2002

## Company

- Discovery Science Network is renamed The Science Channel

### March

- BBC and Discovery Communications announce a landmark ten-year extension to the global partnership originally commenced in 1996

## Television

- *Animal X* airs its final episode

- *Emergency Vets* airs its final episode

- *Journey to the Ends of the Earth* airs its final episode

- *Nigel's Wild Wild World* airs its final episode

- *Wild Discovery* airs its final episode

### January

7 - *Animal Precinct* concludes its first season

10 - *Industrial Revelations* premieres on the Discovery Channel

14 - *Nini's Treehouse* concludes its second season

23 - *Robotica* concludes its second season

27 - *The Blue Planet: Seas of Life* premieres on the Discovery Channel

30 - *The FBI Files* premieres its fifth season

### February

1 - *Cosmic Odyssey* premieres on the Discovery Channel

4 - *Trauma: Life in the E.R.* concludes its sixth season

7 - *The Crocodile Hunter Diaries* premieres on Animal Planet

11 - *Animal Miracles* premieres on Animal Planet

27 - *The Jeff Corwin Experience* premieres its second season

### March

3 - *Gutbusters* premieres on the Discovery Channel

11 - *Industrial Revelations* concludes its first season

19 - *Mostly True Stories?: Urban Legends Revealed* premieres on TLC

25 - *Gentle Ben* premieres on Animal Planet

### April

11 - *Eco-Challenge* airs its final episode

15 - *Night of the Wolf* premieres on Animal Planet

20 - *The Real Eve* premieres on the Discovery Channel

### May

- *The FBI Files* concludes its fourth season

1 - *Cosmic Odyssey* airs its final episode

5 - *The Blue Planet: Seas of Life* airs its final episode

6 - *Nini's Treehouse* premieres its third season

*Animal Miracles* airs its final episode

13 - *Animal Cops: Detroit* premieres on Animal Planet

25 - *Trading Spaces* concludes its second season

### June

3 - *The Pet Psychic* premieres on Animal Planet

5 - *Junkyard Wars* premieres its third season

23 - *Monster Garage* premieres on the Discovery Channel

26 - *Junkyard Wars* concludes its third season

### July

1 - *Impact: Stories of Survival* premieres on the Discovery Health Channel

2 - *Mostly True Stories?: Urban Legends Revealed* concludes its first season and premieres its second

6 - *While You Were Out* premieres on TLC

7 - *The Most Extreme* premieres on Animal Planet

10 - *The Crocodile Hunter Diaries* concludes its first season

### August

6 - *A Haunting* pilot premieres on the Discovery Channel

10 - *The Crocodile Hunter* concludes its fourth season

13 - *Beware of Dog* premieres on Animal Planet

24 - *Trading Spaces* premieres its third season

28 - *Junkyard Wars* premieres its fourth season

### September

2 - *Hope Ranch* premieres on Animal Planet

*Trauma: Life in the E.R.* premieres its seventh and final season

7 - *How It's Made* premieres its second season

8 - *Nigel's Wild Wild World* airs its final episode

16 - *Nini's Treehouse* concludes its third season

17 - *Wild Kingdom* premieres on Animal Planet

22 - *Pet Star* premieres on Animal Planet

23 - *Impact: Stories of Survival* concludes its first season

24 - *The New Detectives* concludes its seventh season

28 - *Biker Build-Off* premieres on the Discovery Channel

29 - *American Chopper* pilot premieres on the Discovery Channel

### October

1 - *Operation Junkyard* premieres on Discovery Kids

4 - *Weird Nature* premieres on the Discovery Channel

5 - *Prehistoric Planet*, *Endurance*, *Scout's Safari*, and *Strange Days at Blake Holsey High* premiere on Discovery Kids and Discovery Kids on NBC

9 - *Unsolved History* premieres on the Discovery Channel

14 - *Dog Days* premieres on Animal Planet

15 - *The FBI Files* premieres its fifth season

*The New Detectives* premieres its eighth season

*Robotica* premieres its third and final season

16 - *Junkyard Wars* concludes its fourth season

20 - *Scent of Danger* premieres on Animal Planet

29 - *The Critical Eye* premieres on the Science Channel

### November

10 - *The Most Extreme* concludes its first season

16 - *Robotica* airs its final episode

20 - *The Crocodile Hunter* premieres its fifth and final season

25 - *Trauma: Life in the E.R.* airs its final episode

### December

2 - *The Jeff Corwin Experience* concludes its second season

*Dog Days* airs its final episode

7 - *How It's Made* concludes its second season

8 - *Expedition: Bismarck* premieres on the Discovery Channel

23 - *Animal Precinct* premieres its second season