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Around the World in 80 Ways

2011-2011

1 season

History Channel

Reality

The hosts will attempt to travel the globe using 80 different modes of travel, including blimp, fighter jet, ostrich, canoe, chariot and hitchhiking, without repeating any of them. Sometimes they will work together and sometimes they will race as they seek to accomplish their goal.

Around the World in 80 Ways: Rob Mariano Returns to Reality TV -- Where's the Finish Line?

He's competed on four seasons of Survivor. He's traveled the world at least twice for The Amazing Race. And last year, he did the impossible and finally took home the $1 million grand prize in front of millions of TV viewers on Survivor: Redemption Island. So what in the world is "Boston Rob" Mariano doing back on TV less than a year after his triumphant win?   "I love adventure and I always have," Mariano tells TVGuide.com of his latest reality TV venture, Around the World in 80 Ways. "I never got into Survivor or The Amazing Race or any of these shows to be on TV. I got on originally because I wanted to make some money for my family, and because I love the adventure of it." Around the World in 80 Ways is heavy on adventure, but unlike so many of Mariano's other TV appearances, there's no finish line or final Tribal Council to name a winner. On the series, which premieres Sunday, Oct. 2 at 10/9c on History, Mariano partners with monster truck driver Dennis Anderson to travel thousands of miles in 10 weeks using every possible mode of transportation: from mules to steamboats to...

Fri, Sep 30, 2011

Around the World in 80 Ways: Rob Mariano Returns to Reality TV -- Where's the Finish Line?

Around the World in 80 Ways

Boston Rob and Amber Mariano Welcome Baby No. 3

Around the World in 80 Ways: Rob Mariano Returns to Reality TV -- Where's the Finish Line?