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!
- 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
- Blind Frog Ranch owner Duane Ollinger is determined to find what is hidden in its underground caves.
- Racers from OKC, Memphis, Texas, NOLA, Detroit, Cali and everywhere in between are ranked on one single list of the best street racers in the nation as they compete weekly for the coveted top spot.
- Distillers go head-to-head in the ultimate booze-making competition.
- Homesteaders across the country turn to expert Marty Raney to teach them how to survive.
- 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
- 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
- Follow three friends as they embark on a brutal 10-day, 70-mile expedition across Antarctica.
- Crab fishermen risk their lives as they battle Arctic weather, brutal waves and a ticking clock for big money in this modern-day gold rush on the Bering Sea.
- Josh Gates travels the globe searching for the truth behind the world's most iconic legends.
- Dakota Fred and his son, Dustin, dive deep beneath raging waters to search for gold.
- Oregonians stake everything on mining and head north to Alaska to dig for gold.
- Cowboys and ranchers rely on their knowledge of the land to search for prehistoric dinosaur fossils.
- Alaskan crab fishermen battle the elements on the Bering Sea.
- When winter hits hard and the ground freezes, the season ends and the prep for next one begins.
- Extreme-weather survivors provide firsthand accounts of catastrophic forces of nature.
- Eight individuals hope to get a spot on shark scientist Dr. Riley Elliott's next diving expedition.
- A group of drivers from all over the country competes in a race for a $600,000 prize pool.
- The Raney family members put their skills and grit to the test on their own 40 acres.
- The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries protects the natural resources of the state.
- Experts and scientists expose dark secrets from some of the coldest places on Earth.
- Moonshiners Tim and Howard rediscover legendary liquors that have been lost to time.
- A behind-the-scenes look inside the world of emergency medicine in Texas.
- Stel Pavlou and Jess Phoenix investigate a new trail of evidence in a quest to locate Atlantis.
- Camera crews embed with Cal Fire firefighters to bring viewers an immersive perspective on blazes.
