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Discovery Has Announced that it's taking its Streaming Service Ambitions Worldwide

Discovery has announced that it's taking its streaming service ambitions worldwide. Discovery+ will launch on January 4, 2021 in the US and the rollout will continue in 2021 across Italy, Latin America including Brazil, the Netherlands, the Nordics, and Spain. Alongside, Discovery+ has announced 29 originals for the US market, featuring the likes of Sir David Attenborough, David Schwimmer, and Kevin Hart, and three Indian originals, led by Manoj Bajpayee, Randeep Hooda, Rana Daggubati, and Neeraj PandeyAttenborough is lending his voice to a new five-part series called A Perfect Planet, due in 2021. A Perfect Planet will also be available on Discovery+ in India. In the UK, A Perfect Planet is a BBC original. Friends star Schwimmer will narrate Mysterious Planet, a special that tells us the secrets about the world's most incredible species. And Hart will go on a road trip in Route 66 (working title) to explore the American heartland. You can learn more about the other 26 Discovery+ US originals here, which involve Amy Schumer, Ludacris, Dan Levy, Bobby Flay, Giada De Laurentiis, Sebastian Maniscalco, and Martha Stewart among others. Discovery+ is promising more than 1,000 hours of original content in the first year in the USAs for the Indian Discovery+ originals, Bajpayee will host and Pandey will present Secrets of Sinauli: Discovery of the Century, which will look at the excavations of the Uttar Pradesh village Sinauli. The series has been made in collaboration with Archeological Survey of India. Daggubati will embed himself with Jaisalmer's Border Security Force and live the life of a soldier in Mission Frontline. And Hooda, speaking in Hindi, will voice Ladakh Warriors: The Sons of the Soil, out December 9 on Discovery+. It focuses on the training of the Snow Warriors who guard the high-altitude border between India and China. In the US, Discovery+ will cost $5 per month with advertisements, and the ad-free version coming in at $7 per month. But Verizon customers on select plans won't have to pay anything for the first 12 months, as Discovery+ will be complimentaryAll members will get access to four simultaneous streams, and can create up to five user profiles. Discovery+ is promising more than 55,000 episodes at launch spanning over 2,500 shows from HGTV, Food Network, TLC, ID, OWN, Travel Channel, Discovery Channel, and Animal Planet which it claims is the largest-ever offering for a new streaming service.

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