EXCLUSIVE: You solely flip 40 as soon as, and Discovery is mark its milestone birthday in a novel approach.
The community is at present launching Discovery Modified My Life, a four-part worldwide collection about how Discovery’s packages and content material have sparked passions in exceptional folks throughout Europe and Africa. Sequence will pair footage from beautiful pure areas with user-generated content material.
Discovery Channel started broadcasting within the U.S. on June 17, 1985. It’s set to develop into part of Gunnar Wiedenfels new international networks enterprise when WBD separates its linear enterprise from the Warner Bros studios and streamers arm subsequent 12 months. Discovery Modified My Life looks like an opportunity for WBD to drown out the company noise and remind folks why the factual community has constructed such a loyal viewers over time.
It would function Darren Britz, a wildlife cinematographer who grew up watching Deadliest Catch and Man vs Wild and now captures huge cats of their pure habitats; Portuguese surfer and musician João Kopke, who’s thirst for information and journey was fulled by the channel; French survivalist and mountain climbing information Eleanore Lluna, whose fascination with Bare and Afraid and Bear Grylls: Escape From Hell impressed her to tackle the wilderness herself and construct a profession; and Joshua Adayemi, a Nigeria-born group organizer who now leads the Black Scottish Adventurers, having watched Discovery reveals on a neighbor’s tv as a toddler.
An in-house Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) crew developed, created and directed the collection in collaboration with Scotland’s Lower Media. It would roll out on Discovery broadcast networks, social and digital platforms at present, with fuller-length model on HBO Max, Max and Discovery+ (relying on from the place viewers are watching).
“This venture was an actual ardour piece for our crew,” mentioned Matt Brown, Inventive Director at WBD. “Discovery Modified My Life gave us the prospect to honour the unimaginable influence this model has had on actual lives — one thing many people on the crew really feel ourselves. Bringing these tales to life with our in-house crew and Lower Media has been an extremely creatively fulfilling expertise.”
“Discovery Modified My Life is greater than a celebration of our legacy — it’s proof of the ability of this manufacturers storytelling to ignite passions, shift views, and form lives,” mentioned Lee Hobbs, WBD’s SVP of Inventive, EMEA. “As we mark 40 years of inspiring the world by means of real-world content material, these movies remind us why we do what we do — and who we do it for.”
