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“Polygamy USA” follows Arizona Fundamentalist Mormons

May 7, 2013 Ryan Berenz

“Polygamy USA” on National Geographic Channel follows a community of Fundamentalist Mormons in Centennial Park, Arizona. Premiering Tuesday, May 7, at 9pm ET/PT on National Geographic Channel, Polygamy, USA goes inside the daily lives of a Fundamentalist Mormon community in Arizona, in which plural marriages are widely practiced as a religious tradition. The series focuses on the lives of three men in the community and their families: Arthur Hammon One of the founding fathers of Centennial Park. He helped build the town 30 years ago after he and others separated with a nearby community over a religious dispute. Arthur now […]

“Cycling High”: Inside the Lance Armstrong scandal

April 16, 2013 Ryan Berenz

Cycling High: Doping to Win on National Geographic Channel Sunday, April 21, at 7pm ET goes inside the doping scandal that brought down cyclist Lance Armstrong, looking at the science, eyewitness testimonies, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) Report and expert interviews to piece together the conspiracy and how it fell apart. From the National Geographic Channel press release: WINNING AT ANY COST!?! BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS. EPO. INJECTIONS. DECEPTION. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL GOES INSIDE THE STORY OF THE SCIENCE AND SCHEMING BEHIND LANCE ARMSTRONG’S EPIC FALL FROM GRACE Cycling High: Doping to Win Premieres on NGC Sunday, April 21, at 7PM ET/PT […]

Killing Lincoln movie brings Bill O’Reilly’s book to the screen

February 14, 2013 Channel Guide Contributor

Killing Lincoln movie brings Bill O’Reilly’s controversial book to the screen on National Geographic Channel Sunday, Feb. 17. By Kate O’Hare On a sultry summer day in Richmond, Va. — the Confederate capital during the Civil War — a film crew has gathered at a historic building refitted to look like a telegraph office. The scene being shot features Abraham Lincoln (Billy Campbell) receiving a message and then discussing it with Secretary of War Edwin Stanton (Graham Beckel). Despite the sweltering heat, the bearded men wear waistcoats and jackets, and the women are decked out in period dresses with corsets. […]

Travis Taylor talks about Season 2 of “Rocket City Rednecks”

November 27, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

Just in time to offer a refreshing alternative to the slew of Honey Boo Boo type of “redneck” programming that tends to dumb down the American conversation, Rocket City Rednecks and its cast of brilliant — but still fun-loving — Alabama rocket scientists returns. As evidenced in the show’s successful first season last year, while the Rocket City Rednecks — engineer Travis Taylor; his father Charles Taylor (one of NASA’s original machinists); Rog Jones, who has a genius IQ; Michael Taylor, Travis’ brilliant nephew; and Pete Erbach, Travis’ physicist brother-in-law — all embrace their Southern lifestyle and enjoy living the […]

Two new cable documentaries examine Hurricane Sandy

November 12, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

It was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, and it’s doubtful that anyone who either lived through it, or witnessed images and video of its startling devastation from afar, will ever forget Hurricane Sandy, which was eventually upgraded to a “superstorm” as it progressed through the Caribbean and up into the United States East Coast. Over 100 people were killed in the U.S. alone, and millions were left without power (thousands are still without power in the U.S. two weeks after the storm). The storm will surely be studied and talked about for a long time, including in two documentaries […]

“Doomsday Preppers” Season 2 begins Nov. 13 on NGC

November 8, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

Don’t bug out! Stock up on those munchies — National Geographic Channel’s highest-rated series is back. Doomsday Preppers, which has become a pop-culture phenomenon and a ratings hit, is back for Season 2 starting Nov. 13. Over the course of 15 episodes we will meet more individuals who are committed to thinking through every contingency plan for what they personally believe will be the inevitable disaster that brings the complete breakdown of society. There’s a diabetic mother stockpiling insulin to survive the F-5 tornado she fears is coming; a 14-year-old prepping for global economic collapse; a millionaire doctor getting ready […]

“SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden” premieres on NGC Nov. 4

November 1, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

There have been a few documentaries chronicling the May 2011 raid by SEAL Team Six that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden, and now we are coming to a point where feature-length dramatic films are being made on the subject. Next month, the film Zero Dark Thirty, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, will be released in theaters. But before that, National Geographic Channel (NGC) will be airing on the small screen SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden, making its world premiere on the network this Sunday, Nov. 4, at 8pm ET/PT. While some Republican supporters believe […]

NGC special will chronicle Felix Baumgartner’s epic space jump

October 16, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

Updated Oct. 25, 2012, 9:45am CT If you were one of the millions who watched Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking free-fall jump this past Sunday — when he became the first person to free fall while breaking the sound barrier — you know what an impressive accomplishment it was. This feat, and the work leading up to it, will be chronicled in an exclusive two-hour special airing in November on National Geographic Channel (NGC). UPDATE: NGC has announced the air date for the special. It will premiere Nov. 11 at 7pm ET/PT. The special, called Space Dive, will be a co-production between […]

NGC special offers exclusive animation of historic Curiosity Mars rover landing

August 6, 2012 Jeff Pfeiffer

Early this morning Eastern Time (Aug. 6), the Mars Science Laboratory (a.k.a. the Curiosity rover) successfully landed on Mars. Built to last years and do things on the Red Planet that have never been done before, Curiosity has been hyped as rocket science on steroids. The $2.5 billion mega rover boasts a nuclear power supply, is equipped with a full laboratory that can test samples for organic building blocks of life and can trek across miles of rugged terrain while beaming back to Earth images in high-definition 3-D. Weighing in at nearly a ton, five times heavier than its predecessors, […]

“Chasing UFOs” looks to explain the unexplained

June 29, 2012 Ryan Berenz

So all the grainy, out-of-focus home-video footage on TV newsmagazine shows still hasn’t convinced you that UFOs are real? Maybe the crack team of investigators in National Geographic Channel’s new series Chasing UFOs (Friday, June 29, at 9pm ET/PT) might make you a firm believer or an unswaying skeptic. Lead researcher, tech guru and globetrotter Erin Ryder is an expert in using thermal cameras and night-vision equipment. Geologist, field explorer and radiation scientist Ben McGee — who actually has suborbital scientist-astronaut training — has an academic approach to UFO investigating. And “UFOlogist” James Fox is a documentary producer who claims […]