Articles tagged “tv”

Worth the read if only for the nuggets about which Travel Channel personalities are good people.

The Office wasn’t taped in Scranton, but its goal of portraying real-life in a small town life led to close ties with the local businesses, a relationship that put the town in front of millions of American viewers.

"Parts Unknown" brings the world to life in a way that CNN has largely ignored on its U.S. channel. Bourdain gets to do what the news programs on CNN can't do: Dive into how real people live without featuring the opinions of ridiculous talking heads.

Will this be the season Draper's agency lands the big airline they've always dreamed of? Travel and design geeks hope "yes."

TV-inspired tourism is on the rise, as is the marketing push for it, and Breaking Bad has all the ingredients to drive it.

Atlantic City is desperate for something, anything, to slow its slide into economic ruin since massive loans from the state and complex development deals haven't worked. The odds of Miss America delivering a big enough payout aren't odds that the house would go for.

Like most of what Disney does, this is the envy of not just the travel industry, but any brand seeking the endorsement of whoever is the most popular person on the planet right now -- unless, of course, you were rooting for San Francisco.

The thought that a "Steven Tyler Act" describes anything other than dressing like a 60-year-old woman with multiple facelifts is hilarious enough on its own, but letting the thought of this law proceed this far speaks to how far some lawmakers will go to make a famous person happy.

There's not nearly enough ridicule of men who travel to pay for sex in public life, so we'll have to live with this SNL spoof until real news about real-life depravity makes the front pages.

Several newbies including "Airport 24/7: Miami" made their way to a second round, while incumbents "Ghost Adventures" and "Bizarre Foods America" head into their eighth season.