CuriosityStream Adds Four Litton Shows

Science-focused streaming service CuriosityStream has picked up four teen-targeted programs from Litton Entertainment: Jack Hanna’s Wild Countdown,Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin, Innovation Nation and Rock the Park. All four will premiere on the service next month.

“CuriosityStream’s family fare shares the same commitment to imaginative storytelling and engaging characters that powers our entire documentary library for our younger viewers who are thrilled by exploration, passionate about changing their world or obsessed by all things dino,” said Clint Stinchcomb, president and CEO of CuriosityStream, in a statement. “CuriosityStream has purity of focus – our viewers come to us for the best shows across the full spectrum of the non-fiction genre, and Litton’s first-class programming is a natural fit.”

Other series and specials that air on CuriosityStream, which was founded by Discovery Channel founder John Hendricks, include David Attenborough’s Light on Earth,Miniverse and Cities of the Sea.

Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.