Two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, some 250,000 enslaved Black people continued to languish in bondage in the Lone Star State. READ MORE
Aretha Franklin sang about “Respect” but what she really craved was control. READ MORE & GRADE THE PREMIERE
National Geographic’s space race just recruited a few more participants. Jake McDorman (Murphy Brown) and Joe Dempsie (Game of Thrones) are among six actors newly cast in The Right Stuff, the cabler’s upcoming NASA drama. READ MORE
Patrick J. Adams‘ next TV workplace will have a slightly different dress code. READ MORE
The Hot Zone‘s Lt. Col. Jerry Jaax seems like exactly the kind of person you’d want to READ MORE & WATCH VIDEO
The Ebola virus is one bad bug. And in the late 1980s, when it first appeared on American soil READ MORE
Not even five minutes into the premiere of National Geographic Channel’s miniseries The Hot Zone, it’s startlingly clear that going viral isn’t always a good thing. READ MORE
There will be more chapters in The Story of God after all: National Geographic is resuming production on Season 3 of the documentary travel series after completing an investigation into alleged sexual harassment by host Morgan Freeman. READ MORE
Julianna Margulies is back to battling viruses again: The ER veteran has signed on to star in National Geographic’s miniseries adaptation of The Hot Zone, TVLine has learned. READ MORE
Nicholas “Duffy” Fudge, who appeared on the National Geographic Channel reality series Wicked Tuna, has died at the age of 28. READ MORE
