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Discovery Channel

The Discovery Channel began broadcasting on June 17, 1985. It was initially available to 156,000 households and broadcast for 12 hours each day between 3 p.m. and 3 a.m.; it is now available to approximately 71,000,000 pay television households in the U.S. As of November 2023[update] Discovery Channel is available in 409 million households worldwide, through its flagship channel and its various owned or licensed television channels.

There are 292 current or previous shows broadcast on Discovery Channel:

• 2057

• 48 Hours: Hard Evidence

• A Haunting

• A World Away

• Adrenaline Rush Hour

• After the Climb

• Air Crash Investigation

• Aircrash Confidential

• Alaska: The Last Frontier

  last aired May 19th, 2013

• Alien Planet

• American Casino

• American Chopper

• American Hot Rod

• Ancient Civilizations

• Animal Face-Off

• Animal Games

• Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe

• Assignment Discovery

• Atlas

• Atlas 4D

• Auction Kings

• Bad Universe

• Battlebots

• Battlefield

• Beachbody

• Bearing Sea Gold Under the Ice

  last aired August 24th, 2012

• Before the Dinosaurs

• Beyond 2000

• Beyond Tomorrow

• Big!

• Biker Build-Off

• Billion Dollar Secret

• Bizarre Dinosaurs

• Blueprint for Disaster

• Bone Detectives

• Brainiac

• Breakout

• Brew Masters

• Build It Bigger

• Building the Future

• Built for Champions

• Canada's Worst Driver

• Canada's Worst Handyman

• Cash Cab

• Century of Warfare

• Chop Shop London

• Choppers

• Connect

• Crash of the Century

• Crocodile Hunter

• Daily Planet

• Dangerman (Geoff Mackley)

• Darcy's Wild Life (kids)

• Dark Fellowships: The Vril

• Dead Men's Tales

• Deadliest Catch

• Deadly Women

• Decoding Disaster

• Designer Guys

• Destroyed in Seconds

• Diagnosis: Unknown

• Dinosaur Planet

• Dirty Jobs

• Disaster Detective

• Discovery Atlas

• Discovery Magazine

• Discovery News

• Discovery Profile

• Discovery Sport

• Discovery Sunday

• Doctorology

• Doing DaVinci

• Double Agents

• Download The True Story of the Internet

• Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real

• Dual Survival

• Eco-Challenge (2001)

• Eco-Tech (2007)

• End Day

• Endurance

• Engineering Volcanoes

• Equinox

• Everest: Beyond the Limit

• Everything You Need To Know

• Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science

• Expedition Borneo

• Explosions Gone Wrong

• Extreme Engineering

• Extreme Machines

• Extreme Peril

• Extreme Survival

• Fast N' Loud

  last aired March 9th, 2012

• Fearless Planet

• Fields of Armor

• Fight or Die

• Fight Quest

• Fireballs from Space

• Firehouse USA: Boston

• Firepower

• Flying Heavy Metal

• Flying Wild Alaska

  last aired August 6th, 2012

• Forensic Detectives

• Frontiers of Construction

• Frontiers of Flight

• Full Force Nature

• Full Metal Challenge

• FutureCar

• Futureweapons

• Garage Takeover

• Ghost Lab

• Ghosthunters

• Giant Squid: Caught On Camera

• Going Tribal

• Gold Rush

  last aired October 28th, 2011

• Gold Star Racing

• Grand Designs

• Green Village

• Guinea Pig

• Gutbusters

• Hazard Pay

• Hijack El Al Flight 426

• Hogs Gone Wild

• How Do They Do It?

• How It's Made

• How to Survive

• Howe & Howe Tech

• I Shouldn't Be Alive

• I Was Bitten

• I, VIDEOGAME

• Iditarod: Toughest Race on Earth

• In the Wild with Harry Butler

• Incredible India!

• India with Sanjeev Bhaskar

• Inside Planet Earth

• Instinto Asesino

• Into Alaska with Jeff Corwin

• Into the Lion's Den

• Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking

• Into the Unknown with Josh Bernstein

• Invention

• Is Born

• Is It Possible?

• It Takes a Thief

• JFK: The End Of Camelot

• Jon and Kate Plus 8

• Junkyard Wars

• Justice Files

• Kings of Construction

• Korea: The Forgotten War

• Last Day of the Dinosaurs

• Last One Standing

• Licence to Drill

• Life

• Little Parents, Big Charlie

• Lobster Wars

• Lost Animals of the 20th Century

• Mammals Vs. Dinosaurs

• Man vs. Wild

• Man, Woman, Wild

• Mayday

• Mega Engineering

• Megabuilders

• Miami Ink

• Miracle Planet

• Mongrel Nation

• Monkey Business

• Monster Garage

• Monster House

• Monster: A Portrait Of Stalin In Blood

• Monsters Resurrected

• Most Evil

• Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed

• Movie Magic

• My Shocking Story

• MythBusters

• Naked and Afraid

  last aired June 23rd, 2013

• Nature's Deadliest

• NextWorld

• Normandy: The Great Crusade

• Oddities

• On the Run

• One Step Beyond

• One Way Out

• Out In The Cold

• Overhaulin

• Pagans

• Passport to Space

• Patent Bending

• Penn & Teller: Tell a Lie

  last aired November 30th, 2019

• Perfect Disaster

• Pitchmen

• Planes That Never Flew

• Planet Earth

• Pop Nation

• Portraits

• Prehistoric

• Prehistoric Park

• Prehistoric Planet

• Profiles of Nature

• Prototype This!

• Raging Planet

• Rally Round the House

• Really Big Things

• Reign of the Dinosaurs (not yet aired)[1]

• Rides

• Rise of the Video Game

• Road Trip USA

• Robotica

• Rocket Science

• Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science

• Sci-Fi Saved My Life

• Sci-Trek

• Scrapheap challenge

• Seven Wonders Of ...

• Shark Week (annual program)

• Smash Lab

• Solving History with Olly Steeds

• Some Assembly Required

• Sons of Guns

  last aired December 9th, 2012

• Storm Chasers

  last aired September 28th, 2011

• Storm Warning

• Story of India

• Stranded: With Cash Peters (Travel Channel)

• Strange Days at Blake Holsey High

• Stunt Junkies

• Superstorm

• Supervolcano

• Surprise by Design

• Survive This

• Survivorman

• Swamp Loggers

• Swords: Life on the Line

• Tanks

• Texas Car Wars

  last aired June 9th, 2012

• The Alaska Experiment

• The Battle for Rome (2006)

• The Blue Planet

• The Colony

• The Detonators (television series)

• The FBI Files

• The Feuding Tombs of Christopher Columbus

• The Final 24

• The Future Is Wild

• The Great Biker Build Off

• The Holocaust: In Memory of Millions

• The Lost Tomb of Jesus

• The New Al-Qaeda

• The New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science

• The Next Step

• The Prosecutors: In Pursuit of Justice

• The Reagan Legacy

• The Real American Cowboy

• The Science of Sex Appeal

• The Science of Star Wars

• The Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea

• The Sun

• The Ultimate Guide

• The Ultimate Ten

• Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster

• Ultimate Car Build-Off

• Ultimate Cars

• Understanding

• Universe

• Unsolved History

• Untold stories of the ER

• Valley of The T.rex

• Verminators

• Walking with Beasts

• Walking with Cavemen

• Walking with Dinosaurs

• Walking with Monsters

• Warlocks Rising

  last aired May 7th, 2013

• Weapon Masters

• Weaponizers

• Weapons of Combat

• What's That About?

• Wheeler Dealers

• When Dinosaurs Roamed America

• When Dinosaurs Ruled

• When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions

• Why Didn't I Think of That?

• Wild Discovery

• Wild Pacific

• Wildlife Chronicles

• Wings

• World Class Cuisine

• World of Wonder

• World's Toughest Fixes

• Wreckreation Nation

• X-Machines

• You Spoof Discovery

• Zero Hour