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Tuesday, July 3, 2018

#SmallScreenScenes @DiscoveryIncTV #WhomYouKnow @Discovery Digital Brings Shark Week Across All Platforms



Countdown To The 30th Anniversary of SHARK WEEK With “The Daily Bite,” Discovery Digital’s First-Ever Daily Digital Original Series

 To commemorate the landmark 30th anniversary of Discovery Channel’s SHARK WEEK (Sunday, July 22 – Sunday, July 29), Discovery Digital is debuting a slate of six digital original series that will air across Discovery GO and social media platforms.

On Sunday, July 1, Discovery GO launched the platform’s first-ever daily series to begin the countdown to SHARK WEEK’S 30th anniversary. The Daily Bite: Countdown to SHARK WEEK, hosted by comedian Jordan Carlos, will revisit the best shark moments in history, including all of the original digital Shark Week content created for GO and never-before-seen Shark Week linear content. The digital series will also reveal exclusive sneak peeks of Shark Week’s upcoming 30th anniversary programming.

SHARK WEEK is also returning to Snapchat! Following the success of 2017’s SHARK WEEK on Snapchat, its Snapchat exclusive Show that garnered over 12MM unique viewers, Discovery Digital is bringing SHARK WEEK back to Snapchatters across the U.S. to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the legendary TV event.

Additional SHARK WEEK Digital Original GO programming includes:

Fin Frenzy: 30 Years of Shark and Awe

Shark and Awe looks back on three decades of fin-tastic sharks and explores how far SHARK WEEK has come, from perceptions tainted by Jaws, to the advent of ground breaking technology and the future of marine conservation. 3 episodes

SHARK WEEK’S Most Intense Encounters

Viewers will get up close and personal with some of the biggest sharks and revisist the boldest bites and baddest bumps from SHARK WEEK’S thirty-year history. 3 episodes

30 Sharks of SHARK WEEK

To celebrate 30 years of SHARK WEEK dominance, we’re counting down the most grueling, most ghastly and most infamous sharks in SHARK WEEK history. 3 episodes 

The Faces of SHARK WEEK: Their Best Moments

Revisit the best moments of the faces of SHARK WEEK, including Dickie Chivell, Jeff Kurr, Chris Fallows and Andy Casagrande, over the past 30 years. 3 episodes

All series are produced by and for Discovery Digital Originals.

About Discovery:

Discovery, Inc. (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) is a global leader in real life entertainment, serving a passionate audience of superfans around the world with content that inspires, informs and entertains. Discovery delivers over 8,000 hours of original programming each year and has category leadership across deeply loved content genres around the world. Available in 220 countries and territories and 50 languages, Discovery is a platform innovator, reaching viewers on all screens, including TV Everywhere products such as the GO portfolio of apps and Discovery Kids Play; direct-to-consumer streaming services such as Eurosport Player and Motor Trend OnDemand; digital-first and social content from Group Nine Media and a strategic alliance with the PGA Tour to create the Global Home of Golf. Discovery’s portfolio of premium brands includes Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, Travel Channel, Turbo/Velocity, Animal Planet, and Science Channel, as well as OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network in the U.S., Discovery Kids in Latin America, and Eurosport, the leading provider of locally relevant, premium sports and Home of the Olympic Games across Europe. For more information, please visit www.corporate.discovery.com and follow @DiscoveryIncTV across social platforms.

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