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Rob Riggle is a lot of things. He's a comedian. He's a Marine Corps veteran. He's a father. He's a ski master . Most recently, he's a global investigator, traveling all over the world solving history's greatest mysteries. You may not have known about this most recent one, but you can catch up on it now.

Rob Riggle: Global Investigator is a loving parody of travel mystery shows like Expedition Unknown , with ubiquitous comic actor Riggle ( The Hangover , 21 Jump Street , Step Brothers ) playing the Josh Gates role as he searches for Atlantis or the Holy Grail or buried pirate treasure. Unlike Gates, though, he has no expertise in history or archeology or anything like that, just irrational self-confidence. He's a regular Indiana Jones, if Indiana Jones were a total goofball. 

But Rob Riggle: Global Investigator is not simply a parody of Discovery Channel travel mystery shows: it also really is a Discovery Channel travel mystery show. Riggle actually does travel to historic locations and talk to experts and recount facts in that very specific edutainment show host voiceover cadence. He's just being funny while he does it. If you watch Rob Riggle: Global Investigator , which is now available to stream on Hulu , you'll definitely laugh and you might even learn something.

A comedian solves historical mysteries

Rob Riggle: Global Investigator had a quiet six-episode run on Discovery last spring. It had the unfortunate timing of premiering the week in March when America started shutting down due to the pandemic. People were perhaps not interested in a lighthearted travel show at a moment when global travel was basically impossible. But now travel is starting to seem like it may be possible again relatively soon, and Rob Riggle: Global Investigator is making a splash on Hulu.

Episodes of Rob Riggle: Global Investigator include the series premiere, in which Riggle travels to Greece to search for the ruins of Atlantis, the ancient civilization described by the philosopher Plato, using Plato's writings as a guide. The tone of the show is fun and hard to describe. The character of "Rob Riggle, Global Investigator" is very loose, and there's a lot of the real Riggle in there. They're basically the same guy. It's like anytime he's interacting with a real person, he's pranking them and seriously asking them questions at the same time.

It's a fun show, and it goes by quick. If you like Discovery Channel travel shows, learning about history, and Judd Apatow comedies, you should check out Rob Riggle: Global Investigator .

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EXCLUSIVE : A number of long-running Travel Channel originals are set to move to Discovery + as the factual giant ramps up its experimentation around windowing.

Deadline understands that a handful of Travel Channel originals, most notably in the paranormal space, will run first on the nascent streaming service rather than on the linear network.

The move is the latest example of digital disruption in the traditional programming space as companies look to provide a boon for their streaming services in an effort to bolster subscriber numbers.

Linear networks have traditionally premiered shows before moving to streaming, but Discovery is in talks to “pre-premiere” a number of the Travel Channel’s most popular originals on Discovery+.

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While many of these shows will likely eventually air on the linear cable network, it’s a sign of a shift in thinking at the David Zaslav-run company.

It is a similar strategy to that employed by Disney+ and Nat Geo, where the latter’s originals including The World According to Jeff Goldblum, The Right Stuff, Genius and Weird But True! moved to Disney+.

The exact Travel Channel titles that are set to move to Discovery+ have not yet been set in stone but Deadline understands that new seasons of shows such as the long-running Ghost Adventures and The Dead Files are among those that are under consideration for the shift.

A Ghost Adventures spin-off featuring the Cecil Hotel in LA – where Night Stalker Richard Ramirez was thought to have carried out some of his murder spree – was one of the initial launch shows for Discovery+.

The Travel Channel has largely pivoted towards the paranormal in recent years.

Discovery+ is also developing original series in this space and recently struck a multi-year exclusive deal with Hostel director Eli Roth to develop projects in the horror and paranormal realm.

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Remember when Travel Channel had programs related to—travel? From Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations to Samantha Brown’s Great Hotels , its reality TV showed us the world, its people and places. Now Travel Channel is all shows about the paranormal, and has completely abandoned anything associated with its name.

Hotel Impossible star Anthony Melchiorri tweeted this week that all eight seasons of his show are now free with Amazon Prime Video. That made me wonder if it’d be possible to find some even earlier Travel Channel shows, like the the 2000s-era shows starring people like Bourdain and Brown, and the early 2010s-era shows like Hotel Impossible .

Some shows, I discovered, like Xtreme Waterparks , are available on Travel’s website , but you need a cable login to watch. Others, like Samantha Brown’s Great Hotels , just aren’t available anywhere.

But here are six excellent Travel Channel shows I found that can be streamed for free.

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations

Anthony Bourdain's original show, and probably the best reality show Travel Channel has ever aired or will ever air. Bourdian's curiosity was his guide as he traveled around the world, talking to people and eating with them.

All eight seasons are free on Travel Channel's website, and Pluto has six seasons , while seasons seven and eight are on Hulu .

The Layover with Anthony Bourdain

The Layover was Anthony Bourdain's second Travel Channel series. In each episode, Bourdain explores a city in less than 48 hours.

But ultimately it's similar to his other series, which Bourdain told The New Yorker are structured like this: "I travel around the world, eat a lot of shit, and basically do whatever the fuck I want.”

Both seasons of The Layover are free on Travel Channel's on-demand, and also on Pluto TV .

Hotel Impossible

Anthony Melchiorri helps independent hotels and inns refresh their rooms and solve their problems.

Of all the business makeover reality shows, it's among the best. Sometimes it leaned toward forced Gordon Ramsay-ish drama, but nearly always was realistic and honest about problems the hotel was having and what it'd take to fix them.

All nine seasons are free with Amazon Prime, and the show is also free on-demand from Travel Channel.

Dhani Tackles the Globe

NFL linebacker Dhani Jones, of the Cincinnati Bengals, traveled the world in two seasons of his series, but instead of eating at restaurants or exploring spectacular hotels, he played sports.

His show "explores how traditional sports directly impact some of the most vibrant cultures around the world," Travel Channel said, while Dhani "experiences the thrills and challenges of each game by playing it himself and becomes fully immersed in each region's authentic cultural experience."

Both seasons are free on Pluto TV.

Airport 24/7: Miami

In 2004, A&E followed Southwest Airlines crew members for a show called Airline , which sort of came back eight years later on TLC with a show called On the Fly .

Also that year, Travel Channel launched Airport 24/7 , which was similar except it followed people who worked at Miami International Airport. It focused on drama, yes, but also profiled the people whose work is often invisible but critical.

All three seasons are on-demand via Pluto TV.

Samantha Brown's Great Weekends

Samantha Brown was the first Travel Channel star I knew, hosting specials and shows from "Disney Holiday Magic" to Great Hotels . She showed off places while showing me just how much fun and joyful travel could be.

Alas, most of her shows aren't available to stream, but all three seasons of the 2009-2010 series Great Weekends are free on Pluto TV.

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By Brigid Kelly

By Brigid Kelly and Thomas White

When the Discovery Channel first launched in 1985 with 156,000 subscribers, the Cold War was in full bloom, Apple had introduced its first Macintosh just a year earlier, mullets and Madonna dominated pop culture and high-carb diets were in. Twenty years later, the Discovery Network is an empire of 14 channels, including Discovery Channel, that collectively reach 1.2 billion subscribers in 160 countries, and the world is a very different place.

Discovery's story is one of opportunity and good timing. According to Billy Campbell, president of Discovery Networks, US, John Hendricks' inspiration for starting up the channel "was actually very straightforward and quite wonderfully simple. He loved documentaries and he thought there should be a channel devoted to great documentarians and their visions and their passions. I think then and today his and our mutual goal and mission is to provide the audience, as well as our filmmakers, with a home for great documentary filmmaking." The process to raise the seed money for the launch took about three years, with funding coming first from Allen and Company, then from a consortium of cable operators that included TCI (now Liberty Media), Cox Communications (now Cox Enterprises), Advance Newhouse and United Cable. On June 17, 1985, Discovery aired Iceberg Alley (Peter d'Entremont, dir./prod./wtr.; Bob Hutt, prod.), a 1980 production from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and National Film Board of Canada.

Subsequent programming included Russia: Live from the Inside (Ken Schaffer and Marina Albee, prods./dirs.), a satellite transmission of Soviet-era television, as the Soviets saw it. The program, which aired in 1987, earned Discovery its first award, an ACE (now CableACE) Award for Cable Excellence. The programming in the early years was all acquisitions, but in 1989 Discovery commissioned its first original program, Ivory Wars (Philip Cayford, dir./prod.), which aired in September of that year.

Also in 1989, Discovery launched Discovery Networks International in the UK, marking the beginning of a worldwide endeavor. "I don't think that John [Hendricks] ever envisioned the company being what it is today," Campbell notes. "He was always excited about content that would be what we refer to as 'platform neutral,' so that it aired on any channel around the world. That's the great thing about exploration and science and nature; it has universal appeal."

To further buttress that international beachhead in the UK, Discovery and the BBC formed a partnership in 1998 to create new programming and cable channels worldwide. "We've always viewed the BBC as a great partner and a great supplier," Campbell asserts. "It was a fantastic opportunity to take someone who supplies us with some of our largest and most spectacular specials every year and create a partnership that allows them to have a great output source and gives us a great input. We're able to go to them and tap into their library and collective array of producers and units that consistently tie into the type of programming that we want to air."

Discovery expanded dramatically in the 1990s, beginning with the acquisitions of The Learning Channel (now TLC) in 1991 and the Travel Channel in 1997 and continuing with the launches of Animal Planet, Discovery Science Channel (now the Science Channel), and Discovery Civilization Channel (now Discovery Times Channel) in 1996, Discovery Health in 1999 and Discovery HD Theater in 2002, among others. With such growth in such a concentrated period of time, one might speculate that Discovery's core mission would be diluted across 14 channels, and that Discovery Channel itself, known for its science and nature programming, might find itself replicated in Animal Planet, TLC or the Science Channel. Those channels, in turn, may find it challenging to maintain their distinct identities while pledging allegiance to the Discovery brand. Yes and no, claims Campbell. " It's always difficult when you have a family of 14 not to either encourage or step on each other's toes a little, but the choices that were made from a managerial point of view in terms of which channels we launched and supported and marketed has made it a challenge that we can handle.

"If you look at most of the channels, they're all very targeted in terms of their programming, content and audience," Campbell continues. "Animal Planet--pretty clear who we're targeting. Travel Channel--pretty clear what the message is. Then we have Discovery Times Channel, which has been a wonderful new addition in terms of current events and historical content programming. The Science Channel, much more in-depth in terms of what science is and can be, is a great sister channel to Discovery."

In concert with this growth, however, independent filmmakers who have produced content for Discovery have noted a considerable change in the working dynamic since the mid-1990s. Barry Clark and Terry Tanner Clark were among the first independent producers to create original programming for the channel. In the nearly '90s the Clarks developed Hunters , a predator/prey series that became one of the most popular programs on the network, and followed that with the highly rated historical series Outlaws and Lawmen . With Discovery still in a start-up mode, working with the network was a pleasure for the Clarks. In return for delivering talented filmmakers and high-quality productions to the network, the Clarks virtually wrote their own contracts, receiving Writers Guild credits on their shows and retaining a high level of creative control over their work.

In the mid-'90s, however, as Discovery's audience and ad revenues rapidly grew, the network began to exert greater control over the producers it hired, demanding all rights to the programs it commissioned, without a commensurate increase in production budgets. For producers like the Clarks, the lure of the network quickly faded--a mindset that spread through the production community over the past five years as cable channels proliferated and, with the pie divided into progressively smaller pieces, program budgets took a nose-dive. Today the Clarks produce little nonfiction television, preferring instead to produce big-budget, high-production films for IMAX theaters and other special venues. "We were glad to work with Discovery in its heyday," Barry Clark says. "But we have far more creative freedom and independence this way."

While some producers are disparaged by the rates Discovery pays for its programming, others understand the drill. According to Gayle Fields, a former producer on six Discovery shows, including Monster Nation , "With DV cameras and cheaper editing systems, it doesn't cost as much to make shows anymore." She adds that funding for the shows depends on what time slot one gets. If you have a daytime slot, there are less advertising dollars coming in so you get less money for your show. If you have a primetime slot, more money is available.

From one producer's point of view, Discovery can be very departmentalized. Fields acknowledges that there's a lot of support staff at Discovery to help producers work through guidelines and an online producer's guide with instantly accessible forms and directions on deliverables, but it's a big corporation and sometimes show strategies change without everybody knowing. "We started assembling our show thinking it was going to be 50 minutes long with very specific timing breaks, and then found out that the clock on the program had been changed--which forced us to re-cut some of our shows," says Fields. While everything turned out well in the end, there was a bit of running around before final delivery. "I'm sure this happens everywhere," she admits. "It's just part of being in the business."

"What we try to do is always have an open dialogue with our partners, our suppliers, and we listen," Campbell maintains. "If in fact there are comments about too much scrutiny or not enough scrutiny or the way the deals are made, we listen and we try to do what's right for Discovery and for our partners. And the most important aspect is that we do provide a forum for them to talk about these things--a space in which we listen to their criticisms, concerns, goals and passions and try to make sure that we're addressing and adapting to what they need. But in the end, we are very open to suggestions. And you know what? We're in business with more producers today than we've ever been in."

As far as budgets are concerned, "We listen to the project and what we think it requires for the producer to deliver on their vision and on our stated goals of what we want to deliver in terms of being at the highest quality provider of our kind of entertainment anywhere in the world," says Campbell. "Like every business, we have models and budgets, but by and large whatever is required to get the show done in the way that it needs and to maintain that quality, we'll pay it."

As the cable and broadcasting industries shore up for the high-definition transformation, Discovery, with the Discovery HD Theater channel leading the way, is well on the road to conversion. But will production budgets increase in keeping with the higher-end HD format? "We try to do as many projects as possible in HD because we're convinced that the world will be watching in HD within the next several years," Campbell asserts. "So when a project comes in, we have a conversation and if it makes sense, we try to shoot it in HD. Today that is slightly more costly, but as technology improves and as these producers understand that it's to their advantage to shoot in HD, those costs are really narrowing."

High definition or not, 14 channels in 160 countries equals hundreds of hours to fill, and that has meant more reality series like Monster Nation and American Chopper , and fewer one-off documentaries. Discovery Times and the theatrical-broadcast hybrid project Discovery Docs seem to be the exception in terms of encouraging distinctive, high-end, high-impact documentaries; Lions Gate Entertainment and Discovery Channel joined forces to produce Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man , which will be released theatrically in August and will air in 2006. When asked about the mix of series and one-offs, Campbell explains, "Our strategy is two-fold: We want to have great series and great signature specials. They need to be ambitious, of pristine quality and adventurous in the way that they're shot and told. In the last couple of years, we've focused a little more on trying to have great series. We've always been known for wonderful, one-off specials; let's also be known for great series that you can come to every week on Discovery, TLC and these channels. I think we've done a very, very nice job in that area. But it's a balance.

"This year, for example, while we've launched Deadliest Catch , which is one of our top-rated series of all time, it's paired during the week with Myth Busters , which is also one of our top-rated shows, and is very scientifically oriented. And those are balanced by Pompei , which did over a three rating, and Super Volcano , which almost did a four rating. We've got The Greatest Americans , we've got James Cameron going down to the Titanic for the last time. So we're in no way staying away from great specials, but there needs to be a balance in today's world, with 150 channels that every home seems to get. You need to have things that people like to make an appointment for, not just a one-off special. We really think it's a great strategy for us to be two-pronged."

As Discovery celebrates its 20th anniversary, the cabler faces a brave new world of challenges and opportunities, with a myriad of options for the end user. "The challenges are always somewhat the same: How do you continue to be fresh and innovative, and how do you reach an audience that has such different choices and opportunities available to them every day?" Campbell notes. "Technology makes those choices and opportunities extremely viable and easy. You can almost watch anything you want, whether it be time-shifted on a TiVo device, video-on-demand or on a computer. How do I take what I think is the best programming and get you to watch it? "I think the opportunities are that with technology and with high definition, we are able to now show things unlike you've ever seen in the world," he continues. "One of our top priorities is the most unbelievable programming I think I've ever seen, which will air a year from now, called Planet Earth , from the same producer at the BBC, Alastair Fothergill, who did Blue Planet . He's now taking even better technology that allows him to shoot nature and wildlife from over a mile away--from a helicopter--and never ever scare the animals. So you see shots like you're there. We'll platform that as a 10- or 11-hour special. Two years ago when he pitched it, it was just a dream, and technology has come to a place where it creates viewing opportunities that will be absolutely novel for any viewer next year. So I think that we'll continue to expand. That's the exciting part--it's endless and limitless."

Brigid Kelly is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker. Thomas White is editor of Documentary.

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WHAT IS ON DISCOVERY PLUS?

discovery+ is Discovery’s foray into the Streaming Wars. The new service hosts over 55,000 episodes of classic Discovery Channel, Food Network, TLC, HGTV, OWN, Magnolia Network, and Animal Planet shows, with new episodes added every day. Plus, discovery+ will be home to exclusive originals featuring the company’s biggest stars, including Chip and Joanna Gaines, 90 Day Fiancé  couples, and more.

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Imagine your favorite show on Food Network, HGTV, TLC, or Lifetime — all of that is available to stream on discovery+, and much, much more. The amount of content available on the new service is simply staggering, and for that reason, it’s too much to list here. However, here’s a sampling of discovery+ shows available from different Discovery networks:

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Beginning January 29, discovery+ subscribers will have access to discovery+ channels, a new feature that enables customers to tune in 24/7 to non-stop streams of popular titles, including  90 Day Fiancé , House Hunters , Fixer Upper , and more.

Stay tuned for more information regarding discovery+ channels in the weeks ahead!

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discovery+ is available on a variety of different devices, including Roku, Amazon FireTV and FireStick, Apple TV, and on mobile and desktop browsers. To see the full list of discovery+ supported devices, head to the service’s How to Stream page .

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Discovery is currently offering subscribers two different discovery+ plans. The service’s ad-supported plan is priced at $4.99/month, while the premium, ad-free plan will cost subscribers $6.99/month. However, customers can also take advantage of a free seven-day promo , so be sure to check it out before committing for good.

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Wisconsin teen sentenced in bonfire explosion that burned at least 17

FILE - Sam Armstrong appears in court Monday, Feb. 5, 2023, in Shawano, Wis. Armstrong pleaded no contest in February to 13 counts of injury by negligent use of an explosive. The 18-year-old who triggered a bonfire explosion that injured more than a dozen people at a backyard gathering in eastern Wisconsin has been sentenced to a year in jail and five years probation. Armstrong appeared Thursday April 11, 2024, in Shawano County Court, WLUK-TV reported. (WLUK-TV via AP, File)

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MAPLE GROVE, Wis. (AP) — An 18-year-old who triggered a bonfire explosion that injured more than a dozen people at a backyard gathering in eastern Wisconsin has been sentenced to a year in jail and five years probation.

Sam Armstrong appeared Thursday in Shawano County Court, WLUK-TV reported.

Armstrong pleaded no contest in February to 13 counts of injury by negligent use of an explosive . A no-contest plea is not an admission of guilt but is used as such at sentencing.

Armstrong was attending a bonfire on Oct. 14, 2022, with other teenagers in Maple Grove, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) northwest of Green Bay, when he threw a barrel containing a mix of gasoline and diesel into the fire, sparking an explosion that burned at least 17 of the roughly 60 youths who were there, authorities have said.

He told police he didn’t know his actions would cause an explosion and injure anyone, according to a criminal complaint. Armstrong told investigators he had been drinking beer.

He faces several civil lawsuits filed by some of the people who were injured in the explosion.

Benjamin Van Asten, one of those injured in the explosion, told the court Thursday that he forgives Armstrong’s “one little slip-up” and that Armstrong was “trying to be cool in front of all of his friends.”

Speaking from remarks prepared by Armstrong, defense attorney Greg Petit told the court that his client was sorry, ashamed and embarrassed.