Trevor Noah Produces Space Doc For Science Channel, But Cable Network “Not Priority” For Warner Bros. Discovery
deadline.comWarner Bros. Discovery’s Kathleen Finch broke a lot of science producers’ hearts in Austin, Texas last week when she said that Science Channel was “not very high on our priority list”.
Chairman and Chief Content Officer of Warner Bros. Discovery’s U.S. Networks Group Finch told Deadline at the Realscreen event that it was largely pulling out of original content for the niche cable network. “I will be honest, we are not investing a lot of money in Science Channel,” she said. “We have a really good library of things that we’re able to use there.
It’s a small, beautiful network, but it’s not on a very high on our priority list.” Instead, Finch said producers should focus on finding “something in the science world that can be spun into something a little bit bigger and more testosterone filled” that would work for the Discovery Channel.
Having said that, the network revealed today that it was airing a new documentary on Science Channel, as well as Discovery+ and HBO Max, about space exploration from Trevor Noah.
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