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Jan 30 2013 04:11 PM ET

Guess what upcoming reality show 'Top Hooker' is about

Hint: It’s airing on Animal Planet.

If you said “catch-and-release fishing,” you’re correct! According to the network, the show is “an in-your-face, full-throttle competition series that splits 10 expert fishers into two teams and pits them head-to-head in a series of wild, never-before-seen fishing challenges.” Dares will include “fishing with outlandish tools, catching fish blindfolded, [and] even netting fish with their mouths!” (Exclamation mark theirs.) Eight episodes of the competition will air this summer.

Somewhere, execs at History and A&E are kicking themselves for not thinking of this title first.

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Aug 2 2012 09:24 PM ET

Bigfoot experts clash with TV critics: 'You're ignorant'

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TV critics took on Animal Planet’s Finding Bigfoot during a contentious panel at the Television Critics Association’s semi-annual press tour in Beverly Hills on Thursday.

For those who haven’t seen the show, it’s a bit like Syfy’s Ghost Hunters, only an expert team looks for Sasquatch instead of spooks. There are interviews, data crunching, mysterious footprints and a group hunting in the woods … but no actual bigfoot.

The press tour reporters have spent nearly two weeks in a hotel interviewing actors and executives promoting TV shows. So when Animal Planet rolls out this panel the critics are, understandably, thinking: Show us bigfoot or GTFO.

A critic points out: If these guys actually find bigfoot, such huge news is not going to really stay quiet until a regular episode of Finding Bigfoot airs. One asks: Has Animal Planet run out of real animals to do shows about? Yet another wonders: First Animal Planet airs a mermaids special, now this — isn’t Animal Planet damaging its brand with this stuff? READ FULL STORY »

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