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Samantha Brown hosts new PBS travel series ‘Places To Love’

In this April 4, 2017 photo, TV travel show host Samantha Brown walks through a field of flowers in Fredericksburg, Texas, with John Thomas, the owner of Wildseed Farms. Brown, who's hosted a variety of shows in the past on the Travel Channel, has a new series premiering Jan. 6 on PBS called "Places to Love." (Samantha Brown via AP)
In this April 4, 2017 photo, TV travel show host Samantha Brown walks through a field of flowers in Fredericksburg, Texas, with John Thomas, the owner of Wildseed Farms. Brown, who's hosted a variety of shows in the past on the Travel Channel, has a new series premiering Jan. 6 on PBS called "Places to Love." (Samantha Brown via AP)

By Associated Press 4 min read

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“Places To Love” debuts at 2:30 p.m. Saturday on WTCI-TV (channel 5 on Comcast and EPBFI) and at 4 p.m. on GPB (Comcast channel 204 and EPBFI channel 10).OnlineListen to an interview with Samantha Brown about her new show on AP Travel’s weekly podcast “Get Outta Here!” available on iTunes http://apple.co/2s2ruHY.

NEW YORK – You may know Samantha Brown from her years as a Travel Channel host for shows like “Great Hotels,” “Green Getaways” and the “Passport” series about Latin America, China and Europe, among others.

She’s back with a new series on PBS called “Places To Love,” launching Saturday with 13 weekly episodes through March.

“‘Places To Love’ is about finding the experiences, the destinations, but, most importantly, the people who really make us feel like we’re part of a place,” Brown said in an interview for the AP Travel podcast “Get Outta Here!”

Destinations featured on the show range from Shanghai to places Brown says you might not think of going “but should,” like Huntsville, Alabama, nicknamed Rocket City for its work with NASA and the space industry.