New Discovery Commissions for Towers

CHICAGO: Towers Productions is at work on some 30 hours of original content for Discovery Channel, Investigation Discovery and Animal Planet.

The slate includes Secret America, two one-hour specials for Discovery Channel about the meaning of hidden symbols embedded in America’s most iconic buildings and statues, including the White House, the Washington Monument and the Statue of Liberty. Also for Discovery are the tentatively titled The Science of Interrogation, a one-hour special. and the two-hour production Most Wanted, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the FBI’s notorious criminal list.

Undercover: Double Life is a 13-hour series on undercover agents, slated for premiere in the first quarter of this year. And Animal Witness, which launched in August 2008, is a 20×30-minute show on animals and the use of DNA science to solve crimes.