Our experts have spent dozens of hours watching and browsing Discovery Plus in order to help you find your favorite shows on the service’s 24 channels.
By Randy HarwardDec 20, 2023 | Share
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Discovery+ spreads 55,000+ hours of content, mostly TV series, over 26 Discovery Plus channel hubs.
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Let’s say that each series has two seasons of 10 hour-long episodes. That’d be 2,750 different shows, which feels both crazy and accurate—there are more than two dozen different 90-Day Fiancé shows, after all.
So how do you find what you want to watch? Well, there’s a search function (text and voice). Or you can simply browse each channel hub, assuming you know a show’s home network.
To browse the Discovery Plus channel lineup, you’ll need to subscribe to the service or at least sign up for the free 7-day trial . Fortunately, we’ve already browsed the Discovery Plus channel lineup for you so you’ll know what you’re getting before you decide to sign up.
This hub is a mixed bag of Discovery+ content, with a little bit of everything: cooking, ghost hunting, history, lifestyle, nature, relationships, science, true crime, and more.
But just because a show is a “Discovery+ Original” doesn’t necessarily mean it’s exclusive. Some Discovery+ Originals (BattleBots, Queen of Meth) are available on other services like Spectrum and the Roku Channel. But most, including some 90-Day Fiancé spin-off series, are indeed exclusive to Discovery Plus.
Owned by Fixer Upper stars Chip and Joanna Gaines, the Magnolia Network is for people who like to work with their hands, especially when it comes to renovation and restoration. But you’ll also find shows about artists, chefs, musicians, van enthusiasts, junk dealers, and (naturally) various versions of Fixer Upper (but, alas, no Fixer Upper: Paranormal, which doesn’t exist—kinda like ghosts).
HGTV, or Home & Garden Television, is largely on-brand, with programming about buying, selling, flipping, hunting, renovating, or restoring homes and planting, tending, harvesting gardens. So you’ll get every episode ever of 22 series including Curb Appeal, Flip or Flop, Good Bones, Holmes & Holmes, Property Brothers: Buying + Selling, Property Brothers: Forever Home, and more.
HGTV is also “The Streaming Home of House Hunters,” with 16 volumes—hundreds of episodes—of House Hunters, House Hunters International, and House Hunters Classics. But if you want to watch House Hunters: Comedians on Couches: Unfiltered, you’ll find it under Discovery+ Originals.
Pro tip: HGTV is one of the most popular channels on Discovery+, but if you want to watch current seasons live, you’ll need to subscribe to a cable or satellite TV provider, or a live TV streaming service. For tips, check out out How to Watch HGTV guide.
Food Network is an endless parade of oms and noms that activates our salivary glands and threatens our willpower. And (straps on the old feed bag) we’re here for it! You’ll get all 29 seasons of Rachael Ray’s 30-Minute Meals (and five other Ray series), all 41 seasons of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives (plus 12 other Guy Fieri series), and all 10 seasons of Ace of Cakes (including 10 other cake shows).
Not only that, but you’ll be able to wolf down every episode ever of Dinner Impossible Food Network Challenge, Iron Chef America, Mexican Made Easy, and eight other series. Hope you’re hungry (for Food Network shows)!