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Travel Channel Orders Digital Series “Ten Best Places”
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.
NBC Sports to Launch First Original Digital Series with MY Entertainment
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 […]
David Auerbach Joins MY Entertainment
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.
In ‘Breaking Borders,’ a Chef Cooks for Sworn Enemies
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.
How Cooking in Conflict Zones Changed LA Chef Michael Voltaggio
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 […]
"Breaking Borders" Gathers People In Conflict for a Real Conversation
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 […]