The locally produced PBS series Two for the Road will hold a special season three premier event next Saturday, September 21, at the Mulkey Theatre in Clarendon.
Stone Ranch Media announced last week that the highly anticipated third season of the international travel and adventure show, produced and hosted by Howardwick residents Nikki and Dusty Green, will premiere on Panhandle PBS Thursday night, October 3, at 8:00 p.m.
The new season of the three-time Lone Star Emmy nominated show follows the Greens and their adventures around the world once again, this time as they explore more than a dozen countries across four continents, including Bolivia, Iceland, Vietnam, the Galapagos Islands, Ireland and more. The thirteen new episodes will begin running concurrently on PBS stations nationwide in early October as well.
“We are incredibly proud and excited to finally get season three out there,” said Dusty. “We’ve been blessed to be able to visit and film in some truly spectacular places for this new season. And a lot of really amazing places in fact that a lot of folks might not be familiar with, or have ever heard about. It’s all coming together really beautifully and we can’t wait for folks to see it.”
The Greens, who continue to shoot, produce and edit the series entirely on their own out of their home studio in Howardwick, say they also hope that viewers will notice a few key differences in the new season from the past two seasons, from overall improvements in production and voiceover to a greater focus on storytelling.
“Yes, one thing that’s different about this new season is that we hope viewers will notice more of a focus on storytelling,” Nik said. “In the past two seasons, there’s been a lot of adventure, a lot of adrenaline for sure. And there’s still plenty of adventure in the new season too, but this time we wanted to focus more on these really touching stories and these fascinating people that we’re meeting out on the road.”
“And the visuals too,” Dusty said. “We put a lot more effort in on the production side in terms of really trying to capture the spectacular beauty of these places. So, there are lots of big, epic, lingering drone shots for example. We really want folks to feel like they’re being drawn into these places we visit, like they’re right there along for the ride with us.”
The first season of Two for the Road premiered in the fall of 2016, and since then the show has grown to be available in more than 90 percent of television households across the United States, via nationwide broadcasts on local PBS affiliates like Panhandle PBS and the popular public television lifestyle network Create TV.
And as the show’s audience continues to grow and the Greens continue to travel and film around the world, they say it’s their home and their roots in the Texas Panhandle that keep them both grounded and motivated.
“It doesn’t matter where in the world we’ve been or what we’ve been doing, we always love coming back home. The folks here in Donley County especially have always been so kind and supportive, and we really hope to make them proud,” Nik said. “In fact, we mention Clarendon a couple of times in a couple of shows in the new season, so we hope everybody enjoys the shout-out.”
Details of the season three premiere event in Clarendon on September 21 are still being finalized, but the Greens say it will feature the first two episodes of the new season, which follow their adventures in Bolivia. In addition to the screening, a free ice cream social is planned at Stocking Ice Cream Parlor before the Mulkey event, and an after party is in the works at the Whistle Stop. Admission will be free and open to the public, although a $5 per person donation is suggested at the Mulkey event, with all proceeds going to benefit the Donley County Community Fund.
Two for the Road is produced by the Greens through their company Stone Ranch Media and is distributed by the National Educational Telecommunications Association. And as in seasons past the series is presented nationally to the public television system by Panhandle PBS in Amarillo. And even with the premiere of season three approaching, they say production has already begun on season four of Two for the Road.
“We’ve already shot one episode for season four and production will really ramp up again in November,” Nik said. “We just feel so blessed and thankful to be able to do what we do, and we really want to thank everyone for all the love and hope they enjoy the ride.”
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