World's Weirdest Restaurants is a Canadian reality television series produced by Paperny Entertainment that airs on Food Network Canada. The series follows host Bob Blumer as he travels the world searching for weird and unusual restaurants. Several of the Japan episodes featured TV host and arranger La Carmina, who wrote a book about bizarre Tokyo theme restaurants. Among the restaurants featured include a nudist restaurant in New York, a Japanese restaurant with monkey waiters, and Taiwanese restaurant which serves curry from miniature toilets. The series, which premiered April 4, 2012, has filmed in a number of cities around the world, including Tokyo, New York, Taipei, London and Vancouver.
The First 48 takes viewers behind the scenes of real-life investigations as it follows homicide detectives in the critical first 48 hours of murder investigations, giving viewers unprecedented access to crime scenes
A hauntingly humorous combination of three hilarious friends and the afterlife. Knock Knock Ghost. features comedian Richard Ryder, trembling assistant Brie Doyle and world class psychic medium Jim Hunt as they travel the country searching for proof of the afterlife.
For the Love of Ray J is a dating show on VH1 featuring hip hop singer Ray J. The program has a format similar to Flavor of Love, I Love New York, and Rock of Love. One source notes that it "will be produced by the same geniuses" as those shows, 51 Minds. In reference to the series, Ray J said:
The show, which premiered on February 2, 2009, follows Ray J and his entourage of female suitors to the hottest hangouts in Los Angeles, to Sin City where they’ll party with his famous friends, and to Ray’s childhood home where they’ll meet his family and older sister Brandy. Ray J will pour his heart out to these women in hopes that he can figure out who is really there for him. Each week the ladies will attempt to win over Ray J as he carries on with his life in the spotlight. In the end, the girls who can’t keep up with Ray J’s jet-setting ways will be sent packing. But the one who can impress his friends and family and make Ray J believe that love exists, will win the ultimate prize—t
In Sunny Beach, Bulgaria, Europe's cheapest resort, young Brits are hellbent on having fun. Can local emergency workers keep the party crowd in one piece through the summer mayhem?
With her days of all-out partying on "Jersey Shore" over, reality TV star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi is fashioning a different sort of entrepreneurship in the Garden State. Her interest in interior design has spawned a business partnership with husband Jionni Lavalle. Along with help from family and close friends, the couple buy Jersey Shore homes, renovate them from top to bottom, and then negotiate flips. Each episode focuses on a different area of the property -- from the bedrooms to bathrooms, kitchen, basement, backyard and more -- and feature Nicole's inexpensive design touches and Jionni's contracting/building skills. With their own money and reputations on the line, the dynamic duo does what it takes to complete the project on budget and flip a profit.
Up close, stripped-back, live and uncut, this is surgery as it has never been seen before. Using the latest technology and with privileged access, viewers watch live as surgical teams from major UK hospitals preform procedures in real time.
Jamie’s Essex home is wreathed in decorations and he's cooking food for the whole season, with help from his friend and former mentor, Gennaro Contaldo. As well as Christmas classics, Jamie has some ingenious ways, beyond turkey sandwiches, to make the most of some of your key ingredients, like a zesty Asian-style warm turkey salad for Boxing Day and a tasty turkey and leek pie. Jamie cooks a ham to last the whole Christmas season, creates mulled wine sorbet for an instant party livener and shows how to use festive spices - such as cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves - to best effect, like his super-quick Christmas popcorn and an amazing fig pudding. And Jamie has a modern twist on a classic, with a Christmas pudding sundae, complete with ice cream and amoretti biscuits. Meanwhile, Gennaro has a few festive tricks up his sleeves.
Time Team America is an American television series that airs on PBS. It premiered on July 8, 2009. It is an Oregon Public Broadcasting adaptation of the British show Time Team, produced in collaboration with Channel 4 which commissioned the original show, in which a team of archeologists and other experts are given 72 hours to excavate an historic site.
The U.S. version features "freelance and university-affiliated experts [who] mostly join existing excavations...[and] arrive with resources that the archaeologists already on the case usually can’t afford and specific questions that, if answered, will advance the understanding of the site."
A second season was announced on October 18, 2011, scheduled to shoot during the summer of 2012 and to air in 2013. On December 20, 2011 it was announced that Justine Shapiro would host the second season.