Discovery UK has announced the commission of two discovery+ original reality series – the classic and highly popular Beauty And The Geek and a brand-new contemporary format Zodiac Island (w/t). Both shows will drop on discovery+ in the UK later this year. Matt Edmondson and Mollie King (The Saturdays), presenters of BBC Radio 1’s Matt […]
Discovery, Chimp Television and Krempelwood have once again joined forces to produce the second season of Richard Hammond’s Workshop, which will air exclusively on discovery+ this summer. The first season, which launched in October 2021, was a huge success with discovery+ audiences – it was the top performing new factual series for discovery+ since launching […]
discovery+ India has launched a new investigative docuseries Dangals of Crime – The Untold Truth About Indian Wrestling. The discovery+ Original, available exclusively on the streaming platform in India, is set to captivate audiences by not only tracing the journey of the meteoric rise of the Olympic sport, but also explores the dark underbelly often […]
Hub Entertainment Research has released the second wave of its research study, TV Advertising: Fact vs. Fiction, which explores TV consumers’ use of ad-supported and ad-free services and the factors that drive their decisions to use each. The research suggests that TV viewers are not fans of heavy ad loads during shows, but also demonstrates […]
Discovery has announced plans that it says will “push the physical and virtual boundaries of sports production to new extremes and mark a new frontier in the coverage of the Olympic Games”.With just over a week to go until the Opening Ceremony of Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022, Discovery has revealed how it intends to […]
discovery+ and Eurosport have seen sizable audience and digital engagement growth recorded across Discovery’s platforms during The Australian Open. Television and streaming audiences have so far seen double-digit year-on-year increases across the 50 countries and territories where Discovery presents the Australian Open. Featuring extended news reporting and on-demand video, Eurosport’s ebsote and its local country […]
Discovery and LG Electronics Canada have announced that discovery+, the definitive non-fiction subscription streaming service, is now available on LG Smart TVs in Canada, including LG’s line-up of LG OLED TVs and LG QNED MiniLED TVs. LG customers in Canada now have direct access to discovery+ and more than 200 exclusive, original series across fan-favourite, real […]
Italian TV audiences have continued to drop, reaching the lowest numbers in a decade in December 2021. Data from Studio Frasi reveals that the negative performance was recorded for both average daily audience figures (10.2 million, -1.6 million on December 2020) as well as in prime time (22.9 million, -3.8 million compared to December 2020 […]
Discovery Italia has confirmed its position as the third largest national broadcaster in the Italy, ending 2021 with a 7.4 per cent audience share over 24 hours, rising to 9.4 per cent among the commercial target 25-54 age group. According to CEO Alessandro Araimo, 2021 was an “extremely positive year”, both in terms of ratings […]
UFC coverage will begin on discovery+ in the Netherlands and Eurosport in Spain this January with every UFC event to be made available to watch live and on-demand.UFC, the mixed martial arts organisation, has experienced a meteoric rise since its first event was held in 1993 and is now one of the most popular sports […]