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Mythbusters Zombie Special premieres Oct. 17 on Discovery

October 9, 2013 Lori Acken

The Walking Dead fans, if Sunday’s Season 4 premiere has you wondering anew about stuff like the best weapon to clear a zombie horde, how to outrun the hungry buggers if you’re caught weapon-free, or whether the undead can really muster enough gumption to team up and take down a wall, MythBusters is here to ease your mind. The MythBusters Zombie Special premieres on Thursday, Oct. 17 at 10pm ET/PT on Discovery. In this highly entertaining hour, The Walking Dead’s own dearly departed (and re-departed) Merle Dixon, Michael Rooker, joins Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman to determine whether an ax or […]

Gold Rush Season 4 begins Oct. 25 on Discovery

October 3, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Discovery Channel announced that its highest-rated series, Gold Rush, will be back for Season 4 with a two-hour premiere Oct. 25 at 9pm ET/PT. The Gold Rush pre-show, The Dirt, will also be back, again hosted by series executive producer Christo Doyle, starting Oct. 25 at 8pm ET/PT. In Gold Rush Season 4, Todd Hoffman puts his life on the line, and asks his crew to do the same, braving malaria, poisonous snakes and quicksand to set up a mining operation in a patch of jungle deep in Guyana, South America. Last year, their Klondike operation delivered a million-dollar season, […]

Discovery’s “Man Cheetah Wild” gets up close with the elusive cheetah

October 3, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

When it comes to natural history programming, cheetahs are the new stars for Fall 2013. In November, Nat Geo Wild will present a special pitting two NFL players in a race against the fastest land animal. And tonight, Discovery Channel debuts the even more fascinating, and quite touching, two-hour special Man Cheetah Wild. Man Cheetah Wild follows Kim Wolhuter, a filmmaker and one-time game ranger with a unique ability to bond with the animals of his native Zimbabwe. Wolhuter’s approach has allowed him incredible access into the secretive world of cheetahs. In particular, one cheetah family accepted him as part […]

Discovery special chronicles Costa Concordia salvage operation

September 17, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

A 19-hour operation to pull the crippled cruise ship Costa Concordia into an upright position was successfully accomplished early today. This Friday on Discovery Channel, a one-hour premiere special called Inside Raising Concordia will follow this salvage operation of the ship that ran aground off the coast of Italy in January 2012, leaving 32 people dead. The Costa Concordia remains where it capsized, becoming not only an eyesore, but a growing environmental hazard. The salvage operation to rotate the massive ship into an upright position, and eventually remove it from the sea, is the most expensive and daunting salvage operation ever […]

Interview: Scott Lomu and George Wright of “Jungle Gold”

August 25, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

After averaging 2.65 million viewers a week during its first season on Discovery Channel last fall, Jungle Gold is back, having started Season 2 on Aug. 11 (now airing on Sundays). The series chronicles the continuing efforts of former real-estate dealers George Wright and Scott Lomu as they mine for gold in Ghana in an attempt to pay off the over $1 million debt they face in the wake of the real-estate crash. This season, Scott and George have family money on the line — in the form of an investment from Scott’s father-in-law — and a new colleague, Dave […]

Shark Week 2013 is most-watched week in Discovery Channel history

August 13, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Probably not too surprisingly, given the mega-ratings that the Megalodon special did for the network on the first night of Shark Week 2013, Discovery Channel has announced that Shark Week 2013 as a whole from Aug. 4-10 helped deliver the most-watched week (Aug. 5-11) in network history among Persons 18-49. Discovery reports that Shark Week 2013 was the most-watched Shark Week in the 26-year history of that franchise. This was across all key demos, including Persons, Men and Women 25-54/18-49/18-34. Even Discovery’s late-night talk show, Shark After Dark, was a program to beat last week. Discovery Channel says that Shark […]

MythBusters Breaking Bad special airs Monday on Discovery

August 7, 2013 Lori Acken

My fellow Breaking Bad fans, have you ever wondered if some of the stuff that teacher-turned-meth-kingpin Walter White and his wayward acolyte Jesse Pinkman get into courtesy of Walt’s weird science could actually happen? Well, the MythBusters team is on the case. But before you get your undies in a bundle fretting about what Bad‘s creator Vince Gilligan might think of the potential whistleblowing, you can relax. It was his idea in the first place. This Monday, Gilligan and Jesse Pinkman himself, Aaron Paul, appear on a special Breaking Bad episode of MythBusters, seeking to dispel viewers’ doubts about two […]

First night of Discovery’s Shark Week 2013 sets viewership records with “Megalodon” special

August 5, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Although some fans on Twitter were bummed that Shark Week 2013 kicked off with a Mermaids-style “mockumentary” called Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives, its premise nonetheless was enough to get them and many others tuned in. Discovery Channel reports today that Shark Week 2013 broke all viewership records in the programming event’s 26-year history last night, Aug. 4. Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives was, according to Discovery, the highest-rated and most-watched Shark Week program to date, earning a 2.60 P25-54 and 4.8 million total viewers in P2+ delivery. Over this same period in 2012, Megalodon was up 141% in the […]

Shark Week 2013 schedule

August 1, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

After 26 years, you might think Discovery Channel has little new to offer during its popular annual Shark Week programming event, but the programmers and scientists — and the sharks — continue to surprise. For Shark Week 2013, beginning Aug. 4, the network says it is including the most premiere hours in the history of the Shark Week franchise, including 11 new specials that explore everything from the prehistoric megalodon shark, to “voodoo sharks” that turn up in the bayous of Louisiana, to another installment in the popular Air Jaws series, to real shark attack footage captured by eyewitnesses, and […]

Discovery announces limited-run “Gold Rush” spinoff series

July 18, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

The three crew leaders from Discovery Channel’s Gold Rush series will be featured in a limited summer series called Gold Rush South America, the network announced today. RELATED: GOLD RUSH SEASON 4 PREMIERE DATE In Gold Rush South America, premiering Aug. 2 at 9pm ET/PT, Gold Rush crew leaders Todd Hoffman, Dakota Fred and Parker Schnabel take their operations to find new, gold-rich ground in preparation for Gold Rush Season 4, which Discovery says will premiere in the fall. The spinoff series follows the miners from the jungles of South America, to the mountains of Alaska, to the Klondike. From […]