Big Dog Millan Still Fetching, 100 Episodes Later

These are anything but the dog days of summer for Cesar Millan, the pet trainer-turned-TV host whose popular Dog Whisperer will air its 100th episode Friday, reports Variety in a look at the program's top dog. Millan kicked off Whisperer in 2004, as an unpromoted half-hour segment for the National Geographic Channel; more than 685,000 viewers now catch each hour-long prime-time episode.

"I can think of only two other people that I have met in the business that I think have the kind of magic that Cesar has," says the co-chair of Whisperer's production company. "One is Jacques Cousteau, and the other is Jim Henson." (More dog stories.)