National Geographic Channel has set the creative team and correspondents for the return of “Explorer” this fall, both which TheWrap has learned exclusively. Lou Wallach, formerly of “The Colbert Report” and “The Talking Dead,” will executive produce the revamped format. Nick McKinney and Meghan O’Hara — creators of The IFC Media Project — will join him as EPs and showrunners. Bryan Christy, Ryan Duffy, Francesca Fiorentini, Jena Friedman, Justin Hall, Billie Mintz, Tania Rashid, Tim Samuels and Baratunde Thurston will serve as correspondents. As previously announced, studio host Richard Bacon (pictured above) will anchor the whole thing. Also Read: How Nat...
- 7/12/2016
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Ryan Duffy discusses meeting Detroit man who runs a 24-hour strip club in dead parents' house on premiere episode.
By Rya Backer
Ryan Duffy
Photo: Mark Metcalf/ Getty Images
A lot happens on MTV's new series "The Vice Guide to Everything."
Hosts Ryan Duffy, Thomas Morton, and Shane Smith — who also co-founded the magazine that launched the Vice brand 15 years ago — travel to places like Russia, Ghana and North Korea in search of compelling people and their stories, which they'll share with MTV viewers on Mondays at 11 p.m.
Duffy's adventures this season include getting shot (while wearing a bulletproof jacket) in Colombia and trailing a Mafia-funded pop star in Naples, Italy, but he recently told MTV News he didn't have to travel far for his most memorable meeting.
"I will always very vividly remember meeting Jay Thunderbolt," Duffy said about the Detroit man who was running a 24-hour all-nude...
By Rya Backer
Ryan Duffy
Photo: Mark Metcalf/ Getty Images
A lot happens on MTV's new series "The Vice Guide to Everything."
Hosts Ryan Duffy, Thomas Morton, and Shane Smith — who also co-founded the magazine that launched the Vice brand 15 years ago — travel to places like Russia, Ghana and North Korea in search of compelling people and their stories, which they'll share with MTV viewers on Mondays at 11 p.m.
Duffy's adventures this season include getting shot (while wearing a bulletproof jacket) in Colombia and trailing a Mafia-funded pop star in Naples, Italy, but he recently told MTV News he didn't have to travel far for his most memorable meeting.
"I will always very vividly remember meeting Jay Thunderbolt," Duffy said about the Detroit man who was running a 24-hour all-nude...
- 12/7/2010
- MTV Music News
Vice co-founder Shane Smith and company bring their worldwide adventures to MTV Monday at 11 p.m. Et.
By James Montgomery
<i>Vice</i> co-founder Shane Smith
Photo: MTV News
Over the past year, "The Vice Guide to Everything" stars Ryan Duffy, Thomas Morton and Shane Smith have spent quality time with Yemeni rebels, Palestinian car thieves and Russian mobsters ... to name just a few. And they did it basically because no one else will.
"Well, I think journalism has changed ... there was a time we actually believed what the news told us," Smith, co-founder of Vice, the magazine and burgeoning media conglomerate that proudly goes places others won't (both literally and physically), told MTV News. "And I think after the last two wars, where mainstream media was completely co-opted by the government and, in its own admission, failed in what it was supposed to do, that young people got totally disenfranchised ... and...
By James Montgomery
<i>Vice</i> co-founder Shane Smith
Photo: MTV News
Over the past year, "The Vice Guide to Everything" stars Ryan Duffy, Thomas Morton and Shane Smith have spent quality time with Yemeni rebels, Palestinian car thieves and Russian mobsters ... to name just a few. And they did it basically because no one else will.
"Well, I think journalism has changed ... there was a time we actually believed what the news told us," Smith, co-founder of Vice, the magazine and burgeoning media conglomerate that proudly goes places others won't (both literally and physically), told MTV News. "And I think after the last two wars, where mainstream media was completely co-opted by the government and, in its own admission, failed in what it was supposed to do, that young people got totally disenfranchised ... and...
- 12/6/2010
- MTV Music News
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