DISCOVER THE SPECTACULAR WORLD OF ICEBERGS IN "MEGA BERG" AIRING SATURDAY, JUNE 27 AT 9 PM ET/PT ON DISCOVERY

Groundbreaking Special Co-Produced by BBC

(Los Angeles, Calif.) - Dive into the frozen world of icebergs in Discovery Channel/BBC co-production MEGA BERG, premiering Saturday, June 27 (9:00-10:30 PM ET/PT) on the Discovery Channel. In the groundbreaking special, a team of adventurers and scientists put their courage to the test and embark on an action-fueled expedition into the Arctic to investigate the creation, life, and death of these stunning, frozen phenomena for the first time.

A mega berg is a colossal block of ice that bursts forth from a glacier to form an enormous iceberg, with some reaching half the size of Manhattan and weighing multimillion tons. In MEGA BERG, the team of scientists battles one of the world's most extreme and unpredictable climates in the Arctic in order to uncover the hidden forces behind the creation of mega bergs and understand why Store Glacier in Greenland creates so many icebergs on a huge scale. Working with ice experts, naturalist Chris Packham boards a research yacht to study the the danger zone at the front of the glacier, using special scanning equipment to study what exists below sea level. Meanwhile, oceanographer Helen Czerski and diver Andy Torbet explore the inside of the glacier itself. During this expedition, the team witnesses the creation of an iceberg as a multi-million-ton of block separates from the glacier.

Later, the team investigates Petermann Iceberg, a massive tabular iceberg located 31 miles from the Canadian coast. Their objective is to understand the forces that gradually cause an iceberg to break down. In an extreme and hazardous expedition, the team performs research on the iceberg itself as the unstable surface begins to break up beneath their feet, and also confronts a large number of polar bears, the largest land predator on Earth. Despite these dangers, the team successfully reveals the mysteries of mega bergs and what causes them to collapse.

MEGA BERG is a Discovery Channel/BBC co-production. For BBC, Mark Hedgecoe serves as Executive Producer, and Andrew Thompson is Series Producer. Matt Barrett and Louise Ferguson are Producers.

About Discovery Channel

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About Discovery Communications

Discovery Communications (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) is the world's #1 pay-TV programmer reaching nearly 3 billion cumulative subscribers in more than 220 countries and territories. For 30 years Discovery has been dedicated to satisfying curiosity and entertaining viewers with high-quality content through its global television brands, led by Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery, Science and Turbo/Velocity, as well as U.S. joint venture network OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. Discovery controls Eurosport, the leading pan-regional sports entertainment destination across Europe and Asia-Pacific. Discovery also is a leading provider of educational products and services to schools, including an award-winning series of K-12 digital textbooks, through Discovery Education, and a digital leader with a diversified online portfolio, including Discovery Digital Networks. For more information, please visit www.discoverycommunications.com.

About BBC

The BBC has an unrivalled global reputation for the factual content it produces across arts, history, documentaries and natural history, and broadcasts some 7,000 hours of high-quality, distinctive factual programs a year on television. The BBC is recognized as an industry leader in terms of innovation, consistently pushing the boundaries of its productions, delivered to our audience by the most engaging and inspirational experts.