Who knew that cup of Joe was fraught with peril? Season two of Travel Channel’s “Dangerous Grounds” just got more dangerous. Coffee importer and adventurer Todd Carmichael’s big name clients are as demanding as ever. They send him to source the perfect coffee in the world’s most dangerous places, from the Amazon jungles of Brazil to the conflict zones of Guatemala. From Travrel Channel: Premiering on Tuesday, January 28 at 9:00 p.m. Et/Pt, the critically acclaimed original series features Carmichael as he treks around the globe for his biggest clients including chef Jean Georges Vongerichten, chef Mario Batali, Starr Restaurants, Dean & Deluca, West Elm Stores and Four Seasons Hotels. For this self-made businessman who grew his company bean...
- 11/19/2013
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Travel Channel announced the renewal of four series for the first quarter of ’14. The channel, available in over 94 million U.S. cable homes and owned and operated by Scripps Networks Interactive, renewed Season 6 of Bizarre Foods America with Andrew Zimmern; the second season of Dangerous Grounds with Todd Carmichael; Season 4 of Hotel Impossible with Anthony Melchiorri; and Season 6 of Mysteries At The Museum hosted by Don Wildman. This is in addition to the previously announced renewals of season three of Toy Hunter with Jordan Hembrough; and season three of Trip Flip with Bert Kreischer. The Network has also greenlit productions of 13 half-hour episodes of the new original series Chow Masters, produced by Paperny Entertainment; and the return of the successful second annual multi-platform programming event, The Trip: 2014, a one-hour special produced by High Noon, featuring Samantha Brown, Anthony Melchiorri, Adam Richman and Don Wildman. Click over for the complete list...
- 10/7/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Todd Carmichael, the host of the Travel Channel series "Dangerous Grounds" (Tuesday 9 pm Et), had a near death experience entirely in keeping with his show's adventure theme on Saturday when his Jeep rolled off a cliff on Colombia's Sierra Nevada Mountain.
"The section of dirt mud road we were on slid away and the truck with it," Carmichael told HuffPost Travel. "We rolled over... like shoes in a clothes dryer. The truck came to a stop on its roof, caught by a single tree, beyond it the black darkness of a shear drop."
According to Carmichael, who hunts the world for exotic coffees, the cliff was roughly 200 feet tall and the accident occurred around midnight. After climbing out of the wreck with his cameraman Hollywood, whose actual name is John Murphy, Carmichael walked through the dark to the nearest town.
"Sometime near morning we arrived at Pueblo Bello... feeling lucky to be alive,...
"The section of dirt mud road we were on slid away and the truck with it," Carmichael told HuffPost Travel. "We rolled over... like shoes in a clothes dryer. The truck came to a stop on its roof, caught by a single tree, beyond it the black darkness of a shear drop."
According to Carmichael, who hunts the world for exotic coffees, the cliff was roughly 200 feet tall and the accident occurred around midnight. After climbing out of the wreck with his cameraman Hollywood, whose actual name is John Murphy, Carmichael walked through the dark to the nearest town.
"Sometime near morning we arrived at Pueblo Bello... feeling lucky to be alive,...
- 11/20/2012
- by Andrew Burmon
- Huffington Post
It's midmorning, so Todd Carmichael, the adventurous host of Travel Channel's "Dangerous Grounds," premiering Monday, Nov. 5, is about to switch from regular coffee to espresso.
Since his doctor persuaded him to reduce caffeine consumption, Carmichael is down to about 10 espressos and four French presses a day.
"It used to be obscene," he tells Zap2it. "I would have to not tell people the exact number because I was embarrassed."
His consumption, though, and his passion for coffee make Carmichael the ideal host of the eight-episode show, as he travels to Haiti, Bolivia, Borneo and Madagascar in search of the perfect bean.
As co-founder and co-owner of La Colombe Torrefaction, which imports coffee and has seven cafes in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and South Korea, Carmichael notes how the perfect cup of joe enhances any meal but stands alone so well.
"Coffee and conversation around the table," Carmichael says of one of life's simple pleasures,...
Since his doctor persuaded him to reduce caffeine consumption, Carmichael is down to about 10 espressos and four French presses a day.
"It used to be obscene," he tells Zap2it. "I would have to not tell people the exact number because I was embarrassed."
His consumption, though, and his passion for coffee make Carmichael the ideal host of the eight-episode show, as he travels to Haiti, Bolivia, Borneo and Madagascar in search of the perfect bean.
As co-founder and co-owner of La Colombe Torrefaction, which imports coffee and has seven cafes in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and South Korea, Carmichael notes how the perfect cup of joe enhances any meal but stands alone so well.
"Coffee and conversation around the table," Carmichael says of one of life's simple pleasures,...
- 11/5/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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