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Rating Distribution

Investigation Discovery reviews show a 2.3 star rating from 173 customer reviews, with 40% likely to recommend and overall consumer sentiment mostly dissatisfied.

Key Takeaways for Future Customers

  • Expect many repeated commercials and frequent reruns impacting watchability.
  • Audio mixing issues: loud background music may drown dialogue, affecting closed caption usefulness.
  • Some viewers cancel subscriptions due to programming changes and perceived poor customer service.

Negative Feedback / Risk Areas

  • Recurring customer complaints about excessive repeated ads and banners during shows.
  • Widespread reports of loud music and poor audio balance making shows unwatchable.
  • Complaints about content quality, reruns, and customer service or discounts and special offers.

Positive Feedback

Many users still praise the channel's shows and programs and consider the price level medium for the service.

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Anonymous
map-marker Edinburg, Texas

Andra Brandon

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Why can't I watch the new season of Body in The Basement on Discovery+??? WHO IS THE MORON WHO DECIDED TO NOT ALLOW CUSTOMERS TO WATCH EPISODES THERE UNTIL THE WHOLE SEASON IS DONE???

CHANGE IT!!!

User's recommendation: watch other streaming channels who give you the new episodes the next day!!!!

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Karla P Tya

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My name is ***, and I am...

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Contacted the company first

The reviewer tried to contact the company before posting this review.

AI Highlights
  • - Family says police narrative conflicts with autopsy.
  • - Video shows the scene wasn't documented.
  • - Records were denied; the family has evidence.

My name is ***, and I am asking for your help in telling the story of my daughter ***, who died at age 15 under circumstances that do not match what police have claimed.

Two men found my daughter while she was still twitching and bleeding, yet they never called 911. Police later told me these men didnt have a phone, police said they flagged someone driving.

I have the video as when they found her. Police never notified me. 2 ladies came and knocked at my door saying my kid was killed but 2 white guys. I was at the scene from 2:45 AM to 8 AM and never saw police question anyone, even though they were the last people to see her alive.

Police refused to give me their names, and their press release falsely stated no witnesses came forward.

I have video showing my daughters remains left in the street after police washed the scene. There was no tape, no perimeter, no evidence markers, and her body was left uncovered for hours. Witnesses reported she was being chased by two white males with a metal pole shortly before she was found but police never documented or followed up on these accounts.

I now have the autopsy report, which shows bluntforce head trauma and injuries that do not match the police narrative of an accidental hitandrun. The police press release claimed no intentional violence, but the injuries, witness statements, and scene evidence tell a different story.

For two years, the Ridgecrest Police Department refused to give me the police report, autopsy photos, toxicology, witness statements, or any investigative documents.

I have secret recordings, photos, videos, witness accounts, and documentation showing contradictions between police statements, the autopsy, and what I personally witnessed.

I am asking for your help to bring attention to this case. I am prepared to provide all evidence immediately.

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Anonymous
map-marker Franklin, Massachusetts

Programming is unwatchable new ID

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Programing is awful story content is Boring..use to watch every day but no longer watch at air what a turn off the new shows are to people who wish to watch crime programs !

User's recommendation: Don’t watch it’s awful

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Anonymous
map-marker Franklin, Massachusetts

Review ID Discovert

The shows have changed not watchable any more

Was a daily viewer but rarely watch very poor quality crime shows.

User's recommendation: Find another Crime channel ID Dicovery is unwatchable

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Tom P Ezy

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| map-marker Seminole, Florida

Shows are all repeats! Even supposed new shows are retitled old shows!.

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Why can't ID have new shows? When I watched ID years ago, prime time consisted of mostly shows. Don't constantly repeat the same commercials and wasting our time!

Pros:
  • Crime shows
Cons:
  • Most shows are repeats

Preferred solution: New shows! Fewer repeated commercials!

User's recommendation: Don't waste your time. All they telecast is old shows!

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Jean B Gjw

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| map-marker Southington, Connecticut

Unhappy

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I just deleted all my recordings from the ID channel. The music is WAY TOO LOUD! I cant hear the dialogue because of iteven with closed captioning!

Why??

Cons:
  • Loud music

Preferred solution: Apology

User's recommendation: Complain about the loud music

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Susie S Sfz

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| map-marker Baxley, Georgia

Reruns and commercials

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AI Highlights
  • - No season 2 for popular shows; old content is reworked as new.
  • - The app has more commercials than content; ads for other Discovery shows.
Updated by user Dec 07, 2025

I will use it in a more limited way than I previously have. Before it was my number one channel and app and now I'm seeking alternatives due to the constant repetition of content.

Original review Dec 06, 2025

There is no season 2 of any of the good shows. They rework old content and put it as new on similar shows.

All you see is more and more reruns of shows. The app has way more commercials than content. Most of the commercials are for the other discovery channel shows that they try to shove down our throat.

Food shows are most common ones now. I don't want to see the same thing over and over for the money I pay for this service.

Pros:
  • It started out as a good channel with great shows
Cons:
  • It has went completely downhill

Preferred solution: Better programming

User's recommendation: I wouldn't pay extra for this channel.

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Steve W Qvo
map-marker Hamilton, Montana

Program missing person the curious case of

Contacted the company first

The reviewer tried to contact the company before posting this review.

Just wanted to report I saw one of the missing persons on the curious case of the program. Just wanted to report.

Pros:
  • More access to contact persons trying to find missing persons

Preferred solution: Someone to talk

User's recommendation: No problem

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Anonymous
map-marker Oxford Charter Township, Michigan

Used to be good

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Used to be fresh. Informative...

engaging. Now it's just *** repurposed reruns with *** production.

User's recommendation: Quit being lazy... make new content and be serious. Its so cheesy now. "Southern fried homicide?" ....so dumb.

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Beth L Sdy

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| map-marker Georgetown, Kentucky

I want pit bulls & parolees off of my featured list.

AI Highlights
  • - Pit Bulls & Parolees should be removed from Discovery after the old man begged.
  • - Discovery's head is a monster for not caring about the injustice.

Pit Bulls & Parolees should have been completely taken off Discovery after the episode where the old man was crying and begging the city council not to let Torres buy the property next to him and completely diminish his property value that he worked his whole life to get. Whoever is the head of Discovery must be a monster not to care about this gross injustice and complete lack of morals.

Pros:
  • I love most of the shows
Cons:
  • Support tia torres attempt to diminish the property value of a whole residential area

Preferred solution: Apology

User's recommendation: Don't watch Pit Bull and Parolees

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Ann E Kqg

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Just reruns reruns, and trying to make reruns look new.

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AI Highlights
  • - ID Discovery changed in 2025 and the network feels worse.
  • - Old shows are reaired under new titles masking changes and viewers want new ID originals.

I have been watching ID Discovery for 20 years now. Since the beginning of 2025, everything changed.

I think ID Discovery was bought out or taken over, and whomever took over seems to be hell-bent on turning this network into a blazing dumpster fire. It sucks. WTF are you doing here??? Where are all of the great shows and new seasons?

To make matters worse, you seem to think that your viewers are ignorant to buy into your re-airing old shows under new titles, thinking we won't see what you are doing.

You suck! Bring back the glory days, the new seasons of ID originals.

Pros:
  • There are no pros
Cons:
  • Everything about id discovery sucks

Preferred solution: I would like ID discovery to go back to the glory days before the takeover.

User's recommendation: Keep channel surfing. ID discovery is in a terminal state of self destruction.

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Dory P Rss

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I enjoy the ID channel. I really do. repetitive commercials kill

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AI Highlights
  • - Commercials are repetitive and disruptive, making me tune away.
  • - Ads replay the same campaigns, including older ones from years past.

But... I am starting to tune away from the channel altogether due to the commercials.

Never in my life have I ground my teeth like Yosemite Sam every time it is a commercial break. The same commercials play over and over. Over and over. Over and over --- over and over.

And just when I thought it might change a week later, it is the same commercials yet again. The same goes a month later. Even half a year later. They even go back to older commercials from years ago.

The actors on them must be old and in retirement by now. Why is it like this? It is a form of torture that would make a terrorist talk. The commercials go like this: Haribo Gold Bears, Rio Mare tuna, Ojo Casino, Kevin and Sara insurance coverage, Air Wick Vibrant, Bums Anusol wipes, L'Oreal with Gillian Anderson, Betano Casino, Cover Direct life insurance.

The producers themselves should sit through a day of watching this to see what it feels like. I am telling you, this is a formula to chase viewers away.

For the love of documentaries, stop this insanity! I feel like it is for the purpose of brainwashing.

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ID is going to take whatever advertisers they can get. They don’t have the luxury of being selective and having to turn advertisers away because their time slots are full and have a waiting list.

As for the older commercials/actors that is at the respective company’s request. Actors/spokespersons get paid in 6 month renewable blocks per ad. After one year they stop collecting royalties. (Depending on contract).

Matthew McConnaughey’s Lincoln commercial from ten years ago is cheap because he gets no royalties. Serena Williams debuted this Spring for Lincoln and is in the middle of her block and does receive them.

Tammy D Ujo

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Verified Reviewer

Disappointed

AI Highlights
  • - Canceled ID Discovery subscription; Evil Lives Here not airing at original 9 PM EST; new shows are poorly produced.

I've been a customer of ID Discovery for over a year, and I just canceled my subscription. Evil Lives Here was my favorite series.

However, they've seen fit this year to make it unavailable at the original air time, which is Sunday at 9 PM EST. Also, new shows of other crime series aren't well-produced shows on ID. They're slow with productions or have canceled them altogether. Who wants to watch Mean Girl Murders, A Killer Among Friends, or Did the Killer Call?

The reruns alongside poorly produced shows, ugh.

What happened to Murder in the Heartland and anything with Joe Kenda narration or Friday Night Lights, which were all well-produced? I'm bidding this stream farewell.

Cons:
  • Too numerous to mention zero stars

User's recommendation: Just don’t bother

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Verified Reviewer

Loud background music

Why background music? I cannot hear what is being said.

Please get rid of background music. I watch a lot, but sometimes the music is so loud that I turn it off.

Preferred solution: Apology

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Dee R Yff

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Channel sucks now

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AI Highlights
  • - The channel's format has become reruns, described as sickening and despicable.
  • - The reviewer plans to leave and seek an alternative.

The format of this channel has gone to *** Rerun, rerun, rerun, and then another rerun. It's sickening how despicable this channel has gotten!

You used to be a good channel to watch. I'm planning on leaving and trying to find an alternative!

You should be ashamed that you went this low. I am sure you have the ability to change it.

User's recommendation: DON’T GET IT

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steven b Tko

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Banners

why does id have the annoying banners pop up on the bottom of the screen promoting up coming shows blocking things that are shown on the bottom of the screen of the show you're watching?

Pros:
  • Good shows
Cons:
  • Annoying large banners at the bottom of the screen

Preferred solution: no banners on the bottom of the screen

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About

Related Companies

Warner Bros Discovery, Discovery Plus, HGTV, Discovery Channel, HBO Max

Summary

Investigation Discovery is a television network which specializes in documentary-style programming. It was founded 1996 under the name Discovery Civilization Network: The World History and Geography Channel. The headquarters is based in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States. There are Investigation Discovery Canada, India, UK, and Italy versions. The network is owned by Discovery Communications, LLC. It offers both programs of original production and re-titled off-network reruns. Investigation Discovery provides videos and shows with true crime subjects including homicides, kidnappings, sexual assaults, domestic violence and disappearances. Available shows are American Monster, Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda, On the Case with Paula Zahn, The Perfect Murder, and Swamp Murders.

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