Science Channel
American pay television channel
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| February 26 2024 |
Discovery Science
Discovery Science was replaced by TLC in France.
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| January 5 2024 |
Discovery Science
Discovery Science, alongside DTX, officially ceases broadcasting in Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
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| January 1 2024 |
Discovery Science
Discovery Science begins removal from TV operators in Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
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| October 5 2023 | Second season of BattleBots: Champions, titled BattleBots II: Sin City, begins airing on Discovery Channel and MAX, running until November 9, 2023. |
| May 2023 | 'BattleBots Proving Ground' live show started, featuring fights between newly designed or untested bots from newcomers or unproven teams. |
| May 25 2023 | Twelfth season of BattleBots, 'World Championship VII', concluded. |
| March 16 2023 | Conclusion of the twelfth season of What on Earth?, confirming the show has not been cancelled. |
| February 2023 | 'BattleBots: Destruct-A-Thon' live show began, presenting unscripted fights between replica bots four days a week until May. |
| January 12 2023 | What on Earth? returns for its twelfth season, with episodes airing from January 12 through March 16, 2023. |
| January 5 2023 | Twelfth season of BattleBots premieres. |
| August 5 2022 | Second BattleBots spin-off, BattleBots: Champions, premieres on Discovery+. |
| August 4 2022 | BattleBots: Champions streaming series begins airing on Discovery+, running until September 8, 2022. |
| July 19 2022 | BattleBots: Champions spin-off series is officially announced. |
| June 23 2022 | HyperShock won the re:MARS minor tournament in Las Vegas, competing against eight other robots. |
| March 9 2022 |
Discovery Science
Discovery Inc. closed Discovery Science in Russia in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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| January 6 2022 | Eleventh season of BattleBots premieres. |
| 2021 | Science Channel debuts 'Homemade Astronauts' television show, featuring DIY enthusiasts attempting to build their own space exploration equipment in personal settings like farms, ranches, garages, and backyards. |
| September 19 2021 | Killers of the Cosmos documentary television series premiered on the Science Channel, hosted by Aidan Gillen. |
| March 18 2021 | The BattleBots: Bounty Hunters series concluded on Discovery+, completing its run of six episodes featuring bounty matches against veteran bots like Bronco, Icewave, Tombstone, Beta, Witch Doctor, and Son of Whyachi. |
| March 1 2021 |
Discovery Science
The channel began following a timeshifted schedule of the Southeast Asia feed.
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| January 4 2021 | First BattleBots spin-off, BattleBots: Bounty Hunters, premieres on Discovery+. |
| 2020 | Following Grant Imahara's death, the Best Designer award was renamed to the Grant Imahara Award for Best Design in his honor. |
| 2020 | Peter Abrahamson was added as a ringside 'bot whisperer' providing technical details and in-depth analysis of robot matchups |
| December 3 2020 | BattleBots announced a new spin-off streaming series called BattleBots: Bounty Hunters, which would feature 48 bots in a unique tournament format with six veteran bots as bounty targets. |
| December 3 2020 | Tenth season of BattleBots premieres. |
| January 2020 |
The Explosion Show
The Explosion Show premiered on the Science Channel, introducing a television series focused on exploring explosive phenomena and scientific demonstrations.
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| June 7 2019 | Ninth season of BattleBots premieres on Discovery Channel. |
| June 6 2019 | Witch Doctor won the re:MARS minor tournament in Las Vegas, competing against ten other robots. |
| June 5 2019 | BattleBots returned for a season on Discovery and Science Channel, with Chris Rose and Kenny Florian hosting and Jenny Taft as the new sideline reporter. |
| March 24 2019 |
How It's Made
Final episode of the 'How It's Made' series aired, concluding its long-running production of manufacturing documentary content.
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| 2018 | The Science Channel continues to broadcast the documentary science television series 'Mars: The Secret Science'. |
| 2018 | Chris Rose and Kenny Florian became primary hosts, with Jessica Chobot switching to sideline reporter and Alison Haislip becoming a rotating judge. New judges included former BattleBots competitors Lisa Winter, Derek Young, Grant Imahara, and Mark Setrakian |
| May 11 2018 | Discovery Channel and Science pick up BattleBots for its eighth season, which premieres on this date. |
| April 2018 | Discovery Channel and Science Channel announced a new season of BattleBots, premiering May 11 and May 16 respectively. |
| 2017 | Show renewed for a fourth season on Science Channel. |
| January 17 2017 |
Discovery Science
Discovery Science was removed from Canal+ following Altice's exclusivity agreement with NBCUniversal and Discovery Networks.
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| 2016 | Show renewed for a third season on Science Channel. |
| 2016 | The Science Channel first broadcasts the documentary science television series 'Mars: The Secret Science', narrated by David O'Brien. |
| 2016 | Samantha Ponder replaced Molly McGrath as host, with returning judges Fon Davis, Jessica Chobot, and Leland Melvin, plus celebrity guest judges including Clark Gregg, Adam Savage, Vernon Davis, and Michael Stevens |
| June 23 2016 | ABC renews BattleBots for a seventh season, which premieres on this date. |
| 2015 | BattleBots was hosted by Molly McGrath, with Chris Rose and Kenny Florian as commentators, and Faruq Tauheed as battle arena announcer |
| 2015 | Pete Lampertson continued overseeing the BattleBox arena design, now assisted by Matt Neubauer. |
| November 2015 | ABC announced renewal of BattleBots for its seventh overall season, with the 2016 competition expanding to a 56-team field. |
| June 21 2015 | BattleBots is revived on ABC with a six-episode series, receiving favorable reviews and ratings. |
| February 2015 | What on Earth? television program debuts on Science Channel, examining strange satellite imagery and phenomena. |
| 2014 | Second season of 'Strip the City' was produced and aired, continuing the series' exploration of urban engineering and city infrastructures. |
| December 2014 | ABC announced a six-episode revival of BattleBots, produced by Whalerock Industries, set to premiere in June 2015. |
| January 24 2013 |
Discovery Science
Discovery channels returned to Numericable in France.
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| January 23 2013 |
Dark Matters: Twisted But True
Dark Matters: Extra Twisted premiered on the Science Channel, featuring a new season of episodes that revisit previous stories with deeper insights and new information.
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| 2011 |
Dinosaur Revolution
Dinosaur Revolution television series initially aired, featuring prehistoric dinosaur documentary content
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This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Strip the City, What on Earth? (American TV program), Dark Matters: Twisted But True, How It's Made, Killers of the Cosmos, The Explosion Show, Dinosaur Revolution, BattleBots, Discovery Science (European TV channel), Mars: The Secret Science, Homemade Astronauts & Discovery Science (Indian TV channel), which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.