Don’t Tell My Mother was a television program hosted by Diego Bunuel and shown on the television channel Nat Geo but currently available on subscription channel Nat Geo Adventure which is primarily a documentary/travel show.
About the Host
Diego Bunuel is a French-American Foreign Correspondent for French tevevision. He has covered countries like Iraq, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Every time he left for one of his journeys, he would tell his production crew in the Paris office, “Don’t tell my mother I am in Colombia, it makes her really nervous.” Where the show got it’s iconic name. After a few years of traveling again and again, Buñuel realized that the international news coverage, which he was part of, only focused on the worst headlines possible.
Thus, Buñuel embarked on a rather unusual effort at the time, to talk about countries that make headlines, but instead of focusing on the same, basic or even the negative stories, he took a look at a more subtle and positive vision of these countries, full of culture, people, interests that rise high above the usual daily news reports.
Locations
The show has traveled all around the globe. In season 1, which started from 2007, the show takes place in countries like Colombia, Afghanistan, Congo, Pakistan, North Korea and the Balkans, where he busts some of the stereotypes plaguing these countries.
In the following seasons which has four in total, the locations include mainly cities like Johannesburg, Delhi, Manila, Tokyo, Lagos, Beirut and countries like Somalia, Kazakhstan, Russia and Thailand. The last episode aired on 20th October 2013, taking place in Ukraine.
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