TV Discovery Channel and BBC partner to launch new streaming service By Ruth Kinane Ruth Kinane Ruth is a correspondent who covers TV shows such as Younger, Jersey Shore and The Affair. She will write you a drinking game for any show you want and will remain loyal to Britney Spears no matter how many fashion shows she posts on Instagram. EW's editorial guidelines Published on April 1, 2019 11:49AM EDT Photo: BBC Get ready for yet another streaming service — and this one’s a must for fans of nature docs. On Monday, Discovery, Inc. and BBC Studios jointly announced a multi-million-dollar global content partnership that will bring the BBC’s natural history, animals, adventure, science, travel, space, history and civilization documentaries to a Discovery streaming service. The service will also be the exclusive home for all the iconic BBC nature documentaries, such as Blue Planet and Planet Earth, outside of the U.K. The two companies will also create new, original fact-based content, which will be available on television and digitally, that — according the press release — “furthers audiences’ discovery of the world.” The new deal reunites Discovery and the BBC; they previously worked together on shows such as Planet Earth, Walking with Dinosaurs, Life, and Blue Planet. The new streaming service is set to launch in 2020. Related content: Discovery Channel fast-tracks Thai cave rescue documentary Joel Taylor of Discovery Channel’s Storm Chasers dead at age 38