The Best Current Discovery Channel Shows
Wondering what to watch on Discovery Channel? This list of the best current Discovery Channel shows has you covered. For years, the Discovery channel has produced programs that are both educational and engaging. If you're looking to learn something new while you relax in front of the TV, these Discovery channel series can help.
Many current Discovery shows focus on survival in rough environments. Alaska: The Last Frontier and Alaskan Bush People both explore the rugged and often under looked state, while Naked and Afraid combines survival with reality competition - minus clothes. Other shows focus on strange jobs in odd places - Cal Fire, BattleBots, and Gold Rush all offer insight into exciting, weird or stressful worlds. With everything currently airing on the network, at least one of these popular programs is bound to suit your taste.
With so many great Discovery Channel shows on now, it's hard to pick just one as the best of the best. Vote your favorite current Discovery Channel shows to the top of the list!
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Gold Rush
Paul Christie- Premiered: December 3, 2010
- Genres: Special Interest, Documentary, Reality television
Gold Rush is a reality television series that airs on Discovery. The fifth season of the show began airing in the United States on October 17, 2014. The show focuses on the mining of gold placer ...more - 2Mike Rowe
- Premiered: July 7, 2020
- Genres: Reality
Dirty Jobs: Rowe'd Trip (Discovery, 2020) is an American reality television series and spin-off of Dirty Jobs starring Mike Rowe. Rowe and the original Dirty Jobs crew set out on a road trip across ...more - 3
Gold Rush
Paul Christie, Todd Hoffman, Parker Schnabel- Premiered: 2010
- Genres: Adventure,Reality
Oregonians stake everything on mining and head north to Alaska to dig for gold. - 4Rick Quashnick, Sig Hansen, Edgar Hansen
- Premiered: April 12, 2005
- Genres: Adventure,Documentary,Reality
Alaskan crab fishermen battle the elements on the Bering Sea. - 5Josh Gates
- Premiered: January 8, 2015
- Genres: Adventure,Documentary,History,Mystery
Josh Gates travels the globe searching for the truth behind the world's most iconic legends. - 6Chris Rose, Kenny Florian, Faruq Tauheed
- Premiered: 2015
- Genres: Reality
Battle Bots (ABC, 2015) is an American reality robot combat series rebooted from the original 2000 series of the same name created by Greg Munson and Edward P. Roski. The series focuses on the design ...more
