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Discovery Channel has ordered three-part documentary series “Stephen Hawking’s Universe” from Darlow Smithson Productions. The series, which will mix computer-generated imagery with live-action and archival footage, will air on Discovery Channel worldwide, the company said. Also, Discovery Enterprises...
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Leonardo da Vinci was one of mankind’s great inventors, dreaming up devices that were years ahead of their time. A new series on Discovery Channel will take some of Mr. da Vinci’s drawings of military weapons and breathe life into them 500 years later. “Doing da Vinci” will air Mondays at 10 p.m. beginning...
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Discovery Channel will premiere “Global Warming: The New Challenge With Tom Brokaw” on March 18. The hourlong special, shot entirely in HD, is a follow-up to the network’s 2006 special “Global Warming: What You Need to Know With Tom Brokaw.” Mr. Brokaw interviews leading experts about the effects of...
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Discovery Channel is pushing the action with a new series called “Adrenaline Rush Hour.” The series from Nash Entertainment—best known for its reality shows “World’s Most Amazing Videos” for Spike TV and “Most Shocking” for truTV—goes beyond explosions, rescues and stunts gone wrong, said network President...
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Discovery Channel is leaving the economy to the experts at CNBC. Speaking with TelevisionWeek reporter Jon Lafayette at the Television Critics Association’s Winter Press Tour, Discovery Channel President and General Manager John Ford said the most important thing his network can do is give people something...
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Discovery Communications has ended its relationship with former ABC anchorman Ted Koppel, who has been preparing news specials and documentaries for Discovery Channel. “There has been significant change in senior management at Discovery,” Mr. Koppel said in a statement. “Producing our kind of news-related...
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The Discovery Channel’s head of development production, Jeff Hassler, left the network on Friday and has been replaced by one of his deputies, Gena McCarthy. Discovery said in a statement that under Mr. Hassler, the network has ramped up the amount of original programming it was producing to 120 in the...
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Discovery Channel will air “JFK: Inside the Target Car” on Nov. 16, the 45th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The special employs cutting-edge forensics and film archives to prove that the only bullets fired at President Kennedy’s motorcade came from the Texas School Book...
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The hosts of two Discovery Channel shows will be wearing outfits from Columbia Sportswear as part of an advertising deal with the clothing maker, the network said. Columbia Sportswear will sponsor “Survivorman,” hosted by Les Stroud, and “Into the Unknown with Josh Bernstein.” The ad deal includes a...
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Discovery Channel's annual Shark Week lineup drew a record 29.1 million viewers in its 21st year of programming. The annual programming event ran from July 27 to Aug. 2 and included special shark-centric episodes of Discovery series "Mythbusters" and "Dirty Jobs," which pulled...