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'Fledgling 24/7 cable net
Fox
Reality has bought rerun rights from the Bravo channel to the
unscripted
miniseries "Long Way Round," which follows Ewan McGregor and Charley
Boorman on a 20,000-mile motorcycle trip.
The original run on Bravo
earlier
this year consisted of six hourlong episodes. That will expand to seven
hours
on Fox Reality with the addition of what it calls "never-before-seen
footage.
The
first episode, which shows
McGregor and Boorman going through a three-month austerity regimen to
build
themselves up for the journey, premieres on Fox Reality in primetime on
Dec.
12. The first marathon of all seven episodes takes place Dec. 18.
To
ramp up visibility, the network
has set up a sweepstakes that viewers can enter through Fox Reality's
Web site.
Grand prize is a leather jacket autographed by McGregor; 500 other
winners will
get a book and DVD of "Long Way Round." McGregor and Boorman gun their bikes
through Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Ukraine, Russia,
Mongolia,
Alaska and Canada.' |
