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[04/06/18 - 08:50 AM]
Amblin Television and Jigsaw Productions Team Up for Discovery Event Series "Why We Hate" (Working Title)
Executive produced by filmmaking heavyweights Steven Spielberg and Alex Gibney and directed by Geeta Gandbhir and Sam Pollard, the powerful six-part television event investigates the human capacity for hatred - and how we can overcome it.

[via press release from Discovery Channel]

AMBLIN TELEVISION AND JIGSAW PRODUCTIONS TEAM UP FOR DISCOVERY EVENT SERIES "WHY WE HATE" (working title)

Oscar(R)-Winning Filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Alex Gibney Executive Produce

Emmy(R)-Winners Geeta Gandbhir and Sam Pollard Direct

(New York, NY) - Discovery has assembled a team of award-winning filmmakers to tackle one of the most important issues of our time: WHY WE HATE (w/t). Executive produced by filmmaking heavyweights Steven Spielberg and Alex Gibney and directed by Geeta Gandbhir and Sam Pollard (Emmy(R) winners for "When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts"), the powerful six-part television event investigates the human capacity for hatred - and how we can overcome it. The illuminating series will debut on Discovery Channel in 2019.

"This is exactly the kind of story Discovery should be telling. WHY WE HATE has been a four-year discussion with Steven and Alex on how to best capture the domestic and global trends that are growing around the world and bring those facts and stories to a worldwide audience," said David Zaslav, president and CEO, Discovery, Inc. "Our aspiration is to be working with great storytellers like Steven and Alex all over the world on the most important and consequential stories and issues. WHY WE HATE is even more relevant today, and the Discovery team and I are "all in" on this project. It is Discovery's commitment and a critical part of our heritage and mission. I really look forward to collaborating on such an important topic and bringing it to over 1 billion people across our domestic and global platforms in over 220 countries."

"To say we are excited to work with Steven, Alex, Geeta, and Sam is an understatement," says Nancy Daniels, Chief Brand Officer, Discovery and Factual. "Understanding the why behind our actions can help us change those actions. That leads to a hopeful future for us and generations to come."

"When I think about the name of the network Discovery, it connotes a sense of curiosity about the world," explains Gibney. "This is not a series that simply documents something that's happening, it's an inquiry - an attempt to understand why we hate, through the science, and through a sense of common humanity. Hate is in our DNA. If we begin to understand this, that's how we begin to get to a point of being able to hope that we can overcome hate."

"Getting to the root of the human condition is something I find not only fascinating, but absolutely necessary in understanding who we are," states Spielberg. "With the team in place, we delve into historical and modern-day stories of hate, traveling around the globe to uncover its mystery in others and in ourselves. If we understand why we act the way we do, we can change the way we act. That is what we are uniquely capable of as human beings."

Drawing on research in psychology, neuroscience, sociology, and history, this series traces the evolutionary basis of hate and uses stories from both past and present to reveal the nature of this primal and universal emotion. Along the way, WHY WE HATE (w/t) reveals contemporary links to ancient behavior and uses science as a basis for explaining the nature of hatred and the human mind. At the heart of this timely series is a question: If we can figure out why we hate, where hate originates, and how it is amplified, can we find a way to prevent it?

WHY WE HATE is an Amblin Television and Jigsaw Productions in association with Escape Artists for Discovery Channel. Directed by Geeta Gandbhir and Sam Pollard. The film is executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Alex Gibney, Frank Marshall, Stacey Offman, Richard Perello, Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, Yael Melamede, Erica Sashin and Steve Tisch. For Discovery Channel: executive producers, Jon Bardin and David McKillop.

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About Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel is dedicated to creating the highest quality non-fiction content that informs and entertains its consumers about the world in all its wonder, diversity and amazement. The network, which is distributed to 100.8 million U.S. homes, can be seen in 224 countries and territories, offering a signature mix of compelling, high-end production values and vivid cinematography across genres including, science and technology, exploration, adventure, history and in-depth, behind-the-scenes glimpses at the people, places and organizations that shape and share our world. For more information please visit www.discovery.com.

About Discovery:

Discovery, Inc. (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) is a global leader in real life entertainment, serving a passionate audience of superfans around the world with content that inspires, informs and entertains. Discovery delivers over 8,000 hours of original programming each year and has category leadership across deeply loved content genres around the world. Available in 220 countries and territories and 50 languages, Discovery is a platform innovator, reaching viewers on all screens, including TV Everywhere products such as the GO portfolio of apps and Discovery Kids Play; direct-to-consumer streaming services such as Eurosport Player and Motor Trend OnDemand; and digital-first and social content from Group Nine Media. Discovery's portfolio of premium brands includes Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, Travel Channel, Turbo/Velocity, Animal Planet, and Science Channel, as well as OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network in the U.S., Discovery Kids in Latin America, and Eurosport, the leading provider of locally relevant, premium sports and Home of the Olympic Games across Europe. For more information, please visit www.corporate.discovery.com and follow @DiscoveryIncTV across social platforms.

About Amblin Television

Amblin Television, a long-time leader in quality programming, is a division of Amblin Partners, a content creation company led by Steven Spielberg, with investment partners that include Participant Media, Reliance Entertainment, Entertainment One (eOne), Alibaba Pictures and Universal Pictures. Amblin Television's co-presidents, Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey, oversee all development, production and programming for the company. With the addition of "Why We Hate" for Discovery, Amblin Television currently has eleven series in various stages of production including "Bull" for CBS, the Peabody Award-winning and Emmy-nominated drama "The Americans" for FX, the upcoming dramatic thriller "Reverie" for NBC, the adaptation of Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House" for Netflix, the Rev Run and Justine Simmons family sitcom for Netflix, "Amazing Stories" for Apple, "Animaniacs" for Hulu, "Days that Shaped America" for The History Channel, "Cooper's Treasure" for Discovery, and "Cortes" for Amazon. Some of Amblin Television's previous credits include the Emmy-nominated HBO movie "All The Way" starring Bryan Cranston, "Smash" for NBC, "Under the Dome" for CBS, "Falling Skies" for TNT, "The Borgias" and "The United States of Tara" for Showtime, and "Las

About Jigsaw Productions

Jigsaw Productions is helmed by Academy Award(R)-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, considered one of the most prolific and thought-provoking documentary filmmakers of our generation. Jigsaw has produced some of the most acclaimed documentary films including Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side, Oscar-nominated Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, The Armstrong Lie, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, and Zero Days. Jigsaw's slate of highly visible TV series includes Dirty Money on Netflix, Amazon's The New Yorker Presents, Parched on NatGeo, and CNN's Death Row Stories. Whether the company is creating a documentary or narrative film, a scripted or unscripted series, Jigsaw adheres to a particular ethos: well-told, insightful, scrupulously researched, and visually poignant stories, which ignite and engage our curiosity. Reaching audiences on screens small or large, on platforms digital or traditional, Jigsaw aims to achieve critical and commercial success without sacrificing style or authenticity.





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