There's quite a lot happening at Miami International Airport. The new MIA Mover is the way, as are more and more shops and good places to eat—what's next? A reality TV show, of course.

We already hinted at it, but now there's a few additional details. Fly through MIA this month and you may just wind up on a new show being filmed at the terminal for the Travel Channel. It doesn't have a title yet, but the show will take viewers behind the scenes of the airport, one of the country's biggest. Producers claim that the show will: "...feature an unprecedented cross section of an exciting airport staff as they deal with the stresses of getting over 100,000 strangers through its airport safely, every day." ]]> MsRebecca 2012-01-12T09:20:02-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/12/29/85015/912

It's that time of the year again, the time when the year just plain ends. Alas, we can't just let 2011 go that easily, especially since travelers spent it both up in the air and up in arms over a crazy range of topics, encompassing everything from nudie scans to tarmac delays. Needless to say, we're ready for 2012, but first we're taking a brief look back at the best of 2011 with the Jaunted Travel Awards,—or as we fondly refer to them—The Jauntys.

We've had it with the Kim Kardashians and Angelina Jolies of the celebrity First Class flyer ranks; 2011's honoree is not only a consummate traveler who knows his way around airports, but he's entertaining and real. He's Anthony Bourdain, chef, author, tv show host and overindulger. ]]> Jaunted11 2011-12-29T09:00:02-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/12/2/133250/493

Do you recall the first ever time you watched The Travel Channel? We do. It was a special moment where we went from being stuck in a Sedona, AZ hotel on an uncharacteristically rainy day to being obsessed with watching the room TV for hours and hours. Nothing has changed; the Travel Channel still produces some of the most inspiring programming as far as armchair traveling goes (once they got over that summer where it was like, Las Vegas show after Las Vegas show).

For 2012, the outlook for addictive series looks very good. Of a slew of leaked shows to debut next year, we're mostly salivating over two:

“Baggage Battles” (six half-hour episodes)
This half hour series follows three teams of savvy “auction specialists,” who travel the world looking to snatch up unclaimed and lost personal property in an attempt to turn huge profits. Follow these specialists as they travel to some of the most important and unknown auctions, where pickers and resale experts bid on everything from lost luggage to abandoned personal property to seized goods of unusual merchandise.

“Miami International Airport” (working title) (six half-hour episodes)
Go behind the scenes at one of the busiest airports in the country. “Miami International Airport” features an unprecedented cross section of an exciting airport staff as they deal with the stresses of getting over 100,000 strangers through its airport safely, every day.

A ha! So it looks like BWI won't be the only airport to have their own show in 2012. And if you're into hotel shows as well, HotelChatter has the hot goss on another of Travel Channel's upcoming offerings: "Hotel Impossible." ]]> JetSetCD 2011-12-02T16:12:38-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/11/30/0563/6581
Inside Keen's in NYC

What makes a restaurant "manly?" Well, it's probably got leather booths and lots of red meat, and a cosmo probably won't be the first thing the bartender recommends. Of course all of this is spot-on for a certain class New York City dining institution—Keen's Steakhouse—and last night, the Travel Channel named it the Manliest Restaurant in the Northeast.

The testosterone didn't stop there, however; the Travel Channel dedicated an entire episode of their Food Paradise series to manly restaurant across the entire United States, bestowing such an illustrious title on an eatery in each region of the continental 48. Even though Men's Health Magazine was involved in the process (and the December issue has more on these places), the winners all had one thing in common: their love for meat.]]> JetSetCD 2011-12-01T09:40:01-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/11/21/13050/841

Tonight's the night.

Anthony Bourdain is back. And instead of being in the kitchen or in the middle of a meal, he's on airplanes and on streets around the world, sharing the places he thinks are cool and worthy of a visit when you're on a limited time and limited budget. That's the entire gist of his new Travel Channel series The Layover, which premieres this evening at 9pm EST/8pm CST.

His first stop is Singapore, where he'll be drinking (duh) and eating (duh x 2), but also stopping in the red-light district and at the Thieves Market. Will we see a whole new side of the lovable curmudgeon? It's likely, but there still seems to be quite a bit of eating going on in The Layover, which could just as easily feature in his other series, No Reservations. ]]> JetSetCD 2011-11-21T14:41:39-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/8/16/17656/1052
From meat to ice cream and baseball bats

The Travel Channel is doing it again! That is, making a TV series out of a blog series we did, like years ago. Okay so maybe it's not totally inspired by us (or maybe it is?). This fall will welcome "Made in America, " a round-the-country tour of 39 factories still making good old, Made-in-the-USA products, something we've been documenting since early 2009.

According to our buddies over at Eater National, the show will be hosted by George Motz, he of burger connoisseur fame and author of two volumes on the meaty topic. His destinations? Oh just the "Jack Daniels factory in Tennessee and Krispy Kreme headquarters in North Carolina, but also places like the New Balance factory in Maine and the Louisville Slugger factory." ]]> JetSetCD 2011-08-16T17:06:56-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/8/4/82841/73274

Excuse us if the only upcoming show we can really focus on is ABC's Pan Am, but there are other travel-themed series scheduled to debut this fall and towards the end of this year. For example, Travel Channel has already confirmed that they're having a second helping of Anthony Bourdain with his new show, The Layover, but there's another show up their sleeves that's unlike anything they've done before: The Dead Files.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show will be like Bones and The Mentalist had a baby:

[It's] an investigative one-hour series that pairs Steve DiSchiavi, a retired Homicide Detective with the New York City Police Department with more than 21 years of active service with psychic communicator Amy Allan who has an established sixth sense and an affinity for channeling the dead. The partners explore each case on their own and then link up at the end to compare notes.

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