MUMBAI: Discovery Channel said it will premiere the second season of its acclaimed series Curiosity from 17 December.

The American documentary television series that launched last year in India will air from Monday to Friday, at 8 pm.

Curiosity, according to the channel, is the biggest show of Discovery and is a brainchild of its founder-chairman John Hendricks

The series aims to answers questions and mysteries in fields like space, biology, geology, medicine, physics, technology, nature, archaeology, history, and the human mind.

Announcing the new season, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific SVP and GM South Asia Rahul Johri said, ?Discovery Channel promises to take viewers on a fascinating voyage of exploration through a new season of Curiosity. This unique and engaging series will stir the imagination of our audience, bravely asking questions and fearlessly seeking answers.?

The new season of Curiosity features many firsts in television history, starting with no less than a big bang by purposely remote control crashing a Boeing 737 airplane along with an unprecedented number of cameras, crash test dummies and science experiments on board.

MUMBAI: History TV18, the factual entertainment channel, is launching its new show titled ?Brave New World? on 7 September.

It will air every Friday at 9 pm.

The five part series will focus on different spheres of human lives which include Health, Machines, Biology, Environment and Technology. In the show, Professor Stephen Hawking, a theoretical physicist and author embark on a global expedition in search for scientific breakthroughs that are transforming human lives.

Hawking is joined by a team of scientific experts representing distinct disciplines - who travel the world to search for new discoveries that have the potential to bring great changes. It is their determined quest of finding and analysing most important discoveries and gives audience an indication about their future.