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Warner Bros. Discovery, which was formed in 2022 from the merger of AT&T’s WarnerMedia and Discovery Communications, has agreed to pay $125 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit over the deal. A handful of pension funds filed suit in Delaware Chancery Court after the $43 billion merger closed…

EXCLUSIVE: Discovery Channel is pausing production on the next season of long-running series Naked and Afraid XL. The Naked and Afraid spinoff is currently airing its tenth season on the cable network but the company said that it is taking a beat before moving into production on season 11. "We have…

“If I can help save one or two people on this planet, that’s a good thing,” says Captain “Wild” Bill Wichrowski on The Deadliest Catch Season 20 preview. Wichrowski is speaking about the decision to go public with his cancer diagnosis. The Summer Bay skipper has prostate cancer, usually a very…

Dakota Fred Hurt, who was a key part of several Discovery reality shows about looking for gold in the wild, died Tuesday after a brief battle with brain cancer, according to his family. Hurt lived only four months after he was diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer. The family’s Facebook post saluted…

Josh Gates, the host of Discovery’s Expedition: Unknown, revealed today that he dove in the same sub that is now missing near the wreck of Titanic. Gates said that the prospect of getting footage of the sunken ship was a “huge opportunity,” but he decided against a second voyage because the vessel, dubbed…

Aquaman is lording over Shark Week next month, and Discovery is wetting your appetite a day before the summer solstice. Jason Momoa is hosting the cable net’s celebration of All Things Shark that attacks on July 23, and now we have the first promo. It shows Hollywood’s King of Atlantis conducting a…

Jason Momoa will be taking a bite out of Discovery’s Shark Week celebration as the celebration’s Master of Ceremonies, it was revealed during Warner Bros. Discovery’s Upfront Presentation on Wednesday. The premiere for the Momoa-hosted programming will be announced at a later time.. "As the host of…

Warner Bros Discovery revenue fell 11% to $11 billion (or a drop of 9% when foreign exchange fluctuations are excluded), mostly due to advertising softness and tough studio comparisons. EBITDA also tumbled 5% to $2.6 billion. Shares in the media giant shed as much as 5% in after-hours trading as…

UPDATE: The family of Street Outlaws: Fastest in America racing star Ryan Fellows has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court. They claim gross negligence in a street race held on a Nevada road that led to Fellows’ death.   Warner Bros. Discovery and Lions Gate Entertainment were among…

German financier-distributor Night Train Media has bought factual indie Curve Media, the prolific UK producer behind Discovery’s Salvage Hunters and Line of Duty star Vicky McClure’s BBC doc series Our Dementia Choir. Night Train was a number of interested investors after Deadline revealed over the su…

The show is expected to go on for Discovery’s Deadliest Catch, despite the decision by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game last week to cancel the winter snow and red king crab seasons due to dwindling populations. In a statement provided to Deadline, Deadliest Catch Executive Producer Arom…

EXCLUSIVE: Sustainability-focused network EarthxTV has new management. EarthX Media, which operates the channel, has upped Executive Vice President of Content and Strategy Dan Russell to CEO, with former Digi Media Global CEO Rajan Singh joining as Head of Global Distribution. EarthxTV has…