s inception. He joined the cast for Season 2 in 2012 and remained…
EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of its Season 1 finale, Discovery Channel has ordered a second season of its hit reality series Naked and Afraid: Last One Standing. The renewal comes amid strong ratings for the Naked and Afraid spinoff that pushes the limits of primitive survival, as contestants hunt for food, water…
Aquaman is lording over Shark Week next month, and Discovery is wetting your appetite a day before the summer solstice.
Jason Momoa is hosting the cable net’s celebration of All Things Shark that attacks on July 23, and now we have the first promo. It shows Hollywood’s King of Atlantis conducting a…
Discovery Channel is getting in on the Max action with a new social experiment series.
The cable network has ordered Survive the Raft, which also will premiere on the rebranded streamer in July.
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Tiffany Haddish, Brad Paisley, and William Shatner are some of the stars appearing during Shark Week, television's longest-running summer event.
The Discovery Channel and discovery+ showcase returns for its 33rd year starting Sunday, July 11 and continuing through Sunday, July 18. This year has the most hours of…
“It’s every American’s God-given right to live wherever you want to live,” says Alaskan Bush People patriarch Billy Brown in a new tribute video. That ethos has been at the center of the Discovery Channel series as it has chronicled the Brown family’s life in the wilderness over the course of the past 12 seasons.
Brown…
Billy Brown, the star and patriarch of Discovery Channel’s reality series Alaskan Bush People, died Sunday after suffering a seizure, his son Bear Brown, who also stars on the show, confirmed on Instagram. He was 68.
"We are devastated to hear of Billy Brown's sudden passing. He has been part of the Discovery family…
EXCLUSIVE: In a year where more than 3.5 million acres of California has been burned by wildfires, Discovery Channel goes inside the fight with those on the front lines. Its new series Cal Fire features the men and women who have been trying to save lives and property for the past three months. See an exclusive sneak…
Jesse Goins, a miner who appeared on Discovery’s Gold Rush franchise, has died, the network has confirmed.
Goins was on set for Gold Rush in Colorado, when he was discovered unconscious by another crew member on Tuesday night. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. A cause of death is not yet known. He was 60.
Goins…
Discovery and Science Channel’s simulcasted coverage Sunday of the return of the Space X Crew Dragon spacecraft from its two-month stint at the International Space Station was watched by 4.3 million viewers on the cable networks, Discovery said.
The strong numbers completed the networks’ own mission, after their…