Shark Week may be over, but there is no shortage of adventure on Discovery Channel tonight. Survivorman fans can rejoice – Les Stroud is back! On tonight’s premiere at 8pm ET/PT, Les returns to some of the harshest wilderness in the world to survive with little food, no water or gear, and no safety or camera crew – for ten consecutive days. After Survivorman, don’t miss the premiere of One…
Month: August 2012
Welcome to Lovetown, USA
All you need is love – and in the town of Kingsland, GA, two relationship experts are taking on the meaning of love and friendship with a radical social experiment, premiering on OWN, Sunday at 10pm ET/PT. The relationship experts of Lovetown, USA, Paul Carrick Brunson and Kailen Rosenberg, are charged with the task of transforming the town’s relationships in 30 days, whether it be mending friendships, helping troubled marriages…
Meet the Interns: Discovery Channel’s Sarah Paronto
This is a final guest blog post from our fantastic summer intern, Sam Piccirillo – thanks for all of your hard work and best of luck back at school! It’s here: the last day of my summer internship. For the past 11 weeks, I’ve worked as Discovery Communications’ digital communication and social media intern. I blogged, researched, tweeted… the list goes on and on. Spending my summer here in Silver…
Welcome to the Jungle
The Gold Rush guys are back, and this time it’s a jungle out there. On Friday’s special episode, Gold Rush: The Jungle, the crew heads to the jungles of Guyana in South America in the hopes of striking gold. The country produces 400,000 ounces of gold a year legally, and with production estimates being potentially twice that, the miners are trying to grab their piece of the pie. While the…
Discovery Communications & PS22 Chorus Get Behind National Forest Foundation’s ‘Treasured Landscapes’ Campaign
Having grown up in a family that traveled coast to coast via car for every vacation and family milestone, it’s clear to me that there is nothing that parallels the beauty of our land…except maybe the angelic voices of the Public School 22 (PS22) Chorus from Staten Island. With a commitment since 1991 to protect America’s forests and grasslands, the National Forest Foundation (NFF) has launched a new campaign encouraging…
Discovery Sets Its Eyes on SXSW Interactive with Five Panels: Vote Today!
It seems just as soon as SXSW Interactive wraps each March, planning for the next year begins. That’s certainly the case here at Discovery Communications, and we’re excited to have five panels/presentaions for your consideration in this year’s PanelPicker. From the captains of Discovery Channel‘s Deadliest Catch candidly discussing how they use social media to connect with their fans to a presentation from our own Beth Rockwood and Bluefin Labs…
Happy Shark Week!
It’s officially the most jawsome time of the year: Shark Week. Celebrating its 25th year, Shark Week has become a summertime ritual and pop culture phenomenon. In that 25 years, television viewing has evolved, too. With the rise of Twitter, Facebook, smartphones and tablets, watching TV is an even more social experience than before and networks, like Discovery Channel, can bring fans even closer to the action – even letting…
Animal Planet’s ‘Tanked’ is Back, Welcomes Tracy Morgan
What do 30 Rock‘s Tracy Morgan, KISS and Petco all have in common? They’ve all been Tanked! Animal Planet’s popular series returns on Saturday at 9pm ET/PT with your favorite family of crazy fish tank designers, as the Acrylic Tank Manufacturing (ATM) crew makes Tracy Jordan’s mantra to “Live every week like it’s Shark Week.” come true by installing a Jaws-inspired shark tank in Tracy Morgan’s home. NFL linebacker Bart…
Fins Up! Chompie Jr. Takes the D.C. Area by Storm
You know how sometimes you’ll just be sitting at your desk on a Monday afternoon when suddenly, a shark appears to give you high fives and delicious California Tortilla burritos? The most anticipated and jawsome week of the year begins in five days on Discovery Channel and the D.C. area has been buzzing with excitement. To reward some of our most loyal Twitter fans, we’ve secretly sent Chompie Jr. (Chompie’s…
Go on a Search for Life with Science’s ‘Mars Landing 2012’
Is space the final frontier? Or is it just the beginning to finding new life on other planets? Tonight, Science joins NASA at the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) as it lands the rover Curiosity on Mars to explore the chance of past, present or future life on the red planet. Join Mars Landing 2012: The New Search for Life hosts Dan Riskin and Ziya Tong of Discovery Canada’s Daily Planet as they track…