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Oscar-Nominated Documentary Free Solo Will Air March 3, Ad-Free, on National Geographic

Network pushed the premiere back a few weeks after its box office success

Alex Honnold spent two years preparing to scale Yosemite National Park's El Capitan without a rope.Jimmy Chin/National Geographic
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By Jason Lynch

February 8, 2019

Free Solo—National Geographic’s hit Oscar-nominated climbing documentary—will finally make its way to the network. National Geographic will air the film on March 3, commercial-free,  which is a bit later than the original plan.

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Jason Lynch

Jason Lynch is TV editor at Adweek, overseeing trends, technology, personalities and programming across broadcast, cable and streaming video.

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