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If you’ve been watching the FX network’s retro spy series, The Americans, which has its season finale tonight, you may or may not have noticed a recurring cameo by the National Geographic headquarters building as seen from the window of the show’s FBI headquarters (that’s us in the picture above, with our flat roof…
Are you watching?! The challenges that a show like this faces are huge and numerous, and the production team has been working tirelessly for three months, against all odds, to pull it off. Here are some pictures from the final moments leading up to the live event, including technical rehearsals, when the crew tests the…
Veteran producer, actor and TV host Mark Thompson will be taking to the air live on Friday, November 25th to lead us through the ‘Shark Attack Experiment’. Stationed in the middle of the action, Mark will be on board our TV-Studio at sea — a tricked out catamaran, 6km off the coast of Scottburgh, South…
On November 25, Nat Geo WILD is going to go half way around the world to some of the most shark-infested waters on the planet, get into the water with those sharks – with nothing between them and our experts – and systematically test what triggers these animals to attack humans. And we’re going to…
Stardate 20153.7: People in the United States were the first to boldly watch what no TV viewer had seen before. In more ancient (i.e., today’s) terms, it was on September 8, 1966, that the first episode of Star Trek, now subtitled The Original Series, aired on NBC. —Perhaps one of the most famous TOS scenes.…
By Ker Than “Thanks, but no thanks.” That was the gist of NASA’s response to advice from famed British physicist Stephen Hawking that humanity should stop trying to attract the attention of aliens, some of whom could be hostile to us Earthlings. Hawking issued his warning during an episode of the Discovery Channel series “Into…
















