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The 9/11 Tapes: Chaos in the Sky

Told from the voices of air traffic controllers, military commanders and those on hijacked planes, THE 9/11 TAPES: CHAOS IN THE SKY will relay the chaos, confusion and courage of frontline civilians and military who were caught on tape and reacting to the moments that changed America's landscape forever.


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Alaska: The Last Frontier

ALASKA: THE LAST FRONTIER, premiering on Thursday, December 29th at 10pm ET/PT, introduces viewers to the Kilcher family and their isolated community outside Homer, Alaska.

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All Star Dealers

Has Richie Russek got a deal for you! From rare game-worn jerseys to vintage bats that helped shape the game of baseball, the vaunted history of sports holds untold treasures and Richie, with sons Michael and Darren, and their company Grey Flannel Auctions, is on the hunt to find ‘em all.

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American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior

Discovery Channel's AMERICAN CHOPPER: Senior Vs. Junior, will be returning with BRAND NEW EPISODES on Monday, Feb. 13th at 9 PM ET/PT.

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American Guns

The Wyatts are your typical suburban family… who just happened to own one of the premiere firearms facilities in the world. Rich Wyatt and his wife Renee own Gunsmoke, where they buy, sell and trade gunsAnd if you don’t see what you want, they’ll build one for you - from scratch.

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Auction Kings

The Gallery 63 crew hunts down and auctions off historical treasures and off-the-wall finds on AUCTION KINGS. This season includes letters signed by employee evaluations by Thomas Edison, a Cadillac once owned by Elvis Presley and even...dinosaur poo.


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Bering Sea Gold

Every summer, as the glacial ice melts around the frozen and isolated port of Nome, Alaska, a handful of driven and sometimes desperate fortune seekers hunt for gold in the most unlikely of places: the bottom of the Bering Sea. From the producers of DEADLIEST CATCH comes Discovery Channel's newest series, BERING SEA GOLD

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BEST IN THE BUSINESS

Ben Bailey (Discovery Channel's CASH CAB) hosts BEST IN THE BUSINESS -- the ultimate battle of job-skill supremacy that celebrates the crème de la crème of the American workforce.


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Carfellas

CARFELLAS lifts the veil on the used car business through the eyes of reformed convict Mikey D. and his crew, Tommie and Mario of Broadway Motors in Amityville. These knock-around guys are experienced at getting money out of people. But this time they are out to make an honest living...selling used cars Long Island style

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Cash Cab

Hail the CASH CAB and you might win money for correctly answering a series of trivia questions - but answer three questions wrong, and you're out on the street. Host Ben Bailey is back to pick up unsuspecting contestants on the streets of New York City and giving them a chance to win big money.

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Combat Cash

Military hunter Bob Chatt and his picking partner Owen Thornton put their passion, wallets and reputations on the line in a never-ending pursuit of rare and desirable military artifacts, aka “militaria."

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Curiosity

From the visionary mind of Discovery's iconic founder John Hendricks comes an unprecedented new series bringing the ‘I wonder?’ moment to television with a unique array of some of the biggest names from Stephen Hawking to Maggie Gyllenhaal.


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Deadliest Catch

New blood, old wounds and rivalries that never die. For some it's a season of change; for others, a chance to make a name for themselves, but some things remain constant: the perilous, icy waters of the Bering Sea and most dangerous job in the world.

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Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe

Mike Rowe, the world's most sought after guinea pig for all things dirty, grimy and messy, hosts Discovery Channel's Emmy®-nominated series, DIRTY JOBS WITH MIKE ROWE.

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DIRTY MONEY

The DiResta brothers live by the mantra, "Find it. Fix it. Sell it!" Their treasure map? The Big Apple. Their treasure? Items they can completely renovate and reinvent to sell for profit at flea markets.

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Discovery Channel Upfront 2011

Discovery Channel Upfront 2011

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Dual Survival

In the ultimate test of skill, perseverance and creativity, military-trained Dave Canterbury and naturalist Cody Lundin battle the elements – and sometimes each other – to show what it takes to survive some of the world’s toughest environments in Discovery’s hit series DUAL SURVIVAL.


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First Week In

Friends, family and freedom are sacrificed in Discovery Channel’s newest compelling docu-series FIRST WEEK IN, premiering January 9th at 9:00 PM (ET/PT). FIRST WEEK IN offers a candid, behind-the-scenes look into the lives of profiled inmates during their first week behind bars.

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Flying Wild Alaska

The unconventional Tweto family – Jim, Ferno and their daughters Ayla and Ariel – are back for a second season to rule Alaska’s most dangerous skies with their family-run airline, Era Alaska.

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Frozen Planet

The award-winning team behind PLANET EARTH provide the ultimate portrait of our earth's polar regions in the next great high def natural history series, FROZEN PLANET.


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Gold Rush

A group of down-on-their-luck men, in the face of an economic meltdown, risk everything to strike it rich mining for gold in Alaska. Last season, the Hoffman crew finished out their year with only $20,000 in gold. This time around, they vow to settle unfinished business and find gold at the bottom of the glory hole.


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Human Planet

First came an unforgettable journey across the world's greatest habitats. Then viewers were brought nose-to-nose with Earth's wildest creatures. Now, the makers of PLANET EARTH and LIFE present an awe-inspiring new six hour series HUMAN PLANET ... and reveal the most astounding and adaptable species of all: humans.


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iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World

Steve Jobs was a creative and technological visionary who quite simply changed society as we know it. Hosted by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, iGENIUS: HOW STEVE JOBS CHANGED THE WORLD, celebrates Jobs’ innovations via interviews with people whose lives and livelihoods were forever changed by them.


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Man Vs. Wild

Survival expert and extreme adventurer Bear Grylls finds new extreme destinations and faces more challenges, sharing invaluable survival strategies along the way.

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Man, Woman, Wild

MAN, WOMAN, WILD explores the lives of husband and wife Mykel and Ruth Hawke as they take on some of the most rugged terrains around the world with nothing more than a knife and the clothes on their backs. The struggle to survive puts their skills, and their marriage, to the test.

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Moonshiners

Think the days of bootleggers, backwoods stills and "white lightning" are over? Not a chance! Discovery Channel’s all-new series MOONSHINERS tells the story of those who brew their shine – often in the woods near their homes using camouflaged equipment – and the local authorities who try to keep them honest.

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MythBusters

MYTHBUSTERS aims to uncover the truth behind popular myths and legends, mixing scientific method with gleeful curiosity and plain old-fashioned ingenuity to create their own signature style of explosive experimentation.


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One Man Army

ONE MAN ARMY is competition series which sees the toughest of the tough go head to head in events that would sideline regular contestants in an instant.


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Penn & Teller Tell a Lie

Show-stopping iconoclasts Penn & Teller will lie to you. In fact, that’s the point of PENN & TELLER TELL A LIE, their interactive new Discovery Channel series with a twist. In each episode, Penn & Teller present up to seven outrageous claims – most of which are true, but one is a big fat lie!


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Ragin' Cajuns

Welcome to Venice, Louisiana -- Population: 2,000. Discovery Channel’s brand new series RAGIN’ CAJUNS premiering on Tuesday, January 17th at 10pm ET/PT, takes a trip down the Mississippi deep into the Louisiana Bayou for the start of their 3-month long white shrimp season.

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Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero

RISING: REBUILDING GROUND ZERO showcases the men and women determined to rebuild and restore a sacred site, constructing the new, 104-story One World Trade Center.


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Secrets of the FBI

Special that reveals the all-encompassing effort mounted by the FBI to keep Washington, DC, and the US Capitol safe, particularly during the State of the Union Address.

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SHARK WEEK

SHARK WEEK, cable television’s longest-running programming event and the ultimate summertime ritual, returns Sunday, July 31 at 9PM with seven new specials as well as some all-time fan favorites. The 24th annual fin-filled celebration will feature Discovery Channel’s new Chief Shark Officer, comedian Andy Samberg.

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Sons of Guns

“If you can dream it, we can build it” is the motto at Red Jacket, the nation’s most unique weapons business. Will Hayden and his all-star crew of Baton Rouge gunsmiths and historians rise to the challenge on Discovery Channel’s SONS OF GUNS.

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Storm Chasers

STORM CHASERS provides a front row seat to nature's fury in the heart of “Tornado Alley” as scientists, researchers and weather enthusiasts gear up and hunker down in their pursuit of the ultimate tornado footage.

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Swamp Brothers

Meet Robbie and Stephen Keszey, brothers who run a unique family business - part animal rescue, part breeding and preservation. One's an animal expert, the other a former city slicker learning the ropes from his brother.

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Swamp Loggers

Fourth generation logger Bobby Goodson is one of the rare breed of SWAMP LOGGERS working the murky, dangerous swamps of North Carolina in search of high value timber for everything from paper products to construction grade lumber.


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Tornado Rampage 2011

With nearly 200 tornados recorded and over 300 lives lost in just a single day, weather history was made on Wednesday, April 27, 2011. STORM CHASERS were filming that day in the center of the action and now present never-before-seen footage in TORNADO RAMPAGE 2011 airing Sunday, May 22 at 10 PM ET/PT.


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Unchained Reaction

Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman of MYTHBUSTERS serve as executive producers and judges for UNCHAINED REACTION, which pits two teams of varying backgrounds against each other to build an elaborate chain reaction contraption.


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WALKING THE AMAZON

Ex-soldier and explorer Ed Stafford and his friend Luke Collyer took on a monumental challenge: trace on foot the entire length of the Amazon, from its source in Southern Peru to its mouth on the Brazilian coast. And they would film the entire journey themselves – without a camera crew.

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Weed Wars

WEED WARS is a familiar story: a start-up business with demanding clients and the ever-looming possibility that it could all go belly up...But this is not exactly a typical business.

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World's Toughest Trucker

From transporting cattle through the desolate, sun baked roads of the Australian Outback to carrying fragile loads through the icy, treacherous Indian Himalayas, eight of the world's most experienced truck drivers go head to head in some of the harshest environments on earth in WORLD’S TOUGHEST TRUCKER premiering Monday,