The Janson Media Pressroom

Janson Media today announced the release to international television, VOD, and DVD/video markets of the second and third seasons of Ancient Secrets of the Bible. The 26 new episodes of this celebrated television show were produced in 2008. The first season of Ancient Secrets was produced in the 1990s and was broadcast in over 200 territories around the world. [Read more →]

Janson Media today announced that The Magical Country of Wales, an episode of its Passport to Adventure series, received the 2007 VisitBritain Travel Journalism Broadcast Award. This episode introduces viewers to the rolling pastures, flower-filled fields and hedge lined country roads of Wales, where the pristine countryside is ideal for cycling through quaint hamlets and snuggling up to a fire in one of many lovely B & Bs. [Read more →]

Educational Media Reviews Online recently honored Janson Media’s Seapower to Superpower DVD with a “Highly Recommended” review. [Read more →]

Janson Media today announced the release to worldwide television, VOD, DVD/video, and new media markets of Ice Island, a one-hour HDTV documentary special about a daring, high-tech adventure beneath an Antarctic iceberg. [Read more →]

Television specials depict stars Joan Crawford, Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, and many others…

Rochester, NY and Harrington Park, NJ — George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film has acquired a rich collection of television documentary films, which profile many of Hollywood’s most beloved and respected stars. These films are the legacy of Gene Feldman (1921–2006), a director, writer, and producer. In partnership with his wife, Suzette Winter, their company Wombat Productions created 34 insightful and entertaining biographies for television broadcast. [Read more →]

Janson Media today announced the release to television, VOD, DVD/video, and new media markets in the United States, Canada, China and India of Secret World of Wellness, a three-hour series that investigates the health and wellness secrets of some of the world’s most ancient cultures — China, India and Rome. [Read more →]

Janson Media today announced the U.S. broadcast premiere of Timeless: A National Parks Odyssey, on PBS stations nationwide. The one-hour special is initially airing as a pledge special during the months of June and August. Markets premiering the special this month include New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, San Francisco, and St. Louis. [Read more →]

Janson Media announced that cooking series, Chefs A’ Field: Kids on the Farm has been nominated by The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for a 2008 Daytime Emmy Award. The awards recognize outstanding achievement in television production broadcast in the 2007 calendar year. The series was nominated in the category of Outstanding Achievement in Photography. [Read more →]

Janson Media today announced the release of the DVD, Gregory Peck: His Own Man. The title is the 10th to be released on DVD from the company’s Hollywood Collection, an award-winning archive of 34 movie star biographies and retrospectives produced by Wombat Productions between 1985 and 1999. [Read more →]

Janson Media’s DVD The Gateway Arch was recommended by Martin Filler in his article Flying High with Eero Saarinen, in the June 12, 2008 issue of the New York Review of Books. “An excellent new documentary file, The Gateway Arch: A Reflection of America directed by Scott Huegerich and Bob Miano, and narrated by Kevin Kline provides an engaging account of the scheme’s genesis and realization,” said Filler.

The popular website DVDVerdict.com has recommended the Janson Media DVD, Drive-In Movie Memories. Wrote reviewer Tom Becker, “Drive-in Movie Memories is a loving, if brief, look at the story of this American institution.”

“The film mixes archival footage with interviews from people like critic Leonard Maltin, B-movie actresses Beverly Garland (It Conquered the World) and Celeste Yarnall (The Mechanic), producer Samuel Z. Arkoff, Joe Bob Briggs, and a host of others—some famous, some not—to give us the history of the drive-in, from its dawn in Camden, New Jersey, in the 1930s, to its twilight (as VCRs became popular, multiplexes proliferated, and the value of land boomed), to its small but steady renaissance in the past few years. Along the way, we are treated to facts and figures, tidbits and trivia, and anecdotes and (of course) memories.”

Read the full review here.

Janson Media today announced the release of the DVD, Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough. The title is the ninth to be released on DVD from the company’s Hollywood Collection, an award-winning archive of 34 movie star biographies and retrospectives produced by Wombat Productions between 1985 and 1999. [Read more →]

Janson Media today announced the release to worldwide television, VOD, DVD/video, and new media markets of Water’s Journey, a four-episode series that reveals the nature, and mechanics of our most important water resources: Groundwater, Rivers, Lakes, Springs, Wetlands, Estuaries, and Ocean environments. The series follows a team of scientists and adventurers as they explore the water systems, revealing how each system works, its natural history, and mankind’s relationship with these systems. [Read more →]

Janson Media today announced the release of the DVD, America’s Team: Being a U.S. Air Force Thunderbird. The Air Force Thunderbirds have been seen by millions of people all over the world, but few have seen what it takes behind the scenes to safely execute their dazzling air show. This exhilarating and patriotic program allows viewers to join the entire Thunderbird squadron and discover what it takes to be a part of America’s Team. [Read more →]

Janson Media today announced the release of the DVD, Riviera Cocktail: Edward Quinn, Photographer, Nice, a biography of the celebrity photographer Edward Quinn. Riviera Cocktail encompasses and entire era, tracing the path followed by Edward Quinn from his early pin-up photography to his unconventional portrayal of all the great stars and, finally, to his relationships, as a photographer, with Pablo Picasso and Georg Baselitz. [Read more →]

Janson Media released its new lifestyle travel series, Travel With Kids to an enthusiastic reception at MIPTV 2008 last week in Cannes, France. Available for the first time to television, VOD, DVD/video, and new media markets worldwide, Travel With Kids features two real-life kid brothers and their parents traveling to well known and off the tourist track destinations. Packed with the fun and the mis-adventures that come with traveling with kids, each episode shows viewers what they might expect, enjoy, and think twice about doing on a family vacation. [Read more →]

Janson Media today announced the release of the DVD, Audrey Hepburn Remembered. The title is the eighth to be released on DVD from the company’s Hollywood Collection, an award-winning archive of 34 movie star biographies and retrospectives produced by Wombat Productions between 1985 and 1999. [Read more →]

Janson Media today announced it will exhibit at the 2008 Museum Store Association Retail Conference & Expo to be held at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, FL, from April 13 through April 14. The company will be at the conference for the first time, exhibiting at booth #316. [Read more →]

Janson Media today announced the release of the DVD, The Last Ridge: The Uphill Battles of the 10th Mountain Division. This compelling new one-hour documentary, narrated by National Public Radio’s Scott Simon, recounts the true “mission impossible” of the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division during World War II. Their extraordinary efforts turned the tide for the Allies in Italy, revolutionized winter mountain warfare abroad, and transformed winter sports at home - blazing a path of honor for generations to come. [Read more →]

Janson Media’s DVD, Xavier: Missionary & Saint, was highly recommended by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Office For Film & Broadcasting in its DVD/Video reviews for the week of March 3rd. Said the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops of Xavier: “Warm and informative hour-long biography of the saint often regarded as the most effective Christian missionary since the Apostle Paul. [Read more →]