Officials from Dorsey Pictures, the world’s largest producer of outdoor adventure television and the only production company with outdoor DNA named to Real Screen Magazine’s annual Global 100 list, announced that the new series Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey has reached more than 2.8 million viewers since its debut on Outdoor Channel in July.
“Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey has been a tremendous success in its initial season on Outdoor Channel and is a true ratings winner,” said Jim Liberatore, Outdoor Sportsman Group President and CEO. “The steady growth throughout the third and fourth quarters show that the series has already found a strong fan base.”
Professional guitarist and waterfowl fanatic Steve Farris interviewed on location in Saskatchewan, Canada.
The series brings America’s greatest adventure magazine to the television space and showcases the planet’s most unforgettable hunting and fishing destinations. “It was a natural partnership between Dorsey Pictures and Sporting Classics Magazine” said Sporting Classics Magazine CEO Duncan Grant. “The series celebrates our motto, ‘The Heritage, The Romance, The Art of Hunting and Fishing’ and brings it to a new TV audience.”
USMC 4-star General Walter E Boomer and Emmy-winning actor Gerald McRaney walking the quail fields at Brays Island Plantation as Jeff McMichael captures the action on camera.
In the first season, host Chris Dorsey was joined by guests including General Walter Boomer and Emmy-winning actor Gerald McRaney, as well as a wide assortment of experts, family, and friends at spectacular destinations from Colorado to Zambia. Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey returns for season 2 on Outdoor Channel in July of 2020 featuring hunts from Argentina, Mexico, Canada and the U.S. The series is produced in partnership with RAM Trucks, Winchester Ammunition, Winchester Repeating Arms, Walther Arms, Pulsar, SightMark, Safari Club International and Negrini Cases.
Host Chris Dorsey is among the world’s most widely traveled sportsmen having hunted and fished on five continents and he’s served in board leadership and advisory roles of numerous conservation and sporting advocacy organizations. He’s a recipient of the Ray Scott Trailblazer Award from the Outdoor Legends Hall of Fame as well as being a Curt Gowdy Memorial Award winner. He’s a biologist, author of six books on outdoor subjects, is a past editor-in-chief of Sports Afield and Ducks Unlimited magazines and his work has appeared in most of the outdoor magazines in the English-speaking world as well as National Geographic, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal and the Robb Report.
He’s been called the “brand father” of outdoor television having produced more than 2,000 episodes across 55 series with the largest brands in the outdoors. He’s also hosted more than 350 episodes and has taken all 29 North American big game species, all of Africa’s deadly 7, the turkey World Slam, the spiral horns of Africa and has hunted and fished on five continents. His television productions are seen on a wide variety of mainstream cable networks including Discovery, HGTV, WGN America, DIY, Travel Channel, History, National Geographic, Nat Geo Wild, Animal Planet, Oxygen and others.
Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey airs Saturday at 12:30 p.m., Sunday at 11 p.m., Monday at 3 p.m., and Thursday at 11:30 a.m. (all times ET).
