For Immediate Release Oct. 20, 2009

REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL PROFILES THE MAN WITH THE MOST GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS
WHEN THE EMMY®-WINNING SHOW RETURNS OCT. 27, EXCLUSIVELY ON HBO

Winner of 21 Sports Emmys® in 14 years, REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL presents more enterprising features and reporting when its 151st edition, available in HDTV, debuts TUESDAY, OCT. 27 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

Other HBO playdates:  Oct. 27 (2:20 a.m.), 29 (noon, midnight) and 31 (9:30 a.m.), and Nov. 2 (6:30 p.m., 1:30 a.m.), 6 (10:00 a.m., 8:00 p.m.), 8 (8:00 a.m.) and 10 (4:30 p.m.)
HBO2 playdates:  Oct. 28 (8:00 a.m., 9:30 p.m.) and Nov. 1 (7:45 a.m.), 3 (6:00 p.m., 2:05 a.m.), 12 (8:00 p.m.), 14 (2:30 p.m.) and 16 (noon)
HBO On Demand availability:   Sept. 21-Oct. 12

Segments include:
 
 *Record Breaker.  Ashrita Furman, of Queens, NY, holds the Guinness World Record for holding the most world records.  Since 1979, he’s set 244 official Guinness World Records, and in April 2009 became the first person in history to hold 100 records simultaneously.  His wild but incredible achievements include pushing a car 17 miles in 24 hours, walking an astonishing 80 miles with a milk bottle on his head and bouncing a basketball 339 times in just one minute.  Furman has gone from self-declared childhood nerd to world-renowned conqueror of physical challenges, all in pursuit of a greater spirituality.  Correspondent Bernie Goldberg sits down with the man who literally somersaulted, hopscotched and hula-hooped his way into the history books.
Producer:  Tim Walker.

REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL recently won the Sports Emmy® Award in the category of Outstanding Sports Journalism for Bernard Goldberg’s piece “Running For Their Lives.”  REAL SPORTS has won the Sports Emmy® for Outstanding Sports Journalism 12 of the last 14 years, in addition to being the first sports program honored with the duPont Award for excellence in broadcast journalism.
 

The executive producers of REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL are Ross Greenburg and Rick Bernstein; Kirby Bradley is senior producer.
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