From a media release:

PYRAMID PRODUCTIONS GETS COOKING ON NEW CULINARY SMACKDOWN SERIES FOR CMT (CANADA)

Who has the best fast food in your town? Time to find out. Working with Calgary’s Pyramid Productions, CMT (Canada) has commissioned three new partner series — Burger Wars, Taco Wars and Pizza Wars. Slated to air on the network in 2013, the series touches down in Vancouver, Toronto, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Chicago, Calgary and Las Vegas and features five Burger Wars episodes, five Taco Wars episodes and four Pizza Wars episodes.

In each episode, host Cris Nannarone, a veteran road warrior and standup comedian, scours restaurants, diners, food trucks and everything in between, to find the best burger, pizza or taco. It’s a quest to find the top three contenders who will ultimately go to battle. Nannarone learns their trade secrets and discovers if their dish has what it takes to win the war.

“It’s a dream job,” says Cris Nannarone. “I mean, think about it. I get to eat my way across the continent.”

Filming of the series starts in Los Angeles this December, where Cris will begin with a search for the best burger in Hollywood.

From a media release:

CASTING BEGINS ON EXCLUSIVE NEW TRAVEL+ESCAPE SERIES REAL FAMILY VACATIONS

• Series Premieres Winter 2013

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.

Travelling with kids is always an adventure, and Real Family Vacations is about chronicling these real families, on real trips with real life moments. Families will be chosen to chronicle their adventure with cameras given to them by Buck Productions. For eligibility and more information go to www.RealFamilyVacationscasting.com.

“People love to chronicle their trips,” said Marcia Martin, SVP Original Content, Blue Ant Media. “But this isn’t just family photos in front of monuments and on sunny beaches – its the uncut version of what really happens on family vacations when the camera keeps rolling.”

“Real Family Vacations puts the content in the hands of the subjects, literally,” said Sean Buckley, Owner, Buck Productions. “We created this unique series format which allows the process to be just as interesting as the product, and we think audiences are going to love it.”

Real Family Vacations is produced by Buck Productions. The creative team includes Executive Producer Sean Buckely; Supervising Producer Jim Kiriakakis. Series Producer and Creative Producer are Josh Tizel and Dave Lembke, respectively.

From a media release:

OLN Likes to do Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan on New Original Travel-Adventure Series, Beginning Jan. 21

• Wild Things with Dominican Monaghan follows the actor as he travels the planet in search of the rarest and most spectacular species in the world
• Produced by Cream Productions, the eight episode, one-hour series was filmed across four continents and eight countries

From Lord of the Rings to Wild Things, internationally renowned actor Dominic Monaghan (Lost) takes viewers on an exhilarating search for some of the most frightening insects and reptiles on the planet. Premiering Monday, Jan. 21 at 9 p.m. ET/PT (check local listings) on OLN, Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan invites viewers along an intimate, action packed journey as Monaghan struggles to hunt down and get up close and personal with some of the most dangerous and elusive creatures known to man.

Travelling to four continents and eight countries across the globe, Monaghan encounters a lively mix of locals, quirky experts, and a host of creatures that inhabit these strange and wonderfully wild places. From pursuing a million swarming army ants in the rainforests of Ecuador, to infiltrating the “black market” insect trade in Cameroon, to facing off with a deadly scorpion in the arid deserts of Namibia, Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan reminds viewers that “getting there” is the real adventure.

In the premiere episode, Monaghan travels from the snake-infested rice paddies of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta to a crocodile filled lake in search of the venomous Giant Water Bug. This hideous underwater creature is the size of a man’s hand and has an excruciatingly painful bite that literally liquefies flesh.

Monaghan is best known for his role as Meriadoc ‘Merry’ Brandybuck in the movie adaptations of Lord of the Rings and as Charlie Pace in the television series Lost. A true nature lover, Monaghan’s love for insects and reptiles developed during his childhood and remains to this day.

Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan is an OLN, BBC AMERICA, and Channel Five original production, produced by Cream Productions and Wildfire Television. Executive Producers are Dave Brady and Jenn Kuzmyk. Claire Freeland is Director of Original Programming, Rogers Media Television and Marni Goldman is Production Executive for Rogers Original Programming.

The Bachelor Canada, Citytv – “Women Tell All”
The season’s most memorable bachelorettes reunite for the first time to dish on Brad – and each other – as they recap the drama from the first-ever season of The Bachelor Canada. Plus, hear their thoughts on the final two bachelorettes – Bianka and Whitney – as the countdown begins to the highly anticipated conclusion.

Avoiding Apocalypse, Discovery Science – “A Few More Degrees…”
The Earth is heating up and this climate change will have cataclysmic consequences for humanity – namely the desertification of agricultural lands and submersion of some of the planet’s most populated zones. This episode explores the best scientific solutions to rescue the climate and humanity, including carbon capture, artificial trees, production of Earth-cooling clouds, artificial volcanoes, mirrors in space, and giant dikes to hold back rising water.