Travel+Escape and Les Stroud Productions are thrilled to announce they have partnered on an all-new original adventure series Survivorman 10 Days featuring award-winning filmmaker and accomplished survival expert Les Stroud. The 8-episode series will premiere in the winter of 2014 on Travel+Escape. Read More

Travel+Escape and Buck Productions announce the start of production and casting for the exclusive new travel series Real Family Vacations (working title). The 13-episode series will premiere in the winter of 2013. Read More

Travel+Escape and Suddenly SeeMore…Productions Inc. announce the start of production on the exclusive new travel series Bad Trips Abroad. The 10-episode series will premiere in the spring of 2013. Read More

Travel+Escape announces an expansion into 1.8 million Shaw homes across Canada beginning this September. Through the Shaw Cable and Shaw Direct carriers the channel will increase its reach delivering top-rated travel and adventure themed programming.

Kicking off September 5 with Shaw Cable and September 6 with Shaw Direct, this new deal will increase the number of total Travel+Escape subscribers nationally to 2.7 million.

“We’re thrilled to bring Travel+Escape’s new slate of original and exclusive travel-themed programming to so many more Shaw customers,” said Raja Khanna, CEO, Television & Digital, Blue Ant Media.

Travel+Escape is the destination for travel themed programming including hit series The Lonely Planet, Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations and The Layover, Scam City and original seriesPaddling Bryans.

Travel+Escape and General Purpose Pictures announce the start of production on season one of the original series Rebel Without A Kitchen. The 13-episode series will premiere in the spring of 2013. Read More

GlassBOX Television Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire specialty channel travel + escape from CTV Inc. The acquisition of the Category 1 travel and leisure service is subject to CRTC approval, for which an application has been filed.
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Imagine the Herculean task of hauling a fully-intact 1,270 tonne submarine across dry land precariously balanced on a railway; racing against time – while the price of gold remains high – to relocate over 170 homes sitting atop almost $7-billion worth of gold; or moving a fleet of 20 enormous mega-yachts across the stormy Atlantic without scratching them, or getting them wet. Welcome to the world of MONSTER MOVES! Premiering with three new episodes Monday, February 22 at 8 p.m. ET/9 p.m. PT, exclusively on Travel + Escape, MONSTER MOVES returns with some of the most daring and dangerous relocation projects ever attempted. By road, rail and sea across Canada, Europe and the U.S., the stakes for both haulers – and owners – are high and the patience is wearing thin. And for the first time in MONSTER MOVES history, a move goes catastrophically wrong!
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Forget your bathing suit and slip into your birthday suit! Releasing her inhibitions, globetrotter and extreme adventurer, Eve Kelly, travels the world in search of nature’s most exotic swimming holes, grottos and hot springs in the premiere of the six-part series SKINNY DIP – following the huge success of last year’s one-hour special. Beginning Wednesday, November 18 at 10 p.m. ET/11 p.m. PT on Travel + Escape, SKINNY DIP follows the 25-year-old Newfoundlander as she approaches unsuspecting strangers and challenges them to a dip in the buff in some of the most stunning natural springs on Earth. Kelly braves the fierce winter of the Canadian Yukon for an old-fashioned polar dip, traipses through volcanic geysers in New Zealand to test the waters of organic pools and hikes the exotic Costa Rican rainforest all for the chance to experience the ultimate SKINNY DIP!
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Question: what has six rows of razor-sharp teeth and is able to swallow a human being…whole? Answer: the monster-sized African rock python. Question: who would risk their life to get close to one of these deadly reptiles all for the sake of a great picture? Answer: Austin Stevens. Premiering with six all-new episodes, exclusively on Travel + Escape, Gemini Award-winning series AUSTIN STEVENS ADVENTURES delivers heart-stopping adventures and deadly encounters from around the globe beginning Thursday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m. ET/9 p.m. PT.
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What better way to celebrate Canada Day than settling down for a seven-hour, cross-country tour? Cleanse your palate and ready your senses for a mouthwatering behind-the-scenes look at the most prestigious culinary competition Canada has to offer, when Travel + Escape presents the GOLD MEDAL PLATES: THE QUEST FOR CANADA’S BEST CHEF marathon, airing Wednesday, July 1 from 10 a.m. ET/11 a.m. PT to 5 p.m. ET/ 6 p.m. PT (with repeats beginning at 5 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT and Thursday, July 2 at 12 a.m. ET/1 a.m. PT).
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