Or maybe you like your travel shows with sumptuous meals involved, which is where Bobby and Giada in Italy enters the picture, with Food Network stars Bobby Flay and Giada DeLaurentis heartily eating their way through Rome and Tuscany. I never knew I needed to see a grand dame zip-lining through rainforest treetops until Judi Dench’s Wild Borneo Adventure, which features a buoyant Dame Dench touring the rainforest landscape with awe and wonder, marveling at its creatures and its vistas. Discovery has invested over a thousand hours of original programming into this launch, with more on the horizon when Chip and Joanna Gaines parlay their lifestyle empire into the new Magnolia Network.
Revisiting these old favorites and their familiar, predictable rhythms feels like slipping into your favorite pair of sweatpants, but what really sets Discovery+ apart from the streaming pack is its original content.
If you’re a Shark Week die-hard, then the modest cost of Discovery+ is worth it for year-round Shark Week access alone. If you’re used to tuning into these shows while absentmindedly channel-surfing, you’ll enjoy dialing up twenty-plus seasons of them on demand. New episodes hit the platform shortly after they air on cable television, but while you wait for those to land, you’ll have no shortage of archived offerings from the expansive back catalogue of long-running hits, like Fixer Upper, Property Brothers, Dance Moms, Good Eats, Planet Earth, and Mythbusters, just to name a few. Here’s the lowdown: for the monthly price of $4.99 with ads or $6.99 to stream ad-free, Discovery+ offers on-demand content from a huge swath of cable networks, including HGTV, The Food Network, TLC, Animal Planet, Lifetime, The History Channel, Science Channel, and Trvl Channel, among many others.
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