• Discovery to launch new streaming service as profit falls 71 percent

    Discovery to launch new streaming service as profit falls 71 percent

    Discovery, home of “90 Day Fiancé” and Guy Fieri’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,” said Wednesday that it plans to launch a new streaming service as the coronavirus took a bite out of its second-quarter income. The broadcasting giant, which owns channels TLC, Food Network and HGTV, plans to launch a new, subscription-based streaming service that …
  • ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 3 premiere set on CBS All Access

    ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 3 premiere set on CBS All Access

    Season 3 of “Star Trek: Discovery” will beam to CBS All Access on Oct. 15, the network announced on Monday. The franchise installment, which stars Sonequa Martin-Green as redeemed Commander Michael Burnham, will head into previously uncharted territory: Namely, a starship and crew launched into a timeline 930 years into the future. When the second …
  • Kylie Minogue longs for love in new single ‘Say Something’

    Kylie Minogue longs for love in new single ‘Say Something’

    Kylie Minogue has released the first single from her upcoming album “Disco,” arriving Nov. 6. The song, “Say Something,” is an introspective dance track with lyrics that feel pertinent for our quarantine days: “We’re a million miles apart in a thousand ways … Love is love it never ends, can we all be as one …
  • After Grant Imahara’s death, ‘Mythbusters’ marathon honors late scientist

    After Grant Imahara’s death, ‘Mythbusters’ marathon honors late scientist

    In the wake of Grant Imahara’s death, Discovery and Science Channel will have a “Mythbusters” marathon from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday and from 3 to 9 p.m. Saturday. Imahara died Monday at 49 from a brain aneurysm. The engineer and roboticist co-hosted the popular science show from 2005 to 2014, for over 200 …
  • Watch Mike Tyson battle ‘Jaws’ during Shark Week 2020

    Watch Mike Tyson battle ‘Jaws’ during Shark Week 2020

    “Live every week like it’s Shark Week.” That is a quote from the character Tracy Jordan on “30 Rock.” But it also applies to Mike Tyson and his latest opponent in the ring. The former boxer will glove up for a match with America’s favorite fish in a new special on the Discovery Channel, “Tyson …
  • Mike Rowe takes ‘Dirty Jobs’ back on the road in return to Discovery

    Mike Rowe takes ‘Dirty Jobs’ back on the road in return to Discovery

    “Dirty Jobs” is back on Discovery Channel. Mike Rowe, who hosted the trailblazing series (2003-2012) in which he took a deep (often grimey) dive into everyday occupations, has reunited his old crew for “Dirty Jobs: Rowe’d Trip,” premiering July 7 at 9 p.m. on Discovery. In the four-part series, Rowe and company drive around in …
  • Feuding ‘American Chopper’ Teutuls build first bike together since 2008

    Feuding ‘American Chopper’ Teutuls build first bike together since 2008

    Famously feuding “American Chopper” stars Paul Teutul Sr. and Jr. have reunited to build their first bike together in over a decade. Their rocky road to an on-air reconciliation is captured in a new “American Chopper” special airing Tuesday, June 9 on Discovery Channel at 9 p.m. In the two-hour telecast, they return to where …
  • Nile Rodgers: Diana Ross didn’t know ‘I’m Coming Out’ was ‘a gay thing’

    Nile Rodgers: Diana Ross didn’t know ‘I’m Coming Out’ was ‘a gay thing’

    When Diana Ross wanted to turn her legendary music career “Upside Down” at the dawn of the ’80s, she enlisted the Chic production team of Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards. “That was our very first time ever producing a star,” says Rodgers. “Not only was it a star, it was, like, the star.” But Rodgers …
  • Reality TV shows help Discovery beat profit estimates amid coronavirus

    Reality TV shows help Discovery beat profit estimates amid coronavirus

    Unscripted shows from TV channels like Food Network, TLC and HGTV helped Discovery beat Wall Street’s profit expectations despite a slight revenue dip fueled by the coronavirus. The broadcasting giant said its portfolio of TV brands lost 6 percent of its total subscribers from the first quarter of 2019. Among its biggest channels, including Discovery, …
  • ‘Torn from the Headlines’: An infamous slumlord, a kidnapping — and death

    ‘Torn from the Headlines’: An infamous slumlord, a kidnapping — and death

    A notorious landlord vanished off the streets of New York City in a sensational, caught-on-tape kidnapping in 2014 — and when his body turned up the next day in a dumpster, cops already had plenty of potential suspects on tap. Menachem “Max” Stark, a 39-year-old Hasidic father of seven from Brooklyn, had made a long list of …