Things You Didn't Know
The Discovery Channel’s first-ever program was Iceberg Alley.
The two most-watched nonfiction programs in the history of cable television — Discovery Channel’s Walking with Dinosaurs and Raising the Mammoth — aired within a month of each other in 2000.
The producers of the hit CBS series CSI and CSI: Miami say that the inspiration for their programs came directly from the long-running Discovery Channel series, The New Detectives.
