BUILD Series

Dave Salmoni wears many hats. He’s a zoologist, renowned animal trainer, television presenter and producer with his own South Africa-based production company, Triosphere. Dave successfully has been able to marry all these titles, emphasizing one common denominator – his love for animals. He is Animal Planet’s large predator expert and has hosted and contributed to a number of their programs including "Into the Pride," "Rogue Nature," "Predator vs. Prey," "Living with Tigers," "Into the Lion’s Den" and "After the Attack" among several others. As large predator expert, Dave is the go-to source on Animal Planet’s wild animal programming. Discovery Communications is working with World Wildlife Fund and others to support a worldwide effort to double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022. By conserving nearly a million acres of protected land on the border of India and Bhutan, this collaboration aims to ensure a healthy habitat for future generations of tigers. Join animal activist and expert Salmoni as he discusses both Global Tiger Day and Discovery’s Project CAT.

When Amanda Gallo, fresh from the backwater of local TV, lands the job of her dreams at FAIR News—the coveted morning anchor slot—she’s finally made it. She feels for the first time that she can make her mom and her best friend proud and think about an actual future with her boyfriend, Charlie. But she finds her journalistic ideals shredded as she struggles to keep up with the issues in a ratings-crazed madhouse—battling for hair and makeup time, coping with her co-anchor and showing her media maestro boss that she’s got what it takes. Walking a knife’s edge between ambition and survival, and about to break the biggest story of her career, Amanda must decide what she’s willing to give up to get ahead—and what she needs to hold on to save herself. Author Alisyn Camerota joins us to discuss her book, "Amanda Wakes Up."

Matt Iseman returns as host, along with Akbar Gbajabiamila and co-host Kristine Leahy of NBC's hit show, "American Ninja Warrior." The action-packed series follows competitors as they tackle a series of challenging obstacle courses in both city qualifying and city finals rounds across the country. Those that successfully complete the finals course in their designated region move on to the national finals round in Las Vegas, where they face a stunning four-stage course modeled after the famed Mt. Midoriyama course in Japan. New obstacles and several new cities await competitors in their continuing quest for physical excellence and grand prize of $1 million.

"The Lowe Files" follows Rob Lowe and his two sons, Matthew and John Owen, as they travel through the country to explore infamous unsolved mysteries, a curiosity that Rob has had since his early childhood days and has now been passed down to his boys. In each episode, Rob, Matthew and John Owen seek out a mysterious story or spooky legend and immerse themselves in the exploration and debate of the experience. Mysteries await, but for Rob the ultimate goal in this undertaking is to create lasting memories with his two beloved sons who are on the verge of adulthood with their own lives, careers and families ahead of them.

"Manhunt: UNABOMBER" is an eight-episode drama about the real-life search for the mysterious individual who perpetrated a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three and injured 23. Ted Kaczynski, a.k.a. the Unabomber (Paul Bettany), was far from a regular criminal. He enrolled at Harvard at the age of 16, was subjected to cruel psychological experiments and became a Berkeley professor before retreating to Montana. There he lived without water and electricity and ultimately masterminded a crusade of terror against universities, airlines and others. Kaczynski vowed to stop only if his 35,000-word anti-technology manifesto was published. With the help of forensic linguistics employed by criminal profiler James “Fitz” Fitzgerald (Sam Worthington) and Ted’s brother, David (Mark Duplass), Kaczynski was ultimately arrested in 1996. Bettany comes by to speak on the series.

Laura Price appears to have everything -- a successful career as a new producer in San Francisco, a powerful yet sensitive husband who serves as the city's district attorney and a big-hearted 8-year-old daughter who is always quick to make friends -- but she lives in terror as time moves her closer to the seemingly inevitable moment when an unknown killer murders her little girl. The knowledge of when, where and how her child will be taken haunts her as she tries desperately to keep the child safe, always seeming to fail in averting fate. Join actor Paula Patton as she discusses "Somewhere Between" and her new film, "Traffik."

Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actress Kyra Sedgwick makes her directorial debut with Lifetime’s "Story of a Girl," which stars Sedgwick’s husband, Kevin Bacon, and daughter Sosie Bacon. When a sex video of 13-year-old Deanna (Ryann Shane) and Tommy (Tyler Johnson) goes viral, her life of carefree innocence is changed forever. Three years later, Deanna is still dealing with the fallout of the video, including being branded the school slut. Ready to move on, Deanna longs to escape a life defined by the mistakes of her past.

In addition to acting, Troian Bellisario is involved with mission-based brand "This Bar Saves Lives." For each bar sold, the brand gives life-saving food to a child in need. In the summer time, millions of children go hungry as they go without federally funded food that they usually receive at school. With budget cuts into food stamp programs, companies like This Bar Saves Lives are trying to solve these pressing issues. Make sure to tune in because Bellisario has an exciting announcement about what This Bar is doing to combat hunger domestically. Check out Troian's interview at the BUILD Studio, located at 692 Broadway in NYC.

Julia Garner has quickly established herself as one of the industry's most exciting and versatile young actresses. You can see her as Ruth Langmore in Netflix's new series, "Ozark." The series follows a Chicago financial advisor, who has been quietly laundering money for a drug kingpin, when he must quickly uproot his family and move the operation to The Ozarks. There, he bumps heads with both a local drug dealer whose business he inadvertently interrupts, and a clan of ruffians, led by their 19-year-old niece, who want his money, all the while avoiding the eye of a tenacious FBI agent. He must complete his laundering, to save the life of his family, as they struggle to find their own path in this seemingly foreign way of life.

Despite the weighty last name he carries courtesy of his father -- music legend Bob Marley – Grammy-winning reggae legend Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley reached success on his own terms. Now after a decade, Damian Marley is returning with his new solo album, “Stony Hill.” The native Jamaican says that his focus on the 18-track project was laser sharp this past year and that this album is very personal to him. Marley comes to BUILD to speak on the new album and the process of creating it.