Daniel's TV Blog

A week from Friday the biggest acceptable form of child abuse will be broadcast live from Bejing. I shan't be watching little girls doing crazy fast flips and breaking their legs. But to gear up for the first Olympics in China, The Travel Channel is having China Week. It's not unlike Shark Week on the Discover Channel last week.

I'll be watching Samantha Brown's show, Passport to China. A new one hour episode is on every night this week. Last night was Bejing. Samantha Brown is the perfect travel host. Every place she goes she just looks at things with such wonder. Whether it's fake or not, it's fun to watch her. She also has to show off her hotel, something she does so well from her tour on Great Hotels. I look forward to the other episodes this week.

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Samantha Brown is back! This summer she’s got TWO new shows, Samantha Brown’s Passport to Great Weekends, which premiers tonight, and Samantha Brown’s Passport to China, which starts later this summer just in time for the Beijing Olympics. But her new show tonight brings her back to the US after two seasons in Europe and one in Latin America. Great Weekends is all about awesome 48 hours adventures one can have. Tonight’s episodes take Sam to Vegas and to Austin, Texas, two of my favorite US cities. I’m heading to Vegas next month. Sam has a wonderful way of walking into a room she has almost certainly already toured and looking at it with such joy and wonder. It’s just wonderful. Sam visited Vegas on many occasions on Great Hotels. I think it was the Luxor episode were she just looked so comfortable in Vegas after all the previous episodes. She was driving down the strip in a convertible humming her show’s theme song. I can’t to see her back in Vegas tonight! Set your TiVos. If you miss it tonight, don't worry it's on constantly all weekend.

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