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Battle on the Mountain, an extension of HGTV’s popular competition series Battle on the Beach, is set to premiere Monday, January 22 at 9 pm with a two-hour episode.

Set at 13,000 feet above sea level, the six-episode Battle on the Mountain features three skilled teams, coached by home experts Rico León (Rico to the Rescue), Kim Myles (Design Star: Next Gen) and Kim Wolfe (Why The Heck Did I Buy This House?), who will face off to upgrade similar mountainside homes in Breckenridge, Colorado. Each team will work to add the most property value in hopes of clinching bragging rights and a $50,000 cash prize.

The premiere episode kicks off with kitchen and dining room makeovers that will set the tone for each mountaintop property’s metamorphosis, judged by popular HGTV home renovation couple Chelsea and Cole DeBoer (Down Home Fab) who will award the challenge winners with a $3,000 cash prize. As the season continues,...

HGTV and Food Network are bolstering their lineups.

The two cable networks, which are owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, have unveiled their first slates following the merger – although the faces remain familiar.

HGTV has ordered new series including Cristy Lee’s Steal This House, Rehab Addict Lake House Rescue from Nicole Curtis, Flip to A Million and First Home Fix, while Food Network has commissioned BBQ USA, It’s CompliPlated and Guy’s Ultimate Game Night from Guy Fieri.

The new slates mean that the two networks will have more than 70 new series across their 2022 schedules with HGTV producing more than 570 hours of new original programming in 2022 including 3 new series and specials, and 27 returning programs and Food Network with more than 660 hours of new programming for the year, including 40 new series and specials, and 30 returners. All shows will launch on Discovery+.

Jane Latman, who runs both networks as President, Home & Food Content and Streaming,...

Renee Zellweger played Bridget Jones so well that boyfriend Ant Anstead actually assumed her British accent was homegrown. That particular fun fact was discovered when the two—who began dating in late June after meeting on the set of Ant's Discovery+ show, Celebrity Iou: Joyride—got to know each other while filming the first episode. In the Aug. 23 episode, Renee and Ant, alongside Ant's co-host, Cristy Lee, teamed up to restore two cars as gifts for Jerome and Jerald—two brothers who served as caregivers of the Bridget Jones's Diary star's late publicist, Nanci Ryder. But before they tackled their project head-on, Cristy let her longtime mechanic...

Renée Zellweger has a new man in her life. According to multiple outlets, the Academy Award winner is dating Ant Anstead, who was previously married to HGTV star Christina Haack. TMZ reports the actress met the Brit on the set of his new Discovery+ show Celebrity Iou: Joyride. The show is basically a combination of MTV's Pimp My Ride and Celebrity Iou, with Ant and his co-host Cristy Lee helping the stars gift their loved ones with a new car.  The Bridget Jones' Diary actress participated in one of the episodes earlier this month, according to TMZ, and that's how she met her new love interest.  Prior to dating Ant, the starlet was in a...

Bet you didn't see this romance coming. According to multiple reports, Renée Zellweger and Ant Anstead are dating after meeting earlier this month on a work project. Sources tell TMZ the pair filmed an episode of Discovery+'s new show Celebrity Iou: Joyride where Ant and co-host Cristy Lee help celebs give a loved one a special car transformation. After their episode wrapped, the car expert and Oscar winner reportedly started hanging out and are getting to know each other more. Earlier this week, E! News confirmed that Christina Haack and Ant had finalized their divorce. According to court documents obtained by E! News, a judge signed off on the dissolution on...

Discovery, a day after announcing a landmark, $43 billion merger with AT&T’s WarnerMedia, delivered its first upfront presentation in two years to tout 2021-22 programming.

The virtual presentation promises a record investment in content for the company’s linear and digital outlets, including recently launched streaming service Discovery+. In taking the wraps off the WarnerMedia deal Monday, Discovery CEO David Zaslav said the combined company will be spending $20 billion a year on programming. Today’s upfront news didn’t come with a specific budget attached.

Cable TV brands under the Discovery tent include Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, Magnolia Network, Animal Planet, MotorTrend, Travel Channel and Science Channel.

Zaslav hosted the event along with Jon Steinlauf, Discovery’s Chief U.S. Advertising Sales Officer. Jim Keller, EVP of Digital Ad Sales and Advanced Advertising, presented Discovery’s Advanced Audience Solutions, a combination...

“Mythbusters” stars Adam Savage, Kari Byron and Tory Belleci were among those paying tribute to the late race car driver Jessi Combs following after she died in a crash on Tuesday.

“She was a brilliant & too-notch builder, engineer, driver, fabricator, and science communicator, & strove everyday to encourage others by her prodigious example,” Savage wrote in a tweet on Wednesday. “She was also a colleague, and we are lesser for her absence.”

Jay Leno, who hosted the driver on an episode of his CNBC show, “Jay Leno’s Garage,” also paid tribute to Combs on Twitter, writing, “Your memory lives on.”

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Automotive fans across North America can rev up their engines as summer winds down, while they celebrate both their loves of cars and support of their working class. Beginning this Friday, August 30, MotorTrend TV will offer audiences in the U.S. and Canada the ultimate ‘Top Gear’ collection exclusively via its app for its television […]

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Discovery plans to flip the switch on its rebrand of the Velocity cable channel as MotorTrend Network on Nov. 23, also know as the Black Friday kickoff of the holiday shopping season.

The switch comes a little over a year after Discovery set a joint venture with the MotorTrend Group, owner of the venerable Motor Trend monthly magazine. The rebranding is part of Discovery’s larger effort to build out multiplatform services around key programming genres such as automobile enthusiasts.

The fledgling MotorTrend Network streaming subscription service has about 200,000 subscribers who pay $5 a month for news, information and long- and short-form content. Programming that airs on the linear MotorTrend Network will premiere first on the subscription app.

Robert Scanlon, president of MotorTrend Network and head of video content for MotorTrend Group, said the chance to extend the Motor Trend brand to TV is “a great chance for us to cast a...

Rev your engines.

Velocity stars Chris Jacobs of “Overhaulin'” and Ray Evernham of “Americarna’s” will headline “Barrett-Jackson Live” collector car auction coverage in 2015 and TheWrap has your first look.

Espn’s Rick Debruhl will serve as the show’s play-by-play announcer, while Fox News’ Mike Joy, and former technical editor for Hot Rod Magazine, Steve Magnante, have been tapped as the show’s auction block experts. Co-host of Velocity’s “All Girls Garage,” Cristy Lee, will serve as the social media correspondent.

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“We’re set to deliver our viewers...