Unusual TV shows for ‘niche’ viewers

JACK Maxwell, host of “Booze Traveler”

Our continuing search for unusual TV programs has produced a bountiful harvest this month. Setting the pace is a unique show for foodies and “drinkies” titled “Booze Traveler,” which spans the globe looking for and delightedly finding all sorts of exotic “intoxicants.”

Those drinks with a substantial alcoholic component are guaranteed to hit inveterate chug-a-luggers’ sweet spot!

The telecast of “Booze Traveler” we viewed scoured the hinterlands for “home” brews—sometimes using really old equipment used beyond the pale of the law as far back as during Prohibition times in the US.

The show also sampled “knockout” punches, literally and gastronomically, throughout Latin America.

One of the most potent brews was a really “deadly” concoction favored by gauchos in the pampas of Argentina.

Apparently, the cowboys’ drink is so strong that, when they’re roaringly drunk, they are empowered to do the most improbable feats on their horses, including aerobatic tricks usually associated with circus performers!

The brew is so potent that it also makes the lonely gauchos feel “romantic” toward their steeds! Unexpectedly funny and far-out moments along that line make “Booze Traveler” a giddily giggly viewing treat.

Incidentally, the show’s trailer of future telecasts includes a visit to the Philippines, with features on our basi and lambanog high-inducers. Let’s watch for that particular show, to see if it gets things right.

Another unique viewing treat for specialized, “niche” viewership is “Treehouse Masters,” which features the most amazing dwellings constructed on the branches of big trees.

We usually think of tree houses as small, light and simple “play” houses for children, but the complex constructs featured in the show are for the whole family!

Quite a number of them use more than just one tree, with the main room on one set of branches, the kitchen on another, the toilet on a third, etc.

The result is a truly impressive suite of rooms connected by a series of aerial walkways and miniporches—an overgrown “adult with the heart of a child’s” dream come true!

Other unusual TV shows about homes and living include a production on tiny houses, which have become popular due to rising real-estate prices.

Another show focuses on trailer homes, which enable owner-drivers to live or visit anywhere they want, at a moment’s notice.

Then, there are shows about fantabulous garden and swimming pool combos. And programs about gigantic and exotic aquariums for hotel lobbies and the mansions of billionaires who are ready, willing and able to spend whatever it takes to get to play with their latest “toys.” Amazing.