Word Travels
Word Travels (tagline The Truth Behind the Byline) is an adventure travel television documentary series. An original Canadian production, the show debuted on OLN on January 30, 2008[1] and airs in Canada on OLN and CityTV, and worldwide on Nat Geo Adventure. The show is co-hosted by Robin Esrock and Julia Dimon, produced by Omni Film Limited, and filmed by Sean Cable.
| Word Travels | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Robin Esrock, Julia Dimon, Heather Hawthorn-Doyle |
| Starring | Robin Esrock Julia Dimon |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 40 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Heather Hawthorn-Doyle, Brian Hamilton |
| Producer(s) | Deborah Wainwright (Senior), Leah Kimura, Caroline Manuel, Robin Esrock (Associate), Julia Dimon (Associate) |
| Running time | 24 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | OLN National Geographic Adventure |
| Picture format | 720p (HDTV) 480i (SDTV) |
| Original release | January 30, 2008 – present |
| External links | |
| [ Website] | |
The first season of Word Travels aired on OLN in Canada and began airing internationally on the National Geographic Adventure worldwide in October 2008.[2] The second season began airing on the OLN on January 18, 2009, and aired on National Geographic Adventure in September, 2009. Season 3 was filmed between April and October 2009,[3] and debuted in Canada on OLN on March 7, 2010. It airs on Travel Channel (UK) in 21 languages around the world. Word Travels is often misspelled as World Travels.[4]
Overview
Word Travels follows the lives of two young professional travel writers, South African Robin Esrock and Toronto-based Julia Dimon, as they journey around the world in search of stories to experience, write about, and file for their editors.[5] It is the first TV show to reveal the working reality of modern travel writing. Robin Esrock was a regular columnist for The Globe and Mail and freelances for newspapers and magazines worldwide. Julia Dimon was a weekly columnist for the Metro International's Canadian edition. Esrock focuses on adventurous and physical stories, while Dimon focuses on cultural and people stories. Each episode has Esrock investigating a story, Dimon investigating a story, and both investigating a story together.