Video: Behind the Scenes on Orangutan Island
January 26, 2009 by Healthy Shana
Alain Compost was the cameraman on Season 1 of Orangutan Island on Animal Planet. There are currently 10 great video clips to watch on HowStuffWorks.com. Watch the videos here for behind the scenes clips as I get you caught up in the action of Season 2, which began back in November.
This season, the two groups of 35 orphaned orangutans may have some major changes to life on the island in the remote locale of Borneo. Lone Droscher-Nielsen, project manager at Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rescue and Rehabilitation Center, is faced with some tough choices about the next steps for these primates.
With …read more
Survivor Gabon: Meet Kelly
October 17, 2008 by Healthy Shana
Survivor: Gabon – Earth’s Last Eden is the upcoming seventeenth season of the CBS reality television series Survivor. Survivor: Gabon began filming in late June, and premiered on September 25th at 8PM ET on CBS.
Survivor: Gabon maked the second season of the series that has been filmed in Africa. The first was Survivor: Africa which was filmed over 7 years ago in Kenya. The reports say that the show was filmed around the coastal towns of Nyonie and Ekwata in the Wonga-Wongue Presidential Reserve.
There are 18 contestants this season. Meet Kelly!
Survivor Gabon: Meet the Contestants
October 10, 2008 by Healthy Shana
Survivor: Gabon – Earth’s Last Eden is the upcoming seventeenth season of the CBS reality television series Survivor. Survivor: Gabon began filming in late June, and premiered on September 25th at 8PM ET on CBS.
Survivor: Gabon maked the second season of the series that has been filmed in Africa. The first was Survivor: Africa which was filmed over 7 years ago in Kenya. The reports say that the show was filmed around the coastal towns of Nyonie and Ekwata in the Wonga-Wongue Presidential Reserve.
There are 18 contestants this season. Meet Ken!
New Show Alert: Sid The Science Kid
October 8, 2008 by Healthy Shana
SID THE SCIENCE KID is a new animated kids’ show by the Jim Henson Company. Their innovative puppet masters create characters with motion capture suits… it’s a different kind of Muppets. Watch below are you are taken behind the scenes!
The show is geared toward young kids that wants to know how things are done scientifically.
Mike Rowe’s Deadliest Catch Bloopers
August 7, 2008 by Healthy Shana
Last winter, Mike Rowe spent a little time up in Dutch Harbor, Alaska filming promotional ads for the new season of Deadliest Catch. He also did some promotional ads for the Best of Season 3. Here’s a youtube videoclip of a few of his bloopers from filming. brrr it looks really cold.
Deadliest Catch Season 4 Behind the Scenes
July 18, 2008 by Healthy Shana
As we all know, Discovery’s Deadliest Catch, narrated by Mike Rowe, documents the events on-board 6 fishing vessels during the Alaskan King Crab season. The behind the scenes episodes provide the viewers insights into how the show is produced. A two person crew lives on each boat that is profiled and shoots most of the scenes with a hand-held camera.
Watch the Life on a Boat video clip below.
Find more videos like this on www.truveo.com.
Clinically Wild – Meet The Staff: Dr. Nelson
June 11, 2008 by Healthy Shana
Dr. Nelson, also known as ”The Wild Raven” is from Animal Planet’s Clinically Wild, has some wild sleeping habits. He usually crashes anywhere that he can, even his truck in the middle of the night.
Watch the clip below as Dr. Nelson, who divides his time between three different vet clinics, talks about his crazy sleeping habits.
Find more videos like this on www.truveo.com.
Greensburg Theme Song- Take 2
May 28, 2008 by Healthy Shana
After much debate and several postings, thanks to Gellar and Ed we have found out that the Greensburg Theme Song is ‘To Build a Home” by the Cinematic Orchestra. On May 14th I posted info about the new show on Planet Green called Greensburg. The show is about the rebuilding efforts that are taking place in Greensburg, Kansas after the tornado devastation in 2007.
The Cinematic Orchestra is a British-based jazz and electronic group that was created in the 1990s. The song, ‘To Build a Home” is from their Ma Fleur album and was used on the September 27, 2007 episode …read more
The End in Sight – Deadliest Catch Season Finale
May 27, 2008 by Healthy Shana
Tonight is the final episode of the 4th season of Discovery Channel’s highest rated show, Deadliest Catch. Watch it tonight at 9PM ET/PT as the king crab season comes to an end. The patches have finally caught up with the crew of the Cornelia Marie and they are faced with a blackout. The crew over at the Northwestern continue to do well and fill all of their pots to the brim, while the Wizard and Time Bandit race for what they call the “string of the week”.
Don’t miss this MUST watch final episode. Catch the clip below as you get a …read more
Meerkat Manor Memorial Weekend Tribute
May 1, 2008 by Healthy Shana
On Sunday, May 25th from 8-9:30 PM, Discovery Channel will pay special tribute to the former matriarch of The Whiskers, Flower.
The 90 minute biopic of Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins will be narrated by Whoppi Goldberg and will chronicle Flowers life as well as her rise to fame as the head of The Whiskers family.
Immediately following the film will be the documentary The Making of Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins which will air from 9:30 until 10PM ET/PT. The story of Flowers life will encore again on Friday, May 30th followed by a 1/2 hour special The Science of Meerkat Manor, …read more


