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Discovery Channel and Georgia Aquarium provide Shark Cam during Shark Week

July 14, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

By Jeff Pfeiffer Follow @ChannelGuideJP Starting today, Discovery Channel and Georgia Aquarium are once again teaming to provide a live, “fish-eye” view of a variety of sharks living in the world’s largest indoor aquatic habitat, Ocean Voyager. Shark Cam can be found at Discovery’s Shark Week website. You can also check it out here after the jump; it’s kind of relaxing. The high-definition, underwater camera located inside Georgia Aquarium’s shark-filled habitat offers an immersive, 360-degree panoramic live-streaming experience, complete with abilities for social conversation with other viewers and shark experts.

HBO documentary highlights free-agency pioneer Curt Flood

July 13, 2011 StayTuned Staff

Free agency and players controlling their own careers seems like a given in today’s professional sports landscape. But there was a time not so long ago when the notion of a player refusing to be traded was anathema to conventional wisdom. Simply put, there was labor relations in professional sports before Curt Flood, and after Curt Flood. The player who challenged the system, using such charged words as “slave” and “master” when describing the relationship between players and owners is the subject of a documentary airing on HBO tonight. The Curious Case of Curt Flood explores the life of a […]

“The Franchise: A Season With the San Francisco Giants” premieres July 13 on Showtime

July 12, 2011 Ryan Berenz

Sports have been described as the ultimate reality show. Maybe that’s why we find reality series about sports so compelling. On Wednesday, July 13, at 10pm ET, Showtime calls a new documentary series up to the majors with The Franchise: A Season With the San Francisco Giants, a joint effort of Showtime and MLB Productions. This series embeds a camera crew with the reigning World Series champs, capturing what happens on and off the field with the players, coaches and front-office personnel. The series airs for six consecutive Wednesdays. Viewers will get an inside-the-clubhouse look at what goes into making […]

Survivors search for superhuman explanations in NGC’s “Indestructibles”

July 8, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

By Athena Voulgaropoulos Follow @ChannelGuideAV A skydiver falls from almost three miles up. A helicopter splits in half above the busy streets of New York City. A pedestrian is crushed by a rolling SUV. When you see the footage, it is hard to believe anyone survived these catastrophes. But survive they did, and though some might call it miraculous, behind each disastrous incident is an unexpected scientific explanation. Premiering this Sunday, July 10, with back-to-back half-hour episodes, National Geographic Channel’s latest series The Indestructibles explores 10 real-life disasters, explaining how someone could survive the seemingly unsurvivable. Using actual footage, eyewitness […]

SCIENCE documentary celebrates final space shuttle launch

July 8, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

As you may have heard and possibly watched, history was made today when the space shuttle Atlantis lifted off on the final flight of NASA’s shuttle program. Upon its return, Atlantis will join the fleet’s other three vessels in retirement. SCIENCE (formerly Science Channel) will be examining the past, present and future of the shuttle program, as well as U.S. space exploration in general, with the special Last Shuttle: Our Journey, premiering tonight at 10pm ET/PT. Including same-day footage of the historic final launch from Kennedy Space Center, the documentary also features interviews with key players in the shuttle program, […]

What to Watch: Independence Day 2011

June 30, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

This Independence Day weekend, if you choose to exercise your unalienable right to the pursuit of sitting around and watching TV, here’s a roundup of some of the best patriotic shows and specials, and movie and series marathons, to enjoy! All times are Eastern unless otherwise indicated; programming subject to change. Wimbledon: Men’s Semifinals — July 1 noon-5pm on NBC. “Ax Men” Marathon — July 2 from 7am-8pm on History. If you happen to be lying on the couch sawing logs, why not tune in to this marathon of the series about actual loggers? 98th Tour de France — Stage […]

Discovery special explores SEAL Team Six

June 21, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

By Jeff Pfeiffer Follow @ChannelGuideJP It’s a good thing that Disney decided not to pursue a trademark of the term, “SEAL Team Six,” otherwise we may not have gotten to see the upcoming Discovery Channel special Secrets of SEAL Team Six, premiering July 10 at 9pm ET/PT. Although the now-famous Special Ops unit officially doesn’t even exist, it suddenly became America’s worst-kept classified secret since Area 51 this past May when the team made international headlines by taking down Osama bin Laden. But that was just the latest mission for this highly elite group that has been active for three […]

HBO serves “McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice” documentary June 11

June 8, 2011 Ryan Berenz

The 1980 Wimbledon men’s final was as much a clash of personalities as it was an epic struggle between two premier tennis players. When the dust settled, the icy, stoic Björn Borg outlasted the fiery, hot-tempered John McEnroe, but it signaled a shift in tennis’ balance of power. Thirty-one years after their historic match, HBO premieres the documentary McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice on June 11 at 10pm ET, looking at the legendary rivalry — and friendship — between two of tennis’ most accomplished greats. “Björn Borg and John McEnroe are tennis royalty,” says HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg. “Their rivalry […]

Memorial Day programs salute our veterans

May 27, 2011 Tom Comi

By Tom Comi Memorial Day serves as a reminder of the sacrifices thousands of men and women gave while serving in the military, and many television programmers will be airing movies, shows, concerts and other specials to recognize those who died protecting our country. Here is a compilation of programs dedicated to those brave soldiers: TCM Memorial Day Weekend (May 27-30, check listings): Turner Classic Movies digs deep into is vault to run a 38-movie marathon, including From Here to Eternity, Sergeant York, The Best Years of Our Lives, Up Periscope and All Quiet on the Western Front.

Preview: NGC’s “When Aliens Attack” and “Area 51 Declassified”

May 20, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer

By Ryan Berenz You may escape the Rapture this weekend, but what about an alien invasion? The Martians have arrived, and they’re very, very angry in When Aliens Attack on National Geographic Channel May 22. This two-hour special dramatizes a timeline of hypothetical events before, during and after a planet-wide alien invasion, positing some ideas on how humanity’s battle against a technologically superior outer-space aggressor might be fought. Dr. Travis Taylor, a Defense Department engineer and co-author of An Introduction to Planetary Defense, is among those who don’t like our odds. “I war-gamed over 400 different scenarios to figure out […]