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Discovery Takes On The Last Frontier: Discovery Channel’s Alaska Week Brings the Biggest State to the Small Screen
Anchorage, Alaska – April 15, 2008 – This Sunday, April 20, 2008, Alaska will take over the Discovery Channel. Many of the network’s popular primetime shows will feature the rugged beauty of Anchorage’s mountainous terrain, massive glaciers and remote tundra during Alaska Week.
"We worked with Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs and Surviving Alaska on shoots in the Anchorage area,” says Shelly Wozniak, Public Relations Manager for the Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau (ACVB). “Alaska Week will provide potential visitors with an exciting, action-packed look at the Last Frontier. We were honored to work with so many programs and I can’t wait to see how they turned out.”
The first program of the week is Expedition Alaska airing Sunday, April 20, 2008, at 8 p.m. (AST). A team of the world’s top scientists and wildlife filmmakers delve into the remote landscape of the northern part of the state to document the impact of global warming on Alaska and the world.
Monday’s program asks the question ‘what kind of filthy work can Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs get into while in Alaska’? Answer? A mammoth amount of slime! Mike rolls up his sleeves and things get a little fishy aboard processing vessel. The Dirty Jobs adventure begins on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 8 p.m. (AST).
On Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 8 p.m. (AST) , Alaska puts Adam Savage of Mythbusters through the ringer as he attempts to quell the myth of Cabin Fever in a 60-minute explosive mythbusting special.
Discovery’s Survivorman, Les Stroud, tests his survival skills in one of the most remote and unforgiving places in the world during the Surviving Alaska special airing Friday, April 25, 2008 at 8 p.m. (AST).
“Anchorage is quickly becoming a new hot spot for film crews,” says Wozniak. “I think we’ll only see an increase in filming in the coming years. The colossal beauty of our landscape and the uniqueness of our lifestyle just begs for a Hollywood-style close-up!”
Anchorage’s experienced earlier moments in the spotlight this year with the six-part ACVB assisted Animal Planet series, Clinically Wild.
Alaska’s largest city will continue its starring role once Alaska Week is over with a late April appearance on The Today Show, the Animal Planet’s In Too Deep and the History Channel’s 13- episode series Tougher in Alaska premiering on May 8, 2008. ACVB worked with the programs to help bring Anchorage’s Big Wild Life™ to the small screen.
“Production crews bolster the local Anchorage economy,” says Wozniak. “Crews that base out of Anchorage use local hotels, restaurants, car rental companies, guide services and local production hires. It’s an all-around home run for the city.”
For more information about Anchorage in the news and on the tube, explore www.Anchorage.net/ontheair
Media Contacts:
Shelly Wozniak
Public Relations Manager
Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau
swozinak@anchorage.net
(907) 257-2331 direct
(907) 250-5285 cell
(907) 222-3752 fax
Nance Larsen, APR
Vice President, Communications & Marketing Programs
Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau
pr@anchorage.net
(907) 276-4118
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