Discovery Channel's 2010-11 series

[Temis the Vorta]

Sounds pretty good!

"Human Planet": In the vein of "Life" and "Planet Earth," each episode of the mini will explore a different environment: arctic, rivers, mountains, ocean, jungles, grasslands, desert and urban that centers on the people living there.

The nature documentary shows might get a tad repetitive, but it's always nice to have at least one per year.

"Earth from Space": Done in partnership with NASA, it will use satellite data to show Earth as a living organism.

Cool!

"Reign of the Dinosaurs": From Disney and Pixar, the special will recreate the world of dinosaurs and explore their behaviors.

We can never get enough dinos.

"Engineering the Impossible": A team of specialists will search for clues as to how some of the world's most iconic structures have been built.

Sounds interesting.

"Curiosity: The Questions of Life," a five-year 60-episode special from Discovery founder John Hendricks that will run on several Discovery channels and answer questions about science, civilization, technology and the human experience.

Sounds ambitious!

If only all the specialty cable channels took their subject matter as seriously - how about more real history on History and more real sci fi on Skiffy?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

...however, major demerits for Animal Planet for putting too many humans into their shows!

Animal Planet used to be a great place to go when I got sick and tired of people, people and more people on all the other channels. Now what's left, the Weather Channel?

 

[RJDiogenes]

These sound pretty good. Sounds like Discovery may be getting its mojo back. For a long time, History Channel has been the only Science channel worth watching on a regular basis-- and even that's been iffy with all of those weird Alaska and truck driver shows.

 

[Trekker4747]

I kind-of miss "Prototype This" it was fairly good.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Here's another one: Future Earth miniseries with Spielberg (who seems to be everywhere on TV nowadays).

FUTURE EARTH aims to be an epic mini-series examining what life on Earth will be like in 25, 50 and 100 years. The mini-series will draw from a vast number of sources, including the leading futurists, scholars and great minds of today, to dramatize and explore how various facets of our daily lives - health and medicine, technology, the environment, the military, the economy and media - will evolve over the next century.

 

[LitmusDragon]

Definitely looking forward to the new Dino one. I liked Walking with Dinosaurs at the time that it aired, but after watching the making-of, all I can see when I watch it now is hand puppets.

Seriously, any time there's a shot of a dinosaur that isn't CG rendered, almost every time it's some guy with an elaborate sock puppet.

 

[melancholymecha]

^eh, I thought the giant puppet heads for close-ups were cool...very detailed.

Disney Pixar doing dinosaurs!? AWESOME! Im hoping his will be what the Disney 2000 movie Dinosaur was originally intended to be- a dialouge free epic, & please NO talking lemurs!

 

[Warp Coil]

I've been watching bits and pieces of Discovery's upfront presentation while at work today. Some of it seems interesting. Some of it (like, well, anything airing on APL or TLC) just seems silly. Discovery Channel has some potentially good stuff coming up. And, surprisingly, I think OWN (that's the Oprah Winfrey Network, for those of you unaware) may have a decent lineup when it debuts on 1/1/11.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I've been watching bits and pieces of Discovery's upfront presentation while at work today.

Gotta link for that?

 

[Warp Coil]

I've been watching bits and pieces of Discovery's upfront presentation while at work today.

Gotta link for that?

Haha... sorry... internal for employees only, I'm sad to say.

 

[SG-17]

So I guess that The Colony is over for good?

 

[Warp Coil]

So I guess that The Colony is over for good?

Actually it's been renewed. Never watched it. The concept seemed interesting but the few brief clips I saw made it look silly in execution, so I dunno. I guess it was popular enough to warrant a second season.

 

[SG-17]

Do you have a link? I'd like to share this news with my friend son FaceBook.

 

[Warp Coil]

Do you have a link? I'd like to share this news with my friend son FaceBook.

Here's a MediaWeek article that mentions Discovery's upfronts. The Colony is listed as one of the shows returning.

http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content...wsletters/e3i25d5a034c5bd6dc5865b4d133880f20c

 

[TheMasterOfOrion]

thanks for the heads up

 

[Lonemagpie]

So long as Mythbusters continues, I'll be happy...

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I've been watching bits and pieces of Discovery's upfront presentation while at work today.

Gotta link for that?

Haha... sorry... internal for employees only, I'm sad to say.

Hey there's always YouTube.

I originally ignored this one, but yknow what, it could be good. It's fun seeing other people having to deal with stuff like that.

Construction Intervention
New York construction guru Charlie Frattini and his crew tackle real-life property improvement nightmares.

 

[Warp Coil]

I originally ignored this one, but yknow what, it could be good. It's fun seeing other people having to deal with stuff like that.

Construction Intervention
New York construction guru Charlie Frattini and his crew tackle real-life property improvement nightmares.

Premieres tomorrow at 10pm EST if you're interested.