About Us

Forever New Orleans TV is not your average travel show.  It’s produced by award-winning journalists, photographers and writers and shot in full High Definition.  In fact, those who have worked on Season One have a combined total of more than 60 Emmy Awards and also include last year’s National Edward R. Murrow Award Winner for Writing!

The show was conceived of after creator Karen Carlson covered Hurricane Katrina while working for a television station in Los Angeles.  At the time, she attempted to quit her 6-figure anchor job at the number one station in town to return to New Orleans and help in the rebuilding.  Six months later, she was able to begin her project, which at the time had the working title of A Whole New Orleans.  Carlson was an anchor and reporter at legendary CBS affiliate WWL-TV from 2001-2003, during which time she began to realize the importance of tourism in the economy of the city and the lives of its citizens.

Depending on which study you read, numbers estimate that anywhere between 40% to 90% of the economy in New Orleans is related somehow to the tourism business.  And while there is still a lot of work to be done in terms of rebuilding the city, the tourist areas, such as the French Quarter and Lower Garden District, did not suffer the ravages of Katrina.  As residents look to reclaim their lives and the joie de vivre New Orleans is so well known for, it’s important for those outside the city to realize jobs and lives depend on visitors returning to the Crescent City.

So here’s what you didn’t know you didn’t know:  there are more restaurants open now in the greater New Orleans area than before Hurricane Katrina!  There are new hotels that have opened up since 2005, one in particular is featured in Season One, which was built from the ground up in the downtown area.  Other hotels have been able to update or expand their properties since the storm.  New restaurants are popping up, and those that were swept away by the storm are being rebuilt, sometimes in different locations, sometimes, right next door.

We’ll show you the where, the how, the when and the why on Season One of Forever New Orleans TV.  It’s programming unlike any other travel show you’ve seen before in a city far too busy to rest.