Discovery digs 'Egypt' series: Network gives show a six-episode run

Variety ^ | Thursday, June 11, 2009 | Jon Weisman

[SunkenCiv]

Discovery Channel is giving world civilization series "Out of Egypt" a six-episode run over three Mondays beginning Aug. 17 and airing back-to-back episodes at 9 and 10 p.m. "Egypt" was co-created by archeologist and UCLA professor Kara Cooney with her husband, Neil Crawford. Cooney hosts and serves as lead researcher and writer for the show, which compares and contrasts patterns of far-flung cultures. Cooney told Daily Variety that the concept for the show sprang from a desire to essentially desensationalize the typical "mysteries of the Pharaohs" approach to ancient Egypt. Among the peoples and archeological sites profiled are the Mayans of Central America, Incas of Peru and Singhalese of Sri Lanka. "We didn't want it to be too much of a setpiece show," Discovery prexy-g.m. John Ford said. "We wanted it to be clambering around things and moving in and around the structures wherever (Cooney) was, so the style is to be more immersive and less traditional a documentary." Cooney said her first experience in television was giving an interview to "Today" about the 2005 King Tut exhibition in Los Angeles, and "Out of Egypt" represents her formal debut on a TV production. Ford said the demographic target for "Out of Egypt" is adults 25-54. L.A.-based Digital Ranch is the production company for the series.

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[CaptRon]

If Hawi Awass is involved I will not watch.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Google records zero hits for Hawi Awass. If you are talking about the guy who is on all the Egyptian history shows, I believe that the Egyptian government requires his participation before they allow such shows to be filmed there.

[CaptRon]

Didn’t Google. All I know is he is less than equitable when evaluating egyptian archeaologicial sites.

[SunkenCiv]

Discovery conquers Egypt, wins War
http://www.c21media.net/news/detail.asp?area=100&article=50200

[SunkenCiv]

As Lucius Cornelius Sulla said, Zahi “Zowie” Hawass will have to be in a speaking role somewhere in the documentary, probably to make some grandiose comments about some humdrum finds he just made and will try to build into a tourist attraction. Tut’s DNA is going to be tested — and the reason given for the long delay is that “foreigners” weren’t going to be allowed to do it.

Anyway, as long as blam doesn’t post any photos of Zowie, I’ll be okay.

[Signalman]

I like “UFO Hunters”. Although that on The History Channel.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) Zahi could probably host that one too. ;’)

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Zahi is OK with me. He loves his job and his enthusiasm is attractive. I would rather Egypt make money from Archaeological tourism than on the taxpayer dollar. Just so long as everybody understands that he is speaking for the Egyptian government.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Google records 428,000 hits for Zawi Hawass!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Zahi

[Othniel]

I read "Ages in Chaos" two winters ago. It was a great book about how the Egyptian timeline fits with the Bible if it is moved a couple of hundred years. The author (Veilekovsky, or something like that) did a nice job of showing how Hatshepsut was the Queen of Sheba, and that she was visiting her sister, who was married to Solomon. Interesting book, but ignored by Hawass & other big-time Egyptologists, as far as I've seen. I've always wondered if they downplayed it because of the whole....Jewish thing the OT is about, Egypt being a muslim country and all.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Ancient Egyptian Chronology is a matter of some disagreement, though not among mainline Egyptologists I believe. There is reluctance to study things such as the Semitic Hykssos, who ran Egypt just before the New Kingdom. it seems likely that there will be some major revisions coming in this field.

[Fred Nerks]

Chronologically Helpful Parallels between the Hyksos and the Amalekites

http://www.specialtyinterests.net/hyksos.html

The name is: Immanuel Velikovsky.

[Othniel]

Yeah, that's the guy. Thanks for the link!

[SunkenCiv]

I’ve got a small collection of older NG videos on Egypt; they contain newer short docu’s, all of which feature Hawass in some way. It’s nice to be able to watch the older ones and not see him. Last night I attempted to watch “Search for the Lost Queen” or something like that, it’s about Hatshepsut. His presence is pretty much produced like any shallow propaganda film, but the rest of it is very interesting. And one of the hosts of it is the host of this new series, and shown in msg 1. :’)