Discovery UK Unveils discovery+ Real-Life Entertainment Streaming Service for UK & Ireland

discovery+ builds on success of dplay to aggregate Discovery UK’s premium pay-TV and free-to-air brands for the first time, creating the home of real-life entertainment. Fans of food, homes, motoring, adventure, weddings, true crime and more will be able to stream their favourite shows across an unrivalled range of categories. Sky announced as exclusive TV launch partner in unprecedented deal between Discovery UK and Sky. London, October 20, 2020 –…

Murder Mysteries, Telescopes and Puppies: Welcome to TCA 2016

Twice a year, reporters gather for CTAM’s (Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing) TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour. (That’s a lot of acronyms, I know. And parenthesis.) The event, held in Pasadena in January and in Beverly Hills in July, provides cable, broadcast and digital networks the opportunity to share with those in attendance some of the most exciting upcoming programming news. (The Wrap has a good “who, what, why” of TCAs. You can…

The New Year Comes Bearing Gifts: New Shows on Hulu!

  Happy New Year! 2016 comes bearing gifts: even more of your favorite shows on Hulu. That’s right – new series and episodes from networks across Discovery Communications’ portfolio have been freshly-added to the streaming site. Not that you ever need an excuse to catch up on your favorite series, but this time of year certainly lends itself to some shameless binge watching. Here’s the complete list of new shows now…

Go Big or Go Home with Discovery’s Mega Week

Mega Week is back on Discovery – and the celebrations are as big as ever! The weeklong programming event celebrates all things Discovery – from super-sized, fan-favorite episodes to brand new specials. Running today, December 7 through Sunday, December 13, Mega Week kicks off with the two-hour season finale of Street Outlaws, with Big Chief and the 405 crew hosting the biggest Cash Days in history. Also in the pipeline: all-new episodes of Alaskan Bush…

Watch With the World: ‘Racing Extinction’ Global Event Premieres Tomorrow, December 2

What do all five of Earth’s mass extinctions have in common? An enormous atmospheric spike in carbon dioxide. Alarmingly, these carbon dioxide increases of extinctions past are quite minor compared with the greenhouse gasses of today, leading many to conclude that we’re racing towards a sixth mass extinction. Discovery Channel’s Racing Extinction, which makes its worldwide debut tomorrow, seeks to change this by affecting a paradigm shift great enough to spin our thinking and, more importantly, our decision-making…

This Week In…Discovery Buzz

Happy Friday, everyone! Fans of MythBusters who follow co-hosts Adam and Jamie on Twitter (you can find them here and here, respectively) might have caught the two guys sharing moments from their final scenes on the well-loved Discovery show this past week. (It was announced last month that the next season of MythBusters, which premieres in January of next year, will be the series’ last.) You can check out what the duo was up to in…

This Week In…Discovery Buzz

Happy Friday! If you walked through our HQ this week you might have seen two things: Employees teaming up for our annual pro bono initiative, Creating Change Employees eating lunch on the roof for several consecutive days The first is completely normal and expected for this time of year. The second is not. And yet, we’ve all been practically jumping for joy these past few days – and not complaining! –…

This Week In…Discovery Buzz

Happy Friday, and Happy (almost) Halloween! There are lots of creative and hilarious costumes floating around our HQ today as Halloween approaches, from NASA astronauts to the 2016 presidential candidates. Even Cookie Lyon made an appearance! The children of Discovery Kids Place (our in-house childcare center) also paraded around the building earlier, dressed as little doctors, fairies, flamingos and just about everything else in between. It was absolutely adorable. The 30 Most Influential…

Can You Dig It? ‘Gold Rush’ Returns for its Sixth Season with Two Hour Premiere

The crew is back! Discovery’s Gold Rush returns for its sixth season tonight, Friday, October 16 at 9/8c, with pre-show The Dirt airing at 8/9c. Fans of the show watched last season as Todd Hoffman brought his crew back from the brink of bankruptcy, hitting the proverbial (and slightly literal) pot of gold. This season, he’s ready to keep his lucky streak alive – but with lofty ambitions, he risks the chance of…

This Week In…Discovery Buzz

Happy Friday! Discovery Communications announced yesterday that Karen Leever has joined the company as Executive Vice President and General Manager, Digital Media, overseeing the company’s expansive digital brands and businesses in the United States – from fan-favorite Discovery Digital Networks (DDN) programming to the newly launched Discovery VR. It was also announced earlier this week that Darcy Tomlin has been named Vice President of Programming and Operations for Discovery Networks International, managing…