Discovery Plans More Online Originals for Seeker

SILVER SPRING: Discovery Communications is relaunching its Seeker brand to target “bright, curious Millennial minds,” with new online programming rolling out this month.

Taking a Tiny Home on the Road with Snowboarder Mike Basich features Laura Ling catching up with pro-snowboarder Basich and touring his tiny homemade mobile home. Could Alaska Be the New Center for Global Trade? looks at the Bering Strait, which is being affected by a warming climate that is melting the narrow passage between Alaska and Russia, opening up new shipping routes and upending life for the traditional communities still living there. Seeker Live Week: Svalbard Seed Vault sees DNews host Trace Dominguez on the ground in Norway visiting the Svalbard Seed Vault. All three of these shows debut May 23.

The following day, Seeker debuts I Left My Law Career to Be a LEGO Artist. Seeker Live Week returns with Political Explainer, in which Seeker Daily’s Jules Suzdaltsev provides information about the primary season.

Other Seeker Live Week highlights for May include Space Science, with Discovery News space producer and astrophysicist Dr. Ian O’Neill answering questions about space; Surfing Santa Cruz, featuring surfer Kyle Thiermann; and In-Depth with Laura Ling, which will watch as Ling interviews Jeremy Rossman, founder of San Francisco’s Make School, an alternative college for computer science students.