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 Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey reached more than 5.6 viewers since its debut on Outdoor Channel in July. The series averaged nearly 218,000 viewers a week over its 26-week run in its inaugural season. The series now moves into syndication on 115 television stations coast to coast, on Wild TV in Canada and throughout Europe via Dorsey Pictures affiliates, making it the largest footprint of any hunting-fishing television series in the world.
Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey brings one of America’s greatest adventure magazines to the television space and showcases the planet’s most unforgettable hunting and fishing destinations. The series returns for season two on Outdoor Channel in July of 2020 featuring hunts from Argentina, Mexico, Canada, Spain, Russia, Brazil and across 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. He’s also 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 regularly 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.
