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Get Psyched for the Debut of Anthony Bourdain's CNN Travel Show 'Parts Unknown'

April 11, 2013 at 11:56 AM | by | Comments (0)

It's been nearly one full year since chef/author/badass Anthony Bourdain announced he'd be leaving his successful Travel Channel show "No Reservations" for a totally new series on CNN. Well that series now has a name, "Parts Unknown," and also a premiere date.

Mark your iCal: Parts Unknown airs on CNN this upcoming Sunday night, April 14, at 9pm EST/8pm CST.

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Chef Emeril Lagasse is the Latest Celeb to Get His Own Travel Show

January 7, 2013 at 3:50 PM | by | Comments (0)

Emeril Lagasse is taking a break from his day job in New Orleans and hitting the road for a new series, Emeril's Florida.

The famous TV chef will crisscross the Sunshine State to find its best cuisine. “Florida is not only about theme parks and water slides,” Lagasse said. “Sure we’ve got a little bit of that, but we’ve really mixed it up here, we’re following wine, food and farmers.”

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This is the End of Anthony Bourdain's 'No Reservations'

May 29, 2012 at 4:23 PM | by | Comments (0)

Look, we're only going to say this once: Anthony Bourdain has done more to make traveling with the locals, eating like the locals and, most importantly, respecting a country's culture while savoring its most succulent bits, than most travel writers. It's pretty much a fact, though everyone likes to claim that they impact the world for the good, even in the tiniest amount, Bourdain has the platform of a popular TV show to force a-typical tourism episode by episode. And it's worked.

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The Australian TV Show You Really Don't Want to Be On

Where: Australia
May 8, 2012 at 10:02 AM | by | Comments (0)

Watch out. On your next trip down under, you could end up on TV before even getting through to baggage claim. Just like in America, international travelers to Australia get their passports stamped, collect their baggage and then head off to quarantine to declare anything which might not be welcome on Aussie shores. And now all this is a TV show called "Border Security."

The 30-minute guilty pleasure is filmed primarily in Sydney and Melbourne, but the chance of catching a glimpse of the reality show being filmed elsewhere is pretty good. It has also stopped to film in Brisbane, Perth and some seaports across the nation.

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The Travel Channel Will Find Your Lost Baggage, and Then Sell It

March 15, 2012 at 11:25 AM | by | Comment (1)

There's still a little time before the Travel Channel's new show "Baggage Battles" debuts—April 11 at 10pm—but a preview has already hit YouTube and it's already freaking us out.

"Baggage Battles," a show obviously named by the least creative person at Travel Channel, is Travel Channel's stab at stealing some of the popularity and viewership of History Channel's "Pawn Stars" and "American Pickers," plus "Storage Wars" on A&E. In fact, one could describe it as the American Pickers...of the sky.

The show follows three wheeling and dealing brokers who frequent auctions to bring home the goods to their resell shops on both coasts. We're introduced to Billy Leroy of New York City, Mark Meyer from Long Island and Laurence and Sally Martin of Los Angeles.

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Be Your Own Airline Reality Show Star This Week at Tampa's Airport

March 5, 2012 at 10:00 AM | by | Comments (0)

Not that long ago we mentioned that TLC—the network that used to teach you stuff, but now just has Jon and Kate reruns—was looking to film a new reality television show starring Southwest Airlines. It looks like filming has already begun, and crews will be roaming the terminals and concourses of Tampa International Airport as soon as this week.

That means if you’re flying through Tampa—or to Tampa—now’s your chance to score fifteen minutes of reality show fame. We’d recommend causing a scene or just totally being rude and flipping out at a gate agent, because that should definitely get the attention of anyone with a camera—especially some fancy pants TV cameras. Of course we’re kidding, but the crew should be doing their thing at the airport this week so be on the lookout.

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Even David Arquette is Getting His Own Travel Channel TV Show

February 16, 2012 at 12:20 PM | by | Comments (0)

According to the Travel Channel, David Arquette will be joining the Mile High club later this year. The actor and his buddy Mike McGuiness, owner of PR firm McGuiness and Feinstein, will star in a weekly half-hour reality series for the Travel Channel that will follow them as they squeeze "spontaneous" adventures into their weekend travel. Each week the pair will also use social media connections to get the “hook up” for the ultimate getaway. Mile High is being produced by Coquette Productions, the production company David runs with his ex, Courteney Cox.

Travel Channel is also working on three more new shows for 2012. Adam Richman’s Best Sandwich in America will feature the Man Vs. Food host traveling across the U.S. to find the country's best sandwiches, Toy Hunters will follow toy collector Jordan Hembrough as he searches the country for the rarest (and most profitable) toys, and a Hawaii-set pilot called Aloha Gold which will center around Discover Hawaii Tours, one of the island’s biggest tour companies.

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Pan Am Episode 12: Smugglers, Spies and a Surprise Prince

January 23, 2012 at 12:31 PM | by | Comments (0)


Laura asks for a loan from Amanda

Read our past Pan Am episode recaps here.

Let us first say that this is the episode where the girls have looked their best so far. Kate, Colette and Maggie all attended a fancy foreign party and thus donned killer cocktail dresses, while Laura and Amanda showed off in figure-hugging sweater sets. When will Pan Am inspire a retail collaboration like Mad Men did with Banana Republic? Oh, probably never, but a girl can dream.

Anywho—most of the gang was off to Rome this week, but Bridget (pilot Dean's old/new flame) was conspicuously absent and Ted stayed home to begin playing house with his new fiance, the bi-curious Amanda (played by Ashley Greene). Filling the gap was the newish character Captain Broyles (aka "Sky God"), who we learned last episode moonlights as a smuggler of goods, a fact which comes heavier into play this episode.

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Pan Am Episode 11: Back in the USSR, with Light Espionage

January 16, 2012 at 10:38 AM | by | Comments (0)


Broyles crashes Dean's Moscow pep talk

Read our past Pan Am episode recaps here.

This episode picks up exactly where we left off last week, with pilot Dean and newly returned stewardess/former MI6 spy Bridget hopping into bed with each other. Bridget still loves Dean and wants to pick up where things left off (with her as his fiance), but Dean has moved on to Colette and would rather just bed Bridget one last time. Maybe she's so irresistible again because he just found out she's a spy, and spies are hot? That's just our guess.

Regardless, Dean and Bridget part that morning in London for good (here's hoping), as Dean reveals again how hurt he's been over all the lies: "So everything I didn't understand was because you were a spy and I was in the dark?"

Ring ring ring! Dean picks up the hotel room phone to discover he's been summoned back to New York for a meeting with Pan Am's chief Juan Trippe. About what? Oh well, after a nice computer-generated panorama of the Pan Am Worldport at JFK, we find out it's all concerning PAA being the first western airline to return to the Soviet Union, and Trippe wants Dean in the captain's seat—the "face of the Jet Age" and whatnot. Wait, we thought that was Laura on the cover of LIFE? Anyways, the plane leaves ASAP.

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Pan Am Episode 10: London, Loathing and a Lie Detector

January 9, 2012 at 12:03 PM | by | Comments (0)


We highly doubt a stewardess, in their immanculate Pan Am uniform, would sit on the floor of a plane to drink, while surrounded by perfectly fine First Class seats

Read our past Pan Am episode recaps here.

Wow. It's been a full month since the last episode of Pan Am and, to tell you the truth, we blanked on where things left off. When a show is in danger of being cancelled, it's not the wisest to postpone new episodes for four weeks because—just as if the show was already cancelled—watchers begin the process of forgetting about it.

Luckily Pan Am is back for more episodes until the network figures out what to do with it, and last night continued the romantic drama and espionage intrigue we've come to expect. With a side of retro air travel.

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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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Pan Am Episode 9: Love, London and a Smoking Gun

December 5, 2011 at 12:17 PM | by | Comments (0)

Episode 8 recap here.

It's been three weeks since the last new episode of Pan Am. Three weeks! In that time, the biggest chatter hasn't been around their panicky escape from Haiti or how good the show is becoming, but rather is it already cancelled? The answer, for now, is no, but the introduction of Twilight's Ashley Greene and even more love/relationship drama means the show is getting desperate to cling to its on-air life.

London was the destination this week, and everyone's onboard as usual, save for pilot Dean and Frenchie flight attendant Colette. Instead of hopping the Atlantic, Dean leaves his first office stripes at home and dons a denim look to take Colette to meet his parents. So soon?! They've only been flirting and having a casual romance, but we get the feeling that Dean is keen to get himself a wifey.

After all, remember Bridget? Dean barely does, his father really does, but Dean covers the awkwardness during a tender moment with Colette, saying that something about her didn't quite add up (umm her secretive CIA-ness?) and he never brought her to meet the 'rents. Colette buys this, and they get it on in the family barn. Eww.

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