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Travel Via Miami Airport and You May End Up on The Travel Channel

Where: Miami, FL
January 12, 2012 at 9:20 AM | by | Comments (0)

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."

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The Best Celeb Traveler of 2011 Is...

December 29, 2011 at 9:00 AM | by | Comments (0)

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.

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Looks Like BWI Won't Be the Only Airport Getting Its Own TV Show in 2012

December 2, 2011 at 4:12 PM | by | Comments (0)

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."

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And Travel Channel's Manliest Restaurants in the USA Are...

December 1, 2011 at 9:40 AM | by | Comments (0)


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.

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Get a Little More Anthony Bourdain in Your Life Tonight

November 21, 2011 at 2:41 PM | by | Comments (0)

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.

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The Travel Channel Will Bring the USA's Best Factory Tours to the TV Screen This Fall

August 16, 2011 at 5:06 PM | by | Comments (0)


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."

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The Travel Channel Will Go Deeper Into Thanatourism Territory with New Show 'The Dead Files'

August 4, 2011 at 2:15 PM | by | Comments (0)

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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Does Anthony Bourdain Ever Stop Traveling?

July 28, 2011 at 10:49 AM | by | Comments (0)


Andrew Zimmern & Bourdain at a Travel Channel shindig

...The short answer is no. The long answer is yes, for vacation and appearances and parties like the one at which we interviewed him, but when Anthony Bourdain is on the go, he's like an Energizer Bunny. City to bustling city, restaurant to street market food stall...you know how his usual No Reservations show goes. Now the Travel Channel is speeding him up even faster, in a new show simply called The Layover.

Eater National has the juicy details:

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Travel Channel's New 'Cake Boss of the Beach' Show 'Sand Masters' Premieres Tonight

June 1, 2011 at 9:10 AM | by | Comments (0)

OMG. It's June. Already. We haven't dug our beach towel and half-broken beach umbrella from back of the closet yet and temperatures are nearing 90 seemingly overnight. It's times like these when we really enjoy watching The Travel Channel as a kind of summer prep; it's armchair travel when we're sitting inside, enjoying the A/C. And don't they know it, since the Travel Channel has been introducing a whole slew of fun shows for their summer lineup.

In addition to Off Limits and Mancations comes Sand Masters, which looks to be the Cake Boss of the beach.

A video preview:

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The Travel Channel is Totally Trying to Make the 'Mancation' Happen with New Show

May 26, 2011 at 5:39 PM | by | Comments (0)

Like we've totally already said, today is like Hangover 2 Day, since the movie just debuted and we're in the mood to go to Bangkok. If you can handle the portmanteau, "mancations" are totally a thing, and it's partly the fault of movies like The Hangover. Even the Travel Channel is trying making "mancation" happen, naming a new travel show after the trend.

Mancations: the Show—premiering Sunday, June 5—stars Evan and Gareth, two dudes whom we can totally envision calling each other "broseph." Taking their bromance around America in search of testosterone-fueled experiences, E & G go wake-surfing with rifles, train with NASA, shoot more guns and...go for a spa day in Sedona? Okay, sure.

We know a lot of guys who love to get their Travel Channel on, but usually for the purposes of watching Anthony Bourdain describe the pleasures of exotic meat sizzling on a street grill in Asia, or Andrew Zimmern forcing himself to try durian for the hundredth time and not being able to keep it down, for the hundredth time. So we're not so sure about this show. Still, we'll tune in to check out the premiere. Sunday, June 5 at 9pm EST on The Travel Channel.

[Photo: Travel Channel]

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Travel Channel's New Show 'Off Limits' Promises Visits to 'Secret' America

May 13, 2011 at 9:55 AM | by | Comments (0)

It's almost the beginning of summer and you know what that means? Some TV shows will end and others will begin; in the case of the latter, we can hope for some one-off series and experimental new concepts, like a few coming soon to The Travel Channel. Premiering this upcoming Monday, May 16th at 9pm, is "Off Limits," an hour-long show that follows "explorer and history buff" Don Wildman into "forbiden, hidden and unseen spaces across America."

The first episode's destinations? Oh, just a secret Nazi compound in Los Angeles as well as clandestine oil rigs. He's also due to feature some abandoned hospitals, POW camps and steamboats in Seattle and San Fran; the show's premise kinda sounds like "Ghost Adventures" in the daylight with a bit of History Channel documentary mixed in.

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Travel Channel's New Adrenaline-Pumping TV Show 'Triple Rush' Premieres Tonight

April 14, 2011 at 8:36 AM | by | Comments (0)

Tonight at 10pm EST, the Travel Channel premieres what it hopes will be its next big, addictive TV show. It's called Triple Rush, and the hour-long episodes document life as a bike messenger in the big city, New York City.

It's basically like the Travel Channel's answer to Discovery's Deadliest Catch, except where the fisherman of Catch face-off against natural forces and risk their lives to bring home the big bucks, Triple Rush depicts those who battle against the manmade obstacles of the city, just to bring in whatever cash they can. Ah, but then there's the adrenaline...

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