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ROAD TRIP!

TRAVEL CHANNEL LAUNCHES A SERIES OF ULTIMATE SIGHTSEEING TOURS

FOR TV BUFFS, MOVIE FANS, SPORTS FANATICS,
MAGIC AFFICIANADOS AND MORE


--Premiering with a sneak peek on Sunday, March 30, New Series Roams the Globe with Celebrities in Each Field Leading the Way --

Have you ever wished you could… follow (carefully!) in the footsteps of those wiseguys in The Sopranos?...run through the glorious hills that captivated audiences in The Sound of Music?... touch one of Babe Ruth’s famed “home run” baseball bats?... or discover the secret of how Harry Houdini escaped his straightjackets? On the heels of last year’s highly successful TV Road Trip special, Travel Channel broadens the genre with a new series ROAD TRIP that maps out an entire season of memorable, globe-hopping, nostalgic tours tailored especially for TV fans, movie buffs, sports enthusiasts, magic mavens, ghost busters and much more. On Travel Channel’s Opening Night, Sunday, March 30, viewers will get a sneak peek at the ROAD TRIP series with an all-new episode of TV Road Trip airing from 10-11 PM (ET/PT). The ROAD TRIP series officially begins on Thursday, April 3, with a special two-hour premiere of Movie Lover’s Road Trip from 9-11 PM (ET/PT). The one-hour series will air regularly on Thursdays from 10-11 PM (ET/PT).

“When TV Road Trip premiered in April 2002, it received an enormous response from our viewers,” says Steve Cheskin, president of Travel Channel. “In fact, it was the highest rated program among our target audience -- ever. With this in mind, we are delighted to introduce an expanded version that taps into our audience’s many different interests and travel wish-lists.”

No ordinary by-the-book tours, these genre-specific journeys are populated by a mix of unforgettable personalities who breathe life into each destination. For example, viewers will find themselves drag racing down “Paradise Road” with Candy Clark “Debbie” from American Graffiti…following the Yellow Brick Road to the annual Wizard of Oz festival with some of the original munchkins from the movie… roaming through Camden Yards with Cal Ripken and Texas Stadium with Tony Dorsett…setting sail on the real Love Boat with Gavin MacLeod, the fastidious “Captain Stubing”… or visiting Homicide’s gritty Baltimore precinct with actor Peter Gerety who played “Detective Stu Gharty” on the series

So, pack your bag for these ROAD TRIP second quarter premieres:


(Please note that episodes do not necessarily air in sequence)


Movie Lover’s Road Trip

Veteran actor Kevin Pollak (Casino, A Few Good Men, The Usual Suspects) hosts these two one-hour specials as he heads to the sites where some of Hollywood’s most memorable movies were filmed. Among the locales visited are: the tiny cornfield in Dyersville, Iowa, where the Field of Dreams still draws fans for pick-up games, Austria’s Leopoldskron Castle, home of The Sound of Music’s von Trapp family, Martha’s Vineyard, where the summer blockbuster Jaws led to a nationwide “beach panic,” Eugene, Oregon where the University of Oregon’s Sigma Nu frat house played host to Animal House’s infamous toga party, San Francisco, California to follow in the footsteps of the Scorpio Killer from Dirty Harry, the actual Bridges of Madison County, Iowa where Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood brought Robert James Waller’s famous novel to life and much more!

Movie Lover’s Road Trip Episodes 1 and 2 Premiere Thursday, April 3 from 9-11 PM (ET/PT) Two one-hour specials air back-to-back (American Graffiti, Animal House, Wizard of Oz, Jaws, The Sound of Music, Dirty Harry, Ground Hog Day, Bridges of Madison County, Field of Dreams, and more.)



TV Road Trip

Grab your remote control and join host Christopher Knight (“Peter” from The Brady Bunch) as he travels from the past to the present for a look at classic TV settings with some of the cast members who brought them to life. Viewers can check out who really sleeps with the fishes with a tour of Sopranos mob hangouts in Northern, New Jersey and in Little Italy in NYC, get bowled over in the real “Stuckeyville” (Northvale, New Jersey) with Ed cast members Tom Cavanaugh and Michael Ian Black, and step back in time to Plum Creek, Minnesota and Simi Valley, California with Little House on the Prairie’s Alison Arngrim “Nellie Oleson” and Dean Butler “Almanzo Wilder.”

OPENING NIGHT (series sneak peek) TV Road Trip Episode 4 Premieres on Sunday, March 30 from 10-11 PM (Sopranos, Homicide, Twin Peaks, Saturday Night Live and more.)
TV Road Trip Episode 5 Premieres Thursday, April 10 from 10-11 PM (Ed, Love Boat, Dawson’s Creek, Little House on the Prairie, Gunsmoke.)



Haunted Road Trip

Travel Channel managed to scare up Jamie-Lynn Sigler (“Meadow” from The Sopranos) to host two one-hour specials that explore the sites where strange phenomena have spawned tales of demonic possession and ghostly sightings -- places like Jean Dixon’s Crystal Caverns at Hupp’s Hill in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia where she predicted J.F.K.’s assassination and which is still haunted by a Confederate soldier, Ontario, Canada where the ghost of Captain Swayze, who was killed in the War of 1812, continues to wreak havoc at the Olde Angel Inn, especially when American patrons enter the hotel, and Eureka Springs, Arkansas where the Crescent Hotel is plagued by a team of ghosts who roam the halls, shake guests’ beds, throw clothes around the room and slam doors.

Haunted Road Trip Episode 1 Premieres Thursday, April 17 from 10-11 PM
Haunted Road Trip Episode 2 Premieres Thursday, April 24 from 10-11 PM





Sports Fan’s Road Trip

Viewers will score big with this tour of America’s top sports-related destinations including: Baltimore, Maryland to visit Babe Ruth’s Museum and birthplace and tour Camden Yards and the Ripken museum with the “iron man” himself, Cal Ripken; Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas with famed Dallas Cowboys Roger Staubach and Tony Dorsett, who relives the excitement of a locker room game day speech from legendary coach Tom Landry, a tour of the locker room at Yankee stadium in the Bronx, New York where the locker of legendary catcher Thurmond Munson, who was tragically killed in a plane crash in 1979, remains empty to this day.

Sports Fan’s Road Trip Episode 1 Premieres Thursday, May 1 from 10-11 PM





Theme Park Road Trip

Actress Jamie Lynn-Sigler buckles up for a wild ride as she hosts these two one-hour programs featuring some of the most exciting amusement parks in the world. Whether it’s sliding down an eight-story waterslide at Point South Mountain Resort in Phoenix, Arizona, getting up close and personal with dolphins, stingrays, sharks and barracudas at Sea World’s Discovery Cove in Orlando, Florida or spiraling down Six Flag’s state-of-the-art Magic Mountain roller coaster, the world’s first 4-dimensional thrill ride outside of Los Angeles, California, these programs are sure to be a thrill a minute!

Theme Park Road Trip Episode 1 premieres on Thursday, May 29 from 10-11 PM
Theme Park Road Trip Episode 2 premieres Thursday, June 5 from 10-11 PM





Magic Road Trip

These two one-hour programs travel to the hottest shows in Las Vegas, Nevada where magic legends Penn & Teller and Lance Burton reveal some of their closely-guarded secrets such as how Penn fires a gun to knock a cigarette out of Teller’s mouth. The programs also travels to the Harry Houdini Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania where Houdini’s most famous escapes are recreated; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania for a display of 19th century Civil War magic and London, England where Harry Potter fans will get their fix at the

Magic Circle where magicians have been conjuring up spells since 1905.

Magic Road Trip Episode 1 Premieres Thursday, June 12 from 10-11 PM
Magic Road Trip Episode 2 Premieres Thursday, June 19 from 10-11 PM



Later in the year, Travel Channel will unveil new episodes of TV Road Trip, Sports Fan’s Road Trip as well as new topics such as Fireworks Road Trip , Casino Road Trip, and Celebrity Homes Road Trip.



The new ROAD TRIP series is produced for Travel Channel by Nash Entertainment Productions. Executive Producer is Bruce Nash. Andrew Jebb is Supervising Producer, and

Matt Harris is Producer. Debra Weeks is co-executive producer on the TV Road Trip, Movie Road Trip, Fireworks Road Trip and Haunted Road Trip episodes. Kathleen Cromley is Executive Producer for the Travel Channel. Steve Cheskin is the executive in charge of production.