Discovery Channel

After how dominant the ratings and viewership for Skywire Live With Nik Wallenda proved to be last Sunday, Discovery Channel would naturally be looking for any way they could to further capitalize on interest in wire-walker Nik Wallenda’s successful walk across a portion of the Grand Canyon, which enthralled viewers and had social media buzzing. They have found it with Skywire: Nik Talks the Walk, a new special premiering Sunday, June 30, at 8pm ET/PT on Discovery. In Skywire: Nik Talks the Walk, Nik Wallenda will watch his historic walk from start to finish for the first time and provide […]

High wire-walker Nik Wallenda was at an unprecedented height for himself during his successful walk across a portion of Grand Canyon last night, and Discovery Channel’s live coverage of his feat raised the network to impressive heights of its own. RELATED: INTERVIEW WITH NIK WALLENDA PRE-WALK Skywire Live With Nik Wallenda, a two-hour special that aired live on June 23 and covered Wallenda’s walk, delivered 8.5 million total viewers P2+ and 13 million total viewers during the actual walk segment, according to a release from Discovery Channel. Discovery says that the Skywire pre-show from 9-9:10pm ET averaged 6.25 million total […]

“My great-grandfather said, ‘Life is on the wire, and everything else is just waiting,’” Nik Wallenda tells me in our interview. Nik Wallenda, who has been walking on wires since the age of 2 — following in the 200-year, multi-generation tradition of his famed family — recounts his great-grandfather’s saying when he is asked why he does what he does. And what he does is thrill audiences with incredible feats of high wire walking, including a year ago when he walked across Niagara Falls on a wire. RELATED: NIK WALLENDA WATCHES AND ANALYZES HIS WALK IN NEW DISCOVERY SPECIAL “It’s […]