Rogers Sports & Media last week unveiled its winter slate of content for its recently licensed Discovery, HGTV, Food Network, Investigation Discovery (ID) and Magnolia Network specialty channels, launching Jan. 1.
“Through Rogers and Rogers Sports & Media, Canadians won’t miss a beat when it comes to watching new episodes from returning hit series and new titles from North America’s biggest home renovation and culinary stars,” Colette Watson, president of Rogers Sports & Media, said in a statement. “We continue to work with all distribution partners to ensure viewers can watch this top-rated content where and when they want.”
In addition to Rogers’s launch of the five channels — made possible through a blockbuster licensing deal secured with Warner Bros. Discovery earlier this year — the Rogers streaming service Citytv+ will add thousands of hours of new and returning shows from Discovery, HGTV, Food Network, ID, Magnolia Network, OWN, Cooking Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Science, and MotorTrend. Citytv+ already streams content from Citytv, Bravo, FX and FXX.
The Discovery channel will feature new seasons of Homestead Rescue, Expedition X, Hustlers Gamblers Crooks, Moonshiners, Moonshiners: Master Distiller, as well as new series Expedition Files and The Last Woodsmen, beginning in January. Discovery will also air repeat seasons of Caught!, Gold Rush, Big Little Brawlers, and Outback Opal Hunters, plus special events such as Shark Week and Puppy Bowl.
Starting in January, HGTV will deliver new seasons of Celebrity IOU with Drew and Jonathan Scott, House Hunters, Home Town with Erin and Ben Napier, Fixer to Fabulous, and My Lottery Dream Home, plus Married to Real Estate, Zillow Gone Wild, and Help! I Wrecked My House. HGTV will also air repeat seasons from Why the Heck Did I Buy This House?, Rico to the Rescue, and Battle on the Mountain.
The Food Network will serve up new seasons of competition series Chopped, Kids Baking Championship, Wildcard Kitchen, and Spring Baking Championship, plus Beat Bobby Flay, Guy Fieri’s Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, and Guy’s Grocery Games.
ID’s schedule will include new seasons of Signs of a Psychopath, Very Scary People, Murder Under the Friday Night Lights, Death by Fame, Body Cam: On the Scene, and Evil Lives Here, plus past seasons of Real Time Crime.
Magnolia Network this January will offer new seasons of Maine Cabin Masters, Building Outside the Lines, and In With the Old, as well as past seasons of Beachfront Bargain Hunt: Renovation and Barnwood Builders.
