Discovery Marks 40th Anniversary With Self-Celebratory Docuseries ‘Discovery Changed My Life’

EXCLUSIVE: You best flip 40 as soon as, and Discovery is mark its milestone birthday in a singular method.

The community is lately launching Discovery Changed My Life, a four-part global collection about how Discovery’s methods and content material have sparked passions in outstanding other people throughout Europe and Africa. Series will pair pictures from shocking herbal places with user-generated content material.

Discovery Channel started broadcasting within the U.S. on June 17, 1985. It’s set to turn out to be part of Gunnar Wiedenfels new international networks industry when WBD separates its linear industry from the Warner Bros studios and streamers arm subsequent yr. Discovery Changed My Life turns out like a possibility for WBD to drown out the company noise and remind other people why the factual community has constructed one of these unswerving target audience through the years.

It will characteristic Darren Britz, a flora and fauna cinematographer who grew up looking at Deadliest Catch and Man vs Wild and now captures giant cats of their herbal habitats; Portuguese surfer and musician João Kopke, who’s thirst for wisdom and journey was once fulled by means of the channel; French survivalist and mountain climbing information Eleanore Lluna, whose fascination with Naked and Afraid and Bear Grylls: Escape From Hell impressed her to take at the desert herself and construct a occupation; and Joshua Adayemi, a Nigeria-born neighborhood organizer who now leads the Black Scottish Adventurers, having watched Discovery displays on a neighbor’s tv as a kid.

An in-house Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) group advanced, created and directed the collection in collaboration with Scotland’s Cut Media. It will roll out on Discovery broadcast networks, social and virtual platforms lately, with fuller-length model on HBO Max, Max and Discovery+ (relying on from the place audience are looking at).

“This project was a real passion piece for our team,” mentioned Matt Brown, Creative Director at WBD. “Discovery Changed My Life gave us the chance to honour the incredible impact this brand has had on real lives — something many of us on the team feel ourselves.  Bringing these stories to life with our in-house team and Cut Media has been an incredibly creatively fulfilling experience.”  

“Discovery Changed My Life is more than a celebration of our legacy — it’s proof of the power of this brands storytelling to ignite passions, shift perspectives, and shape lives,” mentioned Lee Hobbs, WBD’s SVP of Creative, EMEA. “As we mark 40 years of inspiring the world through real-world content, these films remind us why we do what we do — and who we do it for.”