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12 British TV Stars Go Around The World In 80 Days For BBC
How many celebrities does it take to go around the world in 80 days? Twelve modern ones, or one Python—that's the equation the BBC has come up with for a new reality show that splits Jules Verne's classic journey up among pairs of stars for a good cause. It's "The Amazing Race" meets "The Superstars," if VH-1 were casting it.
Back in 1989, Michael Palin decided to reenact the journey taken by Phileas Fogg in Around The World in 80 Days for a BBC special, arriving back in London via Venice, Jeddah, Pune and Long Beach after 79 days and 7 hours. (The movie is currently streaming on Netflix, should you need a little travel inspiration.)
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And The Next New Travel Show Will Be Hosted By...Jessica Simpson
Tonight is the premiere of a new travel tv show, Man Shops Globe, where a buyer for Anthropologie travels the world in pursuit of quirky furniture and products for the chain store. Is it just us, or are floofy travel shows taking over tv? Even if you don't think so now, you will after the news that Jessica Simpson is getting her own travel show, The Price of Beauty.
With Jessica as a host, the series will focus on beauty regimens around the world, and how the concept of beauty varies from culture to culture. Although the series won't air until 2010, hype begins now as Jessica is in the process of shooting the episodes around the world. She's already been to a fattening hut in Uganda and a geisha house in Japan, and she's en route to her next stop of Morocco currently. When "The Price of Beauty" eventually does air, you can find it on VH1, natch.
Jessica's life is so hard...
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Sundance Channel Welcomes New Travel TV Show: 'Man Shops Globe'
The Sundance Channel is getting a new travel show...sorta! We're imagining it as like if Anthony Bourdain was a shopper and not an eater, since the series titled "Man Shops Globe" follows the buyer-at-large, Keith Johnson, for international chain Anthropologie around the world as he sources unique and vintage finds for the stores. The eight-part series premiers on October 7 at 10pm.
For any girl or reluctant guy who has spent time in an Anthropologie store, you'll understand how this pairing of TV show and retail buyer matches; an Anthropologie is like a global finery rummage sale, with some pretty $300 frocks peppered around and $250 cutesy cardigans to match. The stores love to show off large-scale furniture as well, like antique four-poster beds swiped from estate sales in the south of France, or patchwork armchairs specially assembled in South Africa. All (non-clothing) products usually boast some such nomadic history, and it's Keith's job to secure these items from bazaars all over.
Where he's headed, after the jump.
