WILD TRAVELS Launches Third Season on PBS Emmy® Award-Winning Series Celebrates America's Quirky Destinations

For Immediate Release

Premiering nationally in January
Carried on PBS stations in 170 markets/49 states
Locally on WTTW/Chicago beginning  January 16 @ 5p

CHICAGO, Ill.,  WILD TRAVELS (wildtravelstv.com) returns for a third season on PBS stations, celebrating the unusual, eccentric and downright quirky people, places and events all across America.  

While most travel shows go abroad for their content, WILD TRAVELS finds treasure in the cities, towns and roadsides of the USA.  The Emmy® award-winning series showcases peculiar public events such as TUG FEST – an incredible tug of war across the Mississippi River between LeClaire, Iowa and Port Byron, Illinois; or PIEROGI FEST in Indiana, a celebration of a beloved Eastern European dumpling. The show visits unique restaurants like LAMBERT’S CAFÉ-“Home of Throwed Rolls” in Alabama where patrons need to duck for cover, and drops in on a farm that raises the odd and amusing breed of FAINTING GOATS.  The crew tracks down the infamous bagpipe-playing, flame- throwing UNIPIPER in Portland; races gargantuan thousand-pound hollowed-out gourds at the PUMPKIN REGATTA, searches for SASQUATCH with the Bigfoot believers in the mountains of Colorado and cheers on the daring participants at a UNICYCLE FOOTBALL game in Texas.

Hosted by Will Clinger, Season Three concludes with a special episode devoted entirely to the most outrageous festival WILD TRAVELS has attended – FROZEN DEAD GUY DAYS, in Nederland, Colorado near Denver. The annual event honors a long-deceased Norwegian currently residing in a shed on a hill above town under 1,200 pounds of dry ice (long story).  The festival features Team Coffin Races, a Polar Plunge, a Parade of Hearses and a Frozen T-shirt Contest!
 

Each week WILD TRAVELS hopscotches the country, discovering a delightfully bizarre cross-section of the American landscape in each half-hour episode.  The series appeals to adventurous travelers who have a desire to get off the beaten path as well as more sedentary viewers satisfied to gaze at this country's wild side from the comfort of their own couch. For Season Three the intrepid crew explored odd destinations in Arizona, Iowa, Texas, Colorado, Alabama, Oregon, California, Oklahoma, Florida, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska and Michigan.

 The WILD TRAVELS team is comprised of Executive Producer HARVEY MOSHMAN, Host WILL CLINGER, and Cameraman DAVID SEMAN.
 
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FOR INTERVIEW REQUESTS:
Contact: Harvey Moshman
Executive Producer, WILD TRAVELS
e: harvey@wildtravelstv.com
p: 312.718.0690 

FOR VIDEO CLIPS:
A demo is available on the WILDTRAVELSTV.COM website. Past individual stories are streaming on WILD TRAVELS YouTube Channel, the GoTRAVELER app and several other streaming sites.

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