National Geographic Channel TV Guide — Friday TV Listings & Schedule

Browse the full National Geographic Channel TV guide for Friday, 7 August 2026. 21 programmes listed , including 6 tonight. US listings updated daily — scroll down to tonight's highlights or use the day tabs above to browse the weekly schedule.

Early Morning

00:00 1h

Lost Treasures of the Bible

S1 · E1 · Nineveh - City of Sin Documentary

Nineveh - City of Sin

Archaeologists make new discoveries in Nineveh, the Bible's city of sin, which was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, in modern northern Iraq.

01:00 1h

Buried Secrets of the Bible with Albert Lin

S1 · E1 · Parting the Red Sea Documentary

Parting the Red Sea

Noted explorer Albert Lin sets out to understand the truth behind the biblical story of the miraculous Red Sea parting with the help of new technology.

02:00 1h

Buried Secrets of the Bible with Albert Lin

S1 · E2 · Sodom and Gomorrah Documentary

Sodom and Gomorrah

Albert Lin researches and explains the actual circumstances surrounding the biblical story of God's judgment in Sodom and Gomorrah.

03:00 1h

Lost Treasures of the Bible

S1 · E1 · Nineveh - City of Sin Documentary

Nineveh - City of Sin

Archaeologists make new discoveries in Nineveh, the Bible's city of sin, which was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, in modern northern Iraq.

04:00 1h

Lost Treasures of the Bible

S1 · E7 · The Real King Herod Documentary

The Real King Herod

Archaeologists reveal the truth about the Bible's murderous King Herod I, a Roman Jewish client king of the Herodian kingdom of Judea.

05:00 1h

Lost Treasures of the Bible

S1 · E3 · Mysteries of the Exodus Documentary

Mysteries of the Exodus

New discoveries reveal the lost historical influences of the Exodus story, including the departure of the Israelites from Egypt and their wanderings.

Morning

06:00 1h

Lost Treasures of the Bible

S1 · E4 · Secrets of the Tower of Babel Documentary

Secrets of the Tower of Babel

New discoveries reveal the origins of the Bible's Tower of Babel story in the Christian Old Testament, which was built so tall, it would reach into the heavens.

10:00 1h

Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller

S4 · E9 · The Drug Mule Scam True

The Drug Mule Scam

Mariana learns international criminal syndicates are targeting elderly Americans with inheritance scams and conning them into becoming drug mules.

11:00 1h

Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller

S4 · E8 · Illegal Gambling True

Illegal Gambling

Mariana goes inside the dangerous, high-stakes world of illegal gambling to try and understand its allure, its growth and its dark side.

Daytime

12:00 1h

Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller

S4 · E7 · Hash Smugglers True

Hash Smugglers

The first drug that Mariana was exposed to growing up was hash; Mariana follows the trail of smugglers from the mountains of Morocco to their buyers in Europe.

13:00 1h

Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller

S4 · E6 · Migrant Smugglers True

Migrant Smugglers

Mariana heads to Mexico to investigate the billion-dollar business of people smuggling to the U.S., and to understand why so little is being done to stop it.

14:00 1h

Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller

S4 · E5 · Apes True

Apes

Mariana heads to the Congo to investigate the illegal trade of wild apes as she follows the supply chain from the poachers to the brokers in the Middle East.

15:00 1h

Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller

S4 · E4 · Black Market Meds True

Black Market Meds

Health care costs have pushed millions to the black-market; Mariana heads to Mexico and India to meet the opportunists risking the lives of vulnerable patients.

16:00 1h

Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller

S4 · E3 · Body Parts True

Body Parts

Mariana exposes how black-market operators are profiting from the sale of stolen human remains on secret marketplaces in the United States and beyond.

17:00 1h

Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller

S3 · E15 · Sextortion True

Sextortion

Mariana van Zeller investigates a new blackmail scam called sextortion, in which compromising photos are used to extort victims and often leading to suicide.

Evening

18:00 1h

Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller

S3 · E14 · Assassins True

Assassins

Mariana van Zeller goes inside the world of contract killers.

19:00 1h

Ibiza Narcos

S1 · E1 · Disorganised Crime Documentary

Disorganised Crime

Ibiza's reputation as a drugs mecca attracts organized crime groups who seize control of the hash trade initially established by hippies.

20:00 1h

Ibiza Narcos

S1 · E2 · No Sleep 'Til Wednesday Documentary

No Sleep 'Til Wednesday

Ecstasy took over the clubbing scene on Ibiza and authorities responded by clamping down on the drug and traffickers decided to turn their attention to cocaine.

21:00 1h

Ibiza Narcos

S1 · E3 · Giving it the Absolute Big'un Documentary

Giving it the Absolute Big'un

By the early 2000s, cocaine was king, but greed and infighting led to bloodshed, which left behind a dramatically transformed Ibiza.

22:00 1h

Liverpool Narcos

S1 · E1 · Heroin Documentary

Heroin

Through interviews with a wide variety of people, the ways that heroin and its availability changed the criminal underworld in the 1980s is revealed.

23:00 1h

Liverpool Narcos

S1 · E2 · Ecstasy Documentary

Ecstasy

Dealers, club bouncers and their bosses fight to gain control of the lucrative market that sparks during the late 1980's drug revolution in Liverpool.

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Evening

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