Entertainment
The Best Discovery Channel Shows Of All Time
As Shark Week is upon us we couldn't help but think of The Discovery Channel and its humble beginnings. Who ever would have thought that we'd see so many hits throughout the years. As such we decided to poll what viewers think are the best Discovery Channel shows ever. Get your vote out there!
Ranked by
- 1Jon Lung, Brian Louden
- Premiered: January 23, 2003
- Genres: Documentary
Hosts test urban legends. - 2Mark Tewksbury, Lynne Adams, Brooks Moore
- Premiered: January 6, 2001
- Genres: Documentary
How everyday items are made. - 3Mike Rowe, David M. Barsky, Doug Glover
- Premiered: November 7, 2003
- Genres: Reality
Host: Mike Rowe. - 4Rick Quashnick, Sig Hansen, Edgar Hansen
- Premiered: April 12, 2005
- Genres: Adventure,Documentary,Reality
Alaskan crab fishermen battle the elements on the Bering Sea. - 5Bear Grylls, Will Ferrell, Jake Gyllenhaal
- Premiered: March 10, 2006
- Genres: Adventure,Reality
Surviving in the wild armed with only the basics. - 6Jeremy Wade, Daniel Göz
- Premiered: April 5, 2009
- Genres: Documentary,Reality
Jeremy Wade, an extreme angler, searches for freshwater fish with a taste for human flesh. - 7Paul Christie, Dean Lennox Kelly
- Premiered: October 28, 2011
- Genres: Adventure,Reality
Oregonians stake everything on mining and head north to Alaska to dig for gold. - 8Mike Rowe, Erik Todd Dellums
- Premiered: April 25, 2010
- Genres: Documentary
Exploring the inner workings of outer space. - 9Nancy Linsky, Kevin Tyler Moody
- Premiered: August 4, 2013
- Genres: Talk
Host Rob Riggle celebrates Shark Week with special guests, shark experts, highlights, and previews. - 10Rupert Degas, Robert Llewellyn
- Premiered: May 6, 2006
- Genres: Documentary
Ordinary objects that are products of the most scientific engineering processes. - 11Mike 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 - 12Paul 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 - 13Joshua Wurman, Reed Timmer, Sean Casey
- Premiered: October 17, 2007
- Genres: Documentary
Filmmaker Sean Casey chases and films dangerous storms. - 14Dustin Hurt, Fred Hurt, Wes Richardson
- Premiered: January 19, 2018
- Genres: Adventure,Reality
Dakota Fred and his son, Dustin, dive deep beneath raging waters to search for gold. - 15Cody Lundin, Dave Canterbury
- Premiered: June 11, 2010
- Genres: Adventure,Reality
Survival experts share the basics of finding water, food, shelter and eventually help. - 16Chris 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 - 17Christie Brimberry, Richard Rawlings, Aaron Kaufmann
- Premiered: June 6, 2012
- Genres: Reality,Sport
Richard Rawlings and Aaron Kaufman search for forgotten and derelict classic cars to restore. - 18Paul Teutul Sr., Paul Teutul Jr., Michael Teutul
- Premiered: March 31, 2003
- Genres: Reality,Sport
A father-and-son team create custom-built choppers. - 19Glenn Stearns, RJ Messenger, Dawn Van Scoter
- Premiered: August 6, 2019
- Genres: Reality
A billionaire goes undercover to see if he can make a million-dollar company in just 90 days. - 20David Scott
- Premiered: October 14, 2008
- Genres: Reality,Sport
Chronicles the Iditarod Dog Sled Race. - 21Jeremy Schwartz
- Premiered: December 6, 2011
- Genres: Crime,Reality
Stories of people who brew their shine and the authorities who try to keep them honest. - 22Jeremy Schwartz, Eric 'Digger' Manes, Tim Smith
- Premiered: March 3, 2020
- Genres: Reality
Distillers go head-to-head in the ultimate booze-making competition. - 23Marty Raney, Misty Raney
- Premiered: June 17, 2016
- Genres: Reality
Homesteaders across the country turn to expert Marty Raney to teach them how to survive. - 24Otto Kilcher, Charlotte Kilcher, Atz Kilcher
- Premiered: December 29, 2011
- Genres: Adventure,Documentary,Reality
Profiling the life of the Kilcher family in the isolated community of Homer, led by patriarch Atz. - 25Josh Harris
- Premiered: April 14, 2020
- Genres: Reality
Josh Harris uses his father's old Hawaiian charts to follow in his footsteps.
