Double Gold for World’s Greatest Cruises at the Telly Awards!

World’s Greatest Cruises has won two GOLDs for travel television – and a total of 7 awards  - at the 46^th annual Telly Awards! Not bad for the 2nd season of the first and only cruise travel TV series on PBS! 

The award-winning episodes are for Season 2 of World’s Greatest Cruises, which was broadcast beginning last fall on American public television stations from coast to coast. 

The Telly Awards honors excellence in video and television across all screens and is judged by leaders from video platforms, television, streaming networks, and production companies. This year’s Telly Awards evaluated 13,000 entries from across the globe. Other winners this year include Pixar Animation Studios, Nat Geo, ESPN, MTV, NASA, ESPN, PBS stations and productions, Telemundo and more.

Double Gold in Travel Television for World's Greatest Cruises

Two episodes were recognized with Gold awards in the Travel Television category by the Telly Awards. 

• “In Search of Emperor Penguins in Antarctica,” featuring Scenic Eclipse (official listing here). 

• “Greenland & Iceland Cultural Expedition Cruise” on Seabourn Venture(official listing here).

In addition, World’s Greatest Cruises was also awarded 5 additional Bronze awards: 

• Directing: Bronze;

• Cinematography: 2 Bronze awards; and

• Narration: 2 Bronze awards.

“We’re honored to be recognized with Gold awards in Travel Television in the first year we entered the Telly Awards, and to be among such esteemed peers like Nat Geo, which was also awarded a gold, and Samantha Brown’s Places to Love, which won silver in that category,” says Lynn Elmhirst, executive producer and host of World’s Greatest Cruises.

“We congratulate all those who entered and work so hard to inspire viewers with extraordinary travel stories. We also want to share our deep appreciation for our cruise partners like Seabourn and Scenic, who give us the opportunity to share the incredible tales of these unique cruise travel experiences.”

World’s Greatest Cruises continues to celebrate the wonder of exploring the world by water. We will soon wrap production on Season 3, to be delivered to PBS stations later this year, and we are already booking shoots for Season 4.