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EXCLUSIVE: The Discovery Channel has group its plans for 2026 and it includes a caller spinoff of long-running deed Naked and Afraid.
The WBD-owned cablegram web has greenlit a number of caller shows including a caller Alcatraz investigation and a bid fronted by TikTok prima Michael McWhorter.
The large news is Naked and Afraid: Global Showdown (w/t). It is nan eighth spinoff of nan franchise, which premiered successful 2013.
It will characteristic survivalists from each complete nan world including Brazil, Australia, Mexico, and the United States, representing their homelands successful a 40-day primitive bushcraft competition. Paired pinch a partner, their skills, toughness and teamwork will beryllium tested arsenic they compete for nationalist pridefulness and the largest cash prize in franchise history.
The bid will motorboat connected May 17. It is produced by Lionsgate Alternative Television and comes arsenic Season 19 of nan mothership bid is airing connected Discovery.
In summation to nan main show, Discovery has launched six different spinoffs including Naked and Afraid XL, Naked and Afraid: Alone, Naked and Afraid: Solo, Naked and Afraid of Love, Naked And Afraid: Last One Standing and Naked and Afraid: Castaways.
Elsewhere, Escape From Alcatraz (w/t) follows immoderate true-crime podcasters who analyse nan infamous 1962 Alcatraz situation flight and uncover caller files and grounds suggesting that brothers John and Clarence Anglin whitethorn person survived and spent nan remainder of their lives successful hiding. Now, caller DNA grounds could yet expose nan truth and uncover a authorities cover-up that lasted for decades.
John and Clarence Anglin escaped from The Rock successful 1962 utilizing a homemade raft and were ne'er found. The FBI closed their lawsuit successful 1979 and location were rumors that nan brace had made it to Brazil.
The series, which comes from Leepson Bounds Entertainment, Kontent Farm and Strong Island Films, will premiere later this year.
It besides has How To Catch A Dirtbag (w/t), an investigation bid hosted by Michael McWhorter, aka Tizzy Ent, who has astir 8M followers connected TikTok. It will hunt for group who deliberation they tin do horrible things successful nationalist and get distant pinch it.
The series, which premieres later this year, comes from Jupiter Entertainment.
There’s besides a caller large wind chaser series. In The Eye of The Storm: Chasers (w/t) follows In The Eye of The Storm, which has tally for 2 seasons. It will travel teams of real-world large wind chasers and certified upwind spotters arsenic they task into America’s tornado alley, risking everything to self-shoot their encounters pinch quality astatine its astir extreme, pass group successful harm’s way, and thief prevention lives erstwhile disaster strikes.
The series, which premieres connected May 17, is produced by Arrow Media.
These shows subordinate nan likes of Conspiracies and Coverups, hosted by erstwhile CIA covert supplier Andrew Bustamante, which launches connected April 1, and Jeff Dunham’s The Cars That Drove Us, which premieres connected March 31.
“Each of these caller bid reflects bold and original storytelling, anchored connected larger-than-life characters and a heavy consciousness of curiosity.” said Joseph Boyle, Head of Content, Discovery Channel. “Our extremity is to present a wide slate of stories that carrier viewers and consciousness authentically Discovery.”
