Tim's TV Show - Trial by Fire

[bigdan]

Tim mentioned he was going to be on a tv show which may or may not become a series, called Trial by Fire. I've spent a while googling and havent been able to find ANY information. I dont know if it'll become a series but I havent even been able to find that one episode he supposedly shot. Not on youtube, not even a mention anywhere else. Interestingly enough his blog or something claims there'll be a copy on the history channel website, but even that doesnt give me anything (not even a mention of his name). anyone??

[sub8hr]

Ditto. Did it even air? I tried round the video sites and nothing.

[kamakiri]

It aired and was simultaneously posted on the web. There are no pirate versions as of yet, but it is available on a DVD from the discovery channel.

That is here (http://shop.history.com/detail.php?p=82130).

[berlin]

Just checked youtube if any parts leaked. The clips there were about peeling hard boiled eggs and his tango record ;)

There are also two interviews online which I didn't watch.

[NomadRip]

It aired December 4th, and I thought it was great. Judging by the total lack of information online about it, I'm assuming they canceled it. I don't know that for fact or anything, but networks tend to promote shows they picked up, and it's a fickle business, to say the least.

[mad111]

The Travel Channel is now advertising a similar show where Dhani Jones, an NFL linebacker, does a similar thing -- goes around the world trying various (mainly physical) endeavors, like the Highland Games in Scotland, Muay Thai fighting in Thailand, etc. The show is called "Dhani Tackles the Globe." No offense to Tim, who is great in his own ways, but Dhani seems like a much more high-energy, exciting "TV personality" type. Maybe the competition killed Trial By Fire . . . ?

[sub8hr]

Could be. Ever since Bear Grylls and the Canadian guy started doing their "man vs wild" type shows, round the world man in unfamiliar environments trying to figure it out spinoff shows seem to be popular. While Tim has a lot of great info his personality is, quite frankly, too boring for prime time entertainment.

Doing the first episode on Japanese archery with the goofy hats may have been fatal for a US audience too..

[Dus10]

Doing the first episode on Japanese archery with the goofy hats may have been fatal for a US audience too..

Yeah, maybe doing some of the "Jason Bourne"-esque passport hopping and something exciting in the destination would have been better.

[Blackmore_Media]

I think that it's ironic that the History Channel would not pursue "Trial By Fire." And I think they are missing Tim's audience specifically, one, by creating it as strictly a TV show and not developing it as a made-for-Web program and two, by not using social networking sites to get the word out in the first place. By and large, the only good Web marketing for this show is to be found on Tim's own website. The irony lies in the reality that Tim is largely a creature of the web, and his audience is largely made up of people who have similar interests to his, meaning that they look for what Tim has to say on the Web, not on TV. HC should have picked up on this and marketed accordingly. I mean, HC knows who Tim is, right? And they know TV is dying, right? The fact that "Trial By Fire" can't be found on the Internet just shows that HC can't keep up with the times and they obviously don't know how to market to a Web-based audience. They should have put the show on Hulu to test its performance before scrapping the project.

[kamakiri]

"TV is dying"...good luck with that.

You do realize you dug up a half year old thread from it's well deserved grave?

[Marcie]

Actually, I was thinking about this, people who "grave dig" are searching and commenting on posts they are interested in, rather than posting on an old subject (where typically they are told to search before asking) ... must be one or the other, right? :)

@blackmore - you make some valid points, I also don't think TV is dying (at least not in the way newspapers are) but you are right (IMO) they need to do a better job at integrating with social media...

[kamakiri]

The problem of grave digging on a forum is not one of finding something you are interested in though Marcie. It is more a problem of making a post completely unrelated to the entire thread.

If there is a need for the discussion of social media on Trial By Fire, then it should have it's own thread anyway.

[webgal]

I'm not all that bent out of shape about grave digging. In comparison to other issues, it's just not at the top of the list.