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Discovery orders 2nd season of Richard Hammond’s Workshop

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 […]

February 3, 2022

Amazon Prime Video launches The Great Escapists trailer

Amazon Prime Video has released the first look trailer for Richard Hammond & Tory Belleci’s new series The Great Escapists. The Great Escapists is the story of Hammond (The Grand Tour) and Belleci (Mythbusters), two of pop-science TV’s greatest minds, with nothing but their smarts and their scrap shipwreck for survival. Can they invent themselves off […]

January 5, 2021

Lockdown drives record audiences for Discovery UK

Discovery UK has reported that its share of adult audiences has grown by 16 per cent this year, from 4.2 per cent to 4.8 per cent, with its SOCI (share of commercial impacts) up by 15 per cent this year, from 7.1 per cent to 8.1 per cent. Growth was driven by strong performances across […]

June 8, 2020