Scripps Networks Interactive-owned Travel Channel has commissioned an online travel series from MY Digital.
The New York-based company, which is owned by MY Entertainment, is producing the web series Ten Best Places with… (pictured) for Travel Channel Originals. The 10-part series focuses on the most Googled destinations and travel topics. More
NBC Sports plans to launch about a half-dozen original series produced for digital platforms in the next year, with the group’s first entry slated to take the field next week.
The NBC Sports Digital Shorts initiative will encompass different categories, including special packages of highlights and exclusive interviews. The first project is “Sherman’s Warriors,” a six-part docu-series following former Green Bay Packers head coach Mike Sherman as he coaches the Nauset Warriors, a high school football team in Cape Cod, Mass. More
New York producer MY Entertainment is opening an office in Los Angeles to be headed up by David Auerbach.
The former Rive Gauche Television president has been appointed to the newly created role of senior VP of international and will focus on co-developing programming with the company’s international partners for the U.S. market. More
Take a shopworn, simplistic concept, apply it in an unexpected way, and what do you get? An entertaining and informative travel program.
It’s called “Breaking Borders,” and it has its premiere Sunday on the Travel Channel, a blast of substance from an outlet whose shows (“Hotel Impossible,” “Ghost Adventures”) tend toward the frivolous. More
Michael Voltaggio is no stranger to television cameras. The Los Angeles-based chef/owner of Ink and InkSack won the sixth season of Top Chef, which involved cooking in a moving train car and over a fire pit among its various challenges. But his latest television project — the upcoming Travel Channel series Breaking Borders — is nothing like Bravo’s reality competition, even though he sometimes found himself cooking in difficult settings. “The challenging aspect of it was very similar, but in Top Chef that was purposely staged to be that way,” he tells Eater. With Breaking Borders, they’re not trying to set me up to fail, they’re not trying to create some weird challenge to go through.” He clarifies: “This is real, it’s not a reality TV show.” More
Can breaking bread actually make a difference when it comes to Breaking Borders? In Travel Channel’s new original series, premiering Sunday, March 15 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT, Peabody Award-winning journalist Mariana van Zeller and acclaimed chef Michael Voltaggio tackle that very question as they travel to conflict zones around the globe. Together, they have a unique and challenging goal: gather people from all sides of the conflict to a delicious meal and talk about the issues that divide them. A thoughtful and informative hour, Breaking Borders is a unique opportunity for those living in the region to share their challenges, concerns and possibilities of a future – through the eyes of the community members whose daily experiences continue to drive international headlines. The series is comprised of 13 one-hour episodes. More
New York-based prodco MY Entertainment has penned a development deal with Zak Bagans (pictured), television host and creator of the Travel Channel series Ghost Adventures.
Among the projects in development between the two parties – which already work together on Ghost Adventures – is the series Pups on Parole, which follows a Las Vegas program that pairs female prisoners with dogs from an animal sanctuary. A second project in development is Flight Club, which centers on Las Vegas’s model airplane clubs, which build, fly and battle replicas of historic planes and drones. More
