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Curious Travelers Television

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A televison production company specializing in travel programs for cable television networks.

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Curious Travelers' Trailer for NYC Halloween Pilot

Curious Travelers Television ·

2005/12/17

Video Link to TrailerFestival Traveler Melody Bates with friend outside Blood Manor in the pilot episode of New York Halloween for the new series "One Hundred Festivals To Go Before You Go"To Find out more about the series and pilot production go to www.curioustravelers.com

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Review: Take Five Europe on Discovery Travel Channel...

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2005/08/26

Take Five Europe was the first program I believe that was greenlighted by the new General Manager of the Discovery Travel Channel. It is an extremely smart production decision. The series breaks new ground in integrating written and video blogs with an on air program, building an interactive audience and using small DV and Hi-Def cameras. It also is shot and edited in one week, so certainly current events such as the London subway bombings appear in the show, giving it an up to date feel, something

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Lowell Thomas, The Man Who Invented The Travel Program

Curious Travelers Television ·

2005/08/24

If we trace the history of the modern travel program the origns go directly to Lowell Thomas, the man who invented the term travelogue. Below is his biography from the wikipedia encyclopedia:He was born in Woodington, Ohio, in Darke County, the son of Harry and Harriet (Wagner) Thomas. His father was a doctor and his mother a school teacher. In 1900, the family moved to the mining town of Cripple Creek, Colorado. There he worked as a gold miner, a cook, and a reporter on the newspaper.In 1911, he

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Rick Steves' Backdoor to Europe - The Economics of a...

Curious Travelers Television ·

2005/08/24

Rick Steves has to hold the record of creating the most economical travel shows. For his thirteen episode half hour series:His crew is a total of three people:- Rick Steves - The presenter- A cameraman - usually a local, so he doesn't have to pay for flying in and housing him.- A directorProbably if he wanted to he could do away with the cameraman and have a crew of just two people. I personally like to work with a team of at least six - director, producer, soundman, cameraman, presenter and local

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Why All Travel Shows Should Shoot in Hi-Definition?

Curious Travelers Television ·

2005/08/24

In five years digital TV will be the standard worldwide. Already it is the standard in Japan.In the united States the FCC mandate requires all television manufacturers to equip their products, except those smaller than 13 inches, with digital television (DTV) tuners by 2007. Digital tuners allow TVs to receive digital broadcasts from over-the-air signals, that is, when not hooked up to cable or satellite. The FCC claims that implementing its rule is necessary for all TV sets to be digitally

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Globe Trekker - The Format, Fixed In Time

Curious Travelers Television ·

2005/08/23

Globe Trekker is one of the best travel program out there.It's the only truly international travel program. It's got some of the best presenters, music and they spend their budget wisely; they haven't yielded to some of the cost cutting measures in other travel programs these days, where they shoot for just one week and the program, while hosted, is practically all voice over such as Rick Steves' Backdoor Productions. They spend time in the pre-production, production and post and always come up

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The History of Globe Trekker: Mother of all Modern...

Curious Travelers Television ·

2005/08/23

The History of Globe Trekker/Pilot Guides, according to Curious Travelers (and correct me if I am wrong, some information is insider info, most is second hand and from research)If the grandfather of all travel programs was Lowell Thomas, the honor of the father of the modern travel program, called travelogues at the time ( a word Mr. Thomas coined), the mother of the modern travel program is Pilot Guides, started in 1994 by Ian Cross. The first program on Rio de Janeiro was presented by a then

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MostTraveledMan.com & and where to shoot?

Curious Travelers Television ·

2005/08/22

There is a site MostTraveledMan.com, of a a dot.com millionaire, who has spent the few years traveling and traveling and traveling. He holds the new world record for visiting 500 countries and territories is 4 years, 3 months, 15 days. He even visited one of the most dangerous places on earth - Chechnya.I would love to get his take on the different places he visited. I'm currently producing thirteen one hour episodes. Why thirteen episodes. For some reason that's what the networks want. thirteen is

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How Long Does it Take to Produce a One Hour Travel...

Curious Travelers Television ·

2005/08/22

People often ask me how long does it take to produce a one hour travel program?I often joke that it takes as long as the size of the budget. The truth is that it usually takes a set amount of time; unless you have several production teams in the field at once you'll be lucky if you can make more than six travel programs a year, as each one takes a good two to three months from start to finish.Here's the usual timeline:Week 1: Pick destination and host, contact tourism boards, research

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Acquisition vs. Commission

Curious Travelers Television ·

2005/08/22

I've often wondered why networks pay so much less for acquisitions than commissions?It would seem that if you produced a program they wanted to buy and it fit into their programming needs they would pay at least as much as if it was a program they produced. After all they're not working in thin air, off just a pitch treatment or a demo. The program is actually a physical entity, something they can see, make changes if need be. Logically a finished film should cost more than a commisison.The reality

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The New Direction in Travel Programming

Curious Travelers Television ·

2005/08/22

There is a new direction in travel programming. You see it on the Discovery Travel Channel and on the Fine Living Network, the two main providers of travel programming in the US. You see it also on the PBS travel programmers, although to a lesser extent.As I discussed list informational based travel programs are out. Video on Demand will service the real traveler market: the viewers who buy travel guidebooks and actually travel, rather than travel vicariously through travel programs.The new travel

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Video on Demand- Travel Programmers have it both ways?

Curious Travelers Television ·

2005/08/20

OK. So there are two different audiences for travel programs.One audience, the majority of the viewers, the 25-65 demographic does not travel, but they are intrigued by travel.. For them the more exotic the travel location the more interesting it is too watch. If the host is witty, the writing amusing, that's all that matters. They're armchair travelers, looking for ENTERTAINMENTThe other audience, 22-25 year olds and 65 plus, are planning their trip. For the younger traveler it might mean

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The Travel TV Programmer's Dilemma

Curious Travelers Television ·

2005/08/20

The Discovery Travel Channel has shifted their programming criteria and I'll explain why (or why I think why?).Really it goes to the root of why people watch travel programming and why some travel programs do better in the rating than others.First of all, most of the people who watch travel programs don't really travel or don't travel much. They certainly don't go on treks into the Himalayas or visit exotic locations such as New Guinea or even New Zealand. Rather they are armchair travelers.Consider

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My Reality Check at the Travel Channel

Curious Travelers Television ·

2005/08/20

Looking back at it and knowing what I know now it makes perfect sense why the Travel Channel didn't acquire my first program.Let me digress for a moment. Prior to producing my first television program on spec (ie I spent my own money, something that producers shouldn't normally do if they want to stay in business, but what you have to do when breaking into a new field of production) I had produced three feature films. Producing three feature films is a great resume if you want to produce a fourth

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'The Best of Buenos Aires" - Continued

Curious Travelers Television ·

2005/08/20

OK. So the first program 'The Best of Buenos Aires" is finished for acquisition and I send it off to the Travel Channel acquisition department.It usually takes two months for a network such as the Travel Channel to get back to you. When they did the news wasn't what I had wished for or, to be honest, expected. They decided for the moment not to acquire it, although of course they might buy it later; however, based on my submission they must have regarded me as a producer they might want to work

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How we got started - "The Best of Buenos Aires" -...

Curious Travelers Television ·

2005/08/20

The second type of Travel program that the Travel Channel produces are hosted programs. At the time - back in 2002 when I attended the Real Screen Summit for the first time, the Travel Channel had several of these types of programs, the most well known being "Great Hotels" with Samantha Brown, produced by Pine Ridge Production out of Florida. The general consensusin the industry is that hosted programs get better ratings then non-hosted programs. The host develops a following over time and the

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How we got started - "The Best of Buenos Aires"

Curious Travelers Television ·

2005/08/13

Let start at the beginning, our first travel program "The Best of Buenos Aires". How we got started.I think I can say that the travel production of CNI Cinema started in February 2002. Prior to that we were only producing feature films. We produced thee of them "The Kirlian Witness", distributed by Paramount Pictures, "Ramona", distributed by Curb Communications and "Best Beverly Hills, distributed by Trident Releasing.I was attending the excellent Real Screen Conference in Washington, D. C.. At

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Taking On Interns

Curious Travelers Television ·

2005/08/12

For the past few months I've been interviewing hundreds of job applicants to work on our travel programs. I've seen people who want to be presenters, operate the camera, direct, take sound, write scripts and project proposals, work in the sales and marketing, either ona full time or freelance basis.Also I've been interviewing for interns. Some interns are non film students, people that simply have no skills in filmmaking, have never worked on a film project before. Some are highly motivated to

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Casting for the Presenter

Curious Travelers Television ·

2005/08/11

In travel shows everything depends upon the presenter, in fact presenters can be more important then even the script. If you are fortunate enough to find a really great one, someone that the audience will tune in to wach and travel with time and time again, most of your work is done for you.You would be surprised at how many people think they have what it takes. Globe Trekker reported looked at over three thousand candidates when they started out. Ten years later and they really have only three top

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