The latest incarnation of National Geographic Channel’s long-running, critically acclaimed Explorer will begin trotting the globe on Monday, Nov. 14 at 10/9c, TVLine can report exclusively.
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Returning in a “reimagined” format and hosted by Richard Bacon, Explorer will tape in front of a live studio audience in New York City and offer a mix of field pieces, roundtable discussions and in-depth interviews as it continues the decades-old docuseries’ legacy of innovative journalism.
“We are excited about the significant expansion in the scope and ambition of Explorer,...
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Returning in a “reimagined” format and hosted by Richard Bacon, Explorer will tape in front of a live studio audience in New York City and offer a mix of field pieces, roundtable discussions and in-depth interviews as it continues the decades-old docuseries’ legacy of innovative journalism.
“We are excited about the significant expansion in the scope and ambition of Explorer,...
- 9/27/2016
- TVLine.com
National Geographic Channel has set the creative team and correspondents for the return of “Explorer” this fall, both which TheWrap has learned exclusively. Lou Wallach, formerly of “The Colbert Report” and “The Talking Dead,” will executive produce the revamped format. Nick McKinney and Meghan O’Hara — creators of The IFC Media Project — will join him as EPs and showrunners. Bryan Christy, Ryan Duffy, Francesca Fiorentini, Jena Friedman, Justin Hall, Billie Mintz, Tania Rashid, Tim Samuels and Baratunde Thurston will serve as correspondents. As previously announced, studio host Richard Bacon (pictured above) will anchor the whole thing. Also Read: How Nat...
- 7/12/2016
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
The critically acclaimed documentary series Explorer returns to National Geographic Channel on Sunday, Aug. 30, at 8pm Et/Pt. Each monthly episode of the series will go deep into a story ripped from the pages of the current issue of National Geographic magazine. In the premiere episode, Warlords of Ivory, special investigative correspondent Bryan Christy, a veteran of wildlife trafficking wars, traces the path of destruction left in the wake of Africa’s illegal ivory trade — a path rife with misery, crime and terrorism that spreads like a dark stain across the map of the world. Christy and his team had an … Continue reading →
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- 8/28/2015
- by Ryan Berenz
- ChannelGuideMag
National Geographic Magazine investigative journalist Bryan Christy was so determined to expose the international ivory trade network on the first episode of NatGeo’s returning documentary series Explorer, he wound up being arrested in Tanzania when he was attempting to ship fake tusks through the country’s borders. The episode entitled, Warlords Of Ivory, was an 18-month investigation for Christy and his producer J.J. Kelly whereby they traced the smuggling of elephant…...
- 7/29/2015
- Deadline TV
A new special from National Geographic Television and PBS explores the brutal ivory trade and its effect on Africa's elephant populations. "Battle for the Elephants," which airs February 27 on PBS, follows journalists Bryan Christy and Aidan Hartley as they track the ivory trade from Tanzania to China.
"You can smell it; it’s almost like dried blood," Hartley described while visiting the world's largest stockpile of ivory tusks in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Walking among 90 metric tons of ivory valued at $50 million, he added, "There is the smell of death in here. All of these are confiscated trophies."
Writer, producer and director John Heminway said in a press release, “If the current situation remains the status quo, we are facing the very real possibility that elephants living in the wild will go extinct in the coming decades." He added, "The market for smuggled ivory is too lucrative for poachers to resist,...
"You can smell it; it’s almost like dried blood," Hartley described while visiting the world's largest stockpile of ivory tusks in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Walking among 90 metric tons of ivory valued at $50 million, he added, "There is the smell of death in here. All of these are confiscated trophies."
Writer, producer and director John Heminway said in a press release, “If the current situation remains the status quo, we are facing the very real possibility that elephants living in the wild will go extinct in the coming decades." He added, "The market for smuggled ivory is too lucrative for poachers to resist,...
- 2/27/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
There are many reasons why animals become endangered, some of them attributable to human activity -- such as habitat loss, pollution, excessive harvesting of species for food and the releasing of invasive species into the environment.
But in the case of African elephants, human culture may, in the end, be the thing that drives them to the brink of extinction. Far too often, they aren't being killed for food or to make way for human expansion or agriculture, but for vanity.
On Wednesday, Feb. 27 (check local listings), PBS airs the National Geographic special "Battle for the Elephants," in which journalists Bryan Christy and Aidan Hartley reveal the criminal trade in "blood ivory" -- as Christy called it in an October 2012 article -- to be made into decorative and religious objects, particularly in China.
"The most shocking thing, I would say," explains Christy, "is that the Chinese government is building capacity for huger ivory consumption.
But in the case of African elephants, human culture may, in the end, be the thing that drives them to the brink of extinction. Far too often, they aren't being killed for food or to make way for human expansion or agriculture, but for vanity.
On Wednesday, Feb. 27 (check local listings), PBS airs the National Geographic special "Battle for the Elephants," in which journalists Bryan Christy and Aidan Hartley reveal the criminal trade in "blood ivory" -- as Christy called it in an October 2012 article -- to be made into decorative and religious objects, particularly in China.
"The most shocking thing, I would say," explains Christy, "is that the Chinese government is building capacity for huger ivory consumption.
- 2/27/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Tune in alert for next week on February 27, as PBS will broadcast the National Geographic special "Battle for the Elephants," a one-hour film that looks at how the surge in China.s ivory consumption is destroying Africa.s elephant population. The Chinese also love to buy Rhino horn for "medicinal" properties that's based on arcane ancient Chinese malarky. The African Rhinos are being slaughtered left and right to appease this uneducated cultural belief. This film tells the ultimate wildlife story . how the Earth.s most charismatic and majestic land animal today faces market forces driving the value of its tusks to levels once reserved for precious metals. Journalists Bryan Christy and Aidan Hartley take viewers undercover as...
- 2/20/2013
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
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