Discovery has announced the Discovery Plus November 2022 premieres. discovery+ is a non-fiction, real-life subscription streaming service from Warner Bros. Discovery.
The Discovery Plus November 2022 schedule includes a Holiday Central Hub with four new scripted features: Designing Christmas, One Delicious Christmas, A Gingerbread Christmas, and A Christmas Open House featuring Food Network and HGTV fan favorites Ben and Erin Napier, Bobby Flay, Duff Goldman, and Hilary Farr.
discovery+ features a wide range of exclusive, original series across popular passion verticals, including lifestyle and relationships, home and food, true crime, paranormal, adventure and natural history, science, tech, and the environment, and a slate of high-quality documentaries.
In the U.S., discovery+ offers more than 55,000 episodes in one place, with over 2,500 current and classic shows from Discovery’s iconic portfolio of networks, including HGTV, Food Network, TLC, ID, OWN, Travel Channel, Discovery Channel, and Animal Planet.
DISCOVERY PLUS NOVEMBER 2022 PREMIERES
AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 1
Mary McCartney Serves It Up
Photographer and food writer Mary McCartney invites her celebrity friends to cook and chat in her kitchen in London. It’s a delectable invitation as Mary serves up fast, delicious, and comforting vegetarian family favorites in under 20 minutes or less.
Each recipe is guaranteed to transform any occasion into an A-list affair.
AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 3
Tut’s Lost City Revealed
Archaeologists have discovered a 3,000-year-old “lost golden city” in Egypt – the “largest” ever found there and the most important find since the tomb of Tutankhamun. The city, called “The Rise of Aten,” was unearthed by a team of archeologists led by Zahi Hawass under the sand on the western bank of Luxor, about 300 miles south of Cairo.
AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 7
Inside the Heist
Inside the Heist reveals the wilder-than-fiction ways real criminals pulled off the most audacious and lucrative heists in recent history. Each of these iconic crimes took months, sometimes years, to plan and prepare, and required unique skills and bespoke techniques, which had to be rehearsed and honed until they were absolutely perfect.
AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 11
Designing Christmas
In Designing Christmas, interior designer, Stella (Jessica Szohr), and contractor, Pablo (Marco Grazzini), have charmed millions as co-hosts of their popular home renovation show. Although Stella is planning her wedding with fiancé Jack (Mykee Selkin), a last-minute production change means that she and Pablo must work overtime to keep their hit show on schedule.
Stella confides in her mentor, Freddy (Hilary Farr), about her complicated feelings for Pablo, which could jeopardize everything.
One Delicious Christmas
One Delicious Christmas explores the story of Abby Richmond (Vanessa Marano), who inherits the struggling Vermont culinary destination Haven Restaurant and Inn and needs to secure an investment from restaurant mogul Alexandra Grandfield (Kathy Maloney) to keep it running.
After top food critic Tom Kingsley (Food Network’s Bobby Flay) offers his blunt review, Abby hires hot-shot chef Preston Weaver (Alex Mallari, Jr.) to shake up Haven’s beloved holiday menu.
A Gingerbread Christmas
A Gingerbread Christmas finds Hazel Stanley (Tiya Sircar) spending the holidays with her father, Ted (Sugith Varughese), in Chicago, where she discovers the family bakery is in decline.
Hazel, who hopes to save the family business by winning $100,000 in a gingerbread house competition led by food celebrity Mark Clemmons (Food Network’s Duff Goldman), finds unexpected romance with local contractor James Meadows (Marc Bendavid), who is helping to restore the bakery.
A Christmas Open House
A Christmas Open House stars Katie Stevens as Melissa Norwood, an ambitious Atlanta property stager who joins forces with her old high school crush, David Phelps (Victor Rasuk), to sell her newly married mom’s home in their small Georgia hometown with some additional help from artists Henry and Sarah Wright (HGTV’s Ben and Erin Napier).
As the tensions of the Christmas deadline grow, so does the romance between Melissa and David, but their diverging goals could be a deal breaker for their new relationship.
AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 13
The Dog Games: World Pup 2022
At The World Pup, five amateur canine coaches and their pups aim to score a hat trick in three categories—tricks, freestyle moves, and agility—to win a cash prize for their chosen animal charity. Soccer star Cobi Jones serves as guest judge.
AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 19
Vardy vs Rooney: The Wagatha Trial
The inside story of the Wagatha trial. Rebekah Vardy, wife of England International soccer striker Jamie Vardy, sued Coleen Rooney, wife of retired England Captain Wayne Rooney, for libel.
Coleen had claimed Rebekah was responsible for the leak of private stories. In an investigation worthy of Agatha Christie, she planted fake stories that only Rebekah’s account could see.
Her infamous social media post “It’s…….. Rebekah Vardy’s account” went viral. There was mass trolling of Rebekah, including death threats. Now, with exclusive insights from her legal team, Rebekah speaks out about becoming public enemy number one and denies the allegations.
AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 27
Written in the Stars
Written in the Stars is a sizzling new reality/dating series that puts contestants’ love lives in the hands of the world’s top astrologers. In this audacious social experiment, 12 single strangers, all desperate to find love and each representing one of the 12 signs of the zodiac, arrive at a mysterious villa in Greece to find they have been matched with someone in the group.
Globally renowned astrologers Colin Bedell, Michelle Knight, and Francesca Oddie have matched the contestants using just their birth charts and will work tirelessly to help them get to know each other and, ultimately, fall in love. Can a Leo get fierce for a Capricorn, and is what they say about Scorpios true?
Will the cynics learn to see what the experts have predicted in their charts and discover that love really is Written in the Stars? Written in the Stars is presented by the award-winning radio broadcaster, podcaster, and television presenter Clara Amfo.
AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 30
Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy
Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award-winning actor Stanley Tucci indulges his passion for Italian cooking as he explores the stories and people behind the world’s most popular cuisine in this CNN Original Series.
Tucci, who is Italian on both sides, brings us on his journey to the bustling food markets and hidden trattorias of the Italian peninsula to discover the secrets and delights of its cooking, region by region. Across four visually stunning episodes, audiences have a front-row seat to experience Liguria, Puglia, Sardinia, and Calabria.
Mirko Parlevliet has been reporting on the entertainment industry since 1998 and founded Vital Thrills in 2018 to cover the latest news on streaming, movies, TV, and video games.