{"id":13855,"date":"2019-12-19T10:56:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/youtuber-mark-rober-set-star-new-discovery-series\/"},"modified":"2019-12-19T11:13:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T16:13:08","slug":"youtuber-mark-rober-set-to-star-in-new-discovery-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/youtuber-mark-rober-set-to-star-in-new-discovery-series\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTuber Mark Rober Set to Star in New Discovery Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer who is best known for his pop-science and DIY gadget videos on YouTube, is set to return to Discovery in a new series from Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s production company Kimmelot.<\/p>\n<p>Rober previously starred in Discovery\u2019s Shark Week special <em>Shark Rober<\/em> and is now slated to front <em>Revenge of the Nerd<\/em> (working title), an all-new series premiering in 2020. Each week on the series, Rober and his team of \u201cAvengineers\u201d will attempt to right the world of wrong-doing. Executive producers Kimmel and Rober will scour the planet to catch troublemakers in the act\u2014seeking revenge in the form of over-the-top pranks that will all be captured by hidden cameras.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up watching Discovery Channel so the thought of me having my own show is crazy for me comprehend,\u201d said Rober. \u201cAs my YouTube channel has grown the past few years, I\u2019ve had some BIG ideas that are too big to pull off on my own. Now, partnering with Discovery and Jimmy means it\u2019s all fair game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe passion that comes through in the incredibly smart content Mark creates made us immediate fans of his,\u201d said Scott Lewers, executive VP of multiplatform programming, live events and network strategy for Discovery, Science and Animal Planet. \u201cHis natural curiosity and drive is infectious\u2014that, coupled with Jimmy\u2019s sensibility for fun and humor is what we\u2019re excited to bring to our audience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer who is best known for his pop-science and DIY gadget videos on YouTube, is set to return to Discovery in a new series from Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s production company Kimmelot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1049,"featured_media":13856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[82,4525,4526,4527,4528,1245],"class_list":["post-13855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-discovery","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-kimmelot","tag-mark-rober","tag-revenge-of-the-nerd","tag-youtube","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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