Discovery Channel in the United States

Read the title and format in the original announcement

Discovery Channel’s March 2026 announcement placed several kinds of programmes on the same network. It identified 120 Hours Behind Bars, which follows activity inside US detention facilities, and Jeff Dunham’s The Cars That Drove Us, which uses a collection of cars to tell stories about automotive design and history. Both appear in the same slate, with different titles and formats.

If you recognise the subject from a promotion, find the full show name in the network announcement. Use that name for the episode search, since a broad term such as cars or survival can bring up several Discovery programmes.

A new season and a new series are different listings

Discovery’s May 2026 schedule highlights described returning seasons of Deadliest Catch and Homestead Rescue alongside the start of Naked and Afraid: Global Showdown. Keep the subtitle when looking for the competition series. The parent title Naked and Afraid also appears independently in provider listings. The same release separately named In the Eye of the Storm: Chasers as a new series, with its own premiere entry.

Note the date and whether a release describes a series launch or a returning season. If you are looking for the first episode of a returning series, check the new season number in the episode list. An older first episode can have the same series name.

Check the current channel and the exact episode

DIRECTV’s current network page labels the US channel Discovery and separately lists on-demand shows including Deadliest Catch and Homestead Rescue. If you have that provider, use its guide for a scheduled showing and the named series entry for on-demand episodes. With another provider, use the same title and season details in its own Discovery listings.