Don’t miss it: Chris Greer’s travel show goes national mid-May

We told you about it in February, but now the time is here.

Starting in mid-May on the Public Broadcasting Service channel, View Finders—a unique travel program about the beauty of Georgia created by Georgia College & State University Professor of Instructional Technology Chris Greer—will air to more than 55 million homes nationally. 

American Public Television, the APT, picked up Greer’s second season of View Finders for distribution to PBS markets throughout the United States. The show will also appear on the PBS Create TV channel. The show already had two popular seasons on Georgia Public Broadcasting.

The show was just nominated—for the second time—for a Southeast Emmy Award. It didn’t win the first time, but fingers crossed for this next round.

View Finders is about two photographers who capture startlingly amazing photos and video at iconic locations in the state of Georgia. Greer has also published two books of his photography, “Georgia Discovered: Exploring the Best of the Peach State” and “Naturally Georgia: From the Mountains to the Coast.”

“There has never been a show that combines photography, travel, adventure and music. I thought the combination would be really intriguing to a wide range of audiences, and it has really been well-received,” Greer said, “Plus, the educational component of every episode really aligns nicely with my role as a professor in Georgia College’s College of Education.”

GPB’s season one with co-finder Jason Clemmons included five episodes: Cumberland Island, Blood Mountain, Northern & Southern Chattahoochee and Okefenokee Swamp.

Season two—with co-finder Paul Daniels—is filled with more of Georgia’s natural magnificence and ecology. It highlights eight locations in 10 shows: Amicalola Falls and the Len Foote Hike Inn, Cloudland Canyon, Georgia’s Hidden Coast: Part I & Part II, Savannah and Beyond, Blue Ridge Parkway Part I & Part II,  Sapelo Island, Tallulah Gorge and Pisgah National Forest. 

The second season features dramatic scenery, like a floating sand dollar against a fiery-orange sunset and a pathway strewn with trees draped in Spanish moss. 

Both seasons feature music by Georgian musicians. Each episode also begin with appropriately outdoorsy, great quotes, like this one from episode 10, Season Two, for Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina: “And into the forest I go to lost my mind and find my soul,” by John Muir.

This summer, Greer begins filming the third season of View Finders with Daniels. Its episodes will explore beyond the boundaries of Georgia—great scenic sites from across the U.S. like the Pacific Northwest and states throughout New England.

“We have really covered Georgia quite well,” Greer said, “and the audience loves the combination of scenery, humor, education, and music. We look forward to using this same formula on a national scale and cannot wait for the entire United States to experience this show.”

Stay tuned to Front Page this summer for more on Season Three. 

A ceremony, announcing winners of the Southeast Emmy Award, will be held June 15th.